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How to Write Quality Web Content – 12 Tips to improve your Blog posts
We all want to find new ways to write better content and engage our readers – and we have all heard the age old saying ‘Content is King’. This is certainly true and coupled with a good blog design you should be able to attract, retain and grow your online audience. If you let one […]
Read More | ShareGoogle +, a mistress or my 2nd wife
It is only natural that Google would want a piece of Zuckerberg’s multi-billion dollar pie, but to me, I see Google’s new social media product as being a bit of a homewrecker. As a lowly user, without the vested financial interest of those such as Microsoft or Google, Google+ just seems to me like a […]
Read More | ShareMobile Browser Market Share Australia – July 2011
I was having a look today at the mobile browser market shares in Australia over the past month (June-July 2011). This is basically showing the popularity of the mobile phones most used for mobile internet surfing. We wrote about Mobile Browser Market shares for Australia in May if you want to check previous figures. The […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft Purchases Skype for $8.5 Billion
Microsoft has just announced their purchase of VOIP software, Skype for $8.5 Billion USD. It is surely expected that Microsoft will closely integrate Skype with Microsoft Office, Windows Phone, XBox Live, Kinect, and no doubt various other Microsoft platforms. Skype currently has over 660 Million accounts globally and over 150 million regular users. Windows Live […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft Releases Internet Explorer 10 Beta Preview
Only last month Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9 which boasted Hardware Acceleration and better support for HTML5 and CSS3. Microsoft have released a Preview that will let you see the new features developed so far, and it seems they are making good progress being only a couple weeks into development of Internet Explorer 10. You […]
Read More | ShareHow to Force Internet Explorer 7,8,9 into Broswer Compatibility Mode for visitors, Linux
Here is a tech tip to help anyone having Browser Compatibility issues in Internet Explorer 7, 8, or 9. This will be useful for anyone on a Linux webhost, including those with a WordPress installation (I don’t believe this technique below will work in a Microsoft hosted environment). Internet Explorer still has a large Internet […]
Read More | SharePaint.net v3.5.8: Desktop Design for the non-artist (FREE)
Aspiring artists can practice their computer craftiness with the recently updated Paint.net v5 software. Cnet’s download.com lists 1,854 options of image editing software, 527 of which are free. While I can’t say with certainty that the recently updated Paint.net v.5 is the best one out there having not tried them all, I can tell you […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft releases Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft has now released the much anticipated Internet Explorer 9 (IE9). The browser has been in beta for sometime and now available in full release for download. To get Internet Explorer 9 go to: http://windows.microsoft.com/ie9 You will need one of the following operating systems to be able to install and run IE9; – Windows 7 […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft urging users to ditch IE6!
For years many of us have been complaining about Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) – security issues, poor page optimisation and loading, and generally being outdated with far newer features. However a sizable portion of the internets users are still using this browser that is now 10 years old – about 12% of the internet population […]
Read More | ShareBing launches new Bing Toolbar
Microsoft’s Bing has launched a new Toolbar with several integration points to make your daily internet browsing easier. The Bing toolbar comes with tools such as news (localised), Bing maps, weather, mail integration (hotmail, yahoo, or gmail), Facebook integration, Video search, a Bing text translator, and of course a Bing search box. This is extremely […]
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