Enigin Geek

Blogging On The Move

Writing multiple Enigin and energy saving blogs can be great but it can also be limiting - you always need to be able to get online and sometimes you want to do so quickly - as the inspiration hits or while something is happening in front of you, as if live.

With mobile technology moving at a fast pace it is becoming ever easier to update your blog on the move.

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Mechanics or Electronic/Software Engineers

At Enigin many of us are “interested” in cars and bikes (bikes for me at least), often we get into chats about the various mechanical problems upgrades of the Enigin plc’s staff vehicles. But over the years things have changed.

An area that used to be the domain of the oily fingered has evolved over the years into the clean fingered brigade’s home. No longer do Enigin’s staff talk about Top Dead Centre’s and Points gaps (the younger ones amongst us think we are talking a foreign language). Everything is diagnosed by computer - at least Harley Davidson offer to sell you the diagnostic software.

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Enigin - Making The World Go Around

Most, if not all, of what we use and have around us has been made using an alternating current induction motor.

This is just the name given to an electric motoring unit that works like this: inside an electric motor, attracting and repelling forces (like magnets) create rotational motion. The process converts electrical energy into mechanical power, to allow the rotor to turn the machine it is attached to.

These motors are everywhere, in most businesses, such as restaurants, hotels, supermarkets, offices and even in our houses. Not to mention factories.

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Touch Screen Proliferation

Four years ago touch screens were not unknown but were rare, at least amongst the general populace.

Now you can’t turn around without banging into someone frantically sliding their fingers across the screen of their cell phones.

Since the launch of the iPhone 2007 touch screens have been the must-have for any cell phone and now all manufacturers have followed Apple’s lead, and exceeded what Apple have done in some instances.

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Walk the Talk with Podcasts

It is great to see more and more organisations begin to realise the importance of modern technology and the service it can provide.

Often the staid world of rambling is portrayed as tweed coats, stout boots, walking sticks and sad unfashionable people who are more akin to Luddites than us technophiles.

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2020 is the Future for Enigin and us All

I have been looking at some gadgets of late - there are so many now that it is difficult to filter through them all.

A part form gadgets of course we have the heavy weights like Apple’s iPad and all the gizmos that Google seem to be producing.

On one trawl across the web I kept on seeing predictive technology, what we are supposed to have in the future - all these amazing things that we look at in wonder but are often forgotten about or laughed at in the future.

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Obscured by The Cloud

EVERYONE’S talking about it, in the IT world at least. You have probably seen Microsoft’s advert highlight it. What? You ask.

Cloud computing. But what is it?

Here is a brief explanation of what some call “The Cloud” that will be helpful to many, unveiling the clouds as it were, particularly the less technical Enigin employees and Enigin Distributors.
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Technology Surrounds1

Technology - it inhabits every part of our life, for most of us at least.

Even the housewife who never touches a computer, is surrounded by technology in her kitchen alone. Programmable washing machines and dishwashers, microwaves, digital radio and television, plus electronic scales and electric food processors - it is all “technology” compared to a fork for whisking or a dishcloth.

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iPhone 5 - Hold Up!

AT Enigin most of us have iPhones, with Enigin being a bastion of Apple technology. It is also amazing how many Enigin Distributor rely on Apple’s little masterpiece.

Hence we have a range of versions being used. Some still have iPhone 3, others 3G and some sporting proudly the iPhone 4 - but of course this will be supplanted soon by the iPhone 5 - but when?

Rumours run wild around Apple products, great marketing by them. Anticipation builds, often frustration when the rumours prove to be untrue, possibly all part of the marketing (cynically). When what is expected arrives, great celebration follows.

Often the update is hailed, but proves to fall short of the hopes - with iPhone 5 speed, new chips and 4G are being voiced, we will see but I am due an upgraded, so do I wait?

Beatweek magazine recently carried the follwoing information:

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LinkedIn Hits 100 Million

At Enigin we understand the importance of social media to business, we encourage our Enigin Distributors to sign up for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

LinkedIn may not be as popular as Facebook or Twitter, primarily because these are targeted at consumers, whereas LinkedIn is aimed at business/professional users.

But the service reached a major landmark when the they hit the 100 million member mark this week (March 22 2011).

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