Meadowlark: Sheffield based computer consultancy

Computer networks.

If you have more than one computer and you wish to share files on those computers,  I suppose you could always use  a memory stick, cd-rom or dvd, but what if you want to:

• Share an internet connection
• Share files on a hard drive, dvd drive or cd-rom drive
• Share a printer
• Share a backup device.
• Make better use of a spare computer that is a little too slow for general use, but still functions adequately.

Networks can be simple and quick to setup, and need not compromise your overall security.  Why not contact us if you need help?

What you can expect from computer hardware in the future?

1. Smaller faster, cheaper, lighter computers for the desktop.  They will be no larger than a DVD drive.  They will be silent, and run free software, and much of this will be web based.  They will use solid state disks, and large quantities of cheap memory.

2. More powerful mobile phones will largely replace traditional PCs.  The screens of mobiles will occupy as much of the phone as physicallly possible.  "Soft buttons will have largely replaced mechanical buttons in top of the range phones.

3. Sophisticated screen display technology will be available that will allow us to use bigger computer monitors in smaller less likely workplaces.

4. Micro-factories: places of work no bigger than a loft extension, where budding entrepreneurs labour in their free time "printing" products with 3D printers and selling their wares by the internet.