Author: Christine Betterton-Jones

Next Thursday, April 27th, we’ll take a look at paid upgrade plans for Google, iCloud, OneDrive and Dropbox. We’ll discuss whether it’s worth shelling out money for the extra storage (and in some cases, extra goodies, Google1 throws in a … Read more

There seems to have been an outbreak of scams and phishing attempts recently. This Thursday, April 20th, we’ll take a look at the recent warnings, and compare notes and experiences. We’ll also discuss how to avoid getting sucked into one … Read more

Following on from last week, this Thursday 13 April, we take a look at videos on your smartphone: Those you take with your camera, those created by screen recorder, and those dumped there by WhatsApp and e-mails. What’s the best … Read more

Following on from last week’s discussion about phone settings, this Thursday, April 6th we look at photos and images on smartphones: camera shots, screenshots, WhatsApp images, image storage, editing images and sharing them. What does DCIM mean? What’s the difference … Read more

Each time your phone receives an update it gets new features and renews old ones. The settings and their shortcuts become more sophisticated and useful, but most of us know little or nothing about them. Do we need to change … Read more

This Thursday, March 23rd we take a look at the fairly recent phenomenon of Emojis. We will take a look at how they developed from WingDings and Dingbats (some of us are old enough to remember those) Did you know … Read more