The world’s latest space tourist, Charles Simonyi, a Microsoft Word developer, has just connected with the international space station. This got me thinking: If I had that kind of money what would I do? Well first off I won’t even get onto a commercial airliner due to an acute fear of flying so space travel… Read More »Spaced out Word Man
At some stage or another you’ll have several computers, network attached storage devices, backup DVDs and still maintain a healthy dose of paranoia regarding the potential loss of your digital data. Web-based storage solutions have been around for some time now, I think the first one I ever used was Winamp’s locker service for storing… Read More »Web-based Disk Anyone?
Just to top off on a Google filled day (BTW I just downloaded Google Desktop for my Mac and by God does my Mac hate me right now – I assume normal service will resume after the initial index). Anyway ever fancied a job as one of the top executives of Google? Would it put… Read More »$1 a year – it’s a living!
Google recently came under fire for painting a good picture of things. If you haven’t heard, it’s because they displayed images of New Orleans before hurricane Katrina struck in its mapping software. Many seem to have taken offence to this undamaged display of the city and now Google have reverted and replaced the pre-hurricane images… Read More »Google paints a good picture
BBC NEWS | Technology | Broadband kills off consumer ISDN The end of consumer ISDN in the UK? BT think so… (tags: isdn uk bt telecommunications connection network digital services internet) PC World – The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time The top 50 tech products of all time according to PC World magazine… Read More »links for 2007-04-03
A recent set of surveys in the US has shown that the iPod generation are happy with storage size, screen size and so forth but what they really want is a built-in radio in the next iPod. Sure, I can see the benefit but I also can’t help wondering if the same people realise that… Read More »We want radio!
Yes, it official, at least in PC world magazine. The top 50 tech products of all time have been named. I must say that I was completely shocked to see Netscape Navigator (from 1994) appear at the number 1 spot but not so surprised to see the Apple II appear at the number 2 spot,… Read More »Top 50 Tech Products
In the UK, BT have announced that the uptake of broadband services has been so substantial that they are making the decision to withdraw from consumer ISDN provisioning. Yes, the ultrafast Integrated Digital Services Network lines that served the speed hungry web users of yesteryear are to be no more. A passing piece of internet… Read More »Bye Bye ISDN