Secure Adobe Flash Player Updates

From the Apple icon, select System Preferences

Click Flash Player, you will see what version you have installed.

Check for updates. This will connect directly with Adobe Flash Player site. 

If updates are available just follow instructions to install. (You will be prompted to install further updates automatically...it may be wise to click on "notify me to install updates" just to be on the safe side and follow the above procedure every time you are notified.

If you want to check installed plug ins - Safari > Help >Installed Plug Ins 

Microsoft Excel Alternative Formula for Monthly Date Addition

Microsoft Excel Alternative Formula for Monthly Date Addition

Create start date cell, in this example = A9, format as date.
Create the amount of columns needed i.e. 4 if quartet stats required and also format cells as date.

In first column, =sum(A9+90)
In second column cell type =sum(A9+181)
In third column cell type =sum(A9+273)
In fourth column cell type =sum(A9+365)

This should give you the same day in each column but quarterly months from original start date.

Say No To 0870 Numbers

This site lists many well known companies, and their equivalent geographical numbers.

Alternatives listed for 0500, 0800, 0808, 0842, 0843, 0844, 0845, 0870, 0871, 0872 and 0873 numbers.

Link: http://www.saynoto0870.com/

(registration required)

BurnAware Free 7

BurnAware Free 7

BurnAware is a family of free and affordable easy-to-use disc burning software to create CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs of all types. Home users can easily burn bootable discs, multisession discs, high-quality audio CDs and video DVDs, and image collections. Business users can back up files from their hard drives, extract files and folders from damaged discs or sessions, and burn multiple discs simultaneously.

Link: http://www.burnaware.com/

Samsung NC110 Boot Priority

If you'e having problems recognising a boot device on a Samsung NC110 Notebook (Windows 7) try the following:

During boot up, Press F10 to enter boot device menu, (or you can enter bios by clicking on F2 during boot up)

Click on advanced settings

find "fast bios mode", this is usually set on enabled so you will need to disable this,

Save and exit (F10)

Re-boot machine, press F10 to get into boot device menu, select your USB device or drive and hit enter.

If USB device or drive is not recognised try again but ensure USB device/drive is plugged into the USB port.

Disabling Automatic Wireless Connection in Linux Mint

This action is particularly useful when you are formatting a machine for someone else as the installation is best done with wifi connected, you don't want to hand back the machine with your wifi network set to auto connect.

To disable an automatic wireless connection in Linux Mint

From the network menu page
click on the arrow (->) next to the connected wifi name
click on forget network
accept forget network

Done, the next time you or anyone tries to connect to the same network you will be prompted for a password.

Error Code 0 (on Mac)

If you come across this error message while you are trying to copy a file for example to a SD card, it's because the SD card is formatted to FAT32 and this does not allow single large files to be copied to it.

From disk utility re-format to ExFAT.

If you get message: "could not unmount disk" then select zero out data before formatting. (Be warned, depending on size of your SD card memory, this can take a long time)

Useful table of file systems / formats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems