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Internet of Things, All A-Tweeting
[24 June 2009 06:54]
Superbly geeky news item on BBC1 last night, with @ruskin147 interviewing @andysc in his auto-tweeting home. @andysc = Andy Stanford-Clark ...

Every Bing You Wanted To Know?
[03 June 2009 21:01]
Microsoft has released its new search engine into the wild, and is pumping some serious TV advertising dollars into the brand. Most of the ...

What is Wolfram Alpha?
[19 May 2009 20:37]
In the hyped-up days of Twitter and Facebook, we are all looking for 'the next big thing'. If that next big thing is being described as a Google ...
Countdown to a Special Timestamp
[09 February 2009 19:20]
Have you noticed that we're perilously close to a very special timestamp: 1234567890! This will actually happen on:
Friday 13 February ...
For Nerds Everywhere: The Loser Quiz!
[04 February 2009 19:05]
52/100: my Loser Quix score; not exactly a crowning achievement, but at least I was honest. Honest, I was :)

Windows 7 Needs Its Tyres Kicking
[17 January 2009 15:30]
Microsoft has released its new Operating System, Windows 7, and you can now download it free of charge to try it out. You don't get technical ...
Energy Efficiency in TV Broadcasting
[12 January 2009 20:24]
Internet-delivered TV vs broadcast TV: how does the electricity consumption add up? Following on from the recent rather dubious claims that ...
Google's Energy Consumption Analysed
[11 January 2009 16:59]
The Times reports on a study by a Harvard physicist: Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches. The researcher claims that two Google ...

123-Reg Whois Privacy
[11 January 2009 17:08]
Be warned, if you purchase Whois Privacy (or domain privacy) from 123-Reg: they do not enable privacy automatically, so you need to go into the ...
Recover Photos From a Memory Card
[22 December 2008 21:01]
DataDoctor.org offers a file recovery program to recover lost files from a memory card. It offers a free trial download of its Memory card data ...
Microsoft SyncToy
[19 December 2008 20:08]
V2 published in August, it keeps files and folders in step with each other. Runs on Vista and XP and requires the .Net V2 framework. Here ...
Google Search is now Ten: Never Look Back!
[27 September 2008 09:30]
Google was founded ten years ago by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford computer students. They had developed the Backrub search engine ...
Quiet Media Center PC
[28 July 2008 20:59]
Our current lounge PC is rather noisy and ugly, and is also prone to crashing. High-graphics games will suddenly hang, until allowed to continue ...

AVG Free Antivirus
[15 June 2008 20:39]
Here is the link to Grisoft's Free Antivirus software: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0. The software does nag you every few days to purchase ...
Media Center Randomly Changes Channel
[13 February 2008 20:56]
We had a situation recently where our Windows Media Center (running on Vista x64) would change channel and volume without our doing. Some nights ...

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