• Tip o' the Week #248 – Sense the WiFi

    Sense the network: Use the Force . One of the cool new features in Windows Phone 8.1 is “ WiFi Sense ” –  it’s enabled by default and, in a nutshell, is used to let other people access WiFi networks you already know about, without them having to...
  • Tip o' the Week #249 – Sync your Desktop

    This week’s tip comes as a direct result of a conversation had over a glass of wine and a plate of food, with Content & Code’s supremo, Tim Wallis . Most of us who’ve been using PCs for years will have picked up or held onto habits that are probably...
  • Tip o' the Week #250 – Xbox One updates

    It’s been a busy few weeks and months for Xbox One , as it approaches its first birthday. The console started shipping a little while back in a new, Kinect-less (dis-Kinected?) package ( even if some thought that was a bad move ), and there have been...
  • Tip o’ the Week #251 – Toasting a new email message

    You got a new email – hurray! Back in the early days of using email, it was expected practice for your email program to play you a little fanfare, pop up a message box to tell you that you’ve got mail, put an envelope in your system tray etc. In the last...
  • Tip o' the Week #252 – Web browsing on WP8.1

    Many of us will be familiar with using the web browser on our phones – unkindly, one might say that it’s partly due to the fact that Windows Phone users sometimes don’t have a choice, whereas iOS and Android devices might be redirected to install some...