Welcome to Jewels Web Graphics

A glance at our visitor stats tells us that most of you are still using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 as your main or only browser, and I was wondering how many of you have been tempted to try something new, and if not, why not? Are you worried that you wont like a different browser? Has IE become like a comfortable pair of slippers that you are reluctant to change? As the Firefox browser has reached 90 million downloads this week, and Opera 8.5 has just been released, (and is now totally ad-free), there has never been a better time to give either or both of them a try. Continue reading »

I have just added a new section to the JWG Directory entitled PC protection. This section contains several useful links to anti-virus and anti-spyware info and programs, which will help you protect your computer from all the nasties that are flying around these days. Continue reading »

Most of us probably use a Windows OS (XP, ME, 98 etc), on our home computers at least, but Unix Operating Systems are becoming much more common these days in corporate environments. This is because Unix is open source software, released under the GNU GPL. Therefore, businesses are freed from the obligation of paying quite large licence fees for the use of proprietary software such as operating systems and applications, owned by Microsoft, Macromedia, Adobe, Apple and so on. Such a cost saving is naturally an attractive proposition for many companies, but it is only recently that it has caught on in a big way. Why? Well, whilst Unix systems were free to download, initially they were not easy to install and use, so this fact alone tended to put most people off using them. Microsoft products by contrast, although not a cheap option, were easy to install and use, and the licence fees entitled companies to tech support as well.

So what has changed now? Continue reading »

OK, so I have a confession to make. I am slowly turning into a wannabe geek. I am becoming more and more interested in the techie part of computing these days. Continue reading »