Too Many Repetitive Emails? Make Outlook Clear Them Up Automatically
If the same newsletters, notifications or routine reports keep arriving, Outlook can often file or remove them for you.
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Make Important Emails Stand Out Automatically in Outlook
Use Outlook's current formatting, categories and rules to make important business messages easier to recognise without treating every email as urgent.
Read articleDrone Delivery Has Arrived in Britain — Is This Finally Becoming Normal?
Amazon Prime Air is expanding towards nearly 500 US cities and is already delivering from Darlington in England. The bigger question is whether autonomous delivery is becoming a normal part of logistics.
Read articleWhat Happens to Your Digital Life When You Die?
Your digital life is not one thing, and it does not pass to someone else in one neat handover. This practical UK guide explains how to plan for email, phones, MFA, photos, subscriptions, cryptoassets, password managers, domains, websites and business access without creating a password list or bypassing provider rules.
Read articleWhy Office Printers Still Waste So Much Staff Time
Recurring printer problems rarely come from the printer alone. They come from the wider print environment — drivers, queues, network configuration and deployment. Windows printing is also changing, and businesses should understand what that means.
Read articleHow to Copy Text from Videos, Presentations and Images with Google Lens
Text on a paused video, a presentation slide, a screenshot or a photograph cannot normally be selected with the mouse. Google Lens can recognise visible text in an image and copy it to the clipboard — but OCR makes estimates, not photographs, and the result must always be checked before business use.
Read articleIs AI Saving Your Staff Time—or Creating More Admin?
AI can reduce the time required for individual tasks while creating additional work around them — particularly when tools, data and approval processes remain disconnected. Research from Workday found that one in four UK workers spends seven or more hours each week manually managing disconnected systems. This article explains why faster tasks do not always produce a faster business and what to measure to find out whether AI is genuinely helping.
Read articleMake Any Long Webpage Easier to Read with Chrome Reading Mode
Open a long webpage and find the actual content buried under adverts, menus, pop-ups and sidebars. Chrome Reading Mode extracts the main text into a clean, adjustable view — and on supported devices can read it aloud.
Read articleCan Your Headphones Translate a Live Conversation?
Google Translate can now provide near-real-time spoken translations through compatible headphones on supported phones and tablets. Here is what live translation can actually do, where it helps and where it should not be relied upon.
Read articleMicrosoft Office Closed Before You Saved? Here’s How to Recover Your Work
Word, Excel or PowerPoint closed before you saved. Before recreating the work, reopen the application and check what Microsoft Office has already recovered.
Read articleAccidentally Overwritten an Important File? Here’s How to Recover It
Before recreating lost work, check the file’s version history. Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 may retain earlier versions of cloud-based files — here is how to find and restore them safely.
Read articleStop Attaching Screenshots Separately in Outlook
Learn how to insert screenshots directly into Outlook emails without creating image files first.
Read articleStop Sending People to the Top of a Long Webpage
Learn how Chrome’s Copy link to highlight feature can send someone directly to the important part of a long webpage.
Read articleStop Typing Everything: Use Dictation in Microsoft Word
Word Dictate can turn speech into text, helping business users create first drafts, notes and procedures without typing everything from scratch. Here is how to use it effectively and safely.
Read articleIs Windows Really Backing Up Your Settings?
Windows Backup can preserve settings, preferences and selected files — but the name can create false confidence. Here is how to check what is actually being saved, and what may still be missing.
Read articleAI Is Becoming Your Next Team Member – Not Just Another Chatbot
AI is moving beyond chatbots and into the everyday tools your team already uses. Here is how AI teammates inside collaboration platforms could improve productivity and teamwork.
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