I knew school was a waste of time!

I have often wondered if it really was worth going to school and now it seems I was right to question it with the launch next month of Wolfram Alpha.

It seems that this free program aims to answer questions directly, rather than display web pages in response to a query like a search engine.

The tool computes many of the answers "on the fly" by grabbing raw data from public and licensed databases along with live feeds.

People can use the system to look up simple facts - such as the capital of Australia - or crunch several data sets together to produce new results, such as a country's GDP.

Read more about this on Stephen Wolfram's blog.

The question is will the above search bar on www.wolframalpha.com replace Google Search?

Philip

Customer Support Director, zuuMedia

The First Mac OS X Botnet

Well the title of this post sounds scarry - sorry it is not meant to. Let me quickly explain.

First what is a Botnet:
Botnet is a term for a collection of software robots, or "bots", that run autonomously and automatically. The people that create these often get them installed on computers so they can then do many things including sending spam, attacking the servers of a company to distrupt their services (denial-of-service attacks).

Second:
For PC users the Mac OS X is like Windows XP or Vista, it is the operating system on the latest Mac Computers

The reason this is so significant is that owners of Mac computers think they are secure from these types of security risks - this demonstrates that this is not the case.

At zuuMedia we think it is critical that all computers, both PCs and Macs, have security software installed and running; which is why we provide a suite of security software for every customer - it is included in the price.

Philip
Customer Support Director, zuuMedia

Organising your Bookmarks

Bookmarking websites you have visited and want to come back to is a great tool built into every web browser; however, unless you are organised they can very quickly become completely disorganised and you don't remember what was on the site.

A very handy bit of new software called Only2Clicks allows you to create an easy to create, setup and navigate webpage that puts a visual snapshot of each webpage you have bookmarked. This means you do not just have a couple of words to remind you of what is on the website, but you also have the website home page in front of you.

If you need any assistance to setup and install please contact our Smart Technology Support team at zuuMedia.

Philip
Custoemr Support Director, zuuMedia