You don’t have to use your ISP’s DNS servers and sometimes can get better results with others.  Try these:

Google

8.8.8.8  8.8.4.4,

OpenDNS

Now part of the Cisco empire, the primary is 208.67.220.220 with a backup on 208.67.222.222.

Norton ConnectSafe

Available in its basic form on 199.85.126.10 (backup 199.85.127.10)

Comodo Secure DNS

Rather like Google in that there is no configuration – using the service is simply a matter of switching to the services primary and backup servers on 8.26.56.26 and 8.20.247.20.

DNS.Watch

Available on 84.200.69.80 and 84.200.70.40, DNS.Watch is almost unique in offering an alternative DNS service without the website logging found on most others.

VeriSign Public DNS

Not to be outdone, VeriSign recently started offering public servers on 64.6.64.6 and 64.6.65.6.

The document below explains step by step how to check/change your setting in Outlook.  It uses a server called Ceres.

improved email settings on Ceres

Email explained in 2 minutes

Temporary email addresses

If you give web sites and new contacts a disposable email address instead of your real one, you can selectively disable a disposable address as soon as you get spam through it, but continue using all other aliases.

All disposable email address services provide this basic functionality, but some have other neat features that make life with email less spam and more fun.

• Guerrilla Mail – Disposable Temporary E-Mail Address

• Mailinator

  mailinator.com/?

   Disposable. Email. Use any inbox that YOU think up! Here’s a suggestion: … Give out a Mailinator address any time you need an email address but don’t want to …

• 10 Minute Mail

  10minutemail.com/?

   Temporary disposable e-mail service to beat spam. Avoid spam with a free secure e-mail address.

  ?Welcome to 10 Minute Mail – ?Privacy Policy

• AirMail: Temporary Disposable Email

  getairmail.com/?

   Get your own temporary email address Instant activation. We don’t ask for usernames or passwords.

• YOPmail – Disposable Email Address

  www.yopmail.com/en/?

   YOPmail provides Temporary and Disposable Email addresses to protect you against Spam. Stay Protected always!

  There are many others….

  Common terms used in emails

   

  Unwritten rules

  Download the Factsheet: Email in a Nutshell

Picmonkey is an online image and photo editing application which manages most of the effects and tweaks you need for preparing images for your website… and more.

www.picmonkey.com

Using it is straightforward, but for extra information you can always use their video tutorials

and “how to’s”

For a basic introduction, see the video below:

Top ten tutorials

Basic Edits Definitions

Crop
images manually or type in the desired proportions. PicMonkey offers preset crop sizes for
printing or for using as online avatars.

Rotate
tool allows you to rotate your photo 90? to the left or right, flip, or straighten your photo
with the slider or drawing a line with your mouse along an edge that should be straight.

Many features work with a single mouse click but allow the option to adjust a
slider for more control with Edits, Effects, the size and transparency of text,
Stickers, and Frames.

Exposure
allows you to manually adjust the brightness, highlights, shadows,
and contrast of your image, or you can have PicMonkey Auto –
adjust the image.

Colors
allows you to auto adjust the colors in your image. The neutral picker option allows you to
use a dropper to balance out the colors in the image so that one color doesn’t overshadow the
other colors in the image. You can also adjust the slider bars to change the saturation and
temperature of the colors in your image.

Sharpen
allows you to adjust the slider bars to change the sharpness and clarity of the pixels in
your image.

Resize
allows you to enter a new width and height for your image. This will give your image new
dimensions. You may choose to Use Percentages if you would like the image to be 50% larger. It is
recommended to Keep Proportions as well.

Videos and notes on setting up Woocommerce.
It is advisable to use a theme which states that it works or is designed for Woocommerce.

This shows you how to set up a website AND Woocommerce

More specific for Woocommerce

Kingston Communications – useful information and settings

Karoo Business Support: 08451 200063

Karoo Home Support: 01482 606101

Telephone Numbers:

Karoo Broadband: 150
Karoo AnyTime: 08440 464000
Karoo HomeTime: 08440 464100
Karoo FreeTime: 08440 464200
Karoo Pay As You Go: 08440 969696
Karoo Standard: 0845 3210000
Karoo Outside Hull: 0845 1281514

DNS Servers:

primary 212.50.160.100
secondary 213.249.160.100
(secondary usually more reliable!)
Alternate servers which don’t redirect you to a KC page when you make a typo:
212.50.160.38
213.249.130.101

Your username/login name:

This will be: username@karoo 
or just: username
Your password:

 This is also the password for your main email account.

Main Email account name:

username@username.karoo.co.uk

Mail Servers:

pop.karoo.co.uk 
smtp.karoo.co.uk

Proxy Server:

proxy.karoo.co.uk, Port=8080

Broadband Settings:

VPI=1
VCI=50
Encapsulation=RFC2364 PPPoATM
Modulation=G.dmt
Multiplexing=LLC or VC
Authentication=CHAP

FTP webspace settings:

Hostname: homepages.karoo.net
Username: Your Karoo internet username (without @karoo)
Password: Your Karoo internet password

Common router login details:

It is common practice for a signature block to consist of one or more lines containing some brief information on the author of the message and a disclaimer.  The UK’s ECommerce Regulations require all limited companies to disclose their company name, registration number, place of registration, website etc. in e-mail signatures.  It is suggested good practice that charities do the same.

Below are some sample signatures/disclaimers.

Adapt one of the examples below and copy and paste it into your own signature.

Name

Title

Organisation

Registered Office:

Address and postcode

Telephone:

Fax:

www.website.org.uk

The Organisation is registered in England and Wales as a Private Company Limited by Guarantee No. 1234567 and a Registered Charity No. 7654321

The contents of this message do not necessarily represent the opinions, views, policy or procedures of the Organisation. This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. Please note that the Organisation does not warrant that any attachments are free from viruses or other defects and accepts no liability for any losses resulting from infected email transmissions

Email signatures are used to display your name and contact information. The signature is automatically inserted, usually at the end of the email. Using an email signature saves you time every time you send an email to someone.

If you use Microsoft Outlook, the links below will show you how to set them up:

for Outlook 2003

for Outlook 2007

for Outlook 2010

for Outlook 2013

and for Thunderbird

If however,you use webmail you can add a signature by following the instructions below:

Creating an email signature in Horde

Create a signature in Horde Webmail by following the steps below:

1. On the icon bar at the very top of any mail page in the Horde WebMail application, click on the options icon.
2. In the Your Information column, click Personal Information.
3. On the Personal Information page, click Edit Your Identities.
4. Select the Default identity from the Your Identities pop-up menu, type your signature text, and click the Create button.
5. Confirmation that the change you have made to your default identity will appear at the top of your window stating “adding a signature file.”

Creating an email signature in Roundcube

Create a signature in RoundCube by following these steps:

1. Click on “Settings” at the top right side of the page.
2. On the Settings page, click on the “Identities” Tab.
3. Double click on the email address that you want to create a signature for.
4. Add your signature.

Creating an email signature in SquirrelMail

Create a signature in SquirrelMail, in the Personal Information section, by following the steps below:

1. First, log into your SquirrelMail.
2. Click on Options at the top of the screen.
3. Click on “Personal Information.”
4. On the next screen you will be able to insert your signature.

Some sample signatures/disclaimers