23rd June 2009
Find an organisation which has designed a cool looking app. Order or download it - then play with it for a while. If it's any good, put a post on a code blogging site and get someone to copy it. Don't worry too much if it looks identical, just rebrand it,...
19th June 2009
Like Dick Whittington's belief that the streets of London were paved with gold, some believe that the Internet is a limitless reservoir of business opportunity. There certainly was a 'Goldrush' atmosphere accompanying early commercial expansion in the lat...
19th June 2009
Microsoft, PC World and other large vendors are seemingly obsessed with winning over new users - the 'one that got away' strategy. Targeting new users is all very well, but what about the huge majority of people who use PCs every day and although not 'exp...
19th June 2009
The term 'cloud' refers to a large cluster of computing technology, owned by some large business entity. You, the user, might run a spreadsheet program, but instead of it being located on your computer or laptop - it's located on this large entity's compu...
19th June 2009
Everyone knows what the Internet is, but where did it come from and how did it end up looking like it currently does? In the ultimate 'swords to ploughshares' irony, the WWW - a way of communicating without boundaries, began life as a military project dur...
19th June 2009
Since Google took the top spot for Internet searching from rivals Yahoo, the company has been very careful to issue guidelines; but also give very little away with regard to the '200 factors' which determine where your website will appear, for a search te...
18th June 2009
You’ve seen the outside case – beige, black or some other muted colour, but what’s actually inside your computer. Covering all the components would take an age, so let’s just cover the basics.
The Processor, RAM, Mother Board and Hard Disk
The...
