Is Your Online Forum Platform Vulnerable?

Friday, 23 July 2010 | Jason Slater

The technology press are reporting a serious flaw recently discovered in a particular version of popular online discussion platform, vBulletin, which makes it vulnerable to the possibility of personal data harvesting. As reported by the BBC (see Firm scrambles to … Read More

The Palm Pre Resurfaces

Tuesday, 29 June 2010 | Jason Slater

You may have noticed recently I have retrieved the Palm Pre from it’s box and have been using it, on a regular basis, again – I must be having something of a love/hate relationship with the device.

The thing … Read More

You Better Watch What You Are Tweeting

Tuesday, 11 May 2010 | Jason Slater

Various news sources are reporting that a UK man has been fined for inappropriate tweeting (Man fined £1000 for tweet) on the Twitter social network, The BBC in particular describe the man as being found guilty of sending “a menacing … Read More

Whatever Happened To The Paperless Office?

Friday, 2 April 2010 | Jason Slater | 2 Comments

The notion of the paperless office was being touted as far back, from my memory, as 2000. I remember writing a business report on the subject to the board of the company I was working for at the time rallying … Read More

A Pop Up Too Far

Saturday, 27 March 2010 | Jason Slater

One of the most annoying things about operating systems, especially Windows, is it’s insistence on popping things up at the front of the display screen irrespective of what you might be doing.

If you are running a number of applications, … Read More