Monthly Archives: February 2017

Apple Support 2

From time to time we were finding that when we tried to do something we were being told that we could do it because we didn’t have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. And for some reason we couldn’t … Continue reading

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ValiusWP 1

ValiusWP, based in California, has a website, on which they promise:- So, on 15 Feb 2017, we sent them this letter by email:- All that happened was that we got a request for us to “sign up” with them. We … Continue reading

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Miscellaneous comments 3

When we need help with a technology problem or question, we’re looking for a “person” – not people, not an organisation but a “person,” the best person in the whole wide world to help us. It doesn’t matter whether that … Continue reading

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Lists of the email addresses of people who may be best able to help us with our technology questions and problems 2

We now have nearly 40 people on the first of our lists of these people – use this link to go it.

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Miscellaneous comments 2

In the legal world, when solicitors feel they may be getting out of their depth or need expert help, they “brief” a barrister to provide an opinion, for which they pay a one off fee. It’s something they’re doing all … Continue reading

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Miscellaneous comments 1

In looking for a person or people who may be able to help us with our technology questions and problems, (which we’re always doing,) we’re always coming across businesses with names like “Here2Help,”  “Computer Aid,” “Nelly Mac,” “Website Developer,” “iTech … Continue reading

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Akismet 2

In this previous post we made this comment:- Why is it that even major organisations don’t seem to have anyone who has this job, or if they do, providing reasonable responses to reasonable emails seems way beyond them. This was … Continue reading

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Lists of the email addresses of people who may be best able to help us with our technology questions and problems 1

We’ve started putting together a list of the websites and ordinary email addresses of people who may be able to help you and us with our technology questions and problems. Once the email addresses are available, it only takes a … Continue reading

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Akismet 1

This blog is created with software provided by WordPress. WordPress comes with “plugins” as a feature. Akismet is one of of the plugins that can be used with Word Press. This is what we got from Akismet a couple of … Continue reading

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Richard Brus, Computer Consultant

This is Richard’s entry on the Nearby Nerd website. Our experiences with Richard have been disastrous, and we’ve formed the opinion that he is not to be used in any circumstances. We’d be more than happy to discuss why we’ve … Continue reading

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