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How to organise your fridge freezer

You might have bought that new fridge or freezer with the best intentions, but over time, it’s inevitable that the contents become disorganised. Food gets lost at the back, and freezers start to suffer from a seemingly impenetrable layer of ice, hiding the contents within.


But keeping your appliances organised is key to ensuring you actually eat all of the food you buy. Organisation is also key to good hygiene, and it could help to achieve better energy efficiency as well.


Organising Contents

The way you organise your fridge or freezer will vary depending on its size and configuration.


Small appliances benefit from a regular clear-out to ensure that everything has earned its place. It’s fine to store food after its ‘best before’ date, but even frozen food should be used up before the use-by date rolls around. If you’re struggling for space, remove food from its box or carton; you can re-wrap items in foil, cling film, or use a vacuum sealer to save even more space.


Tall fridges and freezers can be problematic if you use all of the shelves, since it’s easy to lose things at the back when other items are in your eye line. You could try using large ice cream tubs to sort the contents so that it’s easier to pull things forward.


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If you have a deep chest freezer, use large, durable shopping bags to organise your contents; when you need something from the bottom, it’s much easier to lift the bag out, rather than bending over and rummaging around.

Labelling Food

The key to tidy and safe food storage is effective labeling, and this goes for the fridge and freezer as well as your cupboards.


Use a marker pen to write the use-by date prominently on the box. If you stack boxes on top of each other, write it on the spine so you can see the date without moving things around.


Likewise, if you remove things from packets to save space, be sure to label the bags with the product name and use-by date.


Keeping track of the contents of large appliances is tricky. Consider writing down the contents of each shelf on the door using a whiteboard marker so that you always know what’s inside. Test this in a small, inconspicuous area to be sure that it will wipe off.

Maintaining Your Fridge and Freezer

Keeping your fridge and freezer organised will allow air to circulate, helping the appliance to work at its best and removing the chance for ice to build up in frozen food storage areas. If you notice that your appliance is not working properly, a good clean and a defrost should be your first move. Remember: a bowl of warm water will help the ice in a freezer to melt, but never use any electrical items like hairdryers.


To insure your appliances against breakdowns and other issues, don’t forget to investigate the options at Row.co.uk. Covering your most important items might cost a lot less than you think, and with affordable installments, there’s no reason to take the risk that your fridge or freezer will suddenly fail.


*The information in this blog is designed to provide helpful information on the subjects discussed. Please seek a professional for expert advice as we can not be held responsible for any damages or negative consequences upon following this information.

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Want to Speed Up Your Laptop? Here’s How!

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Want to Speed Up Your Laptop? Here’s How!

If you have ever felt frustrated with your laptop’s slow speed, know that it’s only natural and nearly everyone has been there; you might have faced the same with a newer laptop bought just a few months ago. But before you go about upgrading to a higher performance laptop, try out the following methods to improve the speed and performance of your laptop or notebook.

1.    Scan for Viruses and/or Malware

Malware, adware, and viruses can seriously hamper the performance of your laptop because they run in the background and use up essential system resources. They can even cause certain applications from starting and running properly. Download good antivirus software and an antimalware program to get rid of unwanted viruses, Trojans, and malware. Remember to keep these programs updated on a regular basis. 

2.    Clear Up Excess Data and Clean the Registry

Sometimes all that your laptop needs is spring cleaning; unused programs and tiny bits and pieces of data left over from previous programs can bog down the system speed. In addition, the registry system of Windows-based machines get filled up with chunks of unnecessary data like duplicate entries, information related to uninstalled applications, and undesirable file extensions.

So, what can you do? Download a free cleaning utility like CCleaner which hunts down and removes excessive data and scans and repairs the registry as well.

3.    Defragment Your Hard Drive

You must have heard of it before, right? Well even if you didn’t, that’s fine. Defragmentation refers to the process of searching for the fragments or pieces of data of a certain file and placing them in a single location; think of rearranging your cupboard, so that everything is tidy and neat. Overtime, a hard disk becomes fragmented with data from different files scattered all over the place.

You should perform defragmentation on a weekly basis, or at least once a month. It will not only improve your system performance, but it will also contribute to the battery life as the hard disk has to spin less to retrieve data.

4.    Reduce the Startup Programs

When your operating system such as Windows boots, a number of programs start up in the background. Most of these are important services which are needed by Windows, but some of them are unnecessary and slow down your laptop. You can disable them by typing ‘msconfig’ in the ‘run’ dialog box under the ‘start’ menu in Windows, while in Windows 8 and 10, this list is located in the task manager.

5.    Upgrade RAM

If you want to drastically boost the performance of your laptop, consider upgrading the RAM; more RAM means more data is buffered quickly, and the remaining data doesn’t has to wait for long to be processed.

6.    Install an SSD

SSD or solid-state hard drives are different from conventional hard disks in the sense that they do not contain any moving parts, and because of that, they have higher read/write speeds. Traditional hard disks use a motor to spin a magnetic disc for reading and writing data. SSDs are fairly inexpensive nowadays, so consider getting one. Your laptop will feel as if it is running on NO2.

*The information in this blog is designed to provide helpful information on the subjects discussed. Please seek a professional for expert advice as we can not be held responsible for any damages or negative consequences upon following this information.

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3 Things We'd Struggle To Do Without Mobile Phones

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10 years ago (maybe less) we would find it hard to believe how incredibly reliant we’d become on the simple mobile phone. The days when a text message was no more than 40 or 50 characters long and upon opening it slowly crawled across the tiny screen for what seemed like an eternity.

Now, the idea of a standard text message seems positively archaic when we have a multitude of instant messaging applications with the capabilities of sending symbols, pictures and videos, as well as the actual words themselves.

But what else do we heavily rely on when it comes to our smartphones?

The Internet

Of course without our access to the world wide web, many of us would simply be lost, and to be able to have it on the go is sheer technological genius. We can catch up on the latest news stories, check our emails and share our thoughts and images via social media platforms in the blink of an eye.

The Camera

In the rise of digital photography came the inspirational notion that a camera and a phone could be combined. For quick snaps on holidays or nights out, having your high mega-pixel camera with its excellent flash and plethora of editing programs to hand is nothing short of essential in today’s society.

GPS

Location is everything. People are now able to track (to the precise position) where they are at the click of a button and also follow where their friends and family are via fabulous smartphone technology, which works like a satellite navigation system.

*The information in this blog is designed to provide helpful information on the subjects discussed. Please seek a professional for expert advice as we can not be held responsible for any damages or negative consequences upon following this information.

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