Research conducted by IT security and control firm Sophos has revealed that 50 percent of workers are being blocked from accessing Facebook by their employers who are worried about the website’s impact on productivity and security, and have therefore put policies or access controls in place to ban its use in the workplace.In a Sophos [...]

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With GMail accounts now offering almost 3GB of storage, only the most dedicated email user is going to fill all of that space. Enter the ‘GSpace‘ firefox plugin to help you utilise that space as if it were a directory on your own pc. As the guys who wrote it say: This extension allows you [...]

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Do you blog on a WordPress server? Do you use Facebook? Want to announce your blogs on Facebook automatically? If so, then this little app is definitely for you! Easy to install and elegant to configure, Rob at tsaiberspace.net is to be commended.

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From time to time I find I want to actually download a video from sites like Youtube or GoogleVideo so that I have access to them offline. There are several ways to do this, and if you are windows user, by far the easiest is to use a Firefox plugin. There are several, but the [...]

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Nokia announced a battery recall this week for all their BL-5C batteries manufactured between Dec 2005 and November 2006. These batteries are used in all sorts of phones and you can check if yours is affected by visiting their site. Apparently they have been short-circuiting whilst on charge and some have melted risking fire. One [...]

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This is a cool little trick to know – very useful especially if you use a load of the same webpages everyday. To set multiple homepages in firefox what you need to do is go to tools then options then use the | symbol in between the webpages, so for example; http://www.techontour.com | http://www.bbc.co.uk  | [...]

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