I found out something interesting this week. I had always been under the impression that Microsoft were by far the biggest “computer” company in the world. I mean their software is used on the vast majority of the PC’s, laptops and servers throughout every country, their percentage share of operating systems when compared to Apple for example is reported by Wikipedia to be as much as 90% in Microsoft’s favour – not bad in anyone’s book! Read this entire article »
Over the past few months Microsoft have been offering all of its Windows users (you guys) an optional upgrade as part of the Windows Updates programme. Most of you will have seen a message offering to upgrade your computer to include Internet Explorer 9 at some point over the past few months.
So this month and next I thought we would talk about what web browsers are, why there are so many and what is new in Internet Explorer 9 and whether you should bother downloading it. Read this entire article »
Well it’s June again, and summer is here – well it should be! I’m sitting writing this outside the Hostal Galicia in La Marina in a comfortable twenty something degrees with black rain clouds overhead!I think I know why it’s about to rain – friends of ours from the UK arrived to stay with us for a week and so I have decided to blame them for the weather – it’s all their fault OK!
Last night I was thinking about the technology used in getting them from the UK over to our place in Algorfa (every time I tell customers from Gran Alacant that we live in Algorfa they say “where’s that?” – it’s about 25 mins down the coast, 10 mins inland from Guardarmar – you really should get out more). Anyway back to the technology (blame the clouds for my mood!) Read this entire article »
This month we continue to look at Amazons book reader, the Kindle. In March we looked at how you might use additional software to get the best out of the Kindle, and this month we continue in the same vein, covering some of the less well-known features of this great little device.
Something thing that many people are unaware of is that you can take screen shots with yor Kindle – a screen shot is simply a photograph of whatever you have on the screen at the time you take it. To do this just press ALT + Shift + G together, the screen will flash momentarily and a copy of the screen will be saved to your Kindle’s memory. Read this entire article »
This month we look at Amazon’s book reader, the Kindle. Many of you received one from Santa – I know because I have been asked by loads of people how you do various things with it like connecting it to WIFI, changing the default country etc. So I thought I would dedicate the next couple of months to looking at this popular device.
The Kindle, for those you that don’t know what I am going on about, is a sleek graphite looking tablet device that is dedicated to allowing you to carry around your library of books, enabling you to read pretty much whatever you like on the move. It’s certainly the easiest way to carry around 100’s of books if you like to read whilst you travel. Read this entire article »
You could be forgiven for thinking that the Internet has turned into a big commercial shopping centre – a place where you can buy pretty much anything and not a charitable place at all.
We have previously, in this column, covered how you can even get things for free via the Internet, well this month we are going to look at how the Internet can allow you to help people less fortunate than us build a better life. Read this entire article »
Back in September last year we reviewed a video on demand service called www.ted.com. They feature talks from some of the worlds most remarkable people. This month I would like look at a couple of talks from this website that I have found very interesting and I hope you will too. Read this entire article »
I hope you all had a great Christmas and didn’t over indulge too much and I certainly hope you didn’t get caught up in the delays getting to and from the UK just before the festive season – why is it that the UK seems to go to pot every time it snows? This month we are going to look at Google Maps and some of the facilities that if offers for both computer and mobile users. Read this entire article »
Firstly a quick reminder that we have changed our office phone number. We had a number of customers tell us that they could not get through to our old “700” number so we have changed it to the number that you see at the bottom of this page – 902 906 200. Read this entire article »
This month we are going to look at how you can get more out of the Internet by using it to view videos. We look at a great site that hosts informative and interesting video talks. Read this entire article »