The face of the experiment – Rob Shoesmith himself With the inevitable announcement of the iPhone 5 release date just around the corner, thousands are setting their plans into motion to obtain their handset on day one. One such individual is Public Relations and Marketing Expert Rob Shoesmith, who is hoping to be the [...]
Memory sticks, data pens, USB keys and flash drives. The terminology that we use for such devices varies greatly, but there’s one overwhelming constant between them all that just can’t be ignored – they get a pretty bad press. Prone to corruption, theft or good old-fashioned physical damage, they don’t have the strongest rap-sheet [...]
Technology has an uncanny ability of working its way into any public development, and the impending Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton is no exception. Contrary to the outlook that some UK residents hold towards Royal affairs, many in the US are quite intrigued by such developments, and thus new, exciting and approachable [...]
How do you promote your work, or list your accomplishments? The marketing style you adopt may very well depend on your target industry, but if you’re planning on working in the digital realm, then self-publication is very important – a bog-standard CV just isn’t going to cut it anymore. There are a few clever souls [...]
Things go wrong. Data get’s deleted. Mistakes happen. I trust you’ve read my review of Recuva, and thus you backup your computer’s data religiously, not only to a second hard-drive but also to the cloud. I can also only presume that you afford the same treatment to those excruciatingly important data files of your WordPress [...]
It’s been a busy few weeks for browser development. With Internet Explorer 9 released on the 14th March and Firefox 4 just a few days ago on the 22nd, competition to control the browser market has peaked. And in light of my recent overview of IE9, it seemed appropriate and somewhat necessary to give Firefox [...]
I’ve long been a fan of Internet Explorer. Sure, it’s taken a few knocks here and there on the issues of security and performance, and lost a considerable share of the browser market as a result, but for a program that’s bundled with Windows, it’s fairly robust. As IE was one of the first tools [...]
Eighteen months ago, application developers MEDL Mobile unveiled their latest project – affectionately called a ‘Note to God’. The idea originated from Allen Wright, a teenager from Sacramento, who submitted his design for an iOS application through MEDL Mobile’s App Incubator. It’s been a huge success ever since, and Allen even became an overnight mini-celebrity. [...]
Before I start, I would like to make it very clear that this is an opinion piece. If you’re looking for an article brimming with facts, figures and helpful diagrams, then this isn’t for you. I have, however, provided links to quasi-authoritative reports on the topics I discuss, to show that they are not merely [...]
We’re not incompetent, we’re only human. We all get distracted from time to time. Somewhere between our almost instantaneous broadband connections and the never ending onslaught of emails, IM’s and other unnecessary tid-bits of information, distraction snuck up on us and attached itself aggressively to our workload. The sheer difficulty associated with remaining productive for [...]