Tethering a Blackberry to a PC
This is one of those 'good to try, might be useful' sort of things that I've been intending to try for some time. First of all, a couple of caveats - some service providers don't like you doing this,…
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Apple - why 2014 could be like 1984
Back in 1984, Apple had Ridley Scott direct a very imaginative advert)to launch the Macintosh computer. It ran twice - once on a small TV station late at night to get it in the running for some award…
A hint of mortality
Today Guy Kewney died of cancer. He'd been ill with Liver and bowel cancer for a year. For those of us who got involved in personal and home computing 'at the start' Guy was effectively 'Mr Personal…
Too few experiments in school science
I'm a science geek - always have been, always will be. When I was a kid I had microscopes, telescopes, chemistry sets - anything that allowed me to do experiments. By the time I went to secondary sc…
The 'father' of home computers dies...
A few days ago one of the pioneers of the home computer revolution of the 1970s died. Ed Roberts), an MD in Georgia, died after a long battle with Pneumonia. Back in the 1970s his company, MITS, move…
Social Search...waste of time?
I'm a big user of search engines. Despite my grumblings and pontifications on here about Google, I still use them the most because they're still the best out there. I hope that Bing - despite the da…
Why are some Open Source support people so damn rude?
Don't get me wrong - I love Open Source software and have used some of it fairly widely in various development projects that I've done. I'm also aware of the fact that people involved in the develop…
Facebook would like you to share even more....
There's an episode of 'The Simpsons' in which Lisa sets out to determine whether a hamster or Bart is the more intelligent for a school science project. She does this by applying electric shocks to t…
You may have missed this...the day China pulled the plug.
You might have missed this. I certainly did - but then again for the last week or two I've been running around like the proverbial 'blue arsed fly' trying to juggle a variety of personal, professiona…
Chrome - the prissy Maiden Aunt of browsers....
I'm currently involved in developing a web application of moderate complexity using Ext to provide a 'Web 2.0' front end on a PHP/mySQL application. We've endeavoured to make it work across a range o…