Carla Webb
Digital Confusion
Digital transformation, transition, migration, conversion, digitizing, digitalizing, digital learning, digital teaching, technology...
Webb Consulting - personalised solutions for today's technology.
This blog contains handy tips on maintaining and repairing your mac or pc as well as advice on digital safety and parental controls
Carla Webb
- Sep 7
- 3 min
Sort your photos in 5 easy steps
1. Choose what medium you want to store them on/in. There are so many options it’s tough to choose. Hard Drives : Personally I have mine...
Carla Webb
- Sep 7
- 3 min
Smartphone addiction
Addiction is a strong word as it implies destructive behaviour. Excessive smartphone usage is possibly more of an affliction than an...
Carla Webb
- Sep 7
- 3 min
10 tips to clean out that phone!
Most of us are locked down again and therefore have no excuse not to spring clean our gadgets. Clouds are expensive. If you add up you...
Carla Webb
- Sep 7
- 3 min
How to keep your mac squeaky clean
So set yourself a monthly reminder, or even quarterly is better than nothing and sit down and give your mac some 'me time'.
Carla Webb
- Sep 7
- 4 min
Your tech appreciates a spa day too.....
It's time to look after your tech the way it has looked after you during these past months of seclusion and distancing.
Carla Webb
- Sep 7
- 4 min
Laptops for kids and upgrades!
If there is one thing we have all been dependant on in the past weeks of quarantine and crisis, it's our tech. It has enabled us to keep...
Carla Webb
- Sep 7
- 3 min
IF I GO MISSING !
Create a folder with the relevant information, seal it, and tell one or two trusted loved ones where it is. Keep it somewhere very secure...
Carla Webb
- Sep 7
- 3 min
New Year Resolution - Kill those Notifications
Turning off notifications is psychologically beneficial and it’s easier than ever to silence apps you don’t want to hear from constantly.
Carla Webb
- Sep 7
- 3 min
Apple Family Sharing vs Home Sharing?
We love our Apple gadgets. And Apple loves to get us to subscribe to monthly payments for storage and music and pay for apps and movies...
Carla Webb
- Sep 7
- 6 min
Photo sorting - filing the five thousand......
And if all this sounds daunting, or you just don't have the time or patience, call www.webbconsulting.mc
Carla Webb
- Sep 7
- 3 min
Back-Up - if there's only one thing you should do....backup your stuff.
Last week - 'Hi Carla, errrr my Mac is going really slow and I can't open 'photos' anymore, it just shows the spinning wheel for hours on...
Carla Webb
- Sep 7
- 3 min
Smart speakers - yeah baby or no way josé....?
Alexa, Google Home, Cortana, Siri..... We've all heard of them and some of us love them, and some people are super wary of them.
Carla Webb
- Sep 7
- 3 min
Gadgets for kids
I treated myself to a new handbag, it was small, delicate and expensive but I saved up for it and will use it every day. Yesterday.....
Carla Webb
- Sep 7
- 2 min
Cleaning up duplicate files and photos
Everything benefits from a good spring clean..... The first time I ran a duplicate file finder it took half an hour to run, and then...
Carla Webb
- Sep 7
- 3 min
Losing all your photos.....
Millennials are avid consumers of tech, but as they have never known life without it, their ability to really know how it works is limited.