Recently I discussed Facebook in my Tech Talk feature in the Goole Times. Facebook is an extremely popular website and it is a great way of keeping in touch with friends and family. It has its problems though, as in order to keep the website free, Facebook have opened it up to advertisers and to application developers. These adverts and games aren’t all that innocent and you should be careful what you accept and what you agree to install within Facebook.

Here are some tips for safe browsing on Facebook

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Just had word from Seesmic that they have launched a new Twitter client, which runs as a native Windows application. You have to be on the beta list which is easy to join by visiting the Team Seesmic page. So far it is looking pretty good, although we still can’t figure out how to unfollow people, which means visits to the twitter home page are still necessary. It is an improvement over the Seesmic Desktop client though, and so we expect this will be a popular download.

Windows 7 is now out and many of our customers are upgrading to take advantage of some of its new features. We have already upgraded a number of our office machines and those users who have upgraded really like Microsoft’s new operating system. Reading around the web I found this article explaining some of the design decisions the Microsoft team made whilst working on Windows 7. This from MSDN;

The taskbar has undergone a facelift. We’ve enabled large icons by default (as seen in Windows 1.0 and also an option of Quick Launch since Windows 95 with IE 4). This affords a richer icon language, improves identification of programs and improves targeting for both the mouse and touch. Yet, one of the most important advantages large icons provide is a means to promote the taskbar as the central place to launch everyday tasks. We joke that the new taskbar is the “beachfront property of the Windows OS” and in turn, we are already seeing many people populating the UI with their commonly used programs. Somewhat if a visual trick, the taskbar is only 10 pixels (at 96 DPI) higher than its Vista counterpart (when used as a single row, since multiple rows are still supported, along with positioning around the screen edges).

If you are thinking about upgrading to Windows 7 then give us a call.