Posted on by Craig Faulkner
Sometimes technology goes wrong. It's annoying but it happens. And when it does, it can be expensive to repair. With computers, it seems to be standard practice that when you buy a new one, you get a warranty period of one year thrown in—especially if you've paid an arm and a leg for it. But it's then common… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
Okay, I admit that's a silly question. Obviously the computer virus should be considered worse, but in reality, by how much? A typical symptom of your machine having been infected by a computer virus is that it may start to slow down, or that some of the processes running on it start to take up more resource… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
I seem to spend a significant proportion of my waking life sitting in front of a computer. Five days a week I'll spend a little over seven hours in front of the computer I use at work—a machine I've come to call Deep Thought, after the computer in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, because it takes so long… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
Adobe Illustrator is one of my favourite software applications. It's a package for creating vector graphics and is extremely good at it. It's superb for logos and scalable graphics and generates images that can be used in almost any manner imaginable, at virtually any size. As a designer—albeit only a part-ti… Read more »
Posted on by Craig Faulkner
I know software. I've been acquainted with it for a long time. Admittedly, I haven't been around long enough to have been into software in the really early days of computing, but I have been around long enough to know it pretty well. What started, as with most my age, in the 80s with machines from the likes o… Read more »