Tips and tricks

I came across this page which has some really useful tips and tricks on it. Nothing earth shattering, but one or two things that might just help out. Take a look.

Handmade mens shoes - 2 pairs for £99 !

I have just come across Samuel Windsor shoes and am very impressed. They are 100% handmade shoes that are selling for £99.95 and when you order a pair, you can choose another pair for free ! They offer a full 30 day money back guarantee and even supply pre-paid return labels, so it is free to return them. This really shows confidence in their product.

I have just ordered a couple of pairs (well one pair as well as my free pair) and am eagerly awaiting them. Take a look at their website by clicking here.

Cheap glasses online

For those reading this in the UK, I have come across a fantasic site to get glasses online at ridiculously low prices. They have been set up to combat the crazy prices that opticians have been charging and seem to
be doing pretty well. To quote from their site: "Back in 2004, the average cost of a pair of glasses bought at big high street chains like Specsavers was £148.85. Now you can get quality glasses, custom made to your precise prescription for just £17.50 complete."

Check out their website here.

7 New Year's resolutions for your PC

Continuing on from the last post about backing up your PC, here is an excellent article from Lifehacker - a great PC-related site. It has the golden rules that everyone should be following to keep their PC in tip-top shape. This may not be everyone's idea of fun, but this will really make such a difference on how your PC performs. Do these 7 steps and your PC will be flying again.

Seriously, I cannot recommend this enough !

Backup your PC - now !

OK, I know that it's not the most exciting thing in the world, but backing up your PC is extremely important. These days, when we all have so many digital photos, so much music and all those important letters and other documents stored on our computers, what would we do if we suddenly lost the whole lot ? Are you willing to lose all those family photos ? Would you be annoyed if your music collection disappeared ? Might you perhaps need those letters that you wrote to the insurance company ?



The fact is that hard drives can, and do, fail and if that happens, you're stuffed ! You should make sure that you back up your computer on a regular basis, so that if the worst happens, you can simply restore all your files from a backup. The simplest, and cheapest, way of doing this is to use one (or more) of the free online backup services available. My favourite is Mozy - it gives you 2Gb worth of storage free and allows you to schedule your backups - you can schedule them for 1.00am so that no-one will be using the computer.



Honestly - if you only do one thing to your computer this year, make a backup of your important files - you might just thank me one day !