Geeks2U | October Newsletter

Welcome to the October edition of the Geeks2U newsletter!

In this month's newsletter we'll be talking about something you most likely use everyday - the Internet Browser. We will let you know about some of the top browsers out there today, and we will also cover a little browser history.

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The Internet Browsers of Today

With the release of Internet Explorer 8 just around the corner, in this issue I wanted to cover web browsers. Obviously, since it comes installed with Windows XP and Windows Vista, Internet Explorer is the biggest browser out there; but, it's not the only web-surfing suite that can be had!

In this article we will talk about the four biggest web browsing suites of today, and give you a few reasons why you may want to try each of them.

Internet Explorer - The official release of IE is currently version 7. However, version 8 is in testing, and it will offer some nice privacy and security enhancements over previous versions. If you haven't yet upgraded to IE7, it may be worth the wait to download IE8 instead.
Firefox - Second only to Internet Explorer, Firefox is the next largest web browser. Speed and security have always been the focus of Firefox development, and it does offer noticeable speed increases over Internet Explorer.
Safari - Apple's web browsing software is called Safari (and it was recently made available for Windows). Many consider Safari to be the simplest-to-use browser on the market today. Simplicity makes this one worth a look.
Opera - Another alternative to the big three is Opera. This particular browser is fairly fast, but its real benefits come from some built in functionality. Things like opera link, a built in email client, and chat functions make Opera one of the more feature-rich web browsers that can be downloaded today.

Internet Explorer will likely always be the most popular web browser, and when IE8 is released it's probably worth your time to upgrade. Having said that, you now have three alternative web browsers that may be worth a look!

Thank-You for my Web Browser and a Little History

With the current state of technology many of us take one simple piece of software, the web browser, for granted. If you're like me, though, you’ll never take the latest ultra-fast-and-ultra-easy browsing suite for granted. For those of you who've been around the World Wide Web for as long as I have you'll likely completely understand the following statement:

"Thank-you for my web browser!"

You see things weren't always so easy. It hasn't always been just point and click and watch the latest streaming video, or browse the current news content with an enhanced media experience. There was a time when the Web was text-only.

In the days when web browsers, like WorldWideWeb (the world's first web browser), or Lynx (a text-only browser that's still available today) were the norm, surfing was actually fairly simple. Throughout the early nineties actually, the mostly text-based Internet was easy to use. It wasn't until the mid-nineties with the release of Internet Explorer and Mozilla (later known as Netscape) that things went wrong.

At about the same time the new generation of browsers was being released, ideas like streaming video and interactive web sites were just in their infancy. With those technologies being fairly new and the browsers that displayed that content just evolving, there was a time when it seemed like nothing worked.

IE focused content only tended to work with Internet Explorer, and content designed for Mozilla wouldn't display properly in IE; and I haven't even started with how many programs you needed to download to get any of the aforementioned content to work in the first place.

Suffice to say, if you take your web browser for granted, don't! Just remember the time when that streaming video wouldn't stream, and that interactive content wouldn't interact. Remember it, and then say, "Thank-you for my web browser!"

Gadget of the Month

Eikon Desktop Fingerprint Reader

This month's gadget of the month is the Eikon TCRD4 USB Fingerprint Reader.

This handy little gadget provides users with a simple way to increase the security of their PC. The device can be setup to require fingerprint authentication for: Windows logon, before starting an application, or to protect files.

This makes the Eikon Desktop Fingerprint reader the ideal solution for those times when security is required.

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Gadget Price: $64.39

Geeks2U Staff Profile

Technician Name

Kim Price, Customer Service Director

Kim started with Geeks2U in early 2008 as the Customer Service Director. She holds a Diploma of Business, which includes a Quality Assurance Certificate, and covers training in operational management, building teams, effective workplace relationships, a performance appraisal course, effective presentation skills, internal consulting skills, coaching and feedback and, last but certainly not least, customer service skills.

Kim has over twenty years of customer service experience; in 1990 she became a customer service representative for Singtel Optus and held the position for ten years. Later she was promoted to National Activations Centre Representative, followed by Team Leader for two different branches of the company. With hard work and dedication to better service, Kim excelled and was promoted again - this time, to a position as a Forecast and Scheduling Team Leader shortly before joining Geek2U.

As our Customer Service Director, Kim is always looking for ways to improve our customers' experiences, knowing it is the key to building long term customer relationships.