How to manage passwords easily and securely
I know, it’s really hard to get enthusiastic about managing passwords. However, deep down you know you need it. (Really, trust me, you do). It's no longer sufficient to create an easy to remember "master password" and then add a few unique letters after each one...
Who is in control? Tech or humans?
In his latest book “Minimalism - living better with less technology” Cal Newport believes Social Media and our increasingly digital lives are wreaking havoc with our autonomy, our ability to concentrate on work or even have a meaningful existence. So what is the truth...
How to use both digital and analogue tools together to organise your life.
Life is hectic; we are part of family groups with complicated work, home and school schedules. Should we manage all this digitally, or by using traditional diaries, or is there a happy medium? Being a technology geek, I have always been keen to use the latest apps...
How much time during the day do you spend typing the same phrases, over and over again?
You want to be responsive to customer enquiries, but sometimes, typing the same paragraphs of text again and again to answer predictable questions gets a little bit tedious, not to mention time consuming. So how can you avoid this and yet answer your customer’s...
Is sleep the real big shot tool for increasing productivity?
Have we been looking in the wrong direction for the past few years? “To do” apps, Pomodoro technique, management training courses and time management courses in the office… Should employers instead be offering snooze pods and bonuses for proof of 7.5 hours sleep? The...
“I’ll just Google that! Top 10 tips to help you search effectively
Google, having been around since the 1990s, has now officially become a verb according to the English Oxford dictionary. I was corrected by one of my teenage children that actually, “to google” is “passé” - they now “search it up”. However, whilst the verb might only...