Email harassment?

August 12, 2010

One of the common causes of time wasting and sometimes stress these days is internet and email abuse. For email I’m talking about people, or spam generators constantly finding ways to send you complete rubbish without hitting being caught in any spam filters. The simplest way to prevent this is to adjust your spam settings, [...]

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Google style web analytics without the fingerprint

July 15, 2010

If you are after decent web analytics for your site (and if you are serious about your website, you need web analytics!) then the most popular free option by far is Google Analytics, but there is one major issue with adopting google for some web masters. If you are doing anything that could be viewed [...]

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Why 20% VAT is a good thing

June 22, 2010

Ok so the budget today was a slight case of overkill from Mr Osbourne, we know the country is upto its eyeballs in debt and action needs to be decisive, but we don’t want to overdo it and actually slow down the recovery that appears to have started. Not so sure about quotes I’ve read [...]

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The Dope Dozen – awesome remixes

June 10, 2010

A remix can transform a good track into a great one. Here are some of the best from across the genre divide… 1. Sabres of Paradise – Smokebelch II (David Holmes Remix) The dark, foggy propensities of the original are completely transformed by Mr Holmes into a rather uncharacteristic, upbeat and euphoric acid house classic. [...]

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Parkour comes to school curriculum

June 9, 2010

I’ve just read that the art of street running, as seen on BBC adverts and the opening scenes of Casino Royale, is being added to the PE choices of some London schools alongside more traditional options like netball and football. I’m jealous, I’ve always wanted to learn, and have even tried the odd bit of [...]

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Unsubscribe spam!

February 24, 2010

I’ve been going through my huge gmail inbox, which I had let get quite out of control recently. Many different email address and accounts all sending thousands of emails to my single primary gmail account. Well, finally I’ve been filtering out the junk, deleting the pointless stuff, markign a whole bunch of things as unread [...]

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It had to be the iPad

January 27, 2010

Of all the suggested name for apples new wonder-machine such as iSlate & iTablet, it just had to be the iPad. It sits so nicely next to the iPod, the seminal gadget that changed the way we listen to music, and of course the iPhone which is slowly but surely eating massive chunks of the [...]

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BBC iPlayer on Freesat TV at last

January 15, 2010

Its been rumoured on hummy forums for ages, but its finally happened. BBC iPlayer is available on the Humax Foxsat HD and HDR! The BBC are running a beta trial of iPlayer on freesat, and have chosen Humax machines to be the test platform of choice. If you’re lucky enough to have one of these [...]

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Living with Google Chrome

January 6, 2010

Ok, so Chrome has been around for ages now. Since it was launched in Beta in Sept 2008, I have downloaded and played with it a bit, didn’t really like its overly simplistic nature  and switched back to good ‘ol Firefox. However since later versions of Firefox seem often to take forever to load, I [...]

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Thinking about changing broadband provider

November 18, 2009

I’m with O2, on a pretty good deal as I am also a mobile customer. The stabilty and reliabilty has been excellent since I signed up (ignoring the blip when Virgin broke it for me) but over the last couple of weeks the conneciton has dropped a few times requring a router restart, and also [...]

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