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Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership – Chimes Home and Garden – Donald Russell – Garioch Indoor Bowling Club – Garioch Lions on Facebook – The Garioch Partnership – Gibbs Menswear – I&K Motors Inverurie – Inverurie Business Association – Inverurie Community Council – Inverurie Locos – Lippe architects and planners – Premier Coaches – The Royal British Legion – Sandy Thain Car Sales – Strachans Inverurie – Watsons of Inverurie

At A Glance On This Page — Personal Online Services, helpful web links also useful charities

Great useful websites and online services including retailers that offer a personal service
Useful Links or Websites - local organisations, bus and train info plus job search sites
Charities that really help people - including childrens charities, disabled persons charities, Vision Aid Overseas, Scottish Women's Aid, Royal Northern Countryside Initiative, Firefighters Charity, Shelter Scotland to help the homeless and Home Energy Scotland to help households with energy efficiency
Complaints - official bodies who you can complain to and receive a better deal also feel better

Great useful websites and online services including retailers that offer a personal service

Both Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeenshire Council enable users to personalise their user experience with a digital online account. Also, now you can pay tax on your income to HMRC as well as check how much income tax you are due to pay, check your national insurance record as well update your Universal credit journal online by way of the web. Aberdeenshire has the digital library where you can borrow ebooks, download music and MP3s also.

Personal accounts can help you buy products from Argos, Amazon, Tesco and Asda for example as well as from electrical retailer Currys, bike specialist Halfords and health food store Holland and Barrett. Phones and networking equipment can be purchased from the BT shop also.

You can play or stream music by way of the web from Spotify, Deezer, Napster and also YouTube Music. Soundiiz.com enables music playlists to be transferred between platforms with ease.

You can write and publish your own ebooks with Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing and Smashwords. The latter enables publishing to Apple Books making ebooks available to iPhone and iPad users.

Outlook with Office Online and OneDrive as well as Google Docs are the main productivity apps available on the web from Microsoft and Google respectively. Google Docs often very efficient on low end computer hardware. OneDrive, Google Drive, BT Cloud and Dropbox are great online storage platforms for documents, photos and videos. Google Drive supports upload of multiple files and folders to aid organisation from computer — also Google Drive is the organisation part of your Google account that lets you sort, order and categorise documents, spreadsheets, presentations and forms — Google Drive supports upload of PDFs and also Google Docs supports export to PDF file format. JPEG image files and photos can be uploaded to Google Drive also and sorted in folders for easier reference as well as organisation.

Vimeo, Rumble and YouTube great video sharing websites.

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram enable social sharing — Facebook enables connections with friends and family, supports relationships, Twitter is good for timely real time news from various people and organisations. Instagram for sharing images often and for establishing real online personalities. LinkedIn helps professionals to network and gain contacts — often used by people in work, with jobs to advance their career prospects.

Zinio gives access to online magazines and the Guardian news website provides free news.

You can register a domain name and buy web hosting from 123-reg.co.uk, but you can also forward domain names to free hosting web hosts such as Altervista and Infinity Free — this makes free web hosts really good value for money and helps to establish web developers and designers giving them a reputation. Often you can host multiple websites with free hosting providers, but the number of websites is limited about five websites with Altervista and three with Infinity Free.

