2 Good Reasons to Work in the I.T Industry.
While pondering over the meaning of life and everything. I got into a thought path that led me down a road to ask myself, "Why do I do what I do?". Is it because I like logical and high intensity problem solving? Is it because I like to help people? Or is it because it's just plain awesome? The world of I.T is a very intimidating and scary place to me, all it takes is a press of a button and you've destroyed a business' data and demolished any hope of them being able to rebuild their data. But on the other-hand, it's an exciting and exteremely fun industry to work in. Let's get started, and I hope by the end of it you will…read more
March 23, 2012iPad 3 – What to Expect
A6 Processor – Following all the new tablets on the market the iPad 3 is expected to be released with Apples brand new quad-core A6 processor. Apple would be extremely stupid not to release the iPad 3 with the A6, with competition like NVIDIAs Tegra 3 chip, and Qualcomms Snapdragon S4. Expect a big increase in performance and graphical performance with this new release. At a guess i'd say the A6 would clock in around 1GHz. Hopefully we'll be seeing more games running the Unreal Engine such as Infinity Blade that will utilise the 4 cores of this chip and also potential console ports like the rumoured Grand Theft Auto…read more
February 24, 2012Social networking for business?
In today's society, well over half of people with a phone, will have a smartphone. With this, they will be able to access a massive collection of apps and services: primarily, social networking apps. At Staffordshire IT, we see our business as something to be enjoyed. There are times when we are stressed, yes, but we can sleep soundly at night, knowing that every single one of our customers has received the best service and care we can physically offer. We embrace the use of twitter and other social networking sites, because we want to make it easy for anyone, customer or not, to get in touch. To tell us if they are having…read more
December 30, 2011Staffordshire IT Recommends: Diskeeper
At Staffordshire IT we have struggled for many years to find the perfect automated hard drive maintenance software, but a few years ago we came across DisKeeper and it gets pretty close. Its that good that we install it on all servers we do maintenance on. DisKeeper is a complex piece of software that runs contantly (not taking up hardly any resources), and automatically keeps your hard disks at peak performance. Diskeeper 2011 with IntelliWrite fragmentation prevention technology writes files contiguously to the disk, intelligently manages free space, reduces I/O activity and optimizes the data flow for the best p…read more
October 26, 2011Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO
Yesterday Steve Jobs resigned as Apple CEO handing the reigns to Tim Cook, the former COO (Cheif Operating Officer). This comes at no surprise to anyone who knows the health status of steve jobs over the last 10 years. Steve Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 with Steve Wozniak and the company revolutionised computing. In 1985, after a sales slump, and Jobs' clashes with management, he was ousted. He went on to turn Pixar into one of the world's most famous animation studios. He returned to Apple in 1996 and what followed was the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, redefining not only computing but telecoms and the mu…read more
August 25, 2011NASA Invest In The Future
It has been revealed today that NASA is investing in future technology such as plasma propulsion, Electrostatic force fields, Quantum Communication, Long term space hibernation and other technologies that will push space flight closer to reality. (more...)…read more
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