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Internet Access: UK Broadband

Broadband in the UK What do we need to get access to the Internet nowadays? The hardest part is choosing an access provider (otherwise known as an ISP), but it certainly isn't hard to get cheap internet access any more. Once upon a time ... (more)

Beware the Costs of Internet Tethering

Internet tethering is a great bit of technology which allows you to share your phone's 3G internet connection with a desktop or laptop computer. I found myself trying this out the other night, when we had a power cut at home but still had ... (more)

How Windows Determines Your Internet Access

If you've ever wondered how Microsoft Windows knows whether you have a solid Internet connection or not, it isn't magic: Windows networking is programmed to attempt connection to a TCP service. It uses the success or failure of this to report ... (more)

Internet of Things, All A-Tweeting

Superbly geeky news item on BBC1 last night, with @ruskin147 interviewing @andysc in his auto-tweeting home. @andysc = Andy Stanford-Clark @ruskin147 = Rory Cellan-Jones Stanford-Clark describes an 'Internet of Things' where millions ... (more)

Mood of the Internet

What mood is the Internet community in? Would you believe it, but some Dutch researchers claim to have successfully modelled the mood of the general Internet blogsphere, by analysing the words that crop up in peoples' blogs each day. There ... (more)

Vinton Cerf: Godfather of the Internet

Also know as Vint Cerf, and is Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He co-designed TCP/IP and the architecture of the Internet. (more)

Broader Picture on Internet Routing

If you want a bigger idea of what is going on in the Internet, you could do worse than go to InternetTrafficReport.com. Slow page downloads may not be due to dodgy trojans on your PC, the quality of your ISP or even how hard it's raining ... (more)

First Click for Internet Advice

You might imagine that everyone is online nowadays, at some point in their waking day. Well, it just isn't true, and for those people without internet access this can be a real problem. A great many services are online-only nowadays, or a ... (more)

Make Your Headlines Shine

Here we learn how to create a text shadow affect, using only a bit of CSS. The Glowing Headline! Here is the code to create this effect: Each of the groups of parameters for the text-shadow property are: x-offset; y ... (more)

Lines to pursue, and lines that are covered

FAMILY HISTORY: This is a list of who I could productively keep hunting for, and who is already well-being hotly pursued by distant cousins. Truth is I'm pretty rubbish at family history research, so it makes sense for me to leave the better ... (more)

Technology

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 ... (more)

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