Opera 10 out on beta
It has been a long time coming, but finally the wait is over and Opera 10 has arrived in beta. On board the user will find a new look that feels better, runs faster and comes with a whole host of new features for the user to play with.
By using compression technology, the user will [...]
Wi-Fi at airports essential
It is funny how things change over time, it was not that long ago when business travellers were more interested in luxury than anything else, but those days have long gone.
Sure the business traveller demands luxury and business class travel reflects that, but instead of glamorous food and surroundings, the business traveller today requires Wi-Fi [...]
Data recovery tools for free
From time to time virtually, every computer user finds that some data no matter how small has been lost. This is because computers are not totally infallible and therefore sometimes something goes wrong.
The best thing that any computer user can do is to be prepared. If the user has everything in place to ensure that [...]
Steve Jobs would you to have his house
There can be a situation where someone has just too much money and Steve Jobs is just an example of this, there is no doubt that he has done a fantastic job and had a great career, he has earned the respect of most of us for what he has stood for.
Yet when it comes [...]
Convert those visitors
It is the dream of website owner to get something from everything visitor to their site, whether this is advertising revenue or the selling of a product or service, the end result is the same, revenue.
All private and commercial websites need revenues if only to just pay for the up keep of the site, but [...]
April Fools Google Style
The 1st April always throws up some interesting news stories or are they, this is the problem with April Fool’s Day, and it’s one of those occasions when almost any announcement or breaking news story is treated with suspicion, no matter how true it may be.
There are some carefully prepared pieces that get people thinking [...]
Making a wiki work
Surprisingly the first “Wiki” style pages started to appear during 1995, the term is used for a collection of pages that are produced by a number of different people in order to create an informative page.
Yet it seems that business has never embraced this part of the internet as they have done with blogs etc. [...]
The first computer working again
A computer built at Manchester University back in 1952 may have been the first of its kind, but the developers of the new machine which was named the Mark One or occasionally it was referred to as simply “Baby” had no idea what the machine could do.
However, it was found that if they entered hundreds [...]
Firefox overtakes IE6 and is catching IE7
It may not be much of a record but it is still a mile stone none the less, finally Firefox 3 has overtaken Internet Explorer, but before anyone starts desk thumping it is only IE6 so far but they are catching up at a steady rate.
With IE7 as the next target is will not be [...]
Apple planning major event
It may be early days just now, but it seems that Apple are planning what is being called a “Major Event” although there are no precise details the initial date has been set for the 24th March and is being named as a desktop hardware event.
As with many of these types of things, there [...]
Facebook backtrack on TOS
When an organisation the size the Facebook decide to revise their terms of service, it is never going to go unnoticed, in fact not only did this move attract attention it virtually caused a riot amongst the members.
The problem occurs with the data that members upload to the site; essentially, what Facebook claimed is that [...]
The boss will get the message
It had to happen sooner or later a site where employees can offer their employers a little bit of advice all in the name of fun or more serious some constructive criticism. The site is called the Anonymous Tip Giver and surprisingly it has been developed by the job site career builder.
A user gets to [...]
Does anyone care about the cost of search?
Recently there have been reports on the cost of a Google search on the environment; apparently, there are some sources that claim two search enquires use up as much energy as boiling a kettle of water.
However, these figures are relative, this does not mean that it is costing the computer user lot of cash, the [...]
No more excuses
If a thirteen year old can set up a new internet start-up, then surly there is no excuses left for the rest of us to keep holding back on starting our own online businesses.
Scotblog is a site, which focuses on the people who live, work or has some sort of connection with Scotland. It is [...]
Microsoft offers pay per use PC
When a large business talks about a pay as you go computer, most people would think that there is some sort of rip off there and there probably is, after all these are businesses and are only in it for the cash that they can make.
The concept is simple, a computer buyer wants to get [...]
No need to smoke with the iPhone
Now is possible to smoke anywhere that you like, bars, restaurants and even at work, although the actual physical aspect of smoking cannot be carried out, in the work place or wherever. However, more like virtual smoking if that is any good at all.
It all starts with an application from the App Store with an [...]
Worm attack warning
Researchers at Microsoft are warning Windows users to install an emergency patch that they released last month, but it would seem that not users have done so yet, which is a cause for concern.
The company noticed more attacks last weekend, spiking during the mid week period, yet this worm which was spotted by software firm [...]
Virgin Atlantic sacks FaceBook using staff
FaceBook is no doubt a brilliant success and with a hundred and ten million users worldwide, it can be used to get a message out to a lot of people all in one hit. However, this can go terribly wrong when it is used to voice your opinion, especially when it comes to work.
This is [...]
What is Windows 7 going to be called?
There are thousands if not millions of Windows users who have been waiting with baited breath for the news of Windows 7, many of these people are users of Windows Vista and to be honest have not been too pleased with the operating system.
Therefore, with Microsoft preparing to release the beta version of their new [...]
Apple sues over logo
The problem with using a fruit as your name and logo is that you cannot really copyright a fruit or can you? It would appear that the power of Apple Corp goes well beyond the confines of the technical world as a college in Canada has recently fund out.
The logo of the Victoria School of [...]