Blogs by Rick Bosch

Something came to my attention this morning and I must be honest, I have mixed feelings about it, but I can see the practicality of it. Microsoft’s information manager (their term, not mine), Outlook, now provides its users with the ability to connect to their social media profiles straight from the email client.
It was announced [...]

I was casually searching for some pictures of Sonic Youth and I noticed some new bars (similiar to the new Fast Flip)  to the right and left of the Google Image Search results page. It lets you navigate to the next page without having to scroll all the way down to get to the next [...]

I am a huge fan of image searches and my favourite search engine is quite often determined by their image search results. MSN have always had a good image search function and Bing improved that service even more when it was release and naturally, Google had to respond. And they have, but how do the [...]

With only a couple of weeks left before our project kicks off I thought it an opportune time to update everyone about is happening on the CSR front here in Cape Town. As some of you may (or may not) know we will be returning to Vuyani Primary School in Gugulethu as we have done [...]

As part of the UK’s efforts to improve security after the 2005 London bombings it was revealed this week that internet service providers (ISPs) will be storing user’s email and internet phone calls details for an entire year leaving me wondering, what happened to freedom of information?
Thus far a number of ISPs have resisted suggestions [...]

Social media has officially over taken email as preferred method of communication.

A bold statement, I know, but it is backed up by recent research done
by Nielsen Online. It isn't all that hard to believe as we all spend
time on our individually preferred social networks daily, but let us
see what the stats say, shall we?

According to [...]

Logging in to Facebook this morning I found something rather odd on my news feed page and maybe you would have seen the same thing…

So people have complained about the new "Terms of Use", I did a little digging and this is what I found. Facebook has 175 million users and according to the social [...]

Facebook has established itself as the powerhouse of social networking, but luckily for us they haven't rested on their laurels and they are constantly trying to implement new functions to enhance our experience on their site. So what is the latest upgrade?
It started a while ago when it gave users the opportunity to comment on [...]

Your first answer might just be, No! Never! And you may well be right, but indulge me for a moment and I shall attempt to shed some light on the subject. Twitter has become somewhat of a phenomenon recently with some high profile users that publicly spread the word and herd their followers.
I am [...]

We are quite fond of social networks here at Tamar as you might have gathered. However, there is a (as with most things in life) a darker more sinister side to these sites we visit so religiously. There have been countless crimes committed on (or because of) these social networking sites. Let's have a look [...]