Tag: "computer"
Australians Are a Nation of Gamers – the Digital Australia 14 iGEA Report
The Australian Interactive Games & Entertainment Association (iGEA) has just released its latest annual “Digital Australia” report analysing our nation’s gaming habits. And without any surprises, it came to the conclusion that we Aussies love computer games. However, there are some nice little surprises in there that should get our minds percolating and salivating at […]
Read More | ShareA blast From The Past: The 1992 Michelangelo Virus Crisis
Today marks the 21st anniversary of the first majorly publicised attack by a computer virus known as “Michelangelo”. Nobody knew who created the virus, but what was known about it was that on the 6th of March, on Michelangelo’s birthday, the virus would self-activate and attack the boot sector of a disk or hard drive, […]
Read More | ShareHow to reward your fans and followers
Rewarding fans and followers who take the time to engage with you online is important, but so often overlooked. Let’s take a moment to think about your fans and followers. Ignore the total number and think about each one as an individual person sitting behind a computer or smart phone (because that’s who they are). […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Tools
There are many Social Media tools out there that help you monitor multiple social media sites from a single interface. We have been looking at various free tools and wanted to post a list of what we have found useful. 1. Social Mention www.socialmention.com Social Mention is a search engine that index multiple social media […]
Read More | ShareApple releases iOS update version 4.3.2
Apple has just released iOS update 4.3.2 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users (3rd and 4th gen). Unfortunately over the last couple iOS updates regular iPhone 3G users have not been getting any further features or enhancements and because of older hardware technology it seems they won’t get any useful upgrades moving forward either. […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft to release Windows TV Set top boxes
Microsoft will be revealing new software to run on Set top box devices which enables a Windows TV experience. The Software will make use of Microsoft’s Windows Embedded platform and the Windows Media Center interface. The software will also be able to work with XBOX 360 devices, otherwise your computer. One of the devices will […]
Read More | ShareHistory of the iPod [INFOGRAPH]
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I recently came across this detailed infograph on the history of the iPod right back from its inception in 2001. This is the device that changed Apple as a company and as of today around 270 million iPods have been sold worldwide. The product has rapidly evolved from a basic music player to a full […]
Read More | ShareGoogle rolling out Facebook competitor – Google Me
There have been several reports around the net that Google is going to be releasing their Facebook competitor soon called ‘Google Me’. Yahoo already has a twitter like service – Yahoo MeMe which sounds a little the same. Kevin Rose the Founder of Digg tweeted the following statement: Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch […]
Read More | ShareMobile search growing
With the abundance of cheap web enabled mobile phones now – businesses cannot ignore the power of mobile search. Currently mobile search only accounts for about 9% of all search queries (with the other 91% on the computer). RBC Capital Markets in the US have done a study showing that currently mobile search accounts for […]
Read More | ShareGoogle adds Bing like picture to search page
We all know Google has the plain white search page and often changing Google logo. In a recent blog post Google is giving users the option to change their background logo on the search page which can be uploaded from the users computer or Picasa Web album. This allows the Google homepage to somewhat resemble […]
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