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Do you have a weekly, or even monthly, I.T. maintenance-schedule in place for your workplace?

Is your hardware and software being serviced regularly and are preventative measures being taken to ensure the smooth running of your systems?

If not, you risk your system letting you down when you need it most, losing vital documents and media and leaving you with a potentially nightmarish scenario of data-recovery followed by complete installation. It could take days before you’re working again.

The ideal solution is either in-house or external I.T. support – however, as much as it’s better that this is done by an experienced technician, any maintenance is better than none. Be sure to read appropriate guides and tutorials before beginning, and do not attempt any procedure that you do not understand.

WordPress is an amazing blogging/cms platform and having a mobile app makes editing so much easier, but if you have a self-hosted WordPress blog and your host blocks xmlrpc.php (like namesco) then you might think you can’t use the mobile app. Good news, though: you can.

Follow these simple steps and you’ll be using the brand-new WordPress app in no time at all.

You will want to read these instructions through beforehand and if you don’t understand any of it, or aren’t sure if you can safely do this then ask someone more technically able to help you out.

We assume no responsibility for anything going wrong because of this – back up everything, always.

That said, good luck. Here’s how to do it:

How do you know whether the free software you?ve seen is spyware?

Generally, if it?s free, you need to check. Even if it isn?t spyware, it might be adware, which can be as bad – unwanted advertising, pop-ups, security holes.

Fortunately, it?s possible to find out in advance, in most cases, by asking a few questions first: