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About this site
ADSL
- More on ADSL speed testing
- How ADSL works and testing your connection speed
- ADSL and varying connection speeds
- What is ADSL 2?
- What is an ADSL Filter?
- I can’t get ADSL, what can I do?
- The different kinds of ADSL
- Why you can't get ADSL
Blogs
- Can expats make money with blogs?
- All bloggers should read this eBook
- Blogs can bring more bookings
- Blogging with Yahoo
Bookings
- Use post cards to promote your gite or holiday rental
- Watch out for scam bookings
- 10 resources for advertising your gite or holiday rental
Books
Browsers
- Windows XP users told not to push F1 while using Internet Explorer
- Rest in Peace Internet Explorer 6
- UK Government says Internet Explorer 6 is safe enough
- Google leaves Internet Explorer 6 behind
- Internet Explorer update due soon
- Chrome now available for Linux users
- Google Chrome and Firefox, updates and market share
- Opera 10 features turbo mode for slow connections
- Firefox 3.5 downloads exceed 100 per second
- Opera 10 beta version now available
- Taking Internet Explorer 8 out for a test drive
- Iris - the new browser for Windows Mobile 5 and 6
- FireFox version 3 should be available now
- PayPal to block old and unsafe web browsers
- Is FireFox running slow on your PC?
- Testing out Flock - a new browser for social networking
- Firefox spotted in LeClerc
- New browsers for surfing
- Internet Explorer 7 now available
- Safer browsing on the Internet
Christmas
Communications
- Skype to raise costs
- Skype offering discounts on subscriptions
- Skype 4 now available
- Get TweetDeck on Linux
- Why phone calls suffer in quality
- Skype offers subscription deals
- Saving money on phone calls with Pingo
- Suspend your line and payments when you are not at home
- Get Internet access anywhere by satellite
- New version of Skype available
- Apple iPhone comming to France?
- Phone options for Skype
- Skype 2.5 Beta for Mac OSX
- Skype version 3 now available for testing
- Skype offers free calls in France
- English speaking help line for France Telecom
- Can I call the UK for free?
- Using Skype for a competitive edge
Computer Shops
- My visit to Ouratech 24, the English run computer shop
- Ouratech, the English run computer shop
- New computer shop in Oradour sur Vayres
Computers
- 6 great alternatives to Microsoft Office
- Is Windows 7 worth upgrading? For Vista users - yes
- Microsoft to release big update, fixes 34 bugs
- The history of Microsoft Windows
- Two great resources for computer history
- Micosoft releases it's own protection software
- Get a copy of Ubuntu 9.04 for free!
- Installing Snow Leopard? Make sure you update Flash!
- A quick look at Apples latest, Snow Leopard
- Video: Installing Ubuntu Linux
- Do on Linux what you do on Windows
- Use a memory stick to explore Linux
- How to test Drive Ubuntu Linux
- Why you should consider Linux as your future operating system
- WiFi difficult? Connect your computers using your existing cables
- Computer Jargon still baffles us all
- The importance of backing up
- USB Memory keys going cheap at Conforama
- Why buy new?
- Update on Apple Mac's and WiFi
- Apple Mac's and WiFi
- Buying an English speaking computer in France
- Taking your computer to France
Digital photography
- Can you get quality digital cameras on the cheap?
- 7 tips for your digital pictures.
- Choosing a digital camera
- Watch out for scam emails not really from HSBC
- Email scams: Facebook and Outlook Express
- Hotmail, Yahoo and Google email suffer from online attacks
- Watch out for the eBay scam email
- Watch out for Michael Jackson themed virus emails
- Orange email on a go slow?
- OutLook and OutLook Express update email scams
- Beware of phishing email pretending to be from FaceBook
- Google gMail is down!
- PayPal payment demand scams
- Email scam wants your website details
- Phishing scams on the rise during financial crisis
- Watch out for phishing emails, protect your privacy
- Scam emails on the increase?
- 15 years of spam email
- Beware of Google AdWords email scam
- 7 step guide to spam free email
- Email Scam: Abbey National
- RBS customers beware!
- Hints and tips for Microsoft OutLook Express
- Create a contact page with no programming
- Another email scam to be wary of
- Example of email spam
- Taking your email with you
- Emails and Outlook Express
- Accessing your UK based Emails
Explanations
General
- CHRISTMAS!
- Why do ISP's make it so difficult?
- Join me at my new forum!
- New forum at ExpatPress
- My computer lives!
- It's worse than that - it's dead jim!
- eBooks now available to RSS subscribers
- Welcome to the new look Computing In France
- New look coming soon - comes with FREE eBooks!
- What would you recommend?
- Happy Birthday Craig
- Back on the net but no thanks to Neuf
- ISP problems still going on
- This is post number 200!
- I'm Back!
- ISP problems just go on
- Back from Bordeaux
- Going absent for a while
- Changes to the comment systen
- Things look a little different around here...
