Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
I have been amazed recently at the amount of people still using Internet Explorer version 6. Late last year I was delivering training programmes and out of 3 training locations, 2 were still using IE6 on some computers. This is madness, it went out with the ark, well not ...
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
Many of the technologies and techniques used in cloud computing are not new. Virtualization which has been around for some years is an integral part of all cloud solutions. Many have argued that there is nothing more to cloud computing than a re-packaging of existing technologies.
There is no doubt ...
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
I heard this last week and could not believe it, Web 2.0, something I am always talking about has now become an official word in the english language and not just any word but the one millionth. Other words bidding for the position included coddies, chengguan, slumdog, fundoo and Jai Ho, ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Without a great deal of fanfare Microsoft's new search
engine came on-line this week. No doubt they spent a long time dreaming
up a name that would have the same quirk factor as 'Google'.
In the end they came up with 'Bing' - which, although not completely awful, is
frankly a little ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Given that Ireland's terrestrial broadband is second only to Greece and Mexico as the worst quality in the developed world, how will this be affected by the news that the preferred tenderer to replace the debacle that was the rural broadband scheme is a mobile provider 3. Looks like things ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Update! http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.htmlThe launch of Google's latest product has been very low key so far.Tomorrow they will launch the beta version of their browser.It's called 'chrome'. It will be interesting to see whether it willpersuade any IE users to switch.Personally , I love the latest firefox so i doubt i'll be ditching ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
"Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher"
Launchy is one of my favourite tools.
Instead of going to all the trouble of clicking Start , then programs
and seaching for the program you need , with Launchy all you do
is click alt+space bar and then type in part of the program you're after.
Launchy will ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Some years ago i went to the trouble of installing linux - the open source
operating system. To be perfectly honest it was a bit of a hassle , entailing as it did
re-partitioning my hard drive , burning cd's and a tedious install process.
I recently got a new laptop and have ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Some weeks ago I read with interest an article in the Sunday Times
by regular columnist Sarah Carey. In it , Carey outlined her experiences as a consultant for
a new silicon valley startup.
It turns out the startup in question was a new search engine named cuil.
The company was founded by Carey's ...
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