“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 [...]
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, [...]
- 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 image [...]
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 [...]
What with less processing power than a comparable desktop machine and limited battery life, you don’t want the web browser to hog all the system resources. Especially since the web browser will be the most-used application on your system. By definition, we will pass over the two most resource-hungry browsers – Internet Explorer and Firefox [...]
There’s a society in our future. The bright, glistening future! Full of crystal spires and togas, and ivory tower experts, building a castle in the clouds. It’s coming! Any day now! Bloody oath, it’s true! Yeah, and I’m a bunyip. The semantic web has long been a vision in the eye of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, [...]
With so many mobile devices on the market, you might wonder “Which one’s right for me?” That’s up to you, of course, but we’ve noticed that you can draw a one-to-one correlation between a person’s careers and hobbies and the kind of mobile device they’ll like best. Take a look-see over our list and maybe [...]
Only a few years ago, gaming on mobiles was the domain of Tetris and Bust-A-Move, and that was about it. Some solitaire and Mahjohng in there too – nothing to get excited about. But recently the smartphone and PDA platforms have gotten powerful enough to play games with a little more meat on them. And [...]
Frequently, you’ll see a tech site – just like this one – tout a feature of some smartphone, PDA, tablet, or other mobile device by talking about what’s under the hood. “It runs Java.” or “It’s based on Webkit.” or “It’s developed using the Python standard library.” And at least some of you are out [...]
