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The Tip of the Month

Most tech newsletters are a sales pitch with a paragraph of advice stapled to the front. This one is the other way round: one short email, once a month, with the thing that is actually worth knowing this month — and no attempt to sell you anything at the end of it.

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What actually lands in your inbox?

One email on the first week of the month, usually about 300 words. It covers the scam currently doing the rounds in Ireland, any price change worth knowing about — memory, storage, broadband, licensing — and one small thing worth checking on your own setup. That is the whole format.

The format

Three things, every time

It is deliberately the same shape each month so you can read it in ninety seconds and know whether anything applies to you.

The scam doing the rounds

What is landing in Irish inboxes and on Irish phones right now, what it looks like, and the one check that catches it. Written after seeing it happen to someone, not copied from a security vendor's blog.

A price worth knowing

Memory up, SSDs up, a licence quietly changing, a grant opening or closing. The kind of thing that decides whether you buy this month or wait until next year — with the reason, not just the number.

One thing to check

A five-minute job on your own setup. Is the backup actually restoring? Is that old admin account still live? Is the recovery phone on your email a number you still own? Small things that get expensive later.

Recent ground covered

The kind of thing it warns you about

These went out on the blog first. The email is the short version, in your inbox, before it matters.

The invoice scam costing Irish SMEs millions

Almost €19m lost over two years to redirected invoices and CEO impersonation — and the one phone call that stops it.

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Why memory costs what it costs now

RAM at roughly five times its mid-2025 price, and what that means for whether you upgrade now or hold on.

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Ireland's copper switch-off

The alarms, lifts and card machines quietly plugged into the old phone network, and what happens to them.

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Back issues

Read one before you hand over your address

Every issue is published here in full, the same day it goes out. Nothing is held back for subscribers — the email just saves you coming to look.

Fake Black Friday shops, your M365 renewal, one password checkFake Black Friday shops, the Microsoft 365 price rise, and a two-minute password check.Fraud up 27%, memory up again, and a 2-minute bank checkFraud losses up 27%, memory climbing again, and the bank-name check almost nobody has done.

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Fair questions

What happens to your address

Once a month, in the first week. There is no drip sequence, no onboarding series and no "just checking in" follow-up. If a month passes with nothing genuinely worth saying, you get nothing that month rather than filler.

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Yes. Scams do not distinguish, memory prices affect anyone buying a laptop, and "check the recovery phone on your email account" is advice that has saved home users as much grief as businesses. Roughly half of what goes out applies to both.

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