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Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Last month Graham wrote about it being the end of the line for Optical Drives (and Hard Disk Drives, but we're not talking about that today!). Browsing the Apple store this week for software I came across Apple's latest version of their operating system OS X Lion on a USB ...
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
We have decided throughout this month to do a short series of posts briefly discussing our favourite features of GMail and how to use them. Such features including the purpose of archiving emails and downloading other email accounts into your GMail account. All very practical!
Look out for our GMail top ...
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
So I am sad to say that I will be leaving Brandstar coming into the new year! I am going away to do project work in Zambia for 6 months with an organisation called African Quest - very exciting :)
Here's my team blog, which has only just got going! - ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
This is a blog post about how to forward your emails to a number of addresses in cPanel.
So, if you had a website www.pctoolbox.co.uk you could set up an address contactme@pctoolbox.co.uk but rather than downloading from it you could just forward it to ben@brandstar.co.uk.
Or … You could have an address ...
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Friday, December 16th, 2011
This is a blog post about how to set up an Email Account in cPanel to help those with Wild Hosting accounts or anyone else using the hosting control panel - 'cPanel'.
How to set up an Email Account in cPanel
1) The first step you need to take is to open ...
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
The BBC recently posted an article about how some are saying Email will be a thing of the past, as current teens and younger are using email less than they use messaging systems on popular social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ or the less popular Bebo and ...
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Thursday, December 1st, 2011
We always like to look at what's out there so that we can offer the best reviews to our customers.
Tech Radar is a brilliant source for reviews. We have recently read their article on top inkjet and laser printers - our personal favourites for printers are Canon, however Tech Radar ...
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Friday, November 11th, 2011
We have recently helped local campaigners in Storrington and the local area get their campaign website online with WordPress, and with one of the free WordPress themes. After setting up the site for them we gave some lessons in how to manage a WordPress website - and now it is ...
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
We have recently taken over the hosting and site maintenance for Blomst Flower Studio. Alison and Jan came to Brandstar hoping we could help with their website and using our hosting company Wild Hosting we have been able to bring the hosting costs down! The next step will be to ...
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