After my email last week about the trials and tribulations of the covid tracing app, I’ve had a few people asking about changes to the settings on their phones. Last week, both Apple and Google rolled out changes that included the new “covid-19 notifications” system that I was telling you about last week. It’s not… Read More »
If you cast your mind back to the end of April, the government were very excited about a new contact-tracing app to go on your smartphone. Since then, we’ve got a covid-19 track and trace system up and running quite nicely, but without the app. So what happened to it? Well, they started running trials… Read More »
Last week, I wrote to you about old equipment and when it starts being risky to use it online. We’ve had several people writing in asking how to find out whether or not their phone or tablet is still getting updates, and what to do if it isn’t. The simple one first – what to… Read More »
Recently, I’ve been looking around for a new phone. I really like the phone I’ve got at the moment – it’s one of the Motorola G-series phones – but it’s about three years old now, and it’s getting a little bit cranky. But more importantly Motorola aren’t releasing security updates for it any more. That’s… Read More »
As a family, we’ve been doing quite a bit of ordering things online over the past few months – for various reasons. Mostly because the physical shops have been shut, but also because we tend to find it easier that way. But we’ve not had the best of luck, to be honest. Tim ordered a… Read More »