The one thing you may notice about the iPad, apart from the fact that it’s highly mobile, is that it has a large screen – and whilst it is pretty resilient as it is – putting it in a case can bring some valuable added protection from odd bumps and scratches. The flip case we [read more...]

The long awaited Amazon Kindle Store has finally gone live in the UK where you can also picked up the all-new 6” Kindle, weighing just 247g, with free 3G Wireless access. Kindle supported books are available from authors ranging from Ian Rankin to Terry Pratchett as well as over 170 UK and international newspapers and [read more...]

Whilst Task Manager offers basic information about the use of your computers resources, using Windows 7, much more detailed information, and control, can be gained from a new utility that appeared with Windows 7 – this utility is Resource Monitor (often shortened to Resmon). You gain access to Resource Monitor by clicking on the start [read more...]

Here is another handy productivity tip for Microsoft Word: this time it is the SHIFT and ALT key combination. If you need to quickly relocate, or re-order, a paragraph within a document you might typically highlight the paragraph and either drag it or use edit, cut and edit, paste to move it around. Alternatively, just [read more...]

Now Windows 7 Service Pack 1 has been announced [1] speculation regarding the availability and any potential new features has begun in earnest – will we see something new in SP1? “For Windows 7, SP1 includes only minor updates, among which are previous updates that are already delivered through Windows Update” – Windows 7 Team [read more...]

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 patch vBulletin software flaw) “The flaw in a specific version of the vBulletin software allows [read more...]

How does the idea of adding interactive hot spots to online video grab you? Video has historically been a broadcast medium, but imagine watching a video and being able to click on something of interests and get more information. A new technology, “LinkTo”, announced from How To TV, the producers of brand-funded instructional videos, enables [read more...]

According to news reports Facebook has reached a 500 million member (or user depending on which news site you read) milestone – quite a feat for a relative newcomer to the internet world (although six years is a long time on the internet) – but what does this figure really mean and does have half [read more...]