X-Ray Lamp By Sture Pallarp at Street Anatomy
X-Ray Lamp By Sture Pallarp at Street Anatomy: “”
Something different to do with your old X-Ray’s. Created by a Stockholm based design student as part of a school assignment. We think it looks pretty cool and quirky enough for IKEA.
Facebook Testing “Delete Account” Option.
Facebook Testing “Delete Account” Option.: “”
It appears Facebook is rolling out a “Delete Account” option in addition to the “Deactivate Account” option already available. Previous to this deleting a Facebook account was a convoluted affair not for the faint hearted.
According to some reports, this new option, currently only showing for some users, will permanently delete [...]
4 Tips to Decrease the Power Consumption of Inkjet and Laser Printers
By: John C Arkin
We should all do our part in conserving electricity and practicing energy efficiency in our everyday lives. We can do this through simple things that won’t disrupt our lives, such as turning off appliances when no one is using them, installing compact fluorescent light bulbs in your home and office and choosing [...]
Read moreGoogle’s encrypted search could skew web analytics.
Google’s recent announcement of it’s, typically beta for now, encrypted search facility could have some undesirable implications for web site owners.
Initially available as an option to the normal un-encrypted search, you can opt in by simply replacing http://www.google com with https://www.google.com. Note the additional ’s’. By doing this your web browser does not pass on [...]
Domain Name and Keyword Registration Scam
Google Insights. It’s .com people
Looking for a bargain from the Sainsburys website? What are you going to do, try www.sainsburys.co.uk which is the sensible option, or go to Google and search for sainsburys?
Google has published its most recent trending search topics for the USA and they’re topped by searches for an internationally unknown socialite closely followed at number 3 [...]
We Live in Interesting Times
I was struck by what I thought was just plain over indulgence and quite barmy thinking when I first visited Dubai a couple of years ago. That didn’t change much when we went back there last year.
I just could not figure out where they expected all the people to come from that would fill all [...]
KwikFit and the very expensive brake bits.
Prompted by an odd noise from the front end of my car and short on
time I cruised into the local KwikFit and asked them to check over the
brakes etc. Luckily they were not busy and looked at it there and then.
I went for a stroll while they did. Came back to find that all four
brake [...]
“I’m not upgrading to IE8 because it breaks my website”
I had a brief online discussion with an acquaintance yesterday in which he said he was ignoring Microsoft’s nags to upgrade his browser to Internet Explorer 8.
When I suggested this was wrong, IE8 is probably the best version of Internet Explorer so far, his excuse was as per the headline above.
Apparently he designed his personal [...]
Google is not stealing your content, Mr Murdoch
The big chiefs of the old school news organisations, in particular Rupert Murdoch of NewsCorp and Tom Curley of AP, have been making a lot of noise lately accusing the search engines of stealing their content.
This is of course nonsense and it’s hard to imagine that these apparently intelligent men don’t actually realise that.
At a [...]