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Is Trustpilot a Scam? Can Trustpilot be Trusted?

Is Trustpilot a Scam? Can Trustpilot be Trusted?

It is well known that we, the consumers, trust recommendations coming from peers or fellow consumers much more than we trust what businesses are telling us about them. Therefore businesses selling social proof are very powerful and they can easily manipulate our thoughts on any brand. Yelp even won a court settlement recently, giving them permission to legally manipulate ratings. Both Yelp and Trustpilot claim that they don’t manipulate the truth, but when you take a closer look at the...

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SCAM ALERT: Beware  SkyBlue Education aka Educational Hub aka School Supplies Service

SCAM ALERT: Beware SkyBlue Education aka Educational Hub aka School Supplies Service

beware SkyBlue Education aka Educational Hub aka Edfirst aka School Supplies Service Update: Sept 2022Another name change. School Supplies Services Limited have now changed their name to "SKY BLUE PURCHASING, DEVELOPMENTS AND DESIGN LIMITED" on 9th August 2022, with a new website skyblueeducation.co.ukview name change document Update: Dec 13th 2021I have updated this article from October 2017 to add new info that has come to light.This company is now trading under the name "Educational...

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Why You Should Be Using a Password Manager

Why You Should Be Using a Password Manager

why you should be using a password manager unknowingly Every few weeks, we hear the news that another major corporation and its website has been hacked, just last week we heard about Equifax being hacked and data on millions of users being compromised. We of course only hear about the major newsworthy hacks which have been discovered or disclosed, but the scary truth is that around 30,000 websites are hacked every single day. Often these hacks mean your personal information has...

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Review: Uhans U200

Review: Uhans U200

A couple of months ago I decided to bite the bullet and get rid of my Windows Phone and switch back to Android, I donated my Nokia Lumia 930 to my son.  While I liked Windows Phone, and I do prefer the GUI, there were just too many niggling issues and bugs and those few "must have" apps that either did not exist or the WP version sucked, and this is not going to change due to the tiny user base. Now my requirements are pretty simple, I do not need a phone to play 4k video or play 3D games...

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O2 and the phone of doom

O2 and the phone of doom

You may recall from my earlier post "O2 customer service driving me insane" that I have not been having a very good experience with O2 support/customer service of late, and sadly things have not improved and if I had any hair then I would certainly be tearing it out by now, so here is my latest rant on the subject. . My last phone from O2 was a Nokia Lumia 930, which while being an overall good phone when it works, I have had ongoing problems with it and O2 and have had it replaced around 5 or...

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Parents Beware! Microsoft Family Safety is broken, your kids are not protected.

Parents Beware! Microsoft Family Safety is broken, your kids are not protected.

Like many parents, I have been using Microsoft Family Safety on my kids computers for several years now to keep them safe online by restricting what websites they can view, blocking adult content, restrict what apps they can use etc. I also used family safety to control my kids screen time, so that they could not spend all day/night on the computer frying their brains and eyesight, or use it after bedtime. By default, we gave all our kids ZERO screen time each day, and then used the...

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Margate’s Dreamland back from the dead, or is that living dead ?

Margate’s Dreamland back from the dead, or is that living dead ?

Anyone from my generation or older will have heard of Dreamland. At the height of its popularity in the 1960s, when it attracted more than two million thrill-seekers a year, Dreamland boasted a wall of death run by legendary stunt motorcyclist Yvonne Stagg, which was covered in Anderson’s unsettling 1953 documentary film, O Dreamland, with its terrifying animatronic electric chair and Haunted Snail ride. In its hay day, Dreamland was at the cutting edge of fairground excitement. But by todays...

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