Citizen Godden

—This article supersedes the previous OpenDNS article, to bring everything up to date.—

I previously wrote an article about how to fix the search results that get thrown up by OpenDNS when you’re trying a quick search in Firefox’s address bar. However, if you use the Google Toolbar, you will have the same problem. There also [...]

The old fort, which it’s owner (Roy Bates) declared a principality – although the UK still claim it’s within their waters – was involved in hosting data off-shore, in an attempt to circumvent internet hosting laws in most countries.
For the last couple of days, however, the main website for "HavenCo" is not hosted on Sealand [...]

Jerry Yang is going to stand down as CEO for Yahoo, as soon as a suitable replacement can be found. Has he finally bowed to pressure after the Microsoft mess? Personally, that’s what my gut feeling is. With Carl Icahn on the board now, who publicly stated that he would fire Jerry Yang if he [...]

Tired of your tired looking GMail? Well you’re in luck, because along with the already growing customisations, there are now selectable themes. Previously only enjoyed by browser hacks, the option is now open to everyone. Some of the new ways to customise your inbox:

To select the skin theme for your GMail account (assuming you have [...]

While Mirror’s Edge was out on console last Friday (14th), the PC gaming community still have to wait untill January 2009. This is good news as it means there is more of a chance it will not be just a port of the console version and that DICE are spending some time on it. Today [...]

OK, well it’s a way to show off this amazing piece of technology, but what I really wanted to see was it rescuing people from burning buildings, or fighting acid-spitting extra terrestrials – not bench pressing 50kgs!
Created by Raytheon, a military hardware specialist, the Sarcos Exoskeleton fits around a human to augment his or her [...]

The "Jaguar" in Tennessee, USA, has been crowned the fastest computer in the world and is to be used for science.
The new champion, consisting of 284 Cray supercomputer cabinets, will be able to crunch an amazing 1.64 Petaflops – 1,640,000,000,000,000 floating point operations per second. Tested so far up to 1.3 Petaflops, the team [...]

PC World reports today that the once full-proof wireless encryption standard, WPA, has been partially cracked by Erik Tews and Martin Beck – two researchers which are due to make an appearance in the PacSec applied security conference next week.
Erik Tews was involved previously with developing new ways to crack the older, and shown [...]

The latest version of Media Monkey now supports the new iPhone 3G and iPod Touch version 2, making it the only application, other than iTunes, to enable you to synchronise your music and podcasts – without using Apple’s abomination.
I know, some people like iTunes, and I say power to them, but since I found Media [...]

If you’re like a lot of people, you will be wondering why Microsoft’s latest incarnation of their new OS is going to be called Windows 7. Surely there have been more versions than just the 7? Well yes and no – I think most people are getting confused by the fact that some versions of [...]