About miceandme.com

Hello and welcome to miceandme.com. We are Tina and Paul Landers and we run this site. You can find out more about us here.

Having been a source of computing help, guidance and advice to our family and friends for many years, we thought it might be a fun hobby to create a web site to share our experience with anyone and everyone who might get some benefit from it.

This site has been designed to assist the more mature learner. Why? Because that's where we come from. We're not technically inclined and so we explain things in a non-technical way. Our explanations tend to suit more mature people, like us.

That's not to suggest that a younger audience won't get any value from this site. In short, if you get value from it we're happy and we welcome you to enjoy the site.

This site is not meant to be an instruction book. We prefer to provide a simple explanation of how and why things work the way they do and how they all fit together, so that our readers can help themselves.

We try to demystify the often daunting world of Information Technology and enable the everyday computer user the pleasure of the wonderful experience the world of computers can actually bring to their lives.

Keep it Simple: One of our technical buddies (a computer “Guru” by any definition) was looking through this site and commented to us that he thought we had over-simplified some of our explanations. We pondered his comment for a while and came to the conclusion that we actually agreed with him. In discussing the comment we reminded ourselves why we had created this site in the first place – for exactly that reason – to simplify and demystify the computing experience for people who were not really interested in the technical complexities  of the computer world.

Some important things you should know:

XP Friendly Zone: We are not PC or Windows XP bigots; however that is where our experience and expertise lies, so most of this site is only applicable to that space. If you are using one of the older versions of Windows, we believe you would benefit by upgrading to Windows XP. We have not upgraded to Windows Vista as yet and we will not be considering upgrading until mainstream business customers do (other than that, upgrading to Vista means a whole new set of hardware for us and we're not keen to do that right now).

Just the facts Ma’am, just the facts: In keeping things straightforward and simple, we often use analogies and pictures. It’s how our minds work and it’s our experience that most people appreciate explanations that way. In doing so, our intention is to assist you to understand the factual aspects of various explanations, not any complex theories or technicalities behind them.

Disclosure: Around this site you will see various advertisements. We have tried to keep them clear so that they do not interfere with the site content. Each advertisement that you click-on from this site earns us a few cents for your visit to the advertising site. Likewise, some of the products that we discuss and you choose to try and then purchase may earn us some sort of commission. While individually each of these doesn’t add up to very much, the theory is that if everyone who gets any value out of this site visits the advertisers or buys anything through this site, it will all add up to an amount that will help pay for the development, maintenance, management and hosting of this site.  Will we make a profit from all of this? Mmm, nice thought, but we're not giving up our day jobs any time in the foreseeable future.

So please, if you can and if it’s appropriate, visit and support this site’s sponsors. By doing so you are helping to support this site.

Speaking of support: We cannot help you fix anything that's broken or stopped working, so please don’t ask us to try. To try and fix something that isn’t working, we need to physically be there. Besides, there are others far better at attempting that than we are. Also, it’s not the intent of this site. The intent here is to offer you the information, advice and tools to prevent that situation, and thus help you have a better experience with your computer.

My Lawyer made me do it: The content of this site is for your information only. It represents our view/s at the time we published it to this web site. Any advice, guidance or recommendations that we make and you pursue should be done so understanding your own risk and responsibilities. We do not produce and therefore do not guarantee, either express or implied, any product that we discuss or recommend. That said, we do not and will not recommend any product that we have not personally tried or had some direct experience with. Like all information, advice and recommendations you receive, you should not construe ours as being “entirely fit for your purpose/s”.  You should assess every recommendation in the light of your own and your individual situation.

Basically, in plain simple English, we do not accept any responsibility for your use of the information contained anywhere in this site and we do not accept any responsibility for your use/misuse of any products that we recommend.

To use an analogy, remember getting your Drivers Licence? Well, do you hold your driving instructor responsible for any or all mishaps you have had in your car since then?

No? Well, the same simple and sane logic applies here.

Yes? Sorry, you’re in the wrong place.

Additionally, we reserve any and all rights under copyright protection in relation to all material/s published in this web site. (In other words, if you want to re-use anything herein for commercial purposes, please check with us first).

By using the information in this site you are agreeing to the terms and conditions stated above. If you don’t agree, please do not use any of the information provided in this site.

We reserve all rights associated with this site and its content.

PS. Isn’t it one of the more sorry state of our litigous times that we've had to write, and you've had to agree to, all of the above? We think it is!