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The importance of trying something new
- Category: Opinion
- Created on 2011-05-18
- Written by Daniel Dainty
Like most people in this world I am not perfect and I do occasionally forget the odd thing, and when in the course of undertaking work commitments I can sometimes walk in to a wholly new technology situation, as it does tend to change quite rapidly.
As the owner of a growing business I experience change on a regular basis and understand the need to adapt quickly as technology moves ever forward. The pressure and excitement of business today, be it legislation, marketing practices, the winning and keeping of customers; each and every day is inherently different for me, for my team and for our customers.
Windows Update on Windows 7 stuck at 0%
- Category: Technical
- Created on 2011-05-02
- Written by Daniel Dainty
So far I've taken five calls this morning alone about Windows 7 computers hanging after rebooting and installing updates.
The issue seems to lie with a particular update that Microsoft pushed out numbered KB982018, to do with updating parts of the USB drivers.
This blog post will show you easily how to fix it.
Silver Surfers' Day
- Category: News
- Created on 2011-04-01
- Written by Daniel Dainty
Spring Online Silver Surfers Day, the national campaign that aims to get older people using computers and the Internet at thousands of events across the UK, is due next month (16-20 May).
Businesses, organisations and individuals are invited to run digital awareness sessions to help. Events can be held anywhere from sitting rooms to boardrooms, school halls to communal lounges, libraries to UK online centres. The main purpose of each session is to involve computers, the Internet and older people in some way but each organiser has the freedom to decide how.
A marketing toolkit is available for every registered event holder to help with promotion. The kit includes posters, leaflets, appointment cards and signs. There's also a cash prize of 1,000 to help with developing future computer learning activities.
Start-ups battle for mobile application downloads
- Category: News
- Created on 2011-04-01
- Written by Daniel Dainty
Twitter was launched as a start-up at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival in Austin, Texas in 2007. In 2009, the star of the show was Foursquare.com - another social media player that quickly accumulated seven million users. This year, dozens of start-up companies have flocked to Texas hoping to get their applications on to the mobile phones of trend-setting early adopters. Favoured 2011 debutantes include Scvngr - a location-based mobile app similar to Foursquare - and Instagram - a photo-sharing application for the iPhone which enables people to take photographs and immediately share them with friends through a Twitter-style feed.
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