How to add an Addthis button to your Blogger blog

Visit www.addthis.com

Select Blogger

Choose a button style

Select whether you want analytics or not.

The code will appear. Copy this and login to your blog. Go to Layout, Edit HTML and tick the box to Expand Widget Templates. Paste the code after the

Gartner forecast for netbooks / tablet PCs

A report by Gartner shows that netbooks (mini-notebooks) sales will not be affected by tablet PCs until 2013.


It forecasts sales to decline from 2010 onwards with sales for 2014 falling to 13.9% of the mobile PC market from 18.6% in 2010.

"Media tablets will not impact the mini-notebook segment this year," Mr. Vasquez [research analyst at Gartner] said. "However, media tablets, such as the iPad and similar devices, will significantly detract from mini-notebook shipments in 2013 and onward, when we expect their prices to be lower and, more importantly, their functionality to be more similar to mini-notebooks."

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1375313

Google SSL Search

Google has introduced SSL to its search. You can access this at https://www.google.com and it is currently in Beta.


Using SSL means that ISPs are unable to see what search terms you have used (but can still see which sites you have visited).

It also means that analytics software will not show what search term was used to arrive at a website by those using Google SSL search .

Google SSL search is not currently available for images or maps.

Online Infringement of Copyright

Ofcom has proposed a draft code of practice for dealing with those who illegally download films, TV programmes and music.

It proposes that ISPs start to collect details of customers who download illegally. A letter could then be posted to the customer with a warning. After three letters, details could be handed over to the copyright owner.


The Online Infringement of Copyright and the Digital Economy Act 2010 draft code can be downloaded here

Internet Explorer 9

Microsoft is currently working on Internet Explorer 9 and Ryan Gavin at Microsoft has been given the task of getting IE6 users down to zero. 

Microsoft will support IE6 until April 2014 on Windows XP Service Pack 3. IE9 will not work with Microsoft Windows XP.


ZDNet reported that some companies still use IE6 because some website such as Facebook do not work properly.
Other companies are phasing out support for IE6. Google reader will no longer work with IE6 from 1st June 2010 and it will suspend support for Gmail later this year.

BCS Information Pioneers

The BCS has shared five stories of Information Pioneers at http://pioneers.bcs.org. It aims to show how they have helped to shape today's information society. The top 5 are:

1. Ada Lovelace
2. Alan Turing
3. Hedy Lamarr
4. Sir Clive Sinclair
5. Sir Tim Berners-Lee

For more information you can:
Watch the videos on the website
Follow on Twitter http://twitter.com/InfoPioneers
Like on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Information-Pioneers/119914224690501

A list of 150 people, voted by BCS members, who contributed to today's information society can be found here http://pioneers.bcs.org/2010/5/17/top-150

How to carry out a mail merge from BCM

1. Find the contacts you want to send the letter to in Business Contact Manager and highlight them

2. Click Tools, Mail Merge

3. Choose either New Document or browse for Existing Document. You will now be directed to Word.

4. You will need to add in the date, address block and greeting plus any other fields you need.

5. After you have finished, save the letter that contains all the merge fields so that you can use it in the future quickly.

6. Preview your results

7. Merge

Race Online 2012

The Race Online 2012 website http://raceonline2012.org/ is about helping those people who are not online of which there are 10 million people in the UK. Race Online 2012 wants companies to sign up by making a promise to help people get online. It asks 'what can you do to help people get online?' with the following options:

• Spread the word
• Events
• Give
• Train someone
• Your ideas

The site also provides templates of press releases to help you spread the word, hold an event, etc.