One of the big positives about cloud computing is reducing costs. As mentioned in another post, one of the savings is that smaller leaner equipment can be used, such as tablets and very basic PCs; because the data storage and much of the processing in done in the cloud.… Read the the full post
Archive for Internet
Most businesses would expect that if they have or obtain a domain name; that they own it. However this is not always the case.
Recently I noticed that someone I knew and hoped would become a web design client had a site constructed by a different web designer with a … Read the the full post
This may seem a fairly gloomy topic to be writing about, but it is one of the few certainties about our life is that it will eventually end. So it a good idea to think about what will happen when you are no longer here.
Your family and friends will … Read the the full post
Perhaps it is because I don’t really get it! Despite having IT skills, or perhaps because of it; I don’t like the way that it seems to have a ‘mind of its own’, and one doesn’t have control. For instance when posting an item which has a link to a … Read the the full post
I have not received a chain email for some time, and then one arrived this morning. It contained a warning was to watch out for emails form a person called SIMON ASHTON ( SIMON25@HOTMAIL.CO.UK).
A quick Google for ‘Simon25’ revealed that this particular hoax had been circulating for well … Read the the full post
Parkinson’s Law; “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
This well-known adage could be applied to much of modern technology. As hardware gets more powerful and more sophisticated, the software we use grows to utilise the available resources. About 2 decades ago, I was running … Read the the full post
When business people are travelling, they frequently need to keep in touch with their business, and submit reports etc. In fact some may be required to do so. Nowadays, with Cloud computing, staying in touch is easy for many businesses. The options for this are either mobile broadband, which can … Read the the full post
Got an email this morning from Firefox suggesting an upgrade to Firefox 8.0, and was almost taken in. But on closer inspection I found that it came from Firefoxx.com . This is a more sophisticated version of the scam from a month ago: http://www.coras-it.co.uk/blog/firefox-update-scam/
It was quite appealing, especially the … Read the the full post
BE Warned! It appears that the hoaxers are trying a different approach.
I have just had an email purporting to come from Mozilla Firefox and headed “New UpdateAvailable”. They have never contacted me before, and I was not aware of giving them my email address.
This is the content below – … Read the the full post
A little known feature of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is the ‘compatibility button’. The purpose of this button is to display correctly (as the designer intended) web-pages designed for earlier version of Internet Explorer.
The button will be found on the right of the address bar, and look like a … Read the the full post
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