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February 2nd, 2010 by admin
I know I harp on about open source, but really are people listening ,
Another government department is starting to use open source,
http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article890196.ece
Now County Council’s in Ireland, are you listening?
Anyone, anyone , Beauler, Beauler, Fry, Fry . . .
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November 19th, 2009 by admin
We get asked all the time what is the best photo editing software and of course it easy to say PhotoShop by Adobe, but this is not practicle for your average Joe, as it is not easy to use, it is not cheap to buy and needs training to get the most of it. It also needs to be installed on a specific pc.
The best option I can recommend to people who want to do the basics to images such as reducing the size of the file, in terms of megabyte size and in width and height and maybe saving a large image to an image thay can use to insert into their website would be an online software as a service called pixlr.com. This is ideal for our clients who are on the move and want to edit images from their 12 mega pixel cameras that are too large to insert in the website via the content management system
This online tool has a number of options, you can use it in Pixlr Express mode to do the very basics or you can enter into the more complex tool to really do the same kind of things you would like to do in Photoshop.
Enjoy !
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September 25th, 2009 by admin
This is a question we got in last week and we were able to point the client to an open source program to allow them to have an easy to use program that was not Microsoft based.
Eudora Mail
Windows Mail
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/mail.aspx
Thunderbird
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
We would recommend using Thunderbird as it has great plug-in features that the other are only catching onto now, and it easily allows you to configure separate in-boxes for different emails. A common question into our offices.
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October 22nd, 2008 by admin
A Content Management System is a program/software installed on your website that allows you to access and update your site through your Internet browser. You can add content from anywhere in the world. There is no need of any prior content management experience and you do not need to understand <HTML> code.
Content Management can be used to manage simple business brochure style website, portal or directory and also an ecommerce online shop website.
To Sumarise if you get a content management system, your site is ready for expansion in the future as it is built on a powerful base.
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October 17th, 2008 by admin
We have a number of requests to get a content managed system (C.M.S). This is a website whereby the client is able to log in and update and write content, new pages on their own website. Thus keeping it up to date and fresh. This is now becoming the standard style of website that businesses today.
CMS websites are great idea, but a few things must be taken into consideration when you are looking into getting a website of this style as opposed to a “static brochure website” whereby the pages are created in a format that can only be edited by either a web designer of a kid with good web knowledge.
Content management is about being able to edit content, but its a lot more that that it actually allows you to edit the whole site, the menu system, the layout, the colours, the design, everything!
Now here’s the But. . . this is all great but a few factors we would suggest would be required in getting involved in this.
Time: Being able to change a websites content is wonderful and really puts power in the owners hands. That’s of course if the user assigns time to the project and we have found that the more time the users give to their website management the more they will benefit from this tool. And that’s all this is, a tool to editing the site, so depending on how you use it will depend on the results.
Creativity: Say you edit the text and insert only a few words about a topic. The search engines will see that this is all you know about the topic. Don’t keep this knowledge in your head, put it on the site. Write about your chosen topic and remember you are not writing a book, Think of it as a magazine, you need to understand you reader and the time they have to scan down through you content.
Layout and Design: Ok so now you have the time, you’ve inserted the content. How does it look? Does it look like a long back and white page or have you used indents, bullet points, italic, bold, remember you online users scan down through the content so grab their attention and highlight words for them.
ECDL: These types of courses are great to give the user an understanding of the methods that can be involved. But do note that content management is not MS Word, Its a thousand time more. We think of it like comparing MS Word and MS Excel to Content Management and An Accounting System.
If you post an invoice on an accounting system you can not just click “back” and start again, you have to insert a credit note to minus the invoice. Its a little more structured but there is method and reason for this.
Content management systems are similar to this as you can’t just click back, they are online applications that need to be closed properly otherwise you lock a document. And once the document or page is locked it may not be accessible to edit by another editor. A Desktop application like Word etc can close and you can open it again it may have tried to so an auto-save.
So to sum up, think about your design skills, your time and your typesetting skills.
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September 4th, 2008 by admin
Google have had to turn around very quickly and revise their End User Licence Agreement used when installing their new Browser on your pc. Basically the EULA stated that anything you published via/using their browser ie with a blog or a content management system meant that “they” were allowed use the content for their own means.
Shocking really.
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September 3rd, 2008 by admin
Not to be outdone, Microsoft have realised their lastest Beta version of Internet explorer for testing. Version 8 is available to download from the following link
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/default.aspx
With Many new featurs such as the “In private” tool, This version allows you to browse the net and it will not record your pages viewed in the history folder, great for Internet Cafe’s , not so great for employers with out a firewall to keep out dodgy sites from surfer happy employees.
They also have a backward compatability feature to allow you to view websites that have been developed for previous versions of Inetnet Explorer. We would recommend that our clients update their browsers to allow them to gain the best experience of viewing the Internet and online content. Version 5 of Internet explorer is not supported by Microsoft anymore. They will not answer any questions regards its use or support for example!
We are testing this browser at the moment too and will let you know our results. If you have any comments or suggestions please let us know.
Category: Open Source, Support | 1 Comment »
September 2nd, 2008 by admin
Google have entered into the Internet Browser market and launched their very own browser for Windows Vista, with Mac and Linux versions available soon.
This new free browser is available to download from the following link:
Features to this browser according to Google are listed here
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/features.html
We have just downloaded and installed it on some of our office pc’s here and will be testing it over the coming week. We will let you know what we think and how it compars to FF and IE.
If you have any comments on the new browser we would love to hear them….
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July 9th, 2008 by admin
FireFox Version 3 is ready to download is is packed wiht loads of features for those tired of Internet Explorer
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June 16th, 2008 by admin
The Irish Times reports that, the head of IBM has written a memo to over 20,000 staff members advising them to take a look the use of other office suite programs other than the main one, (not mentioning Microsoft Office directly).
Open Office would be a good solution for people looking to get away from the Microsoft Licenced packages and its available to download free on www.openoffice.org
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