5 Tips to Help You and Others Out

• Help Save Irish Bogs with Used Stamps
• Help Stop Theft of Mobile Phones
• Help Keep Track of Email Projects
• Help Release Your Creativity
• Help on how to make or mend almost anything from anything

Help Save Irish Bogs with Used Stamps

Save the delicate flora and fauna ecosystem of Irish bogs by sending your USED stamps to the Irish Peatland Conservation Council, Bog of Allen Nature Centre, Lullymore, Rathangan, Co. Kildare. Put a note with your name and address in with your used stamps to receive an acknowledgement. Visit the www.ipcc.ie website to see the marvellous work being done.

Help Stop Theft of Mobile Phones

Prevent your stolen mobile phone from being used. Phone your service provider and give them your serial number. They will then be able to block your handset, so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phonewill be totally useless. The thief will not be able to use it or sell it. To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 #. A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealingmobile phones.

Help Keep Track of Email Projects

When I start working on a new job that is going to take a few emails to get sorted. I set up a folder for that in my Inbox in Outlook. Right click on the inbox and select ‘New Folder’. Give it a name, such as ‘Office Redecoration’. For the duration of the project I store emails about this project there. When the project finishes, I can select any emails that I need to keep, such as confirming the price or guarantee. I open each chosen email and save it as text to a folder in windows explorer. This could be a folder set up in the name of the relevant company or relevant project. For long term storing I feel happier storing the important emails as text in along with any other relevant documents in windows explorer. The reason for this is that I know that daily I take a back up of all my work files and so it will be safe forever. It will also be easy to find using the Vista fast find feature.

Help Release Your Creativity

‘Paint’ is a free program included as part of the windows operating system. Use Paint to create and edit drawings. Use ‘Paint’ to display and edit scanned photos. ‘Paint’ is great for freehand drawing and colouring. ‘Paint’ is a good way to introduce young children to using the computer in a very creative way and they can print out their works of art if needed.

Help on how to make or mend almost anything from anything

The website instructables.com has visual step by step instructions on almost everything. (eg) How to make a brass birdcage in 25 steps. How to make compost. Definitely worth checking out if you have a new task to tackle. As a business we are keen to help promote other businesses large & small. Sending business and contacts to each other is particularly beneficial in these challenging times. If your business, club or hobby has a website, and would like to be linked into our website please contact webmaster@a1computers.ie If you haven’t got a website we may be able to help from as little as €250.