Well done Dell! Congratulations for catching up only eight years late. The new Studio Hybrid looks the business, but one has to ask, what is it for? Read more

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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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

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, now there’s a silly name. Canaan Banana, that’s another one. Both eminent men in their time and would presumably have met at some point. Baden Baden’s name is so silly they named it twice and to be more accurate it ought to be Baden Baden, Baden. So what about Gumby 50c? Read more

There are a hundred reasons to leave things alone when they work just fine. In the case of telephone number enquiries, 118,118 reasons to be exact.

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Last week, two pieces of news slipped out both of which will bring about some must-have new features next year.

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It’s funny how you can make a tiny change which on the surface seems innocent but underneath reaps enormous consequences.
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According to my Chicago-based son, we should ship Halloween back to America and adopt Thanksgiving Day instead. It is, according to him, the only holiday where you get to eat a lot, drink a lot, then slump in front of Star Trek Enterprise all afternoon. Best of all, you don’t have to buy any presents.

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