Archive | Autumn 2016

The Christmas challenge

Here’s an opportunity to get your tutor in a pickle.  Think of a question that you’re sure he doesn’t know the answer to and see how he deals with it. Six degrees of separation: is the idea that all living things and everything else in the world is six or fewer steps away from each […]

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Chromecast

Chromecast is a media streaming device that plugs into the HDMI port on your TV. Simply use your mobile device and the TV that you already own to cast your favourite TV shows, movies, music, sport, games and more. Chromecast works with iPhone®, iPad®, Android phone and tablet, Mac® and Windows® laptop, and Chromebook.  It […]

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The Apps drawer

All your apps are “held” under the Apps icon.  On tapping it you will see a list of all the active apps.  There may be more that one screen of apps (indicated  by the grey/white blocks at the bottom of the screen).  At the top of your screen will be a second tab called widgets […]

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Get a new email address

We have made much of having more than one email address and we tend to have focussed on Gmail.  There are many services out there which will give you a free email address, normally with may other add-ons or features many wrapped up in advertising. One of the well establihed mail systems is a company […]

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and a few more apps…

100 Christmas Gifts Christmas Apex Nova Theme Christmas Rink Live Wallpaper Red Stamp NORAD Tracks Santa Elf Adventure Christmas Elf Yourself Mushtool EMF Analyser Alert 5 Sound Meter Metal detector Around Me Sleep Goggles Sleep Voice changer Wallpapers Voxel Invaders 7 Little words Wordfeud Next Lock Screen and how about a hair makover… and a […]

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Podcasts

A podcast is a series of audio or video episodes that are distributed online using a feed. A podcast’s subscribers can either view the audio or video episodes on their computer or on a portable video or audio player. The beauty of subscribing to a podcast is that you don’t need to constantly check to […]

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