Up until the age of 12, I’d never thought about what I wanted to do with regards to a career. In 1980 a seed would be sown, that would grown and map out the rest of my working life. On visit to the school library one break time, I was idly thumbing through some magazines. […]
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Amazon, long known for their amazing on-line book store, had in the process of setting up the companies backed infrastructure, ended up with some amazing services, that they decided to release upon the general public in January of 2006. Suddenly Software as a Service (SAAS), was a reality for the masses, available to anyone who […]
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Life is incredibly short. It is also even shorter when the finite span, has an almost definite end. So what do you do, when you have but a few months to live. I don’t know about you, but probably the last thing on my mind, would be undertaking a lecture. This however is exactly what […]
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Was just reading my Twitter and saw someone complaining about Nero and this got me thinking about software, specifically software that packs in things you don’t really need, for the sake of getting you to purchase an upgrade. Admittedly there is the occasional feature that may be of interest, but on the whole it’s either […]
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As the big three North American automobile companies, Chevrolet, Ford and GM, with caps in hand, look to be given a much needed injection of cash, are we not ignoring a possible enormous way forward. I’m in no way a financial expert, but even I know that letting these big three companies collapse, would have […]
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Once upon a time, according to Stan Laurel, “you could lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead”. Er, maybe that not the saying I’m after. Oh, yeah it’s, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink”. You can kind of transpose that to backups. You can […]
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Music is a big part of my life, which is one of the reasons I started Indie Launchpad. Indie music now fills the void that’s been left by radio stations constantly pumping out the same old rubbish, and record companies looking to make an easy buck. That being said it’s hard to ignore the music […]
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All too often people are quick to criticise, but slow, or fail to praise companies when they have a good experience. I purchased a laptop computer back in July of last year, after my 5 year old laptop started to look and perform a little long in the tooth. My old laptop was an […]
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I’ve been a big Microsoft fan over the years. I worked my way through numerous versions of DOS and then Windows. I’ve probably at one time or another played with a fair chunk of Microsoft’s other released technologies and while I’ve not been a huge fan of some of them, I could see that they […]
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I don’t have any form of real-time virus, spyware or firewall protection on my main computers at home, other than the basic firewall capabilities of my Dlink router, which serves up wireless connectivity to my laptops, PocketPC and Wii. In all these years I’ve never had a virus or spyware problem. When my wife’s laptop […]
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