Welcome to Our Blog
Welcome to the Freetimers main Blog, which is focused on Website Design, Development and Programming and just about anything else of interest that relates to businesses and the Internet! Freetimers also has a separate SEO & Digital Marketing Blog, because it is such a huge subject in its own right, and there is a link to it at the top menu for your convenience. Both Blogs will be updated with new articles regularly, and we do hope you will find the content of interest, and more importantly, useful to you!
If we spark any ideas please don’t hesitate to contact us on the phone numbers provided; we’d love to hear from you.
Greg Poulson, Managing Director, Freetimers
5th Sep 2012
From October-December 2010, 31% of UK internet users caught a computer virus figures from Eurostat reveal. Disturbingly, 7% of those suffered a financial loss due to the virus. This is despite 88% of users stating that they had security software in place.
12th Sep 2012
Investigations into Conservative chairman Grant Shapps’ Twitter account reveals that he regularly follows large numbers of accounts and unfollows them if they do not follow back in order to have a perceived large following.
15th Sep 2012
The xx, who became a word of mouth phenomenon when they produced their first album in 2009, recreated their past viral triumph by releasing a stream to their second album Coexist to one superfan on Facebook days before its official release date.
19th Sep 2012
Following recommendations from the Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland, facebook has suspended the facial recognition feature on the website. The feature recognised faces in the background of images and allowed people to be tagged.
24th Sep 2012
Economic development in rural communities cannot happen without proper access to the Internet the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) warned recently. Currently 1/5 of people in rural areas do not have access to broadband which is adequate for business needs.