Everyone has seen this video by now haven’t they? Well, I hadn’t until very recently and because it’s got a science type theme I just had to share it. Thixotropic materials make walking on “water” quite possible, but don’t stand…

Are you running a blog? If you’re using Wordpress or any other blog for that matter, you ought to have a couple of plugins running that go by the names of Akismet and Bad Behavior. Akismet works in a similar way…

If you’re running plugins on your site that are called using PHP, then it’s always a good idea to embed the include in an “if-else” statement.

This condition will first check that the plugin is up and running and if it…

Download Windows Vista Transformation Pack and make your Windows XP machine look like and even behave a little like Micro$oft’s latest OS (operating system) offering - Windows Vista.

From the Windows X blurb: Vista Transformation Pack will give your Windows XP system…

Fed up with malware and crashes caused by Internet Explorer, but really luuuurv the look and file of Micro$oft’s Johnny-come-lately browser? Well, you might care to switch to the much more stable and secure alternative, Mozilla’s Firefox. But, how does…

My kids PC, which is a bit of a hybrid machine that I put together a couple of years ago from cannibalized parts was getting stuck at the boot stage. The boot-up screen claimed it recognized the primary master (boot)…

An interesting article on thespypc.com recently listed the ten worst offenders when it comes to software that slows Micro$oft Windows to a crawl.

Among the culprits were Adobe Acrobat Reader, M$ Internet Explorer, Norton Antivirus, Micro$oft Office 2003, and several other commonly…

Still not taken the plunge to upgrade your Wordpress blog to the all-new version 2.1? Maybe you’ve got a stack of plugins, and a handsomely tweaked theme, and really don’t want to run the risk of it all going to…

My son is in the Boy Scouts and of course knows his reefs from his grannies, his monkey’s first from his Turk’s head and can do a bowline with the best of them. One thing they haven’t done yet, is…

runPHP allows you to write a post with embedded PHP code within, this is rather useful for displaying an external feed say, or creating a special post for displaying your links directory, among other things.

However, if you uninstall such a…

You didn’t think I’d forget, did you?

Not so many sites use animated gifs as part of their content any more. But, millions of sites run ads that are animated gifs. So, it makes sense that the Zone Alarm security suite and similar applications should have an ad block…

This has to be one of the silliest press release titles in recent weeks:

“Imperial College London and Royal Dutch Shell join forces to produce cleaner fossil fuels”

What are they planning to do, get down on their hands and knees scrub…

You may have spotted a new icon at the foot of each post on ScienceText.com of late, with the words “Share This” next to it. If you haven’t clicked it, give it a try, you may be pleasantly surprised at…

A quaint little story in the Charlotte Observer [page no longer online] relates how an eight year old, Parker Garrison, spotted a simple arithmetic error in a Discovery Place exhibit that had gone unnoticed by four years of visitors, young…

If you don’t know who John Chow is by now, then you’re obviously not reading a decent number of blogs. John Chow is a blogger, and a self-proclaimed dot com mogul, whatever that means. He’s also wont to “Miscellaneous Ramblings”,…

The technology you’ve been waiting for, Minority Report style computer control. According to a recent report on electronic gadgets and devices in the Guardian, there are no transparent touchscreens around yet. Well, I beg to differ. Cambridge company Visual Planet has…

As you will have by now realised, I just imported my old Significant Figures Blogspot blog into a Wordpress install on this domain. I used the new functionality of the latest Blogger system to point the old account at this…

There’s nothing like getting your friends to earn their beer when they pay a visit, is there? This guy had a deadline to meet but hadn’t paid his utility bills. Solution: rig up a few bikes with dynamos in the…

Freelance writer Deborag Ng came up with a great idea for her personal blog - Pay it Forward Tuesday! She posts a huge stack of freelance opportunities for fellow writers on her website on a regular basis, and also adds a…

Have you ever lost a window? Frame gone astray? You can see the logo and program name in the Windows taskbar, but clicking it seems to do nothing. It’s still running in Task Manager, but the program’s Window has gone…

Ever wanted to be in an elite club, but not necessarily one that would have me as a member? Well, too late, I was added to the hallowed ranks of Tino Buntic’s 2000 Bloggers, which means me and 1999 other…

As readers will hopefully have realised by now, Significant Figures was formerly a Blogspot blog and is now part of the new ScienceText.com site. We’ve had a few teething troubles with redirects and missing themes, and broken links and the…

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climatic changes seen around the world are “very likely” to have a human cause. By “climatic changes” one must assume they’re referring to the ones we discussed and that many have…

Research into the Indonesian mud volcano that has displaced at least 11000 people from their homes has demonstrated that the cause of the eruption was a borehole drilled by a natural gas exploration company.

The terradaily report on this is littered with…