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Thursday, April 26, 2007
How can your business benefit from technology
These days pretty much every small businesses has at least one computer with internet access, e-mail and a suite of expensive Microsoft software loaded on it, but how much good is this actually doing for business? The information at your fingertips, and the speed with which you can communicate with customers and suppliers is indeed truly awesome in comparison with 5 years ago, however is it giving your business an edge on your competition? The answer is probably no. The reality is that this technology is now the norm, you will certainly miss it if its taken away, and you...
The tell tale signs of a virus email
Despite the daily advance software companies are making in the fight against viruses and spyware, there is still no system (yet!) that is perfect and the odd virus can slip through into your inbox. Generally the latest viruses to hit the net are the hardest to detect leaving you vulnerable and no matter how often your virus scan is updated there is always going to be a virus that can get through. However, spotting a virus is quite a straight forward task as most emails share the same characteristics. Take note of these following important points to look out for:Read...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Multimap has had a facelift
The one thing I disliked about the Multimap site was that the map was tiny on the screen, despite them adding the option to make it slightly larger. However all this has changed and the map now fills your entire screen regardless of your resolution. There are lots of other cool features that I am yet to play with but the most interesting is that you can save favourite routes and locations for retreval at a later date. This is great news for businesses, who can save the location of their clients offices allowing employees to quickly print off maps...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
50 'coolest websites'
Time magasine has released a list of the 50 coolest websites The magasine breaks its choices down into categories including entertainment, shopping and news. Three years ago websites such as Ebay, Hotmail, Paypal, Google and the Internet Movie Database made the list of honour. Although this list is very US-centric, there are many sites there that even I haven't seen. We must use these sites as a benchmark for the future as next year they will be the norm. Every website owner can take inspiration from at least one of these and maybe use some of the features for their...
Monday, April 2, 2007
Times New Roman
As a designer, my number one pet hate is Times New Roman. Whenever I see it used it makes me cringe. As we all know Times New Roman is the default font used by most programs (for example Microsoft Word) and using it makes your document look completely unstyled. Times New Roman makes it look as if no thought has been put into the styling or design of the document, as if the author can't be bothered. While doing some research for a client of ours I came across this Clinical Trials site. The developer has obviously not put any...
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