This week, Virgin Media’s electronic programming guide saw offence in innocent words and names, causing them to be censored. The likes of Charles Dickens, Alfred Hitchcock, Arsenal and Jarvis Cocker, became Charles D***ens, Alfred Hitchc**k, A***nal and Jarvis C**ker. And it didn’t stop there. Even the kids were watching D*** and Dom. Virgin Media blamed … Continue Reading
Social media: A personal touch in an impersonal world
Seven Creative’s well established and new customers are recognising the growing importance of social media. We’re proud to say that we can now offer customers new and innovative services ranging from writing blog entries, Twitter posts and Facebook updates, to designing and personalising social networks. Ellie Storey, Social Media Manager at Seven Creative, said “There is so much competition on … Continue Reading
Short-cut to easily clear formatting from text in a Word document
Here is a really simple and easy way to clear formatting from text in a Microsoft Word document, for example, when you’ve cut and pasted from a website or another document Very simply highlight the text, press and hold CTRL then press the ‘space bar’ Highlighting the text can be done easily in one of … Continue Reading
My 3 favourite Chrome extensions (plug-ins)
Here is a list of my 3 favourite Chrome Plug-ins Hover Zoom – no need to click on that thumbnail to view it large. Simply install Hover Zoom then all you have to do is hover over the picture and you get a large version. Great for Reddit. Awesome Screenshot: Capture & Annotate – allows … Continue Reading
Outlook 2007 – adding SMTP authentication
When using a laptop or mobile device, you’re potentially going to be sending emails over many different internet networks. In order to make sure that only the allowed users are using a particular SMTP to send email, they commonly require a user-name and password to log into the SMTP server every time an email is … Continue Reading
553 sorry, that address is not in my list of allowed recipients email problem
553 sorry, that address is not in my list of allowed recipients email problem if you’re regularly getting emails bounced back to you with the error ‘553 sorry, that address is not in my list of allowed recipients’ this might help. In our experience, the problem is usually down to a BT issue not allowing emails … Continue Reading
Most common causes for emails not going through
Are the occasionals emails not going through to the recipient? Here is a list the most common causes: Are your emails simply ending up int he the recipients spam folder? Sounds obvious but this is the final main cause of emails not going through that make up the ‘big 3’. Check there first – it’s … Continue Reading
How to create an outlook email template
How to create an outlook email template If you use Outlook and often have to write similar emails, Instead of re-writing them every time it might be a better idea to create a template. This is very simple to do and might save you a lot of time! Here’s how to do it: Write your … Continue Reading
Instructions about how to back up and export webmail emails from Horde
Instructions about how to back up and export webmail emails from Horde If you’re using Horde to manage your webmail emails and want to back them up, you may have realised that it seems to be not as easy to do as you’d hope without going through and forwarding email groups individually Fortunately, it is … Continue Reading
Phishing emails – tell-tale signs it’s not from who it says it’s from
I’ve just received quite an ingenious phishing email… well it’s slightly more intelligently conceived and implemented than the usual type Yesterday I made an order on Amazon and today I get an email, pertaining to be from Amazon, telling me that my order has been cancelled! Firstly, even though I’m sure that me receiving an … Continue Reading