There are many times in life, examples of misheard communications. Your manager told you to do something but you do something else, Ordering the wrong stock as you were too busy concentrating on Facebook friend requests at the time. Well, if this sounds like you, then you’ll like this video. A tribute to those of you who hear something else entirely!

Richard Heathcote
Voice Over Artist

So recently, Google announced that it’s going to be launching Google Instant; a new version of it’s search engine that will provide real-time results, as you type. No longer will you have to type the whole search word or phrase, results will, as you type, display results it thinks you may want.
Some have credited it being fairly loopy and pointless, whilst others have said that it could be a whole new way of searching for things. Others have even said that they fear it will cripple their already successful pay-per-click …

**PRICING UPDATE** – o2 have now finally released all their pricing for the new unit, as of today at 14:15.
As any Apple follower will know by now, we have the imminent release (June 24th) of the much-anticipated iPhone 4, the fourth generation iPhone (not 4G as many people have been stating, as it still runs on 3G technology, carriers can’t currently handle 4G).
I, for those that know me, will know that I’ll without question be buying my iPhone4 on launch day (not that I’m counting down the days!) With the …

Recently I watched the BBC series “The Virtual Revolution”. Being a bit of a techie geek on the quiet, it’s stuff that very much interests me, all things internet, social media and beyond.
I have to say, it was an absolutely fantastic series that explored the origins of the internet and how it’s changed our lives whether we want it to or not, and the revolution of how it’s affected business globally too. For many of us who are small businesses, (and big businesses for that matter), the uses within the …

I do at times stop and think about how far technology has come on in the last 10 years or so. Now we’re in 2010, being able to receive up to the minute news and information via mobile handsets seems perfectly normal, but certainly wasn’t the case with me using one of my old Nokia’s from 2000!
I remember when I had my first WAP enabled phone; it was desperately slow, but it kind of worked. It was I guess the Teletext equivalent for the mobile revolution. How far things have …

Wherever you are in the world, whenever you watch the news nowadays, you’ll very rarely find an article that is uplifting, or just something that makes you think ‘whoah, that’s quite impressive’. Well, certainly I don’t anyway. That’s why generally speaking, I try not to watch the news that much anymore; it’s just far too depressing.
Not that I spend my entire life living on YouTube either, but more often than not, on there I regularly find some incredible videos of great human achievement, perseverance, and effort, that you just know …

Podcast 2 – August 09 - “Time Lords, Averting Backup Disaster In Business, & Google Chrome – The OS Killer?” (13m 11s)
This episode we’re talking about being a Time Lord, how backups are vitally important in businesses, plus I’m talking to Gavin Moorhouse from Lucid Computer Solutions who’s going to be talking us through the best of the bunch for backups, and Google Chrome – is it going to be the OS killer?

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Rather exciting news was announced this week, with Google taking on the challenge of creating an operating system to rival Mac OS and Windows. They’ve stated that they will release an open source version later this year for developers to modify and play with it, and potentially improve it, with a finished version set to launch next year.
It’s planned that it’ll be designed for netbooks in its early stages, with plans to move it into the desktop world as well. Now, with me being a staunch supporter of all things …

Today I had a meeting with Gavin Price from CSCM.co.uk, they are a great computer/tech company based in Birmingham, and Gavin happens to be one of my team members for the Birmingham 4Networking group. He also recently supplied me with a Three Mobile Broadband dongle to replace my old Vodafone one….Now, you would think that, given the name ‘Vodafone’ they’d have the best coverage, being a long standing massive company? Well, I didn’t have much luck with my old Vodafone dongle, very patchy signal most places I went. The one …

For some time now, our broadband has often lagged, making me feel that we’re not getting the kind of service which you would expect for an (up to) 10MB plan. For most people of course, in theory, 10MB broadband would be plenty quick enough to suit their needs. We decided to look into it, check out exactly we’re receiving down the line, and comparing our monthly bill to a few other providers, including our own, Virgin Media.
As we started the process, it suddenly hit me – we’re still using the …