As you might have noticed, I've removed a few lines on this site and my social media bios that talked about self-publishing my next book by the end of this year. I'll still try to do this - I want to do this -  but work's been busier than I imagined and it's proving...

I'm finding publishing a blog post every day quite challenging at the moment, time-wise. So, for family reasons, and in the interests of quality, I'm taking a break from daily blogging for the first time since 12 September, 2018. That's 406 days, which I'm proud of. I...

If your computer starts to slow down, there are one or two free tools I'd suggest you try. One is CCleaner, which cleans up your computer's harddrive by removing unused files allowing Windows to run faster and clearing space. What unused files? Cookies, temporary...

A handy little tool for images and graphics: If you need an online image to be a particular size for your website, blog, social media profile or a document, or you're trying to duplicate a graphic and need to know the measurements, I'd suggest PixelRuler3. Free to...

While I'm generally not the biggest fan of Apple, I very much like some things they do. Such as their advertising. When faced with a task that needs doing - backing up your contacts list because you're changing your phone number, for example - it's worth remembering...

When I think of internet education, I think of the fundamentals of working online, using the internet commercially, or simply getting the most our of it for day-to-day living, such as saving money on utility bills and banking, finding cheaper flights, or giving money...

My good friend Dave told me about a great little tool the other day: TextExpander. It's great if you're often creating content that repeats certain elements - templates and so on. You set up a library of snippets and when you type the appropriate one, it expands into...

Some book decisions I've made, following a few weeks of thinking about it before I get time to actually work on it: It'll be concise and relatively short I'll produce a PDF only (for now at least) It'll be aimed at parents (I'd struggled with deciding who exactly this...

In the emerging world of cryptocurrency, Facebook’s Libra project is looking shaky. Here's the latest word: Libra is likely to miss its scheduled 2020 launch Politicians, officials and regulators have warned that the project carries risks for financial stability and...

Nir Eyal used to show tech companies how they could get and keep people's attention. He wrote a book on it called Hooked: How To Build Habit Forming Products. The “hook model” he developed advocates building a “mind monopoly” by associating a product with internal...