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Why you shouldn’t add links to your social media posts

Posted on 12 February 2023

Social media has become an integral part of modern businesses, offering an opportunity for companies to connect with customers, share information, and promote their products and services. However, as with any marketing tool, there are right and wrong ways to use social media, and one common mistake that many businesses make is including links in …Read more.

How to get your Southampton based business ranking on Google

Posted on 12 February 2023

Getting your Southampton based business to rank on Google can be a challenge, but with the right approach, it can be done. Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of optimizing your website to improve its visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs). In this article, we’ll discuss some effective SEO strategies that can help …Read more.

How to start Microsoft Excel Automatically on a Mac

Posted on 12 February 2023

Starting Microsoft Excel automatically on an Apple Mac is a simple and straightforward process that can be done in a few easy steps. If you frequently use Microsoft Excel on your Mac, it can be convenient to have it start up automatically each time you turn on your computer. This will save you time and …Read more.

Synology DS120j Product Review

Posted on 27 November 2022

Synology’s budjet DS120j may be on the lower end of pricing but backs some amazing features for people and small businesses looking for a cheap NAS box. Being a web design & development company we store data and as part of our backup stratergy we utilise a DS120j for backing up our Hyper-V server to …Read more.

How to start Microsoft Excel Automatically on Windows Sign in

Posted on 27 November 2022

Our how to start Microsoft To Do automatically and how to start Microsoft Outlook guides have been quite popular but we often get asked how to start Excel on startup / sign-in on Windows 10 and 11. Microsoft Excel is a popular spreadsheet software that is widely used for various purposes, ranging from personal finance …Read more.

How to place Affinity 2 icons on your Desktop in Windows

Posted on 10 November 2022

Recently released Affinity 2 appears to be have been developed as a Windows App. Bringing with it a whole host of changes but one we experienced initially after installing was getting the icons on the desktop. You could just use the taskbar or start menu by right clicking and then “Pin To” but for users …Read more.

How to fix Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo & Affinity Publisher crashing on font change

Posted on 19 October 2022

After switching from Adobe to Affinity we have had an excellent experience as of late though we have had an issue crop up that we’ve been able to rectify thanks to some help on the forum. The problem we’ve been having was initially with Affinity Designer but it appears to be something across the whole …Read more.

Google Chrome to say Goodbye to 3rd Party Cookies in 2023

Posted on 2 August 2022

Google Chrome is massive. It’s global market is over 60%. In 2023 Google are going to be changing their popular browser so 3rd party cookies don’t work but what does it mean and why? What are cookies and how do they work? There’s a lot of confusion and misconception over cookies and how they work. …Read more.

10 Things you probably didn’t know about the internet

Posted on 13 July 2022

You might be pretty confident about surfing the web, downloading email attachments and scrolling through social networks sharing things that interest you but here are 10 facts about the Internet you might not know about our wide area network. The Internet was created in the 1960’s In the late 60’s the US created the Internet. …Read more.

SSD vs SAS drives in website hosting: SSD’s explained

Posted on 13 July 2022

Recently we deviced to test the speed of a couple 7.2k SAS drives against 2 Enterprise Sata SSD drives. The results are here: Both of these servers were identical at the time of testing, same make and model, same CPU’s, same RAM, same motherboards. The only difference really was the type of drives. SSD on …Read more.

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