For the past four months, I’ve been enjoying my time with a Dell Vostro V130 laptop computer as a participant in Dell’s #tradesecrets marketing campaign for the machine that Dell ran during the first quarter of this year. This Animoto video collage of some of the photos I’ve taken of the V130, along with the [...]
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QR codes are appearing with increasing frequency in a growing range of marketing and communication activities. I’ve been paying attention to who’s using these two-dimensional barcodes and how in their marketing when I’m out and about, especially in supermarkets, taking pictures when I encounter something interesting and adding some to the QR codes in the [...]
There’s a lot of experimenting going on these days with QR codes, those square images we see with increasing frequency on everyday items like utility bills, business cards, even building permits, and which you scan with your mobile device’s camera and a barcode-scanning app and which then lets you perform some kind of action or [...]
Earlier this week, Microsoft publicly released the first service pack for Windows 7. Maybe it’s a sign of the times that such a software release didn’t capture much attention outside the tech community, unlike the huge attention Microsoft used to get with its software releases and announcements. I updated all the computers in our household [...]
If you have a mobile device running the Android operating system, you’ll like this news from Google a few days ago – the launch of the Android Market website. Now you can browse or search for apps in the Android Market right from your web browser rather than only from your mobile device. You can [...]
Watching BBC Click on TV yesterday, I was interested to find out more about soluto.com that was mentioned on the show. This is a program for Windows that claims to dramatically speed up the boot time of your computer so that it doesn’t load programs or services that aren’t necessary when the computer is preparing [...]
I can think of few better ways of spending part of Sunday than playing with a new tech toy. Which is precisely what I’ve done today with a new device that Dell have let me have as part of a programme to promote a new laptop under their Vostro model name. The machine I have [...]
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