posted in Site NewsWritten by Pulsar132 January 12, 2011, 10:41:00 AM782 ViewsRating: 0 (0 Rates)Print
After many years offline DigimaxGFX is finally making it's come back. If you have stumbled accross the site. Over the next few days you'll see a lot of changes happening.
posted in OtherWritten by Pulsar132 February 17, 2011, 12:15:00 AM809 ViewsRating: 0 (0 Rates)Print
I host all of my websites with IoxHost.co.uk and they have never let me down so I thought I would give them some support and do them a review.
Just lately they have had a lot of stick which I honestly don't feel they need as they are one of the best hosts I’ve ever used. Their prices are low yet their customer service is supreme!
I originally started off with IoxHost in 2009 with just the Small reseller and as all of my sites gained popularity I upgraded. I am now on the VPS 4 package with them and this package should do me until I need to move onto an actual dedicated server which I will quite happily do when the times come.
Their staff is very friendly and always goes out of their way to impress you! They offer support 24/7 by their billing area, I’ve opened a ticket at 3am before and a member of staff replied within 20mins! I was amazed!
IoxHost prices start from like £0.99 per month which is what originally brought me into them. I was expecting crappy service but it wasn't! I’m pleasantly surprised :-).
A couple of weeks ago I messed around with my VPS and broke it, I couldn't simply reinstall it as I had a lot of sites on it, and my support rep (James) helped me. He must have spent over 2/3 hours finding out what I did wrong and fixing it for me, for no charge!
I highly recommend them to anybody! :-). Here are some links for you all.
posted in Computer NewsWritten by January 14, 2011, 02:03:00 AM858 ViewsRating: (1 Rates)Print
So Apple introduced the Apple iPad as a sort of easy to use touch screen computer that allows you to surf the web, play games, make documents, presentations and spreadsheets and some other stuff - but again, it isn't the same as using an actual computer. Google introduced their tablet version of their Android operating system with some tablets at this year's CES trade show - one called the Motorola Xoom ("Zoom") which will run Android 3.0 which is called Honeycomb. It will have a built-in browser that will surprisingly resemble the Google Chrome browser on computers, will have an extensive use of the larger screen for the home area, etc. Both Apple's iOS and Google's Android platforms look like great platforms for tablet computers but it remains more of a consumer device than something more productive that a computer is, for instance,
Microsoft seems to bet that tablets should be just different "PC form factors" and they have stated that time and time again when the online tech press have asked Microsoft about their position on tablet computers. I can see the usefulness of a Windows-based tablet computer but at the same time, the user interface is pointer-oriented, which means selecting anything small is a pain unless you have a stylus. And every tablet on the Market nowadays from Samsung and Apple, for instance, use capacitive displays that use fingers as the input method.
However, that said about tablets, iOS is still heavily different to operating systems like Windows and Mac OS X and is very limited or restricting. For instance, switching a lot between different applications is cumbersome - and iPad / iOS is not for creating a lot of productive content, too. The same can be said about Android, too.
One interesting thing is that Adobe are experimenting with tablets like the iPad and already have basic applications for the iPad specifically. Maybe in the future Adobe have basic versions of Photoshop or Illustrator for the iPad if they figure a way around the pixel imprecision of finger-based input. Who knows. What's for sure though, is that tablets are very popular right now and that companies like Google and Apple are sure going to be innovating in the software area - and in the very short term future!