- Can gravity help with ADSL speed?
- Fake gadgets in France
- My router is driving me crazy!
- Merry Christmas
- I need your help with French ISP's
- New look to Computing In France
- Website update
- Waiting for my connection
- I need help for a new project!
- It's my birthday soon!
- Real life get together
- Site update - comments are back
- New search engine for expat bloggers
- Site change - no comment form
- Send your wish list to Pere Noel
- Websites and Christmas
- Christmas is coming - already?
How-To
Internet
- Watch the Olympics with a browser
- Loppsi is coming, your Internet freedom is going...
- Advice from Europe - Just say no to Internet Explorer
- France will lead piracy fight at a cost to your Internet freedom
- French anti piracy agency commits an act of piracy
- If you thought the French Internet Law was bad...
- Nicolas Sarkozy is a DVD pirate
- Lot and Garonne to get WiMax, wireless broadband is coming
- Broadband by Satellite from Big Dish
- Hadopi passed by French Government, soon to be made law
- Google introduces 'fast-flip'
- Broadband in France offers help to get connected
- Brief list of alternatives to PayPal
- PayPal sneaks in new charges, users rather upset
- WiFi Internet access while sailing from England
- Do you get the ADSL speed you pay for?
- Fun and games with Club Internet
- ADSL modem upgrade needed for second PC
- Hadopi Internet Law gets weakened, so what use it is now?
- Bing: check the family filter settings - now!
- Bing: Microsoft's newest search engine
- Top tips to secure your home network
- Hadopi Internet law now available in English (sort of)
- 15 websites for online photo editing
- What search terms do you use?
- 6 tips for safe shopping on the Internet
- Include ADSL research before buying a house in France
- Phone calls with Neuf suffer from cost cutting?
- Magic Box Imp – Wifi internet radio and media player
- Have you used an Internet Cafe?
- Do French Internet providers care enough?
- What's most annoying about your Internet Service Provider?
- Should you use an availability calendar?
- Looking for the right ISP
- New browsers on the way
- Searching for an Internet Service Provider
- Get Radio over the Internet
- Waiting for the Internet
- Keeping your kids safe while surfing the Internet
Just for fun
- Is this the best hand held device ever?
- Is a pidgeon really faster than broadband? In South African is it!
- The Hadopi law explained in cartoon form
- Nokia celebrates early mobile phone games
- Get wine when you need it with your computer
- Have some fun with your photo's
- The Matrix: it runs under Windows?
- Play golf with out leaving your chair
- Are we dead yet or has the LHC worked ok?
- World ends Wednesday apparently
- Best homemade remake?
- Computing history in Paris
- What is the difference between a cat and a dog?
- Recreating the battle at Omaha beach
- Stephen Fry on gadgets
- How a Triumph Rocket 3 is not made
- Test your walking skills
Mobile Phones
- A cheaper way of making calls
- Apple and Orange iphone deal deemed illegal
- Mobile phone service price comparision
News
- Hadopi Internet Law now in effect, carefull what you download
- French Governent looking to invest in high tech projects
- Man gets surprised by his Orange Internet bill - very surprised
- Connexion newspaper launches new regional website
- I want to meet you in September!
- Big news for my friend Richard Barley
- YouTube says no to Internet Explorer 6
- July edition of the French Paper now out
- New expat newspaper is out, the French paper
- New forum for the Rivier region and a radio station for dept. 66
- French Senate approves new Hadopi Internet piracy law
- French Internet law: Against constitution and impractical to police
- French Internet law makes it through
- File sharing website found guilty in copyright case
- French Internet law fails to make progress
- French Internet Law gets another step further
- French Internet is up for sale - on eBay!
- Microsoft to feature fixes at the click of a button
- Microsoft issues update for critical flaw in IE 7
- Security warning given for Internet Explorer
- Mobile phone services on a USB stick with Unik from Orange
- AOL shutting down services
- Update on the closure of 'French News'
- 'French News' is no more
- France is tops for illegal downloads
- Search engine with a visual twist
- CDiscount has amazingly huge sale on today
- French Government plan to get heavy with illegal downloads
- Ultimate Microsoft Office 'very special deal' for students
- BBC testing new website home page
- SNCF testing out WiFi on trains
- Ordinateurs sous Verre have closed for business
- Apple iPhone arrives in France via Orange
- The 1001 mile journey has begun
- Neuf Cegetel increases connection speed to 50Mbps
- Windows XP comes to an end
- New Neuf Cegetel service uses Linux
- French Government to issue USB drives to students
- Fiber Optic networks coming to France
- Orange partners Apple
- France 24 - News service goes live on the Web
- Iliad and Free venturing in to Mesh Networking
- The great AOL sell off
- Neuf Cegetel make broadband more accessible
- Teleconnect Update
- New Broadband ADSL service for Expats
- Sony laptop batteries recalled due to fire risk
- 25th anniversary of the IBM PC
- Sony Mylo keeps you in touch
- Wanadoo and other services merging under Orange
Poll
- Latest poll is now closed
- Poll update: Which operating system do you use to access the Internet?
