Category: Websites
Yippee, It's Backup Awareness Month!
In case you didn't know July is Backup Awareness month (it's also Ice Cream Month, American Beer Month and UV Safety Month, to name but a few…). The point is the hard disc drive industry; specifically Maxtor and Seagate…
CheckMEND – are your gadgets stolen property?
Wary of the gadget you've seen for sale? CheckMEND, a new service that checks if goods are stolen or reporting missing, might put your mind at ease. CheckMEND has data on the 3.8 million items reported stolen in the…
The Meaning of Life, the Universe or just a load of Twaddle…
We are still not sure whether or not this web site is good or bad, or if it should be receive any publicity. It's a bit like one of those gibberish Spam emails trying to sell you dodgy pharmaceuticals…
Taking Notes Online — More Widgets from Google Labs
Google Labs continues to come up with clever add-ons for the world's favourite search engine and this time its Google Notebook. It's a sort of built in smart clipboard for your browser that lets you add notes and clippings…
Internet Time Machine
Here's something to think about, where do old Internet pages go? Mostly they disappear forever, into the ether, never to be seen again but some of them are being saved for posterity in the Wayback Machine Internet Archive; who…
One Billion Visits — The Most Pointless Website Yet?
As they say, it does what it says on the tin and the whole point of onebillionvisits.com is to clock up a billion hits and return the counter to zero. One billion visitors represents around one sixth of the…
New Web Album Functionality for Picasa
If you are already using Google's excellent Picasa image viewing and editing software and you have a Gmail account you might be interested in a new feature called Web Albums. This lets you upload post and share your images…
Google Earth For the Hardware Challenged
Google Earth is one of the best reasons we know for owning a PC, preferably a recent one with plenty of free hard disc space and a fast broadband connection. But what about those who haven't got suitable hardware?…
New Version of Google Earth Released
The latest version of Google Earth is now available for download. There's some interesting new features in Beta Release 4, including a redesigned toolbar, visual displays like the compass fades away when it's not being used, navigation tools can…
10 signs that the World Cup is about to start
Yes, the waiting is almost over, the beer's in the fridge and rather typically, the sun is out, making it very tempting to go outside. But obviously that would be very foolish move with such a feast of football…