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Real-world Computer and Internet Access issues are addressed here.

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PC Upgrade on a budget

[29 Dec 2011]

Our lounge PC - used as a media centre and for gaming - was due for an upgrade. It consisted of an AMD Althlon X64 system in an ancient mini ...

How Windows Determines Your Internet Access

[30 May 2011]

If you've ever wondered how Microsoft Windows knows whether you have a solid Internet connection or not, it isn't magic: Windows networking ...

How to copy (clone) a hard disk drive

[12 Feb 2011]

If you have your computer nicely configured but you are running out of disk space, the last thing you want to do is re-install everything on ...

Art View: Great Technology Re-use

[01 Feb 2011]

It is pleasing when a tried and tested technology finds a use in a substantially different environment, and especially when you say "That was ...

Qwiki goes trigger-happy with email

[30 Dec 2010]

Qwiki is such a promising concept in making search results more 'user friendly' that it will be quickly forgiven for sending out its "Qwiki of ...

Google Homepage: John Lennon Video

[08 Oct 2010]

For the first time ever, Google has incorporated a video into its homepage logo. The video is an animation, with John Lennon's 'Imagine' playing ...

The Power of Cloud Computing

[26 Sep 2010]

Cloud computing promises much for the budget-conscious web publisher. It should allow - within reason - a flexibility of resource availability ...

Twitter Javascript vulnerability: t.co links?

[21 Sep 2010]

The twitter.com website was allowing naughty Javascript to be presented to users for a short while, and it looks like the t.co url shortener ...

Google Street View Convoy

[15 Aug 2010]

Google streetview cars occasionally get snapped by other streetview cars as they appear to drive in convoy for odd stretches. I found this one ...

Government will continue to use IE6

[30 Jul 2010]

In response to a petition, submitted in June with over 6000 signatures and calling for an end to IE6 use within Government departments, the Government ...

three-letter .co domains

[21 Jul 2010]

The .CO era is here! These new domains for company registrations are going like hot cakes, and the prized 3-letter domains (none of which are ...

dot-co domains now registered

[27 Jul 2010]

To complement the available short domain list, here is a list of .co domains that are now registered. Note that we haven't included numbers ...

Sending Emails: How to Remove the X-Authentication Warning

[14 Jul 2010]

Here is the header that appears in emails that your web server has sent through sendmail or postfix: X-Authentication-Warning: serverx.mysite ...

Effect of Sponsored Trending Topics

[23 Jun 2010]

Here are a couple of follower graphs (courtesy of TwitterCounter.com) for Disney-Pixar and Coca-Cola, both of whom have been sponsoring trending ...

The Google Wonder Wheel

[22 May 2010]

Google is really playing around with different interfaces to help you fine-tune your search results. For a pretty broad phrase like 'cycling ...

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