Meet the Geek
Making

IT Easy

Turning things off and on again,
so you don’t have to

Websites

How do you set up a new site while your current one is still live? How do you make your site faster? What about HTTPS? Is the internet really in a small black box?

Email

What’s an MX record? How do I turn SPAM off? Is DMARC a rapper? Are you sure you’re not making this all up?

Storage

It’s all just boring disks, isn’t it? Should you back things up 5 or 10 times to be sure? Is a clicking disk bad? Does data get wet in the cloud?

Devices

What happens when turning it off and on again doesn’t fix it? What does that error message even mean? Where is the ‘any’ key?
Let’s Get Started

Got a problem?

Is it driving you insane?

ITs All About Me

Some boring Stuff about my IT background

IT is in my blood. Like I said, I’m a geek. I’ve worked in the industry for longer than I care to remember. I’ve worked on the help desk and I might have said “have you turned it off and turned it back on again’ more than a few dozen times. I work alongside small independent businesses and big corporate boys to make sure all their technical wizardry is up to date and functioning at its best. So I get that you need it to just work and I get that you need it fixing yesterday.

Buzzwords

I could bore the pants off you by telling you exactly what your IT problem is, but then your eyes would glaze over. So I try not to. If it needs more than a few words, I can draw you a diagram. Failing that, chalk it down to magic so you can go back to clearing your never ending email inbox.

Geek Fest

One more thing… I’m a proper geek. But I don’t have a beard, or wear tweed. I don’t favour a strange soya based coffee and I’ve never ridden a penny farthing. I’m pretty sure I’ve never been to Shoreditch.

I’m the kind of geek who keeps old bits of tech lying around, you know… just in case… my wife loves it! I love to fix stuff. I remember IP addresses (yes, I’m that sad), I take pride in fixing something in a couple of minutes – which really doesn’t help when you charge by the hour.

Oh and I like tea… proper tea. None of that Green Tea nonsense, no Chamomile… just a proper Yorkshire brew.
I tried Earl Grey once. Took 20 mins to get any colour from it.

From the Blog
Email security. With drinks.

Email security. With drinks.

Or WTF is SPF, DKIM and DMARC? So a girl is in a bar (this is the 80s afterall). Random people keep buying her drinks. But she only wants drinks from her Boyfriend (who, inexplicably, is on the other side of the bar). She knows the boyfriend will buy her nice drinks...

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Backing up abroad

Backing up abroad

You've got a location wedding?! Go you! But you're a bit paranoid about getting those precious RAW files back home? Wondering what those horrible x-rays will do to your beautiful images? Not surprised! (Quick answer is nothing - x-rays will damage film, but not memory...

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Get in touch!

So your Mac’s just crashed… or your PC’s on the blink… or your website’s just been hacked by some gremlins… Relax. I’ve got you covered.

You can choose to have me on standby so I’m ready to lunge into action the second a problem arises, or you can give me a shout and I can give you an estimate of how long it’ll take to fix and have you back looking at memes on the internet again.

Don’t spend the rest of the day banging your head on the desk and yelling at the screen… fill in the little form below and you can make a brew while I press magic buttons.