Back in the mists of time, before mobile phones, flat screen TV, the internet and many of the modern technological marvels, personal computers were very much in their infancy. Many people I knew were playing with Motorola 6502 based computers; we used those at university in the form of a Rockwell AIM-65.  I’d been working […]

Error: There is insufficient memory or disk space. Word cannot display the requested font. This recently became a problem with a friend’s computer; he runs Windows 10 with Office 2010.  When trying to print certain documents, this error would pop up; he has plenty of memory and disk space. There were three things done in […]

Some time ago now, Microsoft turned off the on-line activation service for Windows XP; after all, it is obsolete and well past ‘end of life’.  There are however, still some people running it on legacy machines to support older software…and of course for historical reasons.  If you ever have to reinstall it, you will still […]

My quandary… I’ve been saving various documents, magazines and other publications, mainly PDFs, to iBooks on both my iPad and iPhone over the years.  This is fine if you want to read them on the device or backup and restore to a new device. But what if you want to get rid of your iPad […]

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