Flying cars? Clones? Colonies on the moon? Other geeks and science fiction fans look for ward to these futures with stars in their eyes, but we work in tech gadgets. So our ambitions are going to be a little closer to home, a little more realistic, and a whole lot more practical. Here’s the developments [...]
Once upon the 20th century, we had the phreakers. Phreakers were phone hackers; they’d use various equipment and techniques to rig the public phone system, getting free calls, snooping on private calls, even running their own private network, and generally abusing the telephone system for naughty stuff. Then along came the computer age proper, and [...]
Now that “cloud” computing is here, everybody is heaving a sigh of relief that they don’t have to buy, download, or install as much software. We’ll always need some, but isn’t it becoming a nice bonus that you can offload a lot of tasks to the platform of the Internet itself, and use them just [...]
It must be tough to be Yahoo! They’re trying harder because they’re always number two – and constantly having to fight to keep from being bought out by Microsoft. That’s when they’re not trying to keep from being dismantled from the inside by billionaire investor and self-proclaimed fanatic Carl Icahn. And of course, the rest [...]
What with the concern over the proposed Internet filtering policy that is supposed to be put into place here in Australia, we thought this would be a good time to bring this subject up. Our point here is not to enable people to commit crimes, nor to say that they should commit crimes. Our point [...]
“The web as a platform”. That’s the mantra you’ve been hearing a lot about, applied to cloud computing. The idea behind cloud computing is basically to take all the computer that you have in front of you and condense it down to an operating system running a web browser, with everything else coming through the [...]
With Australian Internet users up in arms about the prospect of mandatory Internet filtering by the government, we thought this would be a timely subject. The purpose of this article is to show what Internet filtering is, and also why it isn’t the best solution to the problem of illegal content online. It is not [...]
It’s only been in the past five years or so that we’ve seen the social web revolution roll out. And sociologists and psychiatrists should be watching with interest, because there’s a gold mine of research just lying around waiting to be scooped up.
One effect we’ve noticed is the herd mentality. Sites like Digg, Reddit, and [...]
– If you highlight the date and time in the calendar before you start typing, it will automatically create an appointment with that entry in your calendar.
– If you have images hosted at sites like Photobucket, you can paste them directly into forum text boxes by using the “IMG Code” shown under the [...]
Well, we’ve all been hanging this year on the global financial news, and boy, is it discouraging! The market is imploding over in the United States, the United Kingdom doesn’t seem to be far behind, and in every country the world over, the economic flu spreads and claims another business every day. In case some [...]
