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Tech Tip – An Easy Way To Transcribe Your YouTube Videos

Tech Tip

If you’d like an easy way to get a text transcript of your YouTube videos, try using YouTube’s built-in transcript tool. Here’s how: – Log in to YouTube and go to YouTube Studio. – Select Subtitles from the sidebar (left). – Select a video, choose the language, and click on ‘Confirm’. – To edit the text transcript that appears…

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Sustainability : Removing CO2 Via Direct Air Capture Technology

Removing CO2 Via Direct Air Capture Technology

With some climate commentators suggesting that current action and targets to reduce global warming may not be enough, we look at how Direct Air Capture Technology (DAC) could help. The Challenges The world’s governments have set targets to reduce the amount of CO2 produced by human activities in order to at least slow and, hopefully, make headway in trying reverse…

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Tech News : UK Government ‘Help to Grow’ Scheme : Software And Free Business Advice

UK Government ‘Help to Grow’ Scheme : Software And Free Business Advice

The UK government has just announced the launch of its ‘Help to Grow’ digital scheme which offers discounted software and free advice to small businesses. Applications Open Now The Help to Grow scheme is designed to support smaller businesses in adopting digital technologies to help them to grow. Applications for the scheme opened on 20 January. Free Advice and…

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Tech Insight : What Is A ‘Watering Hole’ Attack?

Tech Insight : What Is A 'Watering Hole' Attack?

In this tech insight, we look at what a watering hole attack is, some examples of such attacks, and how businesses can defend against this threat. Poisoning The Water A watering hole attack is a targeted, ‘supply chain,’ cyber-attack strategy, similar to spear phishing. With this strategy, the attacker identifies a website that’s frequented by users of a targeted…

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Security Stop Press : Backdoors Discovered In Dozens Of WordPress Themes And Plugins

Security Stop Press : Backdoors Discovered In Dozens Of WordPress Themes And Plugins

It has been reported that 40 themes and 53 plugins belonging to AccessPress Themes, a Nepal-based company were backdoored with malicious code in the first half of September 2021. It is believed that the infected extensions gave attackers full access to sites, and that access also appears to have been sold to operators of spam campaigns. Site owners who…

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Tech Tip – 3 Helpful Chrome Tricks

Tech Tip

Here are 3 tips/tricks for Google Chrome to help with queries and searches that can be typed directly into the address bar (also known as the Onnibox): Find websites that are similar – For example, type related:bbc.co.uk – This will deliver results showing similar (media) websites. – The same type of search can be carried out for any website….

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Sustainability : Almost 2X New EV’s In 2021

The latest Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) report shows that new EV registrations almost doubled in 2021. Bad Year Generally For New Car Registrations The effects of the pandemic and the semiconductor shortage continued to have an effect on car purchases in 2021 as new car registrations only rose by 1 per cent to 1,647,181. In fact, the market…

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Featured Article : Microsoft’s March Commercial Price Rises

With Microsoft poised to increase its first substantive commercial pricing increase for Microsoft 365 since the company launched Office 365 a decade ago, we take a look at the added benefits and value and the justification behind the price changes. Six Months Ago Microsoft made its official announcements about which prices it would change and by how much back…

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