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I have been using Windows Vista for a few years now but today I had a strange pop-up telling me that “Reliability analysis metrics calculation executable has stopped working” and …

Local portals set to grow online due to failure of traditional local press. The continuing economic downturn has caused many local newspapers to consider merger opportunities with their rivals, to …

The WordPress community took a big step forward today when Matt announced that Automattic has donated the WordPress trademark to the non-profit WordPress Foundation. Moving forward, the Foundation will be …

Some time ago I used IHelpYou forums to learn about SEO. Not been online for ages. Today is my birthday, and I received several nice (obviously automated) reminders from some …

Just in from Google, another Japanese Earthquake / Tsunami blog. This one is an album of before and after photos of towns and villages hit by the tsunami. “In response to …

Many people dislike being categorized based on their love of technical things, computers, games, design or just general love of knowledge. Others, generally dorks, love to categorize everything. To make …

Tweet Bing is taking its battle with the mighty Google seriously. When Bing was first launched people thought that it was simply a rebranding of the old Microsfot Search Engine. …

Here is a photo of a North American Radiator Fish: north american radiator fish

The mighty Google Plus on Wednesday 22nd October, 2014. Gmail and Google Plus are both returning errors. After trying to log in today both failed to load pages. Users might have …

This is an impressive piece of engineering and video. The Ark Hotel was constructed in 2 days, and then finished within a week. Made mostly from prefab parts, and working …

Wikipedia switched off on 18th January 2012 Today James Wells took the decision to take the English language section of Wikipedia offline to mark his protest against the SOPA and PIPA. The …

Making yourself known online nowadays can be quite the mammoth task, particularly with the amount of competition there is out there. It is said that 571 websites are launched every …

AI: The Future of Property Management? New digital platform AskPorter uses artificial intelligence to deliver a range of traditional property management services. The future of property management services could lie …

Dubbed the “most anticipated video game in history” Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has taken the gaming world by storm and has been met with much excitement. Part of …

Yes, Says the Latest Pornhub Report! You may not think that what kind of phone you own is a clue to what you like in bed – but it is! …

Mark Zuckerberg has announced a new service called Safety Check on Facebook. The purpose of Safety Check is to allow users to simply press a button to confirm that they are safe. …

Tweet Latest stats from a non-tech website show that Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome are slowly converging to a point of equal share of global Internet usage. This is the …

OK, last night I installed Apache and PHP. I was going to install MySQL this evening, but I decided that instead I would start with the next project I have, …

If you are trying to think of a brandable domain name for your online enterprise then you can now take inspiration from the mastery works of William Shakespeare. However, this …

What Happened To Grooveshark? Grooveshark, my favourite desktop PC music sharing service (I did not like the mobile version so much) has closed down. I just typed in the URL …

Radio Caroline was the first and most famous of the UK’s pirate radio stations. It started transmissions in 1964, on Easter Sunday, from a ship anchored in international waters off …

I used to read Dilbert everyday in my youth, before I went to University. My mum used to send the newspaper clippings to me at Uni each week. The other …

Earlier this year Google rolled out one of its last major updates that are designed to combat web-spam. We had Panda, fighting the low quality content, then Penguin, tackling link …