Touchscreen EPOS – Rent/Lease from us
If you have a retail business and are looking for a touchscreen till solution. For potentially less than €1 per day* you could lease such a system from All Tech Plus. Configured for your business. Remote kitchen printers or screens also available.
Earn Money whilst shopping online with QuidCo
With Christmas just around the corner (at the time of writing this article), our thoughts will most likely be turning to buying gifts for family and friends (our ourselves!). If like me you’re based in Spain permanently, it isn’t always convenient or possible to deliver your gifts in person. Thank goodness for online shopping using the online shops provided by all our favourite retailers, many of whom also offer gift wrapping services…
Just checked 21/01/17 and QuidCo are now rewarding £20 for referring new subscribers, use my referral link and share half of that £10! The other links on this article are/were for £5 referral each which may have expired in place of this one – see button link at bottom of article.
Has someone shared a photo or document with you?
Increasingly not only are we storing photographs and other files online using services like Google Docs/Google Drive, One Drive (Microsoft), Drop box to name just a few but we are also sharing those files with friends and family. The process to do so is not only easy but also convenient, usually just the click of a button next to the photo and filling in an e-mail address does the job. The e-mail typically contains a link inviting the recipient to click, it is at this point that problems can begin…
Basic Image Optimisation with RIOT
This tutorial is primarily aimed at web site customers of mine who are uploading images to their own websites.
The speed of your website can be affected by the quantity of images to be displayed, as well as their physical size and the size taken up on disk.
Web designers often optimise your initial images for you to ensure speedier loading.
I’ll even show you how to do it – simply watch the video adjacent which is also on my YouTube channel with other videos. Enjoy. Mark
PC Healthcheck
Keep your laptop or PC in tip-top order with a system healthcheck fixed price service. Includes a variety of performance tweaks, anti-virus, malware and rootkit scans, and upgrade recommendations. You’ll get a written report detailing all the points of the system healthcheck.
Keeping in touch with technology
Not so long ago, all the rage in personal organisation was the Filofax. Inevitably as technology has advanced this gave rise to things like electronic diaries, and then PDAs (Personal Desktop Assistants) and of course more recently the smart phone. From my lecturing in Computing at The University of Northampton, I recall talking about the convergence of the three C’s; Computers (including communications), Consumer electronics and Content! Instead of carrying a PDA, mobile phone, and laptop, all that functionality is now available in the smart phone, and even in smart watches! Our files, photos and communications including e-mail is always available to us regardless of which device we are using or where we are for that matter. For the main part, this works relatively seamlessly though requires some initial investment in time to set it all up just how you like it.
Reducing Costs
In today’s economic climate, we are probably all concerned about what we spend on a regular basis; with the increasing costs of energy, fuel and groceries, many are looking to cut back on luxuries or at least minimise their costs.
Demystifying QR Codes
What are QR codes? Take a look around you and you’ll see these funny black and white squares. Have you ever wondered what they were for? You’ll see them all over the place, particularly placed in advertisements. They are called Quick Response codes or QR codes for short and are not unlike the barcodes you […]
Using Office Applications – Excel – Part 2 of 3
This is the second in a series of 3 articles on using office applications – next time we will use both Microsoft Word and Excel to create mail merged letters. In the meantime, here’s the second installment on Microsoft Excel.
Microsoft Excel – My Money Tracker
In this article I will show you how you can use Excel (a spreadsheet program) to do some basic maths for you in the form of a money tracking spreadsheet. The finished article will allow you to enter the balances of your various bank account (Spanish and English) as well as cash in hand. It will also convert to Euros for you. You then enter your outgoings and it will tell you the balance available to you.
Using Office Applications – Mail Merge – Part 3 of 3
This is the final in a series of 3 articles on using office applications (though if you want more, drop me an e-mail) – next time I will look at Google Photos and share a money saving tip on online shopping.
Sometimes, you might just want to send the same letter to lots of different people but you don’t want it to sound too pre-fabricated right? You might have answered yes to this question, if you have recently moved address or about to, you probably have lots of people and businesses you need to tell your change of details. If you’re a business, then you might want to send to your business contacts, or pull in information from a client file and an accounting system to create personalized invoices each month (I’ve already provided such a solution for Quesada Laundry Services).
Using Office Applications – Word – Part 1 of 3
For this series of articles I’ve decided to pass on some tips for some common Office applications following some Spreadsheet development work I recently undertook for Quesada Laundry Services (http://quesadalaundryservices.com).
I will be looking specifically at Microsoft Word in this article, and Excel next time (there’ll be a bit of homework for Excel which you can use in the 3rd article on doing a mail-merge which makes use of both Word and Excel). If you use OpenOffice the tips should also work in Writer and Sheets though you might have to dig around for the equivalent options.