Month: May 2006

Shunning Dave’s wise advice, I’m waiting for a brand new Dell laptop to be delivered. The machine I type this on has been a very useful workhorse for the past few years, and I’d recommend it to anyone after a laptop on a budget, but there comes a point where upgrades are necessary and inevitable. […]

Slate have an interesting hack that allows for ‘textcasting’ – basically a way to read text from a feed on an iPod.

In April 2005, the New York State Attorney General alleged that Intermix Media, an Internet marketing firm, was the source for illegally installed spyware that quietly launched ads on millions of computers across the country. They had created a website that allowed users to change their mouse cursor to one of their choosing (something that […]

Miles Berry is in today’s Guardian talking about his use of Elgg at St Ives school as part of an interesting wider article on encouraging writing through computer use. The full article is here – thanks go to all involved for the mention.