Local Author & Historian Jeremy Pryce has released his latest book “Diary of Llandinam Past”,
With a little help from Bluesdigital!
For more information, you can contact him via his website llandinamhistory.co.uk
📚 Diary of Llandinam Past 📚
🖼️Random pic….
Had a few min’s playtime in Photoshop with this pic of Tan y Bwlch, Aberystwyth.
- Upscale to 8k
- Sky Replacement Tool
- Flood Filter
- Done!
And a “Night” Version …….
Pesky Printers
Just had a local Farmer from Dolfor pop in with a little Epson printer that has been giving him grief over the last few days. It’s been refusing to print anything, but giving no error messages on his computer to help him resolve it. He was going to chuck it out, but thankfully he gave me a call first.
Turns out it was just his black cartridge that had run out, phew!
After replacing it with a good quality compatible, it was up & running within a couple of minutes.
JWST Pictures
You have probably seen some of the new pic’s from the James Webb Telescope all over the media.
The one that grabbed my attention was the “Tarantula Nebula”, Wow!
After looking at it for a while, I thought a little magic in Photoshop may be called for.
With some help from the HDR tool to bring out the full range of colours in the image, and a healthy amount of contrast, the image was absolutely transformed.
Take a peek for yourself:
If you want a copy of my tweaked version for your desktop….. Click Here
Or you can pinch this one!
All Image Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, etc, etc, etc
Weddings, Windows, Cloning and Website changes
First job on the card’s today are some really pretty Wedding ‘Order of Service’ Cards. The Client had done a great job of designing it in CANVA , so it was straightforward enough to get it done quickly and efficiently as ever!
Then it was time to delve into it sickly Acer 💻 that’s refusing to boot up. This turned out to be an incompatibility with the windows 11 upgrade. One nice clean windows 10 later, and its back with the client.
Next up ,it’s cloning of a client’s pc onto a larger SSD. After some initial grumpiness from the original windows installation, everything went reasonably smoothly, Phew!
Last job, for this RATHER long day is the strip down & rebuild of a WordPress site. They have been having problems with the plug-ins used to build the original site, so I advised a fresh start by removing pretty much all of the software and setting it up from scratch.
Website Glitches, MS “Teams” & Boxing
Friday morning & we are off to a flying start on some repairs to a client’s website.
It’s an E-Commerce Website that has not been sending emails correctly for a couple of day’s, which can be a pain!
After some input from Microsoft Office 365 Team (which wasn’t really helpful), checking all the plug-in’s, nothing seemed out of place. However, it has now just started working again ?!?!
And now there’s an update available for the Website Mail Plug-in…..
Look’s like they have found an error and sorted it on the quiet.
Next up is a client who’s having issues with Microsoft Teams & Zoom meetings.
He’s also had a bit of malware playing with his drivers for the microphone on his laptop, making things worse.
After a quick clean-up of the malware & installing the proper “Teams” & “Zoom” app’s, instead of using his browser, thing’s started to work correctly.
Then it’s some laminated A3 & A4 posters for the Newtown Amateur Boxing Club.
Another client drops in with more problems on MS Teams…….. Hmm, Beginning to smell a rat here!
Re-installing “Teams” does the trick again. Methinks Microsoft have been having a few bad day’s of late.
WI Tickets, Old Phones & Flyers
First off for today is completing the tickets for the Clun Valley South WI Group. Printing tickets is an important part of this event’s preparation.
A nice flowery design, as the speaker is the renowned Margeret Thrower.
Then we are into a bit of Data Recovery on a few old Mobile Phones & a rather tired old Lenovo PC. It’s rather slow going, but eventually everything was transferred to my clients memory stick without hassle.
Next up is a re-run of a local artist’s flyers. Nothing to change after the initial run back in Feb of this year, Kay’s just running out fast!
More Flyer’s & Slow Acer Laptop
Got another Flyer job for today…
Tracey, from Affinity Home Care Group over in Market Street gave me a call about Flyer Printing this morning. After a brief chat & a couple of emails, all was sorted without a problem. Good artwork means fast turnarounds!
Then, after a run of “Brain Picking” from a few folks passing by, and sorting out a clients email problem, It’s time to see what’s going on with a little red Acer laptop that’s not playing ball.
It’s very slow to boot (about 10min), and is crawling along once it has finally loaded. A quick inspection of the Hard Drive, and everything becomes clear. Poor thing is flat out doing nothing, meaning the hard drive is on it’s last legs.
As the machine has only had reasonably light use over it’s 4 year lifetime, I would have expected better. However, my clent advised me that the laptop has travelled extensively throughout Europe, in a Camper Van.
Thousands of miles of vibrations, knock’s & bumps would explain the damage to an older style “Mechanical” hard drive. No problem though, In with a nice new “Solid State Drive”, Transfer client documents & files, and a fresh installation of Windows 10 to finish.
It’s booting up in about 20 seconds now, and behaving itself pottering around the net, and dealing with everyday tasks with ease.
Last job for today is a short run of A4 Posters for the Newtown Textile Museum.
Well worth a visit too!
Fast Flyers & End of the line for Win 7
And we are off with a high speed turnaround on some A5 Flyers, for a local Autioneer, that are needed by this Friday (Wed’s Today!).
Not a problem for Bluesdigital….
After a final edit @4pm, they are off to my commercial printers & should be with my client by 3pm on Friday, Phew!
Next job is for a local newsletter.
630x Double Sided pages later, and we’re done. (Poor Printers were steaming after that lot)
Last job for today is a Windows 7 Zoostorm PC that is suffering with a dodgy hard drive. As it’s got a decent CPU & 6Gb of RAM, It’s a good candidate for refurbishing.
In goes a nice new SSD & fresh install of Windows 10, and it’s turning out to be a snappy old fella!
Should keep the client going for a few years yet, and it’s good to recycle too….