Woo-hoo! Leopard is out.. Great.. Get a life. [SHOW ME]

Partly because I just completed portal for the second time, and partly because I’ve always wondered – here’s how you extract the end credits music (which is both really well written, and also sums up the whole game.) WARNING – If you haven’t completed the game, don’t extract the portal music, as it contains spoilers [...]

A bit of (traditional) Friday humour – also there wasn’t a lot going on in the world of tech when I wrote this post. It’s hard to imagine how the humble desktop PC has evolved from these brick-like beauties.. And it really wasn’t that long ago to be honest. Only 25 years or so – [...]

There has been a growing trend over the last year or so of ISPs moving away from "all you can eat" broadband for £17 a month. Even though the initial uptake by customers, for such a good deal, was huge with the likes of Tiscali quickly becoming the biggest ISP in the country, I don’t [...]

A recent post shows that some people are starting to get access to IMAP features within Gmail. This surely points to a staggered roll-out for the facility for all users – although obviously we don’t know the time frames involved. This means that, if you choose, you can access your Gmail through your email client [...]

As most of you know, I very rarely post anything of a personal nature on my blog, just because I don’t believe that’s why I write this blog exists – you need a source of up-to-date tech news and I try to provide that. But all being said, I do post sometimes things that have [...]

40 people have been arrested from Cisco today, in Brazil, when the authorities alleged Cisco had imported $500 Million worth of equipment illegally into the country. The amount owed includes the costs of fines, unpaid duty and interest. Somebody needs to be fired for this massive mistake (which you can only assume that’s what it [...]

31 hours and 4 minutes since they set off from the east-coast of America, they arrive at the west-coast. How? Because their car is the ultimate geek machine. GPS, police scanners, thermal imaging cameras, laser jammers & LCD displays all make up the ultimate Cannonball Run across The States. The previous record was 32 hours [...]

Obviously written because I’m a big wordpress fan – this very blog uses it, and I can’t sing the wordpress group’s efforts in creating an awesome piece of software. However, there is always room for improvement and it always amazes me how the users in the community can take the software and adapt it for [...]

That’s right, after Apple decided to rob the users of their right to unlock the phone they had paid through the nose for – the group that originally provided the utility to unlock the iPhone, have released an update that gets around Apple’s latest attempt to render the phone useless. Even though telephone companies in [...]