Windows H8
In my research for replacing my home laptop I’m stumbling across a lot of scathing press on windows 8. I’ve not seen or used a copy so this is all speculation based on rumour and such-like. I’m hearing...
View Articleblue screen of temporary illness
Ever since the Cupboard’s face got smashed in I’ve been asking friends and colleagues for advice on what I should do – what sort of computer I should get and when. My UK friends give diverse advice...
View ArticleBONKERS price matching
From all the advice and a bit of playing with some Windows 8 laptops in store my plan was emerging. Fermenting ideas. The strongest ideas bubble to the top. The bubbliest plan is to buy: Windows 7...
View Articlea few tricky questions
Before parting with my hard earned cash in return for a plucky little champagne coloured Acer Aspire S3 with an Intel i5 processor there were a few tricky questions that the store staff were well...
View Articlewelcome Sparkle!
Sparkle a ‘Champaigne’ coloured Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook running windows 7 home premium joins my list of personally owned computers, dating back to 2004. Hooray! Here’s how it all started: In 2004 my...
View Articlehave some babies for windows 8
Several things make me think that Windows 8 is not for me. The UK advertising campaign is my main source of thinking it’s not meant for me. For example, in an advertising email Microsoft appears to be...
View Articledad’s been jackanaped
The sender of this email agreed to let me publish it because he’s entertaining and talking about buying a PC from PC world: My Dad just bought a new computer, without asking me first *facepalm*. He...
View Articlethe blue flash of colonel panic
The Blue flash of colonel panic is not a military award, one of the X-men, X-women, a Transformer, or other superhero. Windows 7 scary classic! The file dump from Windows 7 “Blue Screen Of Death...
View Articlemore ungraceful failure messages
Sparkle is running smoothly but there appear to be a few hiccups among the internet services Sparkle uses. Here’s a selection of recent bumps from McAfee, Optimalworkshop and SharePoint services and...
View ArticleOffice365 takes me back to the future
The default time on my work computer appears to have reset itself in the past. My Office365 email account appears to use my computer time to judge my local time. So emails sent to me today were all...
View Articlehairstyle as behavioural indicator
You’re not quite as wild as your hairstyle suggests My PhD supervisor observed 2 months into my PhD. I think he was a bit disappointed. I’d learnt that a key part of his interview process was to judge...
View ArticleSurface Super FAIL
The default (Microsoft) App for mail crashes everytime I paste a link into an email, which is for most emails calendar crashes every time I paste a link into a calendar invitation Surface shipped too...
View Articlecar over football
Mumsie: But how do I keep the email address so that I can find it again? Wendy: You can ‘Save’ it in an address book on your computer. Can you see anything here that suggests ‘save’ or ‘keep’? Mumsie:...
View ArticleBuying a computer in John Lewis’s
We wandered around the computer displays. Wendy: which one do you like mum? Mumsie: I can only choose based on how they look dear Wendy: They’ll all work for what we want them to do, so that’s an ok...
View Articlerough surface
Since September 2013 I’ve been using a surface pro 1 4 frowns (NO! It’s just wrong) Rating scale explained In 20yrs of buying computers, this computer ranks as my single worst computer purchase....
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