I’ve posted before about how using a referral link when signing up, and inviting others, gives you extra space (a bonus 250 MB on sign-up, & for each referral). I logged into my Dropbox account and moments later a balloon pop-up in my System Tray informed me that I had another 250 MB space.  I […]

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A standard (free) Dropbox is 2GB.  That can quickly be filled up, particularly if you want to use your Dropbox for photos or videos. You can pay to increase this space to 50 GB ($9.99 per month) or 100 GB ($19.99 per month). Another way to get an additional 3 GB (5 GB total space) […]

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So, I’ve been using dropbox for a couple of weeks, and so far I’m impressed. Yes, it reduces the irritation of having to email things to myself, or remembering to save onto USB key when I want to take a file somewhere, great 🙂 Possibly the best thing about it though, is being able to […]

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Responsible parents are interested in protecting their children when they go online. How can you enable them to use the Internet and explore subjects that interest them, without exposing them to danger; whether individuals who would do them harm, or information that is inappropriate for children? Well, there are things that you can do, but […]

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I found out something new the other day; how to copy text out of tables in Firefox in the way I want to copy it. Before I used to simply select the area with my mouse, which may or may not include a whole bunch of text I didn’t want or need.  Say for instance, […]

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Sometimes the worst happens and a virus or some other Malware finds its way on to your computer, what should you do? The first thing to do is make notes.  Make a note of the name of any virus/malware infection you see in the result of any scans (or take screenshots).  They may help you […]

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You’ve installed AVG / AntiVir / Norton / McAfee (or one of the others) so you’re safe, right?  Wrong! As I’ve written about before, there are other programs you should have installed too: a software firewall, anti-virus software, and an anti-spyware program being the minimum protection you should have. You also need to keep all […]

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A while ago I wrote about The importance of being backed up.  Since then I still haven’t sorted out an automated backup, although I have been better at manually backing up my important files on a regular basis. I’ve also read what some others have written on this subject and picked up a couple of […]

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In previous posts here and here I explained how to add signatures to your outgoing emails.  I also mentioned another feature that you could use called vCard. vCard is a file format standard for electronic business cards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard Without going into too much detail here, a vCard attached to an email you send can include […]

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No, not a problem with your builder! Sometimes, as in my previous post, I may suggest that you create a file or rename an existing file with a new extension. file extension In DOS and some other operating systems, one or several letters at the end of a filename. Filename extensions usually follow a period […]

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