Chris: Geek Guy

Quidco is a cashback site which you can use to earn rewards for shopping at your favourite sites. You can also earn cashback without spending any money, simply by signing up for free trials of services such as CreditExpert, or by switching your utility or insurance providers.

Since I joined a little over three years ago, I’ve managed to amass a cool £1300 in cashback, so it’s definitely worth doing. By way of a membership fee, the first £5 you earn per year is retained by Quidco, but after this you get 100% of the proceeds.

There are a few notable omissions such as Amazon, but most of the big retailers appear on Quidco, typically offering anything up to 10% cashback. Some of my favourites are Play.com, Tesco, Debenhams, Argos, eBay and iTunes. They’ve also started a in-store cashback programme including retailers such as Halfords and Cineworld.

Plus if you sign up via any of the links in this post, you will earn £1.25 just for joining. I’ll also get £1.25 for introducing you. Once you’ve joined you can also earn up to £2.50 for each friend you introduce.

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By default, iTunes on Windows only supports multimedia keys when in focus. MmKeys.dll is a tiny (44K) addon which just needs to be dropped into your iTunes plugins folder to add support for most multimedia keyboards even when iTunes is running in the background.

I’ve been using it for the past couple of weeks and have found it really handy!

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Friend and fellow blogger Matt Harrison explains one of the ways that you can manage your iPod without iTunes.

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I’ve noticed that iTunes sometimes skips and stutters when I do something as simple as scrolling a Web page. The fix is simple – open the QuickTime Preferences (Start -> Run -> quicktime.cpl), click the Audio tab and tick the box marked “Safe mode (waveOut only)”. Restart iTunes and the playback should be much smoother.

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