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Creating a well-spaced document

Documents consist of words. They also consist of spaces and it is the spaces that make our words readable. Because of that, it’s worth paying attention to how you use spacing in all your documents. There are all sorts of spaces. Spaces around the edges of the document...

Solving the Password Dilemma

How crackable are your passwords? Do you, like hundreds of thousands of others, use ‘password’ or ‘12345678’ as your password? Or do you cunningly resort to using your daughter’s—or mother’s, sister’s, brother’s, father’s, partner’s, pet’s, favorite sports...

Sync, share, backup with Dropbox

Sliced bread…the zipper…Velcro…the mouse wheel. Seemingly simple innovations which make life oh so much easier. Here’s another for that list: Dropbox. Dropbox takes all the pain—and most of the brain—out of sharing files. It lets you synchronize files across all your...

Top tips for the iPhone keyboard

Some people love the iPhone’s ‘soft’ keyboard, others loathe it. Whichever camp you belong to, you can make your keyboarding life far more efficient by taking advantage of all the hidden tricks lurking beneath the keyboard’s apparently simple exterior. One of the big...