Updated ebooks

There are several ebooks that you can download (and if you like, print out – or just read on screen) in the Inner Circle website, here: www.pcinnercircle.co.uk/index.php/downloads/ebook-downloads We’ve just updated a few of them, where Microsoft changed things in Windows. It’s:

Staying Safe on the Internet (now 2nd Edition) What you should know about [...]

An email scam to avoid

I’ve just seen a new email scam – it pretends to “remind” you of an update to your Adobe pdf Reader software.

It’s quite clever because instead of saying it’s a new program to download (which might make you suspicious), it poses as a reminder, which might make you more likely to believe it.

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Two handy (and addictive) websites

I’ve just added two websites to the list of websites I recomend:  www.quotegarden.com and www.brainyquote.com – two sites that have a massive selection of famous (and obscure) quotes.

They’re useful if you’re trying to remember who said such and such a thing – or if you want some quotes on a particular topic for [...]

Google webpage changes

If you go to www.google.co.uk or www.google.com to search the web, instead of using the search box built into Internet Explorer, you might have noticed something new.

It’s not for everyone, though.  You have to have an up to date version of Internet Explorer (version 8, not version 7) or one of the other [...]

New Article: Choosing a Broadband Supplier

There are loads of different broadband suppliers, all claiming to be the best.  And the difference in price can be £10 per month – which quickly adds up to quite a bit!

But it’s not easy to tell the difference between what they all offer.  There are so many things to take into account – [...]

Advance warning of tax scams

You might have heard that the taxman has made an almighty foul-up and as a result literally millions of people have paid the wrong tax.

They say 4.3 million people will be due a refund (hurrah!) and 1.4 million will need to cough up some more (boo!).  (Why is it that they took too much [...]

Video experiment

Hello

I’m doing a little experiment:  The videos on this site can sometimes take a while to start playing and for a while I’ve wanted to find a way to make them quicker.  Also a few people have trouble with getting them playing at all – I can usually sort this out but it’d [...]