Freelance journalist and editor
Laptops can look lacklustre and uninspiring well before they need upgrading. The solution? Cool, cost effective, mini-makeovers that make your PC look fresh and funky. There are hundreds of ways to dress up your PC and give it a new look. This tutorial will have your PC looking fashionable for £5 or less, and you can get […]
If you’ve got something special to send, why not make like the Queen for the day and have stamps printed with your photo on? Your recipients will be treated to mail with a wow factor. It’s the perfect way to inject some extra personality into invitations, announcements and thank-you notes, and make sure your mail stands […]
In this article for Windows: The Official Magazine, I tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Pinterest: the web’s hot new virtual noticeboard. Click here to follow me on Pinterest.
It’s not what you know, but who you know. We all know there’s some truth in that old saying and that’s one of the great things about Facebook application BranchOut. You get to network with your Facebook friends but in a new, professional way where you can see exactly what they do and where they work. […]
Ever wonder how much influence your social media input has? Find out with Klout, a free tool that measures your online power and even rewards you. While we’ve always had the power to influence other people, that power, which is being democratised, is much easier to harness with new social media tools. But how much influence […]
If, like me, you find it difficult to keep your receipts together, with the pesky paper ones always getting lost and the digital ones waiting to be accidentally deleted from your inbox, you’ll love OneReceipt. It keeps paper and digital receipts in one place. Indexing your spending records might sound like heavy work, but OneReceipt has […]
Today you need a password for pretty much everything. You need one for Windows Live ID, another for your email address, one for each of your social networking accounts and then there are all your banking logons… The list goes on. Hopefully you already know that you should have a different password for each account. If […]
From better deals to the hottest hotels and made-to-order travel itineraries, your computer holds the secret to happy holidays. In this feature published in Windows: The Official Magazine I share my top ten ways to organise your best ever holiday.
In this tutorial for the February issue of Windows: The Official Magazine, I show how to save lots of time and effort by simultaneously making the same adjustments to groups of photos, using IrfanView’s powerful batch conversion tool.
Don’t you just love it when clever technology is not only easy-to-use, but also free? In this tutorial, for Windows: The Official Magazine, I show readers how to use free computer program, f.lux, to make the colour of your computer’s display change according to the time – warm at night and like sunlight during the […]
