Hot stuff

12:50pm Monday 1st October 2007

A modern PC processor running at 3.2ghz consumes around 130 Watts - more than twice as much as a couple of light bulbs!

Sujectively speaking

12:49pm Monday 1st October 2007

You may not think the subject line of an email is very important but it has great potential to confuse.

Pay per click (PPC)

12:44pm Monday 1st October 2007

If you run a company web site and want clients to find your site it is worth considering PPC. This is a service offered by Google, Yahoo and MSN, also known as sponsored links.

Unknown users

12:33pm Monday 1st October 2007

Are you plagued by Spam, I know I am. Late last year I was getting up to 3,000 emails every day!

Windows Vista

9:14am Wednesday 11th April 2007

Windows Vista, the new Microsoft PC operating system, was launched recently - two years later than planned.

Unknown users

9:46am Monday 29th January 2007

Are you plagued by Spam, I know I am. Late last year I was getting up to 3,000 emails every day!

Thoughts of Christmas

9:44am Monday 29th January 2007

You might think I'm crazy for mentioning Christmas at this time of year but if you are responsible for selling on-line via the web, then now is the time to start thinking about it.

Pay per click (PPC)

4:42pm Monday 4th December 2006

If you run a company web site and want clients to find your site it is worth considering PPC. This is a service offered by Google, Yahoo and MSN, also known as sponsored links.

Bandwidth theft

3:27pm Tuesday 14th November 2006

Are you the victim of bandwidth theft? If you have a web site it will be hosted on a server somewhere (usually at a dedicated hosting provider).

Hot stuff

3:25pm Tuesday 14th November 2006

A modern PC processor running at 3.2ghz consumes around 130 Watts - more than twice as much as a couple of light bulbs! Think how hot two 60W bulbs would be and then imagine enclosing them in a small box.

What is a megapixel?

3:24pm Tuesday 14th November 2006

Megapixel is the term used to describe a million pixels in relation to digital cameras. A pixel is a minute point, (a dot), within the photo which has its own colour. All else being equal, (more about that later), the more pixels, (or megapixels), the better.

Copyright issues

3:21pm Tuesday 14th November 2006

There is common misconception that information in the public domain (particularly on the Internet) is available for anyone to use. This is simply not the case.

Where am I?

3:19pm Tuesday 14th November 2006

Ever found yourself lost in a web site? Navigation is one of the most important elements when designing a site. On larger sites the content should be split into logical sections with sub navigation within each section.

Irfanview - the photographer's friend

3:16pm Tuesday 14th November 2006

Anyone using or contemplating use of a digital camera in the next few months needs to check out a fabulous piece of software I've discovered. The program is called Irfanview and it has become so invaluable to me I'd pay quite a lot to keep it but the great thing is it's free for home users (and only 10 Euros for business use).

Killed by music

3:14pm Tuesday 14th November 2006

If you really want to upset visitors to your web site try adding music, especially to the home page. How so? If you think about where and when people use the web the answer is obvious.

IBM PC (1981-2005) RIP

3:13pm Tuesday 14th November 2006

IBM is finally bowing out of the PC market and has sold it's PC division to Lenovo (a Chinese company) for over £300 million in cash plus a large stake in the new company - the total deal is worth about £900 million.

Email attachments

3:11pm Tuesday 14th November 2006

How often have you received an email that mentions an attachment only to find that nothing is attached. This could be because the attachment has been stripped from the email due to an embedded virus but it is much more likely that the sender just forgot to attach it in the first place.

Home Networking

3:10pm Tuesday 14th November 2006

Home computers are a relatively recent phenomenon but already, with the huge popularity of the Internet and the increasing relevance to school children, multi PC households are becoming common. This can lead to unnecessary expense if, for example, you buy a printer for each PC or you have a separate Internet connection from each.

I can't find what I'm looking for

3:08pm Tuesday 14th November 2006

In the good old days (before November 2003) you used to go to Google and type in a phrase, press Enter and nine times out of ten the first page listed was exactly what you were looking for - I even used to use the "I'm feeling lucky" button on Google's home page - all this does is bypass the results list and show you the page which would have been top of the list.

Make your PC faster

3:04pm Tuesday 14th November 2006

When you bought your PC it seemed really fast, right? Now, just a short while later you seem to have got used to the extra speed and it seems slow! Well, maybe it has slowed down.

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