The BBC Technology site has published an interesting article on computer hygiene. Tests were carried out on computer keyboards by the Consumer Group Which? and the results were astonishing (not to say scary). Some keyboards carried more bacteria than a toiled sit.
Here is a small extract from the article:
“If you look at what grows on [...]

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The chinese company Lenovo bought the struggling giant IBM in 2005 and is now close to releasing the new ThinkPad X300 which is set to rival the so talked about MACBook Air. I know if you are a MAC user you will just say “pff another attempt to compete with a MAC” but [...]

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WordPress have just released version 2.3 and I have been playing with it on my personal blog.
I decided to try a test and do the equivalent of ‘non-techie’ install and ignore all their warnings about deactivating plugins and what not before upgrading in an attempt to see if anything broke. [Now, I had taken a [...]

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The new IPod (Touch) released by Apple has the look and feel of an IPhone. It comes with either 8 or 16GB, which is not much really, but for the early adopters (aka gadget enthusiasts) it’s a must have. I have collated some of the features of the IPod Touch from the apple website onto [...]

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For those of us who maintain several blogs, crossposting - or the ability to write one blog and then publish it to multiple blogs - is a very handy function!
MySpace has traditionally been one of the hardest to crosspost to, but if you are a WordPress user, then enter some funky php courtesy of Roderick [...]

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