Windows Firewall

Until this weekend I’d never really seen a PC running Windows that was connected to the internet using a domestic broadband connection. The only Windows PC on my home network is hidden away behind a firewall provided by the ADSL router so no-one out there on the net even knows it exists. This weekend I… Continue reading Windows Firewall

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Podcasting – Why Bother?

I was going to summarise a conversation that blech and I had in the pub last night about the pointlessness of most podcasts. But spookily hitherto manages to sum it up better than I could even tho’ he was in California and not part of the conversation (which took place in London).

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Nokia 770

The Gnome people were all very excited yesterday about the announcement of the Nokia 770. Called an “internet tablet”, it’s a compact, portable device for accessing the internet over wireless. It looks very nice. The exciting thing for the Gnome people is that all the software for it is based on Linux and Gnome. And… Continue reading Nokia 770

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Geeks in Hospital

A geek friend of mine is currently in hospital and looks like he’ll be there for a few weeks. Here’s an article explaining how he got his internet connection working. It all looks a bit Heath Robinson, but the post is evidence that it is working.

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User Interface Design

I wanted to buy some tickets to see The Philadelphia Story[1] so I wandered over to the Old Vic web site. There’s a “book online” link there that takes you to the Ticketmaster page for that show. So far, so good. But this is where it all starts to go wrong. The Ticketmaster page is… Continue reading User Interface Design

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Backpack API

I’ve been using Backpack for a few days to attempt to organise my life a bit better. It’s a very impressive service and I think I’m getting a bit more organised :) And then this morning I see that they have now released a web services API so that you can access (and change) your… Continue reading Backpack API

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Open Source Software Saves You Money

Not that it will come to much of a surprise to anyone who has thought about it for more than a second, but the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) has published a report saying that schools could save significant amounts of money by using Open Source software instead of commercial software.

Accessible Odeon Update

Last summer I wrote about Matthew Somerville, his Accessible Odeon project and how Odeon took offense to it and closed him down. I’ve just got an email from Matthew saying that he’s written a Greasemonkey script that cleans up the official Odeon site so that it can be used in Firefox. The script can be… Continue reading Accessible Odeon Update

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