One thing that I love about my new car, which I have had for almost two months now, is that I can play random music tracks in it. By “random” I don’t mean completely random, but since I don’t know what song is coming next, it might as well be. […]
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With both sales and traffic to my international calling card sites falling over the last year, I have been asking myself whether there has been a change in the way that people communicate when overseas, with the advent of smartphones that have built in WiFi and that allow internet connection […]
Should Google Buy Yahoo? In my opinion, I have to say in no uncertain terms: NO, NO and THRICE NO!
Apologies for a horrible pun but i’ve been pondering Apple’s latest financial pronouncement. They counted up the cash in their piggybank and found they have the small sum of $76.2 billion floating around! This is more than enough for a good night out and a cab home, this is riches […]
I just bought a Sansa Fuze last week, and I really like it, however today I went to charge it, downloaded and applied a Firmware update, and now the Hold Button won’t work. I suspect a lot of other people will find the same thing, so I thought I would […]
A sly little twist on the fake job offer scam This used to be a promise for a job after payment of an “agency fee”. Now there’s a new technique. Find someone looking for a job – plenty of ways to get details, often illegal but who ever gets prosecuted? […]
Pandora, the music streaming company, has just floated a small percentage of its shares and seen its valuation soar to $4.2bn in the first hour of trading on the New York stock exchange. Pandora has lots of users and loses lots of money. The company reported revenue of $51m, with […]
Landing safely at 2:35am at Kennedy Space Center on 1st June, this was the last mission for Endeavour, the last of the shuttles to be built, and I had to reflect on what a successful project the space shuttle program has been.
Acronyms have always been common in IT, but learning some Java routines has forced me to learn things like HSSF, POI, POIFS and HDF, all of which are pretty obfuscating to me.
Do you like to open your Windows tasks in the same order and get really frustrated when Windows re-sequences them? A FREE program called Taskbar Shuffle can fix this for you.