Dariusz Więckiewicz 🇬🇧

How to download an ISO image directly from Microsoft servers, officially, without risk and unnecessary fiddling.

Recently I had the opportunity to transfer data from one computer to another.

As announced, on October 5, 2021 (to be more precise, at the end of October 4), Microsoft officially presented the final version of Windows 11.

Recently, I had to put into use a computer that was delivered with Windows 11 Home version by default.

Imagine waking up one day to 11 unread emails from Apple asking you to verify your Apple ID.

As a Virgin Media customer for many years, I have always appreciated the fixed price guarantee that I get when I sign a contract.

I have never been too convinced about websites that offer the so-called Cashback, i.e. partial refund of costs incurred for purchases from selected sellers.

Have you seen Sky Mobile’s “It’s not me, its you” ads on billboards lately?

Recently, I wrote about giving my friend’s MacBook Air from Mid-2013 (A1465) a new life by installing macOS Ventura (13.4.1) on it.

Probably some of us have friends who have MacBook computers.

It’s not the first time we’ve been in this situation where when we start using a service, it’s turned into a cash cow or killed like a fly.

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve told my friends and their friends not to send pictures over WhatsApp.

Half jokingly, half seriously.

My personal site has been recently penalized by Bing, or if you prefer different naming for it - secretly blacklisted or shadowbanned.

My post about Bing Jail gained a bit of attention (a lot!).

When you buy Solid State Drive (SDD) the last thing is to have your drive fail and all files are lost.

Setting a hreflang meta tag on your multilingual website shall be as simple as a piece of cake.

Do you know there is no such thing as a lifetime?

I used to use podcasts.

Recently I have been annoyed when my weekly WebPerformance Report email from WebPageTest shows a failure on Compress Transfer.

If you follow my page, you’ve probably already come across my post Blocking Ads in Safari on iOS, iPadOS and macOS.

As much as I am not a fan of reading books, there are some titles that I really would like to go through.

Everybody is amazed by Netflix TV Series Wednesday and I can confirm that it’s justified.

Ukraine, Energy, Inflation and Pay.

Everybody is writing down about the latest Apple TV 4K 2022 model as a perfect premium box for streaming movies.

I survived!

After reading today’s Guardian post about Twitter abruptly dissolves safety council moments before meeting followed by continuously growing hate speech on the platform I decided that I got enough.

We are living in a world that feeds us and looks after us but also kills us.

Someone said, “the only thing you need to do is to try”.

When Google is releasing their search engine updates, there is always a lot of action and a lot of discussions around.

If you are not a first time on my website you already know, that I like simplifying things and using a minimal approach with a complex solution.

Privacy in recent years is something that everybody is talking about.

Privacy is the key and it’s not only in our private life but also in business.

It was all about immigration.

Difficulty: Low Preparation Time: 30 minutes + 45 minutes for dough rising Baking time: 15 minutes, 180C with fan per insert

Over the last years, I forget about something called Progressive Web Apps (PWA) until one day I added to my Home Screen a bookmark to Homebridge, and, believe me, or not, I do not add bookmarks that way very often.

Not so far ago I wrote down about how my Apple Watch didn’t last as long as I expected.

Just today, on the 23rd of July Yummy Recipes UK is celebrating the third month from the lunch of the website.

An extreme heat reached the UK today.

It’s not very often that I am finding something new in a tool that I am using constantly, every single day.

My daughter Anna book worm.

I have been using Apple Watch since series 4 when my wife made me a gift and presented it to me.

From time to time I see and look at some SEO articles to see what others are writing about and what’s new that I need to look at.

I have been reading for some time that one of your solutions for better SEO will be removing pages that are not performing well and just wasting a crawl time.

My wife is a magnificent cook and recently she found herself experimenting with Brownie.

Difficulty: Low Preparation Time: 15 minutes Baking time: 35 minutes, 170C with fan Recipe for 22cm (8.6-inch) bundt cake tin.

Are you advertising for job positions on your website?

Designing a website is not a thing that I am doing for a living.

If you have updated to Windows 11 from Windows 10, the below steps will help you to clean leftovers in your system and make it close enough to the performance known from the 10th edition.

When I moved into a static website made using Hugo I optimised almost everything, including the Google Analytics script.