The Windows 8 Consumer Preview has just become available to the public. You can download it here. This Consumer release was made available to allow users to get an early taste for Microsoft’s latest operating system, and to report any usability issues and provide feedback to Microsoft so they can get things right in the final product. For those of you which are familiar with Microsoft operating systems, which is probably most of us, Windows 8 is a bold step away from Microsoft’s traditional desktop based operating system. Read more…
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If you are not paying for it, you are the product. Most of us have been around long enough to know that there is no such thing as a free lunch, you can extend this conventional wizdom to the internet. You might have wondered why Google would want to give you a free Gmail account and show you videos for free? Or maybe you have questioned why facebook creates such a great service and you don’t even have to pay a cent.
They are all good questions. Read more…
We can access the internet from (almost) anywhere these days. With our computers, laptops, phones and tablets. Can you believe that it was only the late 90s that mobile phones became popular? The fast moving mobile technology world is evolving faster than a lot of us can keep up with.
Now we can make video calls to the other side of the world with Skype on our iPads, we can download music onto our iPhones, we can take photos and paste them onto facebook from the beach. We really have come a long way in the last decade. Read more…
Compare Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate editions
There are several versions of Windows 7 designed so that each differet version has all the features of the previous version and also include something extra that makes that edition more powerful. At any stage you can upgrade to a different version by using the Anytime Upgrade feature which purchases a serial key online.
For example, if you buy Windows 7 Home Premium today, you can use the Upgrade feature and upgrade to Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate edition.
To help you with purchasing windows 7, below is a description of the editions and a rundown of features that are available in each of the editions.
A USB wireless mouse has no physical wire connection to the computer. Rather, the mouse wirelessly transmits a signal between a USB wireless receiver connected to a USB port on the computer. A number of minor problems can occur with a wireless mouse that require troubleshooting to fix the wireless mouse. Read more…
The SEO fundamentals are: back links, quality site content, good title tags, no javascript for page content, no frames, no hidden text, no duplicate text. Let’s briefly look at each of these. Lack of any one will result in poor ranking for popular search phrases. Read more…
Lately the big players in the web browser market have been releasing new version every six or so weeks, and yet another one is here. Google has just released version 17 of it’s web browser “chrome”. The new release comes with several enhancements to the popular web browser, which include a new web address preloading feature and improved protection against nasty files.
The preloading or ‘pre-rendering’ feature, predicts what site you are visiting by what you are typing into the URL bar and begins to pre-load your destination page.
The new Any users who are concerned about the privacy can disable the new features.
The new version of Google Chrome can be accessed through the browser’s automatic updater and can also be installed from Google’s website.
Choosing a Laptop for School or University
By Andrew Primrose
Choosing an appropriate laptop for school or university is not as simple as one may think – there are so many different options/configurations on the market that is can be a daunting task. Finding the laptop that best suits your requirements can be very difficult. The biggest difference between laptops is their performance, which is why you must ask yourself “What am I going to be using my laptop for?” Read more…