Have you ever been to a website where the text is too small for any normal person to read….or where the text is so big that only a patronisingly small amount is in view….well there is a very easy way to sort this out in Firefox and Internet Explorer. Whilst browsing a page simply hold [...]

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I just got off the phone with on of our partner ministries in Darwin. They have some visitor there right now and they were having troubles sending e-mail. They could receive e-mails, but they could not send e-mail. After spending a good chunk of time checking the configuration of their router and their local computer [...]

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I started being interested in what free online software there is out there when, one day last year I was in a computer store lining up to pay. When a random guy came up and asked me if I knew anything about computers – I told him ‘yes’ and he asked me to show him [...]

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Everyone is talking about it! But do we actually know what Web 2.0 means? Even when looking at jobs advertised in the UK one finds that companies require web developers to have “experience in Web 2.0″, which I find quite interesting. So what’s Web 2.0? (extracted from Wikipedia) Web 2.0 is a phrase coined by [...]

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Ofcom (the telecoms regulator in the UK) has just approved the use of Ultrawideband (UWB). This technology connects devices within a radius of about 30 metres at 2 gigabits per second. This means that devices such as TVs and DVD players would not need interconnecting cables but could be in different rooms and still work. [...]

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Lenovo, one of the world’s biggest PC manufacturers, is to start selling laptops to business and consumers with Linux pre-installed on the machines. Linux is a free, open source operating system developed as an alternative to systems such as Microsoft’s Windows. Novell will provide the Linux software on the laptops, which are due to go [...]

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