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How this Social Media trick can save you time, money and stress
How to get unfair charges returned and better customer service using this social media loophole This tip has saved me time, stress and money and will hopefully do the same for you. Whenever there’s one of those ‘Things People Find Most Annoying’ polls one of the things that always comes up near the top is…
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4 tips to help you beat the rain and stay dry
Ahhh summer rain. It’s like we’re living in a great big, world-sized shower at the moment. It’s hard to predict what the weather’s going to do on a minute by minute basis so what do you do if you’re not dressed for the occasion? Here are a few tips to help you minimise the damage……
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12 simple ways to increase the battery life on your iPhone
How to conserve the battery on your iPhone 4, 4S or 5 (some of these tips will also work for earlier models) The iPhone is a fantastic little device but the one area where it falls well short is battery life. You know what it’s like, you do a bit web browsing on your way…
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How to set up a WordPress website in 7 clicks
If you’re a regular Insider’s Edge reader you’ll know that I highly recommend WordPress for anyone who wants to set up a website for business or fun. You can use to create news sites, hobby sites, portfolios, online journals, sales pages, photo galleries – virtually anything you can think of. It’s free, incredibly user friendly and…
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How to stop cold callers pestering you… for good
This one is a pet peeve of many and even though there’s a simple 1 minute fix so many of us haven’t actioned it yet. I’m talking about the curse of the cold caller… “Hello?” Long pause. Clicking sound “Hello, are you the main bill payer in this household?” “Who is this?” “I’m calling to…
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7 weird and wonderful uses for petroleum jelly
Petroleum jelly has been called a ‘cure all’ by many of its fans because of its vast range of uses. Vaseline is probably the most popular brand over here. Most of us use it to stave off chapped lips, but there are a number of other little known uses for this mysterious ointment. Here are…
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The real reason why most New Year’s resolutions fail
We’re in that strange New Year twilight zone. Everyone’s stopped drinking, joined the gym and started learning Cantonese. It all sounds very admirable but here’s the problem: Most New Year’s resolutions simply don’t work. In a survey of over 3,000 people UK website ‘Quirkology’ found that only 12% people stuck to their New Year’s resolutions.…
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How to set yourself realisitic goals that guarantee success
New Year’s resolutions often fail because they focus on negatives, are based on other people’s dreams or are too broad. Let’s look at how to set realistic goals that help guarantee your success: * First off forget about the whole ‘New Year’ time frame If you can’t think of anything that you want to achieve…
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How to increase your home Wi-Fi signal for free
If you live on more than one floor or have a lot of internal walls it can be hard to get a strong Wi-Fi signal at times. Taking your laptop upstairs or into the garden can cause many devices to lose the signal – and with it your Internet connection. Rather than balancing on one…
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Here’s a lazy way to find the best takeaway in your area
I don’t know about you but I can’t stand ordering takeaways over the telephone. Often it involves shouting at someone very slowly for whom English isn’t their first language… then they get it wrong and you have to go through it again and so on. You try several different ways of speaking until eventually you…