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Entries Tagged as 'Technology'

How I use the Internet

August 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment

I began using the Internet over fifteen years ago. That was just before the Internet became highly commercialized, but even then had lots of sites and information on almost anything. I had lived all my life until then without email and without this vast information and opinion resource. Internet banking and Wikipedia belonged to the […]

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Tags: Technology · Uncategorized · blogging

How cloud computing works

April 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Cloud computing is simply computing on the Internet. Rather than having a whole range of applications stored on your personal computer, a simple link to the Internet takes you to all the programs that you need. The potential includes every type of program, from a simple word processor to the corporate computer system.

Many people already […]

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Tags: Technology

What is cloud computing?

October 28th, 2009 · No Comments

When Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote the words to “Get off of my Cloud” computers were far from being a part of everyday life. The computers of the day were huge monstrosities that belonged to big companies.
In those days, computers were large centralized mainframes. Users sat at dumb terminals that could work […]

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Tags: Technology

The Nokia 5800 Music Express rocks

September 22nd, 2009 · 8 Comments

With two months to go before my next upgrade becomes due, I have been looking at phones. My current model is the Nokia N95. This was launched as a top of the range smart phone that has everything. The top model came with a phenomenal 8 Gb of memory. Two years down the line, and […]

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Tags: Life · Technology

The Nokia N95 smart phone reviewed - a year later

October 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I have now been using the Nokia N95 1GB since November last year. At the time, this was THE phone to get. Sometimes other people were a little envious. A year later there are many new phones on the market that have at least as much and often more functionality.
I selected this phone because it […]

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Tags: Photography · Technology