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What would the iPod box design look like if it was by MS
2007-08-11 20:31:00 Microsoft just don’t have the design flair that Apple does, simplicity can sometimes be a lot better than lots of different types of information littering the packaging. The video below shows rather humorously how the iPod packaging would look if Microsoft had their way: More About: Design , Microsoft , Ipod
Increase traffic by creating a theme
2007-08-11 18:35:00 Hi there, I created my first wordpress theme a couple of days ago and made it available for free on all the major wordpress theme directories around and have seen a nice increase in traffic to my Simnor Computing site. I have been going through a nose dive in traffic over the past weeks before I ... More About: Wordpress , Internet , Increase Traffic , Traffic , Make Money Online
Help Developer relaunched, get paid for your tutorials
2007-08-08 12:58:00 When I thought of Help Developer I thought that it would get big quickly. However, that did not happen and 2 months later it still hadn’t taken off. Firstly, I created it as a site for tutorial writers to submit their tutorials and get nothing in return, within days I realised that this was not a ... More About: Internet , Design , Tutorials , Make Money Online
Simnor Computing website redesigned and moved to Wordpress
2007-08-08 12:37:00 For the past 2 days I have been redesigning the Simnor Computing site and moving it to Wordpress instead of the conventional way of HTML files for each page. Why would I move a company website to a blog? Well the answer is simple, Wordpress allows me to change one file and the whole blog changes, take ... More About: Internet , Website , Blogging
The guy who?s counting to 1 million
2007-07-31 20:10:00 To some people it is sad, to some this would be a way to make money from advertising. A guy has started a website called Million count and is counting live on the website to 1 million. He’s currently on about 534290 and has a screen behind him to display messages. Well good luck to him, i ... More About: Internet , Counting , The G
Does MySpace need a redesign?
2007-07-29 18:27:00 Really it does! MySpace is the biggest social networking site around and it just looks ugly and I’m not talking about peoples individual profiles which have been pimped beyond any sense of design, who would put white text on a flashy white background? What I am talking about is the actual MySpace website, its just not ... More About: Internet , Myspace , Redesign , Rede
Real life Simpsons Intro
2007-07-22 16:04:00 I found this great video on YouTube of The Simpsons Intro duction done with real life human beings instead of cartoon characters. Enjoy! More About: Life , Real , Real Life
The Web Office - Top 10 online applications
2007-07-22 15:11:00 The internet is now proving the place for the next generation software. There are plenty of applications available on the internet which easily fulfil the tasks needed of conventional software such as Microsoft Office . I am going to provide you with a list of the top 10 online applications available: WORD PROCESSOR Nearly everybody uses Microsoft Office, it is by far the market leader in word processing. Everybody needs to use a word processor at some point whether you work with it everyday or simply need it to produce your resume, so there is a need for such an application. However, there have always been alternatives, the biggest of which has been Open Office. But in the world of internet applications, there are plenty of alternatives out there. I am going to look at four applications in this section. Google Docs Google Docs (formely known as Writely) is part of the very popular web office Google is now offering for both personal and business use. It includes many advanced feature... More About: Applications , Online
Is YouTube having server problems?
2007-07-19 19:40:00 I and a few other people have noticed that YouTube seems to be having problems with their servers. I went to 5 pages of which it took 12 refreshes which means there were 7 failed attempts at finding the page. This follows what has been a lot of changes at YouTube, for example the new design ... More About: Google , Youtube , Internet , Problems , Server
The future of computing - the next 10 years
2007-07-19 18:46:00 I believe computing is changing massively and as we see new developments appearing, how will this change the future of computing and technology. Here is my look at where we will be in 10 years. Software Software is at the forefront of how we use our computers, the operating system we use be it Windows , Linux or ... More About: Hardware , Google
I have finally finished PCmaclin
2007-07-17 18:58:00 I have been working on PCmaclin for about 10 days now and I am proud to say that I have managed to release it. It is currently in beta testing for the next three months so things are very likely to change, but please do go over there, bookmark it, keep coming back to it, ... More About: Hardware , Software , Google , Windows , Linux
Top 5 redesigns
2007-07-15 22:57:00 I have noticed lately that some of the biggest websites have been going through redesigns, here is my top 5 redesigns of the past months: Apple By far the best redesign of the 10, Apple have redesigned their website from the rather outdated Apple design of the past years which featured the very popular tab layout. ... More About: Windows , Internet , Design , Microsoft
Quick Tip: Setting Network Routes in CentOS / Redhat Linux
2007-07-10 16:54:00 [The following is RedHat/CentOS specific] Quick tip for the impatient! If you have more than one network card / NIC or router running on your server, than it is inevitable that you will have to configure your server’s routing table one day, so that the server will know which router or network interface to use for a ... More About: Linux , Network , Utes
New Contributor
2007-07-10 16:50:00 Hola! I will be a new contributor on The Computing Expert writing on ’sleeves rolled-up’, hands-on, usage tips for Linux, Apache, PHP & MySQL (yes sir, LAMP!) for this site. All contributed articles are from my main LAMP blog at http://www.linuxassassin.com Cheers to Simon North for running this beautiful site! Best, Brandon More About: Tribu
Games in Ubuntu
2007-07-10 10:58:00 Over at Techy Stuff, the blogger has created a list of the top games for Ubuntu Linux which highlights the fact that there is indeed gaming available for Linux and it isn’t just a Windows world thing. Take a look here: http://techystuff.info/?p=54, it is a very good list as I think you will agree that ... More About: Games , Ames
PCmaclin
2007-07-09 22:44:00 I am starting a new site very soon, well I say soon it might take a while. I am hoping for it to become a sort of portal for computer folk. It will have news, reviews, downloads, blogs, forums and tutorials takling all sorts of areas of computing and technology. It will be based off ... More About: Internet
Why is Firefox so damn intelligent?
