I hope you enjoyed using P2P to download your Linux distros because it looks as though the legal users amongst us have just lost out. If you use Virgin Media as your ISP, you’ll be interested to know that they are about to start trials of the 3 strikes rule the government recently detailed in [...]

At last! WordPress 2.5 has been released to an expectant blogging community. For those that use the blogging software (and skymonkey.org is powered by wordpress) then you’ll be glad to know the following features come with the latest version: Multiple file upload, WYSIWYG that doesn’t “helpfully” change your html code, plugin upgrades are simpler & [...]

As reported just yesterday, the Macbook Air was the first laptop to fall to the hands of the security experts. Well today, the Vista laptop has also been compromised, by hacking Adobe Flash. This time the competition focused on 3rd-party software that was available for the laptops with Security Objectives being the first to exploit [...]

Much like Google Israel, Google UK has also gone dark for Earth Hour. In an effort to help promote the use of energy conservation in the home, Earth Hour aims to get people to turn off their lights for just 1 hour between the hours of 8-9pm. Do your bit and see if you can [...]

The Pwn 2 Own competition, which is focusing on hacking 3 laptops, has had it’s first victim. The three laptops are running Microsoft Vista, Ubuntu Linux & Mac OSX – and whoever hacks them gets them. The first day concentrated on hacking the OS and none of the systems were compromised. However on the second [...]

Mozilla have announced today that the latest version of Firefox will hopefully go live in June of this year. I’ve had a dabble with one of the Betas and I’m impressed with how it’s coming along. There are a lot of improvements – visually, memory wise plus lots of features we’re going to wonder how [...]

I guess it seems as though the consumer is starting to vote with it’s feet. Available in the US only, at the moment, Amazon MP3 are starting to make a mark in Apple’s music store dominance. The DRM-free music available from Amazon MP3 is proving a hit with customers, as sales have driven the new [...]

Today, a public drive has won the backing of David Cameron, of the Tories, to provide the public with parliamentary bills in an XML format. They Work For You is the website who originally pushed for this, with the ability to sign up to “Gently Encourage Parliament” to adopt the standard. This would benefit all, [...]

The latest Microsoft service pack for Windows XP still isn’t ready yet – although they still think they can ship in the first half of this year. However, for all those that can’t wait you can get a hold of the latest release candidate – kind of a pre-cursor to the final version, but again, [...]

I was recently sent in the direction of this website. If you’re having problems remembering things, or you have so much to do it’s hard keeping track of your busy life, rememberthemilk.com is definitely for you. Remember the Milk is an online task-based system. You can make notes of the most important things to do, [...]