Want to lock in some job security in IT over the next five years? Then make sure you’re poised to move into cloud computing or mobile application development. That’s where the IT jobs are expected to be, according to 2,000 IT professionals recently surveyed by IBM (IBM). IBM’s annual global Tech Trends survey identified cloud
Although not a new concept, the popularity of cloud computing is continuing to soar, says Robert Rutherford, Managing Director of, QuoStar Solutions. Many companies, however, are still unsure about what impact “moving to the cloud” will have on their business continuity plans. Cloud Computing – and indeed the whole concept of “Software as a Service”
Mobile and cloud computing are set to be the most in-demand platforms for software application development and IT delivery over the next five years, it has been reported. Research conducted by IBM has identified these two segments as major industry growth areas for between 2010 and 2015. Some 55 per cent of the 2,000 IT
You can watch Flash video on the iPad, but you must convert it to a format that isn’t Flash first. There are many apps that will do this and most are free or donationware. For example, on a Mac there are apps like YouTube Grabber which can download .flv files and convert them to file formats that
When you’re watching a YouTube video in portrait orientation, the iPad displays the video in the top half of the screen, with information about it underneath. If you turn your iPad into landscape orientation you get a full screen video, but it still does not fill the iPad’s screen and there are usually black spaces at the
You get much more from the iPad’s YouTube app if you sign in with your YouTube account (you do have to register via the YouTube.com web page). In the app just click Favorites to get the sign-in options. When signed in you can now see your Favorites, Subscriptions and videos you’ve uploaded right in the app.
You can add photos to your contacts in the iPad’s contacts app. Go to the Contacts app and choose a contact. Tap Edit and then tap ‘add photo’. You can then move and scale the photo easily. Once you are happy with the photo just tap Use. You can also use the Photos app for assigning a
If you purchased The Elements app, you can save about 1.5GB of space by removing the app. This app also makes iPad back-ups when you connect to iTunes take a long time
To perform a hard reboot Yon your iPad hold down both the Home and Power button for a few seconds until the device reboots
The iPad battery can last for up to 10 hours, but you can increase this a bit. Drag the brightness slider (under Settings, Brightness) as low as you can stand, also turn off both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (under Settings), also you can also not play and videos or music plus avoid gaming apps!