- Which operating system do you use to access the Internet?
Polls
- Are you an illegal downloader?
- Poll results: In your opinion, who is the best ISP?
- Poll: In your opinion, who is the best ISP?
Printers
Projects
- Website Rebuild: Heidiwoodhead.com - Results of the project
- Website Rebuild: Heidiwoodhead.com - Optimization for search engines
- Website Rebuild: Heidiwoodhead.com - formatting the text with CSS
- Website Rebuild: Heidiwoodhead.com - layout rebuild with HTML/CSS
- Website Rebuild: Heidiwoodhead.com - Removing structure
- Website Rebuild: Heidiwoodhead.com - Removing all text formating
- Website Rebuild: Heidiwoodhead.com - introduction
- New project to rebuild a webstite
Questions
RSS
Storage
Tips
Updates
- New Mac OSX update available
- Apple release Safari update
- Mac OS 10.5.5 is now ready for download
- Windows XP Service pack 3 release date announced
Virus Protection
- Fake virus warnings, avoid them and their software
- 5 levels of protection to keep your PC safe
- Beware of scareware
- Apple remove document promoting install of antivirus software
- Apple suggests Mac users get protected - twice
- ZoneAlarm issues warning over Windows Update
- Watch out for greeting cards from strangers
- Virus unleashed as storms hit the UK
- Held to ransom by a virus
- Keeping virus's at bay
- Keeping your business tool safe
- Protecting yourself from Virus's and Spyware
Web Browsers
Website design
Website Maintanance
Website promotion
- Free business cards from Vista Print
- Google gives SEO advice to beginners
- Escape Anywhere offers free advertising, better hurry!
- Article directories and duplicate content
- Update on using an article directory
- Use an article directory to get links to your site
- How website statistics can help you do better
Website Promotion
- Four web designers share their top tips for design and promotion
- Top 10 SEO tips for any gite or holiday rental owner
- Google on meta tag usage
- Google likes a good description
- Using photo sharing services
- Every page is a home page
- Create your own webshop in under 5 minutes
- Add social bookmarking to your website or blog
- Write for ranking
Website review
Websites
- French M6 offers TV online
- Support Help 4 Heroes with your old Computer
- What does Google know about you?
- So why does my computer crash?
- 5 to follow on Twitter for expat news in France
- Take unwanted tourists out of your pictures
- Profit from running your own website franchise
- Looking for pictures for your website or blog?
- Finding cinemas that show films in original language
- Facebook:love it or hate it?
- Top 20 ridiculous complaints by holiday makers
- 9 forum and resource sites for expatriates
- FaceBook introducing new changes
- Find UK shops that send to France
- No photo ID for the airport? Make one yourself!
- Make your own favicon
- New classifieds website for the Riviera
- OpenOffice 3 now available - go get it!
- Google marks Queen visit
- Update on LinkStar Media: thank you and good bye
- Have you been contacted by LinkStar Media?
- Yanglo offers a home for expat newbies
- Handy CSS reference chart
- 7 good reasons to use a blog for you Gite or Holiday rental
- Problems with Google Adsense reporting
- Please help, which expat blogs do you recommend?
- Learn a language with your web browser
- PC Worlds top 101 freebies
- Get a desktop and use it anywhere with Jooce
- Online picture editing via your browser
- A newspaper by email
- A big list of free services and programs
- BBC offers online tutorials
- Can your website visitors see the full width?
- Looking for a tablet PC
- Website design and redesign: are they very different?
- 6 points to check on your website
- Choosing a domain name
- How is your website performing?
- Have you ever thought of using a blog?
- Can your visitors see your site?
- Top 5 common mistakes on holiday rental websites
WiFi
- Is your wooden floor affecting your WiFi?
- Find world wide WiFi hot spots the easy way
- WiFi hots spots spreading around Paris
- More on McDonalds and WiFi
- McDonalds and WiFi
- Should you leave your WiFi connection unsecured?
- Securing your WiFi network
- Handy eBook for WiFi setup and more
- An introduction to WiFi
- Using WiFi
Windows
- Windows updates, choose your browser and BSOD problems
- Malware to blame for Windows black screen of death
- Cleaning up your temp folder
- Updates for Windows users, Office SP2 and IE8
- Windows XP service Pack 3 out today?
- Windows XP will 'bite the dust'?
- Windows XP gets a reprive
- Last Service Pack for Windows XP coming next month
- Windows Vista Service Pack 1 now available
- Windows Vista available in 2007
- Another update for Windows from Microsoft
- ZoneLabs stops support for Windows 98
- Critical update coming soon for Windows
Winter Website Clean Up
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My name is Bob Toovey, a UK expat living in south west France. I have worked in IT for over 20 years. I hope to give you helpful advice about using your computer and more whether you run a business or just enjoying expat life.