Gov.uk Data Protection Rights for Data Subjects
Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis good advice on financial matters - do not throw bank statements away after 6 or six years
Independent Assessment Services — the organisation that carries out Personal Independent Payment assessments on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions - this website provides contact details for the organisation. Ring them to complain and tell them you are not happy.
Aberdeen City Council Online Services Portal
MyAberdeenshire — offers a range of services from automatic alerts for jobs through bin collection dates to school meal payments and parents portal
Robert Gordon University RGU on Yammer
HM Government Money Advice Service
Alamy online database of Stock Photography with photos and images of photographs created often by professional photographers for reuse
Adobe Stock Photography
Getty images stock photography and creative photos for reuse
Amazon Mechanical Turk — a crowdsourcing marketplace that makes it easier for individuals and businesses to outsource their processes and jobs to a distributed workforce who can perform these tasks virtually. For business and industry, this online service to recruit talent, or a digital workforce from across the globe, could really save money and also open up equal opportunities by employing those whose first language may not be English - digital technology when exploited and leveraged can increase employability give real ethnic minorities and those disadvantaged vulnerable persons with disabilties real work experience diversify a workforce also. There are many people who work for low pay and suffer disadvantage, lack of chances also for reasons that are not fair. The tasks available via Mechanical Turk are often routine and mundane do not pay a great deal also. Amazon Mechanical Turk has hallmarks to production line jobs in the 19th century and are akin to Minimum Wage jobs and also exploitation of workers is very real. Those that do jobs through Amazon Mechanical Turk have to really slog away to make money but with technology digital records get produced recognising contributions when data is saved and retained. Those that do jobs through Mechanical Turk have a great work ethic in a sense, often the same work ethic that often applies to real people in developing countries and also China to some extent, for example factory workers who work on production lines to make transistor electronic components, circuit boards for embedded computing products including often the iPhone and iPad. Certainly when the iPad launched around 2010, Apple often outsourced production of tablet computers to China. Through the media due to human rights records in China, companies and high profile companies can announce that they are migrating their workforce - giving contracts to different companies in different countries - it can be hard to keep track in the often fast paced technology industry where and in what country hi-tech products are manufactured that reach the shores of the British isles and are for sale in Britain. South Korea is a great and well regarded technology nation with often advanced technology used and deployed in the country.
Live Life Aberdeenshire — The Digital Library
https://ao.com/ an online electronics retailer that sells electrical appliances as well as computing devices including mobile phones, smart watches and home security cameras – prices in pound sterling so products available to UK customers for home delivery, ao.com a real rival to electronics retailer Currys with stores on the highstreet
Gov.uk check national insurance record
HMRC Government Gateway and Online Services
Universal Credit Online
Adobe — software manufacturer and provider of online services focusing on design and website creation
Amazon online retailer — buy food and drinks, books, ebooks, MP3s, music, a wide range of products including smartphones, tablets and computers. Amazon includes Kindle and ebooks, which can be educational and support learning very well. Amazon also includes Amazon cloud which is cloud storage for music, documents and videos — also Prime video is video streaming with Amazon Prime membership, a monthly subscription offering a good deal and price point on services from Amazon web giant.
Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing — Self Publishing of ebooks for example also with the option to sell paperbook books, enables upload of Word documents for creating ebooks
www.batteriesplus.co.uk specialists in rechargeable batteries including mobile phone batteries, cordless phone batteries as well as solar garden light batteries - knowing what batteries to order can be a challenge especially for older people and disabled persons those with visual impairments for example whose eyesight may not be the best. It is always good to take a note of battery types and sizes written on packets, digital notes and making them is wise since digital technology allows for magnification along with magnified displays fostering the reordering or ordering again of batteries in the future. Rechargeable batteries have historically lasted a long time for AA, AAA batteries, but batteries for mobile phones of the lithium type often need recharging more frequently and also they tend to have a shorter lifecycle than conventional rechargable batteries. Replacing batteries in mobile phones can prolong the life of a phone enabling also older phones to be recycled in a sense and donated to charity and people that are more underpriviledged keeping phones out of landfill. Recycling centres in Scotland and Aberdeenshire do accept electronic waste, but significant to note disposing of electric waste is becoming an increasing burden on Councils as the volume of electronic waste mounts up.
