More Internet How-To
- 26 March 2012
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How-Tos: How to back up and restore with Crashplan
No matter how often we bang on about it, there will always be some people who neglect to back up their valuable data. But it’s an important task, so we’ll repeat our advice: fail to back up, and you’ll risk losing everything stored on your PC. Here, we show you how with Crashplan.
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How-Tos: How to watch Sky Go on a laptop or PC
Sky Go is a service which allows you to watch live and on-demand TV while on the go on a number of different devices.
- 22 March 2012
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How-Tos: Get online with low-cost internet access
If you are not online and you would like a cheap web connection, this guide is for you. We tell you how to get cheap mobile or fixed-line broadband, how to get an email address, and how to install a web browser.
- 21 March 2012
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How-Tos: Problems with Vodafone Mobile Broadband 3G dongle
Advice for problem with Vodafone Mobile Broadband's 3G USB dongle. Although it can pull down data from the internet, you can't surf the web. Our Helproom Editor can help.
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How-Tos: Publish an Ebook, Step by Step
Want to publish a book? You can either kill a bunch of trees, or get with the 2010s and publish it as an ebook.
- 20 March 2012
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How-Tos: How To Make And Publish Movies For Free
It's never been cheaper or easier to make movies, but many budding amateur filmmakers are still put off by the initial expense of purchasing a good camera and audio equipment. Thankfully, there's plenty of free content available for public use if you know where to look. You can turn that raw material into creative and inventive works of cinema with a few free video editing tools, some hard work and a place to share your movie with friends and family.
- 15 March 2012
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How-Tos: Use Codeacademy to learn Javascript
Programming isn't as difficult as you might think. We show how to take your first steps with Javascript.
- 14 March 2012
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How-Tos: Change Your Facebook Profile Photo
I've made no secret of my distaste for Facebook's interface, which is equal parts messy, confusing, and outright maddening.
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How-Tos: How to connect a 3G phone to laptop
Connecting or ‘tethering’ a smartphone with 3G connectivity can be an excellent way of getting internet access on your laptop when you’re out and about and there’s no WiFi available.
- 05 March 2012
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How-Tos: Changing your Apple ID's email address
A reader who wishes to remain anonymous would like help with his Apple ID. He writes:
- 28 February 2012
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How-Tos: How to store smartphone data in the cloud
The cloud isn't useful only for enabling access to our photos, documents, music and more wherever we are, it also presents an increasingly viable backup medium for our data. Provided that we have access to a Wi-Fi connection, the cloud can come to our smartphone as well as our PC.
- 27 February 2012
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How-Tos: How to protect your privacy on Google
Under new privacy rules that Google is implementing on March 1, all of the data that Google collects based on your usage of YouTube, Gmail, Google+ and Google search will be aggregated into one user profile.
- 24 February 2012
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How-Tos: How to use Google 2-step verification
It pays to be as security-conscious as possible with online accounts. Here we show you how to get started with new Google safety measures to protect your email and documents.
- 14 February 2012
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How-Tos: How to download your Facebook archive
Facebook introduced the Dowload Your Information feature, which allows social networkers to make a copy of all the their data stored on the site, in 2010.
- 13 February 2012
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How-Tos: How to rotate a photo in Facebook
Facebook made its new-look profile, which has been dubbed Timeline, available to all of the social network's members in December this year.
- 10 February 2012
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How-Tos: Use Facebook Timeline to Promote Your Business
Facebook is beginning to push out its new Timeline layout to all 850 million user profiles this week. Business pages on Facebook aren’t affected (at least not yet), but your company can take advantage of this shift.
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How-Tos: How to tag yourself in a picture on Faceboook
Facebook made its new-look profile, which has been dubbed Timeline, available to all the social network's members in December this year. Initially, the function, which has plenty of fans and just as many critics, was optional.
- 09 February 2012
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How-Tos: How to use online whiteboards
Physical distance between you and a colleague needn't be a barrier to idea-generation. Here, we look at Writeboard and Dabbleboard, and explain the benefits of whiteboarding.
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How-Tos: How to create online albums with Matilda
One of our favourite apps in Google Chrome's Web Store is Matilda. Here, we show you how to use this free tool to create online photo albums that you can share and collaborate on with others.
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How-Tos: How to browse online stores as Chrome Web Apps
We've ransacked Google Chrome's Web Store for the third-party tools most worthy of your attention. Here, we look at how to use Tesco's Web App.
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