Do you have a website? A blog? You do? Wonderful! Is it online 24/7, 365.25 days of the year? You don’t know? Hmmmm. You could be losing visitors and repeat subscribers if you are losing uptime without realizing it. Which…

Want to know how to use Proxify.com to gain access to banned websites. This simple video (too simple for some, I’d say) shows you how.

Proxify.com is paid for by ads, but you can sign up to get an ad-free version…

Last month, I spelled out the top ten tips to improve your wireless network. Maybe you just gave yourself a Xmas upgrade, so this video clip shows the same tips but in a more graphical format.

Groovy music, man, it’s got…

My good friend Chris Pirillo did a funny video explaining the benefits of OpenDNS to his Dad, he did the simple net connection tweak as a kind of Christmas gift for him and tries to explain how it didn’t involve…

Even with CallerID there are often times when you don’t recognize a phone number. And, at this time of year, the phone never seems to stop ringing. Searching on Google for a number often brings up a web page that…

Significant Figures was formed from a flippant blog, originally run on Blogger and now on its own custom blog domain. It started out as an outlet for my ranting and raving about poor reporting on scientific matters in the media…

At this time of year, with Nativity plays and office parties abounding a last minute festive greeting sent by email to your boss could go seriously wrong if you address it to the Senor Pubic Manger, as opposed to your…

Now, I’m not accusing anyone of any lewd behavior here, but there may be good reasons why you wouldn’t want your significant other checking out your browser history, surely, online Christmas gift shopping, perhaps, for lingerie…you get my drift? Well…

Trojans that steal your bank details and botnets that zombify computers have taken the place of fast-spreading worms in the popular headlines. It’s been a while since we had a global infestation on the scale of MyDoom, Sobig, or ILOVEYOU.…

An interesting discussion about a new-ish class of spam comments - conversational spam - is underway on the site of Sig Figs regular tech writer Wayne Smallman. He suggests that the kind of manual spam that attempts to engage a…

You may have reached this page looking for “David Bradley”. Well, here I am, freelance science journalist, sometime photographer, and wannabe rock god, David Bradley. Who did you expect?

Don’t tell me! You were hoping to find out all about David…

Do you rely on the master password in Firefox to protect all your login information? That could be a very costly mistake if your computer is ever stolen. Anyone with a password cracker of which there are several on the…

If you’re a Facebook user who likes to do your Christmas shopping online, you could discover on the big day that your friends and relatives already know what surprise gift you bought them, thanks to Facebook Beacon, which captures details…

There are various methods for quickly uploading your photos to your flickr account. Flickr Uploadr with resizing is one of the simplest, check out this video on how to use it. However, version 3 is just out in beta, so…

Vista who? Microsoft is gearing up for the release of the next version of Windows XP - Service Pack 3, aka XP SP3. Why? You may well ask! Well, there are millions of XP users who will benefit from the…

You’ve been checking out an interesting web page, such as this one, for instance, and want to be able to chat about it with other visitors to the same site. According to computer scientists at the Center for Advanced Studies…

Despite anecdotal claims to the contrary Apple Mac computers are not invulnerable. As Sig Figs’ guest blogger Jenny Oliver has reported previously there are many security issues for Mac users. She sent me an update recently in which she seems to…

Send us your spam! How could you resist? But, what kind of invite is this? Surely, you ask, Sig Figs doesn’t need any more spam comments than it already gets? And, you’d be right. Akismet is working so hard for this…

The first day of the month is a good day to check your monthly web site statistics! Why, you ask? Surely, there’s nothing valuable to be had from the scant results that will appear there unless you have an incredibly…