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Turn off Search Highlights in Windows 11

When you search in the Start Menu in Windows 11 you will find that Microsoft have a Smart Search feature that can offer you what it believes are relevant searches and even adverts. You might not want these though, especially if you have already set your…

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Choosing Sustainable Cloud Services

When you choose to purchase cloud services for your business or organisation you might be concerned about the sustainability of those services, or whether in purchasing services run from major datacentres you’re actually making the problem of climate change worse. The simple truth is that…

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Manage Power Efficiency on iPhones and iPads

We all want more life from the batteries on our mobile devices. It used to be the case that we would only get a few hours of use before the battery died on a device, now we aim to get more than a full day. …

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Manage Power Efficiency on Android Devices

We all want the batteries in our mobile devices to last for longer, so we don’t find ourselves having battery anxiety before the end of the day. Fortunately Google have added useful battery management features to Android, you can find these in Settings under Battery. Some of…

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Manage Your Privacy with Smart Speakers

Your smart speaker is listening to you. Don’t just take my word for it as there have been hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines, and on websites, detailing how they are listening to, and even recording everyday conversations in your home, and how they’ve…

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How to Delete your Microsoft, Google, Apple or Meta Account

Sometimes you just don’t want to use a service from a company any more. But just stopping using them is often not enough, as they’ll retain all of the information they’ve been keeping on you. This could present data privacy or even security issues in…

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Manage Your Privacy with Microsoft, Google, Meta and Apple

Our privacy and the privacy and security of our personal data is more important than ever. It’s not just that it’s being sold to advertising companies to sell us goods and services we likely don’t want or need, but it’s increasingly being used by political…

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Change Your Default Web Browser

Sometimes you want to switch from using one web browser to another, perhaps you have received a new PC, or maybe you’ve just changed your mind or heard stories about your current web browser that you don’t like. Fortunately, all the major browser makers make…

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Choosing the Best Supported Android Smartphone

It can be tricky choosing a new smartphone to purchase. The manufacturers of all the big Android handsets, Samsung, OnePlus, Xiaomi, Oppo and more all target their advertising at how great their new handsets are, how much the cameras have improved, and how you’ll really…

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Access Local Documents and Files from a Windows 365 Cloud PC

When you connect to a Windows 365 Cloud PC you can also access local files on your PC, such as files and documents you have stored locally that you need access to for work. Fortunately this is very simple to do and works in one…

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