As social media becomes more and more accessible, astute business owners are realising the benefits of using it to market to a wider and more varied audience than ever before thought possible. This book looks at the different types of media and which are most effective for a wide a scope of businesses. Social media requires very little cost outlay and the potential rewards are huge. Knowing how to implement an effective strategy without wasting valuable time is the key to getting the best out of a social media marketing campaign. Tracing the history of social media from the past and p

So the iPad is here and already I have found a few absolutely killer apps and games. Here is my list of the top 5 iPad Apps and the top 5 games that are currently available: Apps: Desktop - Desktop for the iPad essentially allows you to split screen your iPad so that you can run two apps at once. Desktop incorporates 10 “applets” which among which include a Web Browser, email composer, calculator, currency converter and dictionary. For only $1, this iPad app gives you the option of dividing you screen side-by-side or from top-to-bottom. Desktop is the solution for those who compl

Hi all and welcome back. This entry I’d like to talk about net books and the ones I believe will be big/best sellers and most popular in 2010. The one I like the most is the Lenovo G550, it’s actually the updated model from the G530 and the main difference is the screen size up from 16:10 to a 16:9 screen. With its Intel Pentium Dual-Core Mobile processor and DDR3 memory the hard drive at 250GB, speed and storage and well taken care of.  With a very nice touchpad keypad and LCD Display w/ Glossy Screen & LED Backlight, with a built in webcam and Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premiu

2009 has been the year of the e-reader with record sales throughout the Christmas season. The soon to be released Plastic Logic Que is going to try it’s best to set the bar higher as a so called “proReader”. The question is will Plastic Logic replace the very popular Amazon Kindle and others like it or will Amazon hold on to its already sizeable hold in the e-reader market? What are the differences between the two? The primary difference lies in the target market. The Kindle aims to attract the casual reader and get them to buy e-books from the Amazon store. Plastic Logic targets

One of the most awesome gadgets which I have recently got my hands on is the Livescribe Pulse pen. At first glance, it looks like those gimmicky pens that were so popular back in the 90’s with the inbuilt recorder which were given out at just about every corporate function, and of which I have several gathering dust in drawer somewhere, but technology has come a long way in the last 20 years and they are about as comparable to each other as an Atari to an Xbox. The Livescribe smartpen has a full inbuilt computer which has an amazing 2 or 4GB of memory depending on which model you buy