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!

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System Resource Monitor

The Developer's Apple Mac 01 Sep 2011

There is a rather neat system monitoring tool, Magician Monitor, which is free to download and gives a handy view on how much network, CPU and ...

Solved: the Zoomed-In Unlock Screen

iPhone and other Smartphones 31 Jul 2011

Hitting the power button on my iPhone this evening, I was shocked to discover that the screen was zoomed in - the 'Unlock' slider was massive ...

Should Webmasters Pander to Google?

Search Engine Optimization 27 Jul 2011

Webmasters around the world have been affected by Google's major shake-up of its search rankings. Know as the "Panda Update", it puts a real ...

iPhone Dock with SD Port and Powered USB

iPhone and other Smartphones 20 Jul 2011

The dexim DWP005 Premium MHub Dock Station appears to have it all: three USB hubs; an SD/SD-HC card slot; an iPhone dock (works with iPhone 4 ...

Google +1 for all Websites

The Social Web 01 Jun 2011

Webmasters can now put Google's "like competitor" +1 on their web pages. Many webmasters will groan with trepidation at the thought of having ...

Faulty iPhone out of Warranty? Help is at Hand!

iPhone and other Smartphones 29 May 2011

UK consumers have a powerful friend in the Sale of Goods Act, if something they buy fails unexpectedly within a fairly long period of time ...

Choosing the Best iPhone Apps

iPhone and other Smartphones 29 May 2011

What do you do when you acquire your first smart-phone and get confused about apps? How do you know which ones are any good and which ones ...

How to Publish Your Facebook Stream

The Social Web 25 May 2011

If you'd like to publish your Facebook status updates on your own website, it takes a bit of figuring out. Fortunately, the instructions at ...

Encrypt your iPhone Backup

iPhone and other Smartphones 07 May 2011

You may be aware of the iPhone backup feature within iTunes (on your personal computer), and you may have seen the checkbox to encrypt the backup ...

Where has my iPhone been?

iPhone and other Smartphones 03 May 2011

It should come as no surprise that the iPhone, master of location-sensitive applications, is recording its every move. There are privacy concerns ...

iPhone Hacks, Tweaks and Tips

iPhone and other Smartphones 02 May 2011

The iPhone is an exceptionally easy bit of kit to learn, and I'm sure that the designers spent a great deal of time getting the learning curve ...

Battery Case for the iPhone 4

iPhone and other Smartphones 29 Apr 2011

The iPhone 4 has a pretty decent battery life on standby, but it's not so good if you use its GPS sensing a lot. This will happen when you use ...

Facebook for Genealogy

The Social Web 23 Apr 2011

This is my big Facebook prediction for 2012: support for dead people. For now, only living, real people are supposed to be on Facebook, and ...

Twitter Intents make websites Twitter-like

The Social Web 01 Apr 2011

Twitter has added a new string to its impressive API collection, and this one is aimed squarely at web publishers who republish tweets. With ...

Google +1 Set to Rival Facebook Likes

The Social Web 31 Mar 2011

In its continuing efforts to 'get social', Google is rolling out the "+1" (plus one) button next to its search results. It wants people to click ...