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Looking for a package which fits your budget? Cheaper tariffs for those on a variety of benefits are available with Social Tariffs from some networks. They are often called ‘Essential’ or ‘Basic’ Broadband Tariffs can start as low as £10, setup costs are minimal, you can often switch for free, they usually fix prices for…
When buying a smartphone nowadays, you need to check IF it takes a Micro SD card. The latest Samsung Galaxy, the S23 Ultra doesn’t contain a storage card option. Instead it comes in variety of storage sizes – 256GB, 512GB and a whopping 1TB, with the top level costing you an eye-watering £1.5k if bought…
Conserve your laptop, tablet or smartphone’s battery power by keeping Bluetooth turned off whenever you’re not using it. The only time you need it on is to support a headset or to send or receive files with other nearby device users. It will also keep your device more secure from potential hackers who scan their…
1. Are you a ‘light’ user of Word, Excel or PowerPoint? Yes 2. Are you happy to store your documents in OneDrive? Yes If so, you could spend £0.00 by using Office Online with your Microsoft account, storing the documents you create on the standard OneDrive 5GB cloud storage allowance. After simply logging into www.office.com…
Did you know how the Tables feature in Excel can enhance your spreadsheets, especially for data entry purposes? Tables allow you to select areas in your worksheet tabs and show them like this:- ….. instead of displaying like this:- The biggest difference in usability is that – when you are tabbing through cells in data…
Find a blank area of your task manager and use your right mouse button to click and this should appear:- This Task Manager should now appear – it may appear diferently on some systems but you can find the End Task option. Click on the program which is frozen and then the icon for End…
This page contains the AbilityNet easy to read factsheets on this topic. 1. Dyslexia and technology
Do you use Citymapper on your smartphone to plan journeys? If you, you could become frustrated that journey results shown are those which involve a train, tube or tram – when you want to use buses only (especially if you rely on the ramps to board and disembark). Citymapper still has the option to show…
Did you know that you can ‘pin’ any number of files to a special menu in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Publisher? Its as simple as pressing the little pin icon on the right hand side of the image below:- Pinned files are easy to access as they are kept on a separate, but easy to…
Did you know you can bookmark the current page by simply pressing Control D – or pressing on the yellow star shown here? The star looks the same in Chrome, another popular browser. In Internet Explorer, it looks a little different like this (but the same shortcut works):- Afterwards, a box like this pops up…