WordPress started life as a simple blogging tool back in 2003, with a handful of users who began to gradually switch to WordPress from other contemporary blogging tools – preferring WordPress’s flexibility. Now, WordPress is one of the most popular web content management systems on the Internet, supporting millions of websites and apparently being used…
Hello, This is what started as a test post created via Blogsy on my iPad. I have no idea why I haven’t come across this app before, as it looks like it was released earlier in 2011. Instead, I’ve essentially been actively avoiding use of other contemporary iPad apps in favour of the online…
For those who haven’t come across it yet, there’s a scam doing the rounds at the moment with someone from a dubious overseas call centre phoning you and offering to sort out your computer. Various reasons are offered by someone who vaguely sounds like they know what they’re doing, with an end game of getting…
Twitter can be a simply incredible communication & marketing tool, offering what can only be described as an unparalleled mechanism for communicating with your customers or readers. It’s somewhat comical however just how quickly some things can change from being exceptionally helpful, to becoming an ongoing challenge in terms of sorting the wood from the…
Something missing from the “Buy” now line perhaps? Perhaps the “u” key is an optional extra on some of their keyboards?
Just received this via email… In this day and age, you really would have to hope that no one manages to fall for something like this. It’s a new take on the concept presumably – masquerading as an agency supposedly working against fraud yet looking for people to supply personal details to reclaim funds….
As you’re probably already aware, Google have launched “Google Instant” – available via google.com at the moment. I have to say, I’m really yet to be convinced that this is actually a good thing…. Yes, you get instantaneous results as you start typing search terms and that part of the equation seems to work really…
Would have been nice if BT asked before enabling stuff? Seems that BT (@BTCare) have decided to take it upon themselves to “help” BT Total Broadband users when they mistype a URL by offering up some sponsored links from Yahoo. Glad to see that these are really relevant and targeted to the domain you were…
Update 14/09/2010 BT have now shipped us a replacement Home Hub 2, which arrived this morning. The new hub interestingly is labelled as “Type B” rather than the existing one’s “Type A”, and seems to be running a newer firmware release. It’s obviously a little too soon to see whether this has resolved our problems, but it’s…
Since introducing Oracle to our live environment to support a major system, we’ve been seeing a variety of problems – resolution for which can only really be described as a black art. Why does Oracle make life so difficult for those new to the platform to find out what it’s actually doing? We’re currently running…
A few years ago some colleagues and I ended up in a relatively heated debate around the relative merits of Oracle vs Microsoft’s SQL Server in terms of which product was the “best” database. At the time, I seem to recall I was more on the side of SQL Server than Oracle – probably because…
As you may have been reading in previous posts, we’ve been trying to get some data recovered from a failed laptop harddisk. If the marketing material put out by leading data recovery companies is taken at face value, you end up with the belief that nearly anything can be recovered from… be it a disk…
Why is it that computer equipment, and especially any form of computer equipment that stores data, always only ever fails at an inopportune moment? Laptops for work never break the day before you go off on holiday leaving plenty of time for them to be fixed while you don’t need them; digital cameras never fail…
Data recovery… how on earth do you determine which company you can actually trust to recover data from a dead harddisk without damaging it further?? One of our laptops has run into a bit of a problem and we’re now the rather worried owner of a harddisk that’s not being recognised by the machine’s OS,…
I’m not normally one to “review” new pieces of hardware writing about my experience while doing so, but thought I’d break with tradition so far and document my thoughts on this mobile broadband router or “MiFi” as it’s been termed. The Huawei E585 is a mobile broadband data dongle with a difference – in that…
