Just in case you were wondering, no I haven’t switched over to fashion and style tips. Which is just as well if you take a close look at my tie collection! No, today I’m talking about the ties that bind…

Earlier this month I re-mashed top ten tips for improving your wireless network. But, one of the simplest, incredibly lo-tech things you can do, is to print out a template, glue some aluminum foil to some card, fold tab A…

Most of the issues surrounding copyright are related to what bloggers and webmasters can and cannot reproduce on their own sites, but, open access aside, what about corporate copyright abuse. In this guest blog post Peter Lewis of the Open…

Want to be able to track finger movements Minority Report style? All you need according to Johnny Lee of Carnegie Mellon University is an infra-red LED array and some reflective tape the kind of items you can pick up easy…

Regular Sciencetext contributor Wayne Smallman of technology news site Blah Blah Tech alerted me to the existence of Ecademy as a much more powerful alternative to LinkedIn. LinkedIn can be very useful, and I posted a collection of tips on…

You’ve obviously been dwelling in a parallel universe if you haven’t heard of Amazon’s electronic book device, known as Kindle. Find out more about the device on the amazon.com site or Google the blogosphere for reviews and critiques. In case…

I’ve been using the Thunderbird email client for a couple of years now, prior to that I was using Pegasus Mail, but sometimes I’d prefer to be able to access my email online without having to worry about a program…

Should Google buy Yahoo! That was the question asked by Stephen Wellman in Information Week in July 2007. It is certainly not a far-fetched idea. With their roots in academic startups the two companies have much in common. A recent analysis…

TechCrunch has an interesting piece on the forthcoming version 3 of the Firefox browser, which is “out” in beta 1 right now. Turns out that Mozilla (makers of Firefox) are yet to solve the memory problems that have plagued the…

Ten tips for improving your wireless network was a popular post on Digg recently, so popular in fact it hit the front page on three different occasions, another reason Digg is so painful. Anyway, it was a Microsoft contribution and the…

Precedence is an important property to understand. If you are sitting in a pub with friends and someone sends an SMS text message to your cellphone, then the conversation you are having with your friends should take precedence over the…

The gas cloud around comet Holmes has expanded making it the biggest single object in the solar system, bigger even than the sun. So reports Space.com.

Fascinating stuff. According to measurements by Rachel Stevenson, Jan Kleyna and Pedro Lacerda of the…

As I’ve mentioned before, I run the excellent Akismet plugin on this site to filter out comment spam. It’s pretty well trained now, so that it’s very rare that a spam gets through to the moderation queue for comments or…

Did you fall for the wonder that is a Windows Live account. It does have several unique advantages over other systems in that acts as a passport for MSN, Office Live, and Microsoft Passport sites, including the likes of Hotmail…

There are almost as many phishing scams as there are phish in the sea…don’t get caught out, if you’re caught hook, line, and sinker, you could lose a lot more than a few scales. Phishing scams involve stealing credit card details,…

Post by Guest blogger Wayne Smallman. Wayne is the man behind the Blah, Blah! Technology blog: a focal point for his passion for technology, and a hallmark of his business mentality, writing style, and adeptness at making complex technology issues…

Spybot S&D (Search & Destroy) is the best weapon you can grab in the battle against spyware, not only does it scan for thousands of spyware and malware items on your computer but it also immunizes your browswer against rogue installers…

It is 10h45 GMT on November 8, 2007 as I type the first draft of this post, but you probably aren’t reading it till much later. It is not that it is going to take me that long to write…

If you are outside the US but would like to get hold of a Windows Live email address with the .com suffix rather than .co.uk, for instance, you will either have to phone a friend in the US to register…

You’ve heard the warnings a dozen times about scammers, spammers, and spanners on eBay, the most famous and infamous of the online auction sites. Now, US researchers have a new phrase, not buyer beware, but caveat mercator, trader beware.

Zhangxi Lin…

Memes emerged from Richard Dawkins’ work on understanding our selfish genes. Memes are analogous to genes but rather than being self-replicating pieces of genetic code, they are self-replicating ideas. Nursery rhymes are memes, the story of Cinderalla, belief in God.…

Ever tried to comment on a blog and received this message?

Your comment was rejected as an anti-spam measure as your IP address has changed since you viewed the post. Note that this can happen if you are accessing the Internet…

One of the nice “extras” on Significant Figures is a plugin that lets you see what other visitors are reading the most. You can get to the top posts list by following the, well, Top Posts link in the menu bar.…

Have you noticed how none of us is getting any older? Last time I checked over my resume page on Sciencebase.com I was still the same, fairly fresh-faced guy I was five years ago when I had my portrait photo…

I’ve got an awful feeling this tip is going to turn out to be one of those “Durr” moments, my almost-teenage son would know all about and think I was a total dolt for not. Anyway, as most bloggers know…

There has been an awful lot of interest in the recent update to Google PageRank and how it might impact on blog traffic, those that sell link ads, and the fact that many sites that seemed to be squeaky clean…

The launch of CBS’s Hulu is getting a lot of coverage across the blogosphere and elsewhere this week. So much hoohah in fact that their site crashed yesterday. Apparently, Hulu will only be available to those in the US. So, those…