Archive for the ‘Downloads’ Category

GMail top tips – Download other email accounts into your Gmail account

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

It is always nice to have things in one place.  With Gmail you can do that, you can download your POP emails right into Gmail, for example if you have a john.smith@btinternet.com type address you can download that into Google, niiiice!  And what's more, label those accounts with some brightly ...

GMail top tips – Send and Archive

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

One of our first posts in this series was about archiving.  Well there is a cool feature that will allow you to archive an email as you send it, brilliant!  Saves a mouse click with each message you send using this feature but to borrow a well known phrase and ...

How to view site stats using AWstats

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

This blogs demonstrates how to view your website stats using AWstats of cPanel. 1) The first step you need to take is to open up your web browser and type into your address bar ‘www.yourwebsite.domainsuffix/cpanel’ e.g. ‘www.grae.co.uk/cpanel’ or ‘www.pctoolbox.co.uk/cpanel’. 2) You now need to log in to your cPanel.  Enter your user ...

6 Tips to Stay Secure while browsing with Firefox

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Here is a good article about staying safe when browsing with Firefox, which is one reason why we use it and one reason why we highly recommend it.  Have a read of the latest Firefox Blog which talks about ... Instant Website ID Anti-Phishing & Anti-Malware Anti-Virus Integration Plugin Check Customized Security Settings Secure Passwords You can ...

Top Plugins for WordPress

Friday, August 19th, 2011

You'll know if you are a regular reader of the Brandstar blog that we like, and recommend, and use WordPress for our websites - a fantastic tool. We thought we would recommend our top plugins that no WordPress site should be without! 1) Google XML sitemaps - make it easy for ...

We Love Dropbox!

Monday, June 27th, 2011

Dropbox is a fantasticly easy way to receive extra storage that is automatically saved across all of your devices, and accessible from the Dropbox website.  It works with all applications such as Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry.   Download now and get 2GB free! A few features of Dropbox: - Dropbox ...

Image Resizer for Windows 7 and Vista

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Just over 3 years ago we wrote a post titled ‘Quick Tip – Resize Multiple Images Quickly‘.  One of the programs we mentioned in the blog only worked for machines running XP.  However, a company called CodePlex have adapted the software so it can be used for Windows 7 and ...

Secunia – Online Software Inspector

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Secunia's Online Software Inspector (OSI) inspects your operating system and software for insecure versions and missing security updates.  By ensuring your machine is fully up-to-date you help prevent your software against security issues. The tool is very easy to use... Visit the Secunia OSI Website Click Start Scanner Look at your results (see example ...

Learn about AVG Internet Security 9.0 – Video

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

A fantastic video to explain how AVG Internet Security works and why you should purchase it! :)

Top 10 Free Apps that Windows Users Can’t live without

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

Here are our top 10 free apps for Windows Users: Malwarebytes - an easy-to-use, simple and effective anti-malware application which is designed to quickly detect, destroy and prevent malware.  Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware can detect and remove malware that even the most well known anti-virus and anti-malware applications fail to detect. Related Posts - ...