So, you have a print of some text you like and you want to find out what font was used. Perhaps your client has given you a print of a letterhead or logo and you need to identify the font to re-create it from scratch? www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont is a nifty tool which enables you to upload a …
Red Rhino recently received a official-looking document from the Intellectual Property Agency Ltd (The Broadgate Tower, 20 Primrose Street, London, EC2A 2EW) reminding us that our trademark for the “Red Rhino” name will shortly expire and requesting a payment of £1280. Considering that a ten-year trademark renewal through the official UK Intellectual Property Office costs only …
I first met Norman and his three fellow American golfing buddies in 1997 when they came to Northern Ireland to play golf. It was a chance meeting which resulted in enduring friendships, holiday exchanges and many happy shared memories. There’s a great story here but that’s not the story this time. On 21st May 2011, …
The Red Rhino office recently upgraded to Super fast Fibre Broadband from Plusnet, our recommended Broadband Supplier for Northern Ireland, and the speeds have been amazing! We’re now enjoying regular download speeds of 30-33Mb and uploads speeds of 1.5Mb – 1.7 Mb – as you can see below. Check out your Broadband speed using www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk and see …
Have you ever thought what happens to your personal photographs, if the web site you are entrusting to store them or display them, disappears or is taken over? Who actually owns the photos? Can you get them back? Can you get them removed? What rights do you have? Here’s an interesting article on the Washington Post …
Friends’ School, Lisburn, Northern Ireland have created a fabulous LipDub (music video that combines lip synching and audio dubbing) featuring more than 1,000 pupils and staff and which superbly “highlights the sense of community” within their school. Congratulations to all involved, Top Marks!
At a recent meeting with a client, we were searching for an email in his presence and he noticed how we categorise emails in our Outlook inbox using the different coloured flag icons. He thought is was “cool” and remarked he had never seen the Outlook icons used in that form, so we thought we …
We had a problem with one of our Windows 7 laptops this week where the volume control slider insisted on automatically sliding down to zero (i.e. no sound). Dragging it back up didn’t help, as it automatically slid straight back down to zero again! After much searching around, followed up updating multiple drivers to no …
Don’t make it easy for anyone to guess your online password, irrespective of what it is used for. Use strong passwords and you can sleep easier in your bed! Do use strong passwords A good password: Needn’t be a word at all. It can be a combination of letters, numbers and keyboard symbols. Is at …