Starting a blog is a fun and rewarding experience. However, on the other hand, it can also be portrayed as being as daunting as it is interesting. Often, people are very interested in starting their own blog but struggle to get to grips with how to go about starting one from scratch. The purpose of […]
How to Remove DRM from Amazon Books
Every Kindle book you buy comes locked with Digital Rights Management (DRM). That means you can only read it through Amazon’s own apps and devices. You can’t convert it to EPUB, you can’t open it in Calibre, and if Amazon ever decides to pull a title or shut down your account, those books are gone. […]
How to Stop Spam on a WordPress Site
I first wrote this post in 2020 after battling a relentless wave of comment spam on one of my sites. I tried everything: Akismet, CleanTalk, hCaptcha, blacklist plugins, even removing the URL field from the comment form. Some helped a bit. Most didn’t. Six years later, the spam problem hasn’t gone away, but the solutions […]
How to Migrate Emails from One Account to Another
Email migration sounds like it should be simple. Copy the emails, paste them somewhere else, done. In practice, it’s one of those tasks that can go sideways in several different ways depending on what you’re moving, where you’re moving it, and how many accounts are involved. I manage email across multiple company accounts and have […]
How to Know if an Electronic Product is Fake or Original?
When you buy products online, especially from Chinese websites like Aliexpress or Gearbest, you might be a bit doubtful of whether the products they sell are original. This is especially the case for small electronic goods like camera batteries. The best way to determine whether a good is fake or not is to do the […]
The Best WordPress Themes for 2026
Looking for a new theme for your WordPress website or getting started with WordPress? There are thousands of themes out there and your website creation journey can get stalled right there as you search and search for the right theme, possibly making some bad choices along the way. I’ve been in the WordPress space for […]
How To Recover Files (including Photos and Videos) on Mac
If you ever had the misfortune of having a disk corrupted you know how bad it feels to lose your files. Here are some tips on recovering files on a Mac. First, a word of advice. Before using your cards on photographic equipment, always format them so you make sure that you’re starting from a […]
How to Export Photos from iPhone to an External Drive
I don’t like using Apple’s applications and proprietary file storage types for photos. I like it old school where I can just drag photos from my devices to my external drive in a folder and organize them manually via folders. Storing photos on iCloud is a privacy concern that not many people care about, but […]
The Best Resources for Learning Electronics
I’ve had a wish to learn electronics for a very long time, and this year I took the plunge and bought some kit to get started. Here’s the stuff I bought and some other resources I found useful. Hardware Keyes electronics kit SMP0051 NodeMCU ESP8266 Lua WiFi Internet Development Board (alternative to Arduino) Raspberry Pi3 Official […]
The Best Electric Bike Kits for Brompton in 2026
I love riding my Brompton in Barcelona and other places when we travel. In fact, I’ve taken it with me all over Europe since it’s so easy to travel with it, whether it’s by plane, train or car. It’s a great means of transport, but it’s also true that if you live in hilly regions […]
How to Back Up Your Gmail in 2026
Gmail stores years of your life — receipts, contracts, medical records, conversations you’d hate to lose. Google can and does lock accounts, sometimes with no warning and no clear appeal process. Accidental deletions happen. And relying entirely on a cloud service you don’t control is just poor data hygiene. If you’re thinking about switching away […]
The Best WordPress Hosting in 2026 (Based on Running 15+ Sites)
I’ve been hosting WordPress sites since 2012. In that time I’ve used cheap shared hosting, had a provider literally disappear overnight taking all my data with it, and eventually migrated everything to managed WordPress hosting. Today I run 15+ sites across three managed hosts: Kinsta, WP Engine, and Servebolt. This isn’t a generic comparison post. […]