2007-07-07 22:21:00 Hi there, I was just browsing the internet as many people do with my Firefox and I pressed Ctrl and T to create a new tab. Now if I was going to do a search for something in Google I press Tab on the keyboard which would take me to the integrated search feature and ... More About: Software , Internet , Intelligent
10 Advantages of Vista over Ubuntu
2007-07-06 12:06:00 I have posted the 10 advantages of Ubuntu over Vista and have had a lot of people agree with my judgments but I have had a few that disagree and think I am just another Linux fanboy making out Ubuntu and Linux as a whole is a better than it actually is. The one thing ... More About: Software , Windows , Microsoft
Digg for sale - no sorry - I meant Dugg
2007-07-05 23:27:00 OK, has anyone ever accidentally typed in dugg.com, instead of digg.com, it isn’t hard the U and I are next to each other on the keyboard. So I wonder how much would it cost to buy that domain, is it available for sale, well yes it is actually for sale for a offers in the ... More About: Internet , For Sale , Sale , Digg , Dugg
10 Advantages of Ubuntu over Vista
2007-07-05 22:50:00 I converted from Vista to Ubuntu a little over 2 months ago and am soooooo happy with it, best decision of my life. I am going to tell you my top 10 advantages of it over Windows Vista. Please remember these are my own opinions, if you have more advantages and indeed any disadvantages (if ... More About: Software , Linux , Firefox
The top 6 technology blogs
2007-07-05 19:54:00 I am a big reader of blogs especially the big boys like Tech Crunch and Lifehacker. I have compiled this list of my top 6 technology blogs, if you can think of any that are better then please leave them as comments, and feel free to leave yours as well, I like to read other ... More About: Internet , Technology , Gadgets , Blogging , Blogs
Vodafone may sign a deal for the iPhone
2007-07-04 22:37:00 Vodafone may well sign a deal for the iPhone which will mean that the iPhone can be used in Europe, and what makes it better is that I am a Vodafone user, woohoo! According to Electronista, Vodafone is awaiting the 1,000,000 iPhone sales achieved in the US before offering the deal which could see the iPhone ... More About: Hardware , Apple , Gadgets , Iphone
700,000 iPhone?s sold in one day
2007-07-04 22:04:00 The iPhone was released on June 29th, on that day over 700,000 units were sold with a profit of over $200,000,000 in that one day, not bad for one days sales, nearly as high as my advertising revenue (well in my dreams anyway). It has been said that the iPhone got sold out in 95 of ... More About: Hardware , Apple , Mac , Gadgets , Iphone
Google acquires another company, Grand Central
2007-07-03 22:03:00 Google have acquired Grand Central which is a service that allows you to combine all of your phone numbers into one. When someone calls the number it will call all of your other phone numbers you assign to it, basically you can tell all your phones to ring when someone rings the Grand Central number ... More About: Google , Internet , Phone , Company
Firefox Gran Paradiso Alpha 6 released
2007-07-03 14:37:00 Yesterday (2nd July 2007) saw the release of Mozilla’s latest release of Firefox 3.0, Gran Paradiso Alpha 6. This is what Mozilla said: “Gran Paradiso Alpha 6 is an early developer milestone for the next major version of Firefox that is being built on top of the next generation of Mozilla’s layout engine, Gecko 1.9. Gran ... More About: Software , Internet
The Computing Expert magazine
2007-07-02 16:01:00 A while ago I produced an issue of a magazine which I did on my own with a little help from some friends, I put it on the internet and got a few views so didn’t produce a second issue because it took a long time. It was called “The Computing Expert ”, after it flopped ... More About: Magazine , Blogging , Pert
Paypal is to get a facelift
2007-07-01 21:30:00 Paypal, which is the world’s leading and most secure payment system are going to have a facelift, and I personally think that it is about time. Every big company at the moment seems to be doing this, just look at Microsoft, Apple, Ebuyer, YouTube etc. they are all going through redesigns. The new Paypal still features ... More About: Internet , Paypal , Facelift , Lift
Ubuntu 7.10 Alpha 2 ?Gutsy Gibbon? released
2007-07-01 17:52:00 Ubuntu has released their latest release of their next OS, Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”, the new release brings some new features including the use of Compiz Fusion to display the 3D and graphical effects we see in so many Linux OS’s nowadays that makes Windows Vista Aero just look crap. The list below is taken ... More About: Software , Ubuntu , Alpha , Released
Microsoft.co.uk got hacked!
2007-07-01 17:02:00 The UK Microsoft Website got hacked a couple of days ago. The hacker known as rEmOtEr, managed to find a flaw in the SQL coding on the webpage: http://www.microsoft.co.uk/events/net/eve ntdetail.aspx?eventid=8399, which is now unavailable. The webpage made references to Saudi Arabia and managed to display the page by using a CSS page which is a method used ... More About: Internet , Hacked
And so on the 30th June 2007, the iPhone is released
More articles from this author:2007-07-01 00:09:00 I have been around on the internet all day today, and everywhere I look, Digg, Engadget, all the blogs that I like to look at have been littered with news, reviews and tips on the iPhone. The iPhone was released today in the US (I live in the UK, oh well I’ll have to wait ... More About: Windows , Apple , Microsoft , Gadgets , Iphone 1, 2, 3 |
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