Technology
The modern world is supported and influenced by technology in a wide variety of ways. Almost nobody in the developed nations can claim to be free of technology, and in fact most homes are stuffed with highly advanced gadgets and appliances.In this section you will find articles on Personal Computers and their operating systems, notably, Windows Vista and Linux. We also look at the ever expanding and evolving topic of Internet Access.
An expertise of ours is Programming, and particularly Programming for the Web. One useful tool is our What is My IP page!
Favourite Twitter Finds
Here is a little list of tweets that I've marked as favourite:Twitter / Favorites from swinny
- @jangles
on 14 May 2012
The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymore http://t.co/WMudGwoX 'old people icons' lol
- @MichaelDell
on 03 May 2012
Am I really the first F500 CEO with 1000 tweets? Where are all the others?
- @johnlister
on 11 April 2012
@edbott Google+ actually very similar to Titanic. Thousands of people went on it, but only once.
- @dannysullivan
on 07 March 2012
Picture here makes Tim Cook look like a tiny man who has jumped out of an iPad http://t.co/fndt1pHo
- @HAL9000_
on 02 March 2012
I just got invited to the wedding of two iPhones; I don't really want to go, the reception will be terrible.
- @ruskin147
on 02 March 2012
"Don't poke me I'm driving" - new report says it's dangerous to use social media while driving. #whodathoughtit http://t.co/Wx50Od9M
- @ianbarber
on 25 February 2012
And some moody shots of the #phpscale panel with me, @rasmus @hughewilliams and @nikolayb - http://t.co/6GHmfFUD #phpuk2012
- @BigJim_McDonald
on 21 February 2012
The commercialisation of Pancake Day is unbelievable. There's been milk, eggs and flour in the supermarket shelves for months now.
- @jrecursive
on 20 February 2012
Horizon: Richard Feynman - No Ordinary Genius - http://t.co/v66barsi - watch the first 10 minutes if nothing else. (h/t @rickasaurus)
- @GarethAveyard
on 05 February 2012
"Chilly, innit?" "Wouldn't know, being a road sign". "Maybe we should stand closer, or cuddle eve-" "Drop it, Kev". http://t.co/M3LoOlsj
- @nicholaslovell
on 01 February 2012
RT @MrDylanCollins: Ironically I suspect that most discussion of Facebook's IPO is going to take place on Twitter.
- @flambie
on 08 January 2012
Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control.
- @GaryDelaney
on 24 December 2011
Shouldn't have left the animals in charge of the soup while I was out. I came back and not a creature was stirring...
- @Screenjabber
on 19 December 2011
Kim Jong is dead? I didn't even know he was Il
- @jimmycarr
on 16 December 2011
Christopher Hitchens the brilliant journalist, author & famed atheist has died. If he's in Heaven now I bet Jesus is looking pretty smug.
- @ruskin147
on 12 December 2011
@nicholaslovell I grew up at 147 Ruskin Park House…I chose it when first joined Twitter. Keep thinking of changing but it's stuck
- @MikeCowlishaw
on 02 December 2011
@jackschofield: Now that's a BIG keyboard http://t.co/dTsjCVtO (pic) <- Ctrl-Alt-Del could be tricky ...
- @pquerna
on 01 December 2011
Announcing Rackspace MySQL Cloud Database Private Beta http://t.co/pDFf2IFz
- @martynkelly
on 25 November 2011
Confession: At the movies, I used to send a file to nearby phones via Bluetooth. If they accepted, they saw http://t.co/Bd1H5pkd cc @pytey
- @praddles
on 04 November 2011
BREAKING: Greece to ban exports of hummus and taramasalata amid fears of a double dip recession.
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