BBC iPlayer — video on demand from the BBC, great quality TV programming with programmes from Sir David Attenburgh on Planet Earth
British Newspaper Archive
BT Cloud and 1000 or a thousand gigabyte or one terrabyte of storage space for photos, videos, music and documents with the average home broadband product — this is useful for keeping photos, videos and music shared positive memories that families really cherish. The issue of trust between family members crops up when storing memories that may be less than positive. There is a very real issue with recording history keeping diaries with names of those that have helped also hindered versus emotional suffering of others - people reliving experiences they would rather forget is not the most helpful in respect of care of more vulnerable persons - also the issue of accountability crops up for people who receive Carer's Allowance and also for paid professionals paid to do a job role with the utmost of integrity and responsibility. Looking after others, helping those less fortunate, helping underpriviledged people and those who suffer lack of chances for reasons that are not fair can also be rewarding for those who put in effort, equally helping such persons improves quality of life as well as greater dignity for more vulnerable persons. Everyone also grows older, becomes vulnerable in a sense so putting faith in fellow humanity is often necessary so love thy stranger be a Good Samaritan when you are more able - younger people doing shopping for widows living alone can really help prolong lives and improve quality of life for older persons. The police checking on homes to make sure residents are doing fine is also positive - worth noting police in Scotland did this in Aberdeenshire in the aftermath of Storm Arwen on 26 or the twenty sixth of November 2021, police efforts coordinated all across the region of the North-East of Scotland by the Commander of the police at Nigg police station in the south of Aberdeen around Cove.
Guardian News — news from the Guardian is free with encouragement to take out subscription to support Guardian News and journalists
Ancestry — discover the past, trace your family history
123-reg.co.uk — register a domain name and buy web hosting to create a website
Altervista free web host web hosting — Create a free website with up to one gigabyte of space with access to FTP file transfer upload using FileZilla free FTP client software and also option to use Wordpress with online web-based management. Need to convert from Wordpress to FTP access and with FTP access no ability to use Wordpress. Altervista comes with PHP web programming support and MySQL database engine support.
Infinity free free web host web hosting for websites with PHP web programming support and MySQL database engine support
ASDA supermarket online retailer and supermarket available at asda dot com
Argos historically the catalogue shop now online at argos.co.uk with a wide range of items available to buy from furniture, to soft furnishings to tablets, watches and phones as well as bathroom scales for measurement of weight, toys and scooters for the kids
BT.com — UK's largest telecommunications provider, owner of most landlines in Britain providing broadband also to homes and businesses including e-mail and website hosting for businesses. BT includes BT Cloud online file storage for documents, photos, videos as well as music files.
BT Shop — buy phones and networking equipment such as routers
Coursera — learn from a range of Universities online
Currys the electrical retailer
Deezer for streaming or playing music over the web
DriverGuide.com provides a vast database of device drivers to help get legacy computer hardware or physical devices to work with Microsoft Windows as well as other operating systems — Windows 10 or version ten usually does a great job these days at detecting new hardware devices due to many drivers being built-in to Windows the core operating system itself. When Windows 7 or version seven launched it started to really automatically detect a lot of hardware devices during set up or installation of Windows, set up of a fresh install of Windows 7 or seven in essence
Dropbox file sharing and online storage
Facebook.com — owned by Meta now and the Facebook website allows you to connect with friends and family share photos and videos for an enriching online experience
Funky Pigeon — send greetings cards through the post after ordering and paying online from a distance, distant relatives can really be cheered up, delighted and widows can really feel isolation and loneliness
Giffgaff — provides phone minutes, texts and data reasonably priced as well as SIM cards – also sells phones with ability for users to trade-in old phone, sell it back to Giffgaff on purchase and receipt of new phone
Google — provides Gmail or email and also Google Docs with creation and online storage of documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Google Docs often runs well on low cost computers with low requirements and resources, efficient often. Storage for Photos and videos through Google Photos. Accounts come with 15GB storage for free and creating an account for a child and sharing the password amongst a few trusted family members can help to give a child great positive memories in the future. Google Bookmarks also enables you to bookmark websites, save websites for later access and reference.
Google Sites - easy means to create and manage a website to share information amongst a team and sharing knowledge can help others learn and also it is always best to share knowledge with others before personal accidents and injuries
