What has one and a half million hits a year, four thousand visits each day from three thousand unique visitors, daily posts of over five hundred and has twelve thousand members with a monthly bandwidth of about 200 Gb? Is it a shopping site, betting shop or porn merchant perhaps? No, it’s a forum dedicated to the new Honda Civic. Read more

iGate took another turn for the worst recently when the BBC announced they were moving streaming services from Akamai to Level 3 Communications. This latest skirmish is just another in the war between the BBC and Internet Service Suppliers.
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Last weekend we went picking blackberries and had entered a scruffy-looking field through the open gateway to get to the brambles around the boundaries. All the time, we expected to be told to “Get orf my lan”. Read more

Three hundred quid to upgrade from QuarkXPress 7 to 8 is ridiculously too expensive. Especially as QuarkXPress 6 users can get the same deal and in return a far better piece of software than the one they are using at the moment. Read more

Running antivirus software on a Mac is like buying life insurance. You can can pay a fortune for something you’ll never actually benefit from personally. Luckily there are free antivirus solutions and recently a new one has appeared for Intel Macs. Read more

We have been persuaded to share a gîte with some relatives later this summer. Apart from the weird experience of not driving our car on the right side of the road, or more correctly, driving on the right side of the road, navigation will be a chore. It was time to bite the satnav bullet. Read more

Perpendicular storage, who would have thought we needed it? We can remember turning our old Mac IIci’s on their side, and our external drives run upright. Surely that’s perpendicular enough for any man or woman? Read more

One of the few refugees left behind during the switch from an IBM G5 to Intel Xeon powered Mac was a little Photoshop plug-in named pxl SmartScale. When we tried to run it, the dialogue boxes were messed-up and Photoshop crashed trying to enlarge an image with SmartScale. That is, until we worked out a little wrinkle to get it running on Intel. Read more

The following images are the track of a person’s journey from Edgware to Worthing. These are just about the scariest images I’ve seen because all that was needed was a tiny, in-car gizmo, satellites did the rest. Read more

Those of us lucky enough to get a new Mac from time to time (hum hum) will be thanking Apple for Time Machine. It takes all the hassle out of setting up a new Mac, a task that used to take days to install, register, configure and upgrade all the applications. As our recent experience found, Time Machine archives are a rich ground for ardent tinkerers who never RTFM. And if they do they don’t believe all they read. Read more