Technology
15 incredible real life safe houses
Are you ready for the apocalypse, if and when it comes? You might not give it a second thought, but it certainly seems to be worrying a lot of people. The on-going global financial crisis coupled with recent military conflicts and increasing number of extreme weather events appear to have triggered a general fear in [...]
6 Things Every House Will Have In The Future
What will the houses of the future look like? In 50, 100, 1000 years time? Leaving out the really far-fetched, like anti-gravity houses, let’s look at some additions we might be seeing soon.
The Ten Most Useful iPad Apps For Homeowners
It’s safe to assume that you would welcome anything that makes life easier whilst searching for your first home, or moving house, or even improving the house you’re in right now. So, with the iPad being so easy to use (once you know how!) what better place to start looking for ways to make home [...]
Tweet me a job: how recruitment has gone social
Online recruitment is certainly not a new phenomenon. Recruitment sites (such as Monster and Jobsite) are a popular way for recruiters to reach a mass market and for candidates to receive up-to-the-minute job updates to aid their search. Sites such as Gumtree also prove popular for posting permanent and temporary jobs as well as internships. [...]
Being open and staying social: how we communicate with our users
Most businesses will have some kind of online presence. This can range from a simple website to a whole integrated online marketing campaign. It’s fair to say that some brands lend themselves more naturally to the online social arena than others. Brands with a strong identity who already have a following in place can find [...]
Breaking the iPad 2: Why you should always get contents insurance
I’m a self-confessed Apple-addict. In my immediate family we have three iPads, four iPods, four iMacs and at least four iPhones. Excessive? No doubt. We obviously love our technology, but we also know how important it is to look after it properly. Last night, after several weeks of anticipation, the second iPad was launched by Steve [...]
Could you lose your tunes?
If you’re a download junkie with hundreds of tunes stored on your laptop and I-pod, this is some essential reading. Should you suffer a burglary or damage to your music storage device, it’s quite possible you’d be at risk of losing your music for good. ‘Oh well’ you may think, ‘I’ll just download it again.’ [...]
5 Mac apps for businesses
Yesterday Apple launched it’s new laptop application store. Users of MacBooks are now able to download apps to use on their desktop much like the users of iPads and iPhones have been able to do since their launch. They launched with over 1,000 different apps many of which were free. Here are five of the [...]
Have you got winter travel problems? Use a map app!
It’s been another cold winter in the UK with many of us struggling to commute to work through the snow. Travel reports can be conflicting and lists of cancelled trains are depressing, but there are more cheerful ways to track the weather, like the live #UKSnow map. Created by Ben Marsh UKSnowMap.com aggregates tweets from [...]
Games consoles: Family fun or disasters waiting to happen?
This Christmas, two new games consoles are being launched in direct competition with the massively popular wireless Nintendo Wii. Consoles with motion sensors are big business, but is greater player movement a menace? A new way to play In 2006 Nintendo launched the Wii. This modern console moved away from traditional controller-based games and introduced [...]