Gumtree — advertise products for sale online, exchange cash with traders face-to-face
Halfords — think bikes and bicycle gear, also electric bikes and foldable bikes as well as repair of bikes at shops throughout the country by specialists in bike maintenance
Holland and Barrett the health food store that is online and on the high street
Instagram a photo sharing site often with personalities
LastPass.com — online password manager to help manage user accounts and passwords of digital services
Law Society of Scotland — find a solicitor
LinkedIn the business networking website for professionals and for those with career aspirations to gain contacts and network
Max Spielman Max Photo — stores often inside ASDA, certainly present in Aberdeen at the beach and at Garthdee order photo prints and also ability to recover older memories from cinie films and camcorder tapes as well as convert to more modern formats such as DVD
Mesh Computers — award winning computers, custom built computers with often good choice of quality parts used in bespoke, computers built to order or built to exact specification by the customer with consideration to the use of the computer. Considering client needs is really at the heart of providing a good service - also good value for money is also important in business.
Moonpig — send greetings cards through the post, choose a card online, add comments, text and upload photos then send through the post
Music Magpie — trade in or sell your used electronics such as phones, recycle used items in a sense and also ability to purchase used items at discounted prices, but Music Magpie is a commercial site and seeks to make money so you will get less for items you want to sell than what your personal possession are actually worth or in actual fact worth in real world money terms
MyJobScotland — job vacancies for Councils across Scotland
My World of Work — Find more than 30,000 jobs, courses, apprenticeships and volunteering options all in one place with the Opportunity Finder.
Napster music streaming and playback
The National Lottery — buy a lottery ticket for a chance to win big on Saturday and Wednesday
National Savings and Investments — money invested backed by a 100 per cent guarantee for safety by HM Treasury
Microsoft Outlook email with calendar and ability to store contacts also includes OneDrive online storage
PayPal for online money payment on websites, via email consumer to merchant or online trader
Primrose the UK's online garden centre with plants and shurbs including fruit trees and bushes available to order
Prospects the careers website for graduates also careers advice and information on applying to University
Rumble.com for sharing online videos
Simply-Lighting.co.uk order lights and light bulbs online, get them delivered to your door also in a convenient manner - online delivery really comes into its own when residents receive online notification when items ordered will be delivered and notification is accurate and done in real-time. There is a big role for time-sensitive communications when linked to online deliveries.
Smashwords — publish ebooks from Word documents to Apple Books, Barnes and Noble, to OverDrive, Kobo, Smashwords website among many more publishers. Apple books available on iPad and iPhone.
Snapfish for photo printing — upload photos and get them printed in books and on photo paper sent through the post
Soundiiz.com — transfer music playlists between platforms such as Spotify, YouTube Music and Apple Music including iTunes
Spotify music streaming by way of the web, on computer and on phones and tablets
Tastebuds find a partner based on your taste in music
Techsilver sellers of the GrandPad tablet for seniors with 4G connectivity also larger keyboards and phones available with larger keypads to be seen more clearly for those with partial sight
Tesco.com online supermarket with Tesco mobile selling phones
Tesco Mobile Topup for topping up mobile phones with credit
Twitter for finding out about news, current affairs and what's happening in real time
Vimeo for sharing online videos
www.vouchedfor.co.uk top rated financial advisers, mortgage lenders, accountants and solicitors
Weebly.com easy way to create and manage a website for personal hobby sites as well as an ecommerce shop
Whittard of Chelsea selling teas, coffee and luxuary hot chocolate
YouTube also part of your Google account — video sharing site with the option to share public videos, private videos via email and also Unlisted videos where people have a specific link
YouTube Music — stream songs online by way of the way and also watch videos with adverts or without when you purchase a subscription. When your phone switches off, goes blank, music can stop playing without buying a subscription, but uploading music you have bought such as MP3s can keep music playing when your screen is off or blank
Zinio online subscriptions to magazines

Useful Links or Websites - local organisations, bus and train info plus job search sites

Charities that really help people - including childrens charities, disabled persons charities, Vision Aid Overseas, Scottish Women's Aid, Royal Northern Countryside Initiative, Firefighters Charity, Shelter Scotland to help the homeless and Home Energy Scotland to help households with energy efficiency

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Businesses we like

At A Glance On This Page — Personal Online Services, helpful web links also useful charities

Great useful websites and online services including retailers that offer a personal service

Useful Links or Websites - local organisations, bus and train info plus job search sites

Complaints - official bodies who you can complain to and receive a better deal also feel better