Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 April 2024
Don't consider yourself to be musical? Think again! Now everyone can unleash their inner Taylor Swift, using the Suno plug-in within Copilot.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 27 March 2024
While doing a thorough site audit we came across some pages which we no longer link to, but which we don't want to lose. This blog ensures that you (and Google) can still get to them!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 04 March 2024
Last month we asked you to identify 5 Abba songs from cryptic pictures. Out of 16 correct entries our randomised sorting hat chose the name of Alison Palmer of Devon Council, who wins a £25 voucher. An explanation of the answers follows!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 March 2024
A review of websites whose UI is bad by design (and often very funny as a result), including hard-to-use Captchas, irritating volume controls and date-pickers designed to exasperate.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 March 2024
There's a famous sentence which reads "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana". It turns out that this is just one example of a sentence deliberately designed to lead you up the garden path ...
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 March 2024
Chat GPT now incorporates a range of mini GPTs dedicated to different tasks. We put a few through their paces, so that you don't have to!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2024
We've discovered two (more) Windows short-cut keys which will help you work with multiple screens - and there's also a new Copilot key coming to your keyboard soon.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 January 2024
If anyone rang the office on Monday 29th January and wondered where we were - here's the answer!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 February 2024
See if you can name the 5 Abba songs identified in these pictures, and win a £25 voucher to boot!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 January 2024
Congratulations to Paul M of Rochdale Borough Council for winning our New Year quiz (and a £50 voucher). This blog shows which questions were the easiest and hardest, and gives some background information and analysis.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 January 2024
If you have something to say about the content of one of our web pages, you can now say it with pictures! Implementing an HTML editor which accepts images is not easy, but we're pleased to say we've now incorporated this feature within this site.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 January 2024
Do you hate OneDrive as much as I do? I doubt it. How about those extra dialog boxes which appear in Excel, Word and PowerPoint whenever you want to open or save a file, called Backstage view? This blog gives some welcome ideas for reducing the intrusion of unsolicited OneDrive dialog boxes into your working life.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 13 December 2023
To reflect our increased costs we are (sorry) increasing our prices for scheduled courses to take effect from now (although if you book any course before Christmas 2023 we will keep to our pre-incresae prices, even if it takes place in 2024).
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 11 December 2023
Wise Owl have form for developing games in VBA (remember Flappy Owl, anyone?), but Tom Hedge has taken this one stage further by providing a portal to 3 popular games from a single webpage.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 11 December 2023
If you're struggling to think of a present for the nerd in your life (yourself?), here are 3 ideas to help you: a game, a book about games and a book about murder mystery puzzles.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 16 November 2023
Although our new website is functionally still pretty much the same, it looks completely different. This blog explains why we made the change and the issues we faced.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 15 November 2023
A nostalgic look back at how our areas of work have changed over the last 30+ years (in 1992 no one was writing blogs or creating videos ... !)
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 26 October 2023
Not happy with how you look? Why not create an idealised avatar of yourself in Teams, which can then replace the real you?
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 26 October 2023
As part of her pre-course checks to assess the suitability of delegates for online training, Jenny gets people to spend no more than 60 seconds drawing in Paint using a computer via Remote Desktop. The results are sometimes astonishingly good - so good that we've decided to reward the best drawing with a prize.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 25 October 2023
We received 26 correct entries for this logic puzzle - have a look at the answers to the puzzle (and the winner of this month's prize).