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This is a truly incredible opportunity for charities. I am sure that all of you know loads of charities and not for profit organisations that could benefit from this? Read more here... Google Grants

Christmas in Zimbabwe is the time of soft sweet litchis, plums, mangoes and peaches. It's the time to eat small, sweet purple grapes straight from the vines and to take turns with the birds for pawpaws and figs. It's the time when its hazardous to sit, stand or put anything under avocado trees as the high up, unreachable fruits ripen and crash to the ground at the most unexpected times. Christmas in Zimbabwe means towering purple rain clouds, sausage flies and flying ants. It means rhino beetles and chongololos, large spiders and even larger snakes. Christmas is that alluring time when flashes of red, crimson and scarlet tempt you into the ever thickening bush to discover wild and beautiful flame lilies? It's the time of year for mahobohobo fruits: sweet, juicy and oh so more-ish and for mushrooms of all shapes and sizes - so tempting to pick but so lethal to eat. Christmas in Zimbabwe is that first green maize cob scalding hot from the pot: soft, tender and swe...

If you use any Apple devices from an iPhone to MacBook Pro then read on... Apple actually produce their own professionally produced documentation to help both administrators and users find the help they need. Here’s where to find it. While reading documentation is never fun, (especially for men) sometimes we have to resort to reading the manual! Click here to read the full blog

What do you do apart from panic when your Internet drops out...? Click here to read the blog entry...

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Do you remember those days when you used to go in to a pub with your friends or colleagues and you would be asked if you could leave your credit card behind the bar so that they could keep a tab for you? I remember it anyway!!  How trusting were we? We wouldn’t entertain the idea today such is as our risk averse nature. It would appear that our fears are justified however. Over £530 million pounds a year in the UK falls foul to credit card fraud and a big chunk of this is through on line fraud i.e. somebody accessing your personal details on your computer without your consent. So how do we guard against this? Well normally we download anti virus software and then don’t give it too much thought thereafter. But which software? There is a big choice out there in terms of anti virus software and some of it is free so it’s a no-brainer isn’t it ? Just download the free one….Now we all like something that is free but will it do the job you are expecting it to do? Let’s have a qui...

So what is cloud computing? Should I be embracing it or sheltering from it? Whenever I’m faced with a question like this I always find it comforting to make a list of the pros and cons but before I do this let’s start with some basics. Cloud computing, in its simplest terms, enables you to store files and software remotely rather than on a hard drive or server in the office. You may not know it but you are probably using the cloud everyday in your life. Services such as Gmail, Hotmail, Skype, YouTube, Vimeo and SoundCloud all operate in the Cloud. So if all these services are using the Cloud it should be safe shouldn’t it? OK, it’s nearly time for that list. It’s now possible for businesses to have their own private cloud which incorporates specific services and is only accessible to selected people. Sounds good doesn’t it?  Let’s look at the Pros of Cloud Computing: Employees can access data and files they need even when they are working remotely or outside of office hours...