His Royal Dryness, The Duke of Cork

I use a few groups in Facebook. I like to be able to navigate to some of them quite quickly, so I put a shortcut to them on the home screen page (or desktop) of my Android smart phone. However, the next time I want to do this, I can never figure out how to do it, so end up spending ages looking for how it's done. To save me time, and to help you too, this is how you add a group shortcut to your android's screen. Go into the Facebook App Go into the group (sometimes that can be awkward to find!) Click on Admin Tools (this is the key bit) - it's the badge/star icon in the top right of the group's screen/page.  It looks like this :-     Then Choose "Your Settings" And "Add to Home Screen" You can then drag the shortcut wherever you want it. Hope that helps!

Why is Google Search Console full of contradtions? Playing by the rules for SEO should be easy.  Search Engines want something in a certain format, they want to be able to present the user who is searching with the best result for them. So I try to do what they ask, and use their tools to check and validate what I'm doing.  An important page is a bit slow to load - speed it up.  Title tags duplicated - revise the content or remove the duplication. Just recently, I've been looking at a site on Google Search Console.  It has a "Inspect Any URL" search bar at the top.  So after looking and seeing no unexpected errors for the site, I think I'd try the search on the home page.  Three green ticks!  What more could you ask for? Looking at one of the ticks ("Coverage") in more detail, there was a throw-away comment: Indexed, not submitted in sitemap That's the most important page, how have we missed it off the sitemap?  A quick check of the si...

I thought this would be worth sharing as a tip to get NowTV cheaper.  Instead of paying £7.99 a month, I pay just £3.20 by this simple trick. Sign in to Now TV and view your passes.  Then click "Cancel" :- Don't worry, this won't cancel your account!  They'll ask you "Why?" :- Say you can't afford it. There will then be a few pleading pages and reminders of what you watch. But eventually they'll offer it at £3.20 for 3 months..... You're welcome!

I recently searched online to see if there was a simple way to remove ads (aka "Promoted Tweets") from Twitter.  I use Twitter on my laptop and using the app on my phone. Some sites suggest using a third party add-on for Chrome or Firefox.  That's great, if you use these, browsers, trust the add-on and only ever use Twitter on your PC.  Some suggest different apps to access Twitter, but again, I don't want another app, and what do I do on my laptop.  There has to be a better way, and there is! The answer is simple, it uses Twitter itself.  It requires minimal effort.  It works on your phone and your PC's browser (whatever you use).  What's the answer? Use a list.  It's that simple.  Create a list in Twitter.  Then put everyone you follow on this list.  Then, instead on using Twitter's regular feed, just look at the list.  All the updates are on there, and guess what?  There are no promoted tweets.  No adverts. ...

The quick answer is "no" and if you do use directory enquiries, you could be ringing fraudsters. Most people are familiar and wary of scammers cold calling and telling you they are from Microsoft or somewhere similar and offering to aid you in fixing your computer. We know that once they're on your PC, they'll try and take money from you for their "services", and also try to hack any banking or credit card details stored on the computer. This week, we've found that if you call 118118 and ask for Yahoo! (for instance if you're struggling to access your account) the number they give you could put you straight through to the fraudsters.   The above image is from 118118.com and is the same number given out by 118118 if you call. Yes, there are other Yahoo! numbers, and you may get one of them. However, we had a client who phoned 118118 to get the number for Yahoo!, then called the freephone number they gave him. Half an hour later, they'd remot...

Really enjoyed our trip to Corvara, Italy on the Sella Ronda, part of the Dolomiti SuperSki region.  I had been told about the horses that pull you along by tow rope instead of use a ski lift or drag lift.  I thought I'd share the video. I had thought that the horses were on part of the Sella Ronda, but they're actually after you ski down the Hidden Valley (Lagazuoi) and drag you for about 10 minutes to a "normal" ski drag lift up the hill before you ski back down into San Cassiano.

I thought I'd put some notes down about Verona airport, Italy, as you don't seem to be able to review airports on TripAdvisor.  Maybe if you have a choice, it might help you to decide. We flew there to go skiing.  On arrival, we were told that the bags might be a bit delayed coming through to the baggage carousel, which is fair enough. The signs said that our luggage would be on carousel 4.  Above carousel 4 our flight wasn't listed, but it was listed above carousel 3. We stuck with carousel 4 and one suitcase came off, so thought we were fine.  Then a rumour went round that some cases were coming off carousel 3.  I went to check it out and found another bag of ours.  Then one came off 4.  We were left with one bag to collect, so we kept going between the two. After about 45 minutes, there weren't many people left in the baggage area and our last bag was on a trolley they'd manually hauled in from the plane and dumped in the corner. < >...