Website of the Day: Home made pipe organ
Today's website of the day is Matthias's home made pipe organ: He writes: It all began in the fall of 1992, in my final year of university. For lack of a better arts elective to take, I decided to take…
MySpace squaring up to YouTube by pushing video features?
TechCrunch has picked up on a fairly small, but possibly significant, change on the MySpace social networking home page that pushes MySpace videos more prominent and accessible. It reports "The top-left of the homepage now has 4 videos that entice…
Vodafone unveils 3G Christmas mobile line-up
Vodafone has unveiled a large range of 3G handsets in time for the busy Christmas season. 10 of the mobile phones are made exclusively for Vodafone include 6 HSDPA phones from Motorola and Samsung for accessing the web at broadband…
Jobs on Zune? He's not bovvered
In possibly the least spectacular news announcement today, CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, has said that he really isn't concerned by the imminent launch of Microsoft's Zune portable music player. In a Newsweek exclusive on the eve of the iPod's…
Schoolboy humour courtesy of stock spammers: the exploding ARSS
Thanks to The Register (who else) for this gem of schoolboy toilet humour courtesy of those annoying stock spammers we're all too painfully aware of: There's too many jokes in there, of varying degrees of puerility. They write themselves: "Get…
Reuters to open a news bureau in Second Life
Reuters is the latest company clamouring to be a part of the Second Life virtual world (some say parallel universe), with an announcement that it will begin publishing text, phono and video news from the real world within Second Life…
uTube.com manufacturing company website shut down after inundation with misdirected visitors
A fairly small Ohio-based manufacturing company, the Univeral Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation, has seen visits to its website utube.com increase rapidly over the past week or so, as news broke of the Google/YouTube merger. They'd already been getting a…
First set of generic dot mobi domain names to be auctioned
The first set of generic domain names under the new .mobi top-level domain is due to be auctioned off on 27th October at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East domain conference, Hollywood. Unlike the free-for-all first-come first-served system used for previous TLDs, certain…
Sneaky Changes in Vista Licence Agreement
There are a few dedicated souls who actually read through the EULAs (End User Licensing Agreement) that pop up when you install a new piece of software but most of us simply click the I Agree button, life’s too…
Freeundelete Recovery Utility, Freeware
Sooner or later it will happen to you and you will delete a file, intentionally or by accident, then some time regret it. You might be lucky and it will still be in the Recycle Bin, but most of…