Tag: tech Digest
Sponsored Post: Sony VAIO TZ11 notebook
Communication’s what you need if you want to be a record breaker in the business world.
Sponsored post: Sony VAIO TZ11 notebook
Privacy is important, as Pete Doherty told us last week while we followed him down the street taking photos of him and barking questions about Kate Moss.
Opinion: Facebook numpties deserve to be defrauded!
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
Two days into the week and TWO Facebook security threats appear. The first in The Guardian on Monday warned secret code from FB’s inner-workings had been published on the internet prompting warnings of a security risk for users. Boring! Code, schmode, it’s far too technical.
But then this piece of wonder appeared today in The Times and it’s far more worrying, not least because everyone I know does it – and also because it involves a frog!
Freddi Staur is a cute green frog who has stolen email addresses and mobile phone numbers from users on the social network website – in an experiment to show how easily people give out their personal information to strangers…
Opinion: Stamp out striking posties with email
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
For those outside the UK, the reason for this rant won’t mean much but the wider implications affect us all wherever we live. We’re currently in the grip of a nationwide wildcat postal strike in Britain and it’s started to get me more steamed up than that kettle you use to open your partner’s letters.
And it got me thinking, what’s the point of post anyway now we have email. I’ve had a pile of stamps sitting on my desk for months.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for workers rights, fair pay for a fair day and all that, and I love my new postie, he’s very friendly and helpful. But the sooner everyone switches over to electronic delivery and snail mail dies off, the better life will be…
Sponsored Post: Sony VAIO TZ11 notebook
If a picture tells a thousand words, then live video must be worth… ooh, several books. Or something.
Sponsored Post: Sony VAIO TZ12 notebook
The important thing when buying a laptop is that it needs to be future-proof. Technology moves fast, but a well-chosen notebook should be able to keep up with it.
The dead frog webserver
Don’t worry, this is just an awful piece of “art” not the next big thing from Steve jobs. It is a very small webserver, only, for some weird reason probably to do with his childhood not being very happy, the maker has installed it in the body of a dead from.
Artist Garnet Hertz is the one to report to the RSPCA over all this, as it’s his idea…
YouTube Video of the Day – Prisoners dance to Radio Ga Ga
What can I say about this video? Basically, the inmates of CPDRC Philippines (a prison) created a dance routine to the tune of Radio Ga Ga by the Queen. Bizarre. Still, it’s better than murdering people eh?
Warm up those RSI-ridden hands with a pair of USB heating gloves
It’s bizarrely chilly in these parts of the world, due to those insane floods we’ve been having, so a nice pair of USB gloves is nothing to be laughed at. Even if they do adopt the colour and pattern that your grandfather’s socks are made from.
Starting at just £7.95, these USB gloves will warm you up in no time, and are compatible with anything containing a USB port. Just don’t forget to take them off when you get up to go to the loo, as your whole computer…
Top five boats to escape the UK floods (because our car's now full of salmon)
Yes, yes, we all know how the entirety of England is eight foot under water – infact, I’m typing this on my laptop in my garden, where the water is just under my armpits. Might explain why I keep on getting zapped and my hair’s all frizzy. Oh…
Floods equals water. A ton of water, at that. And a bunch of water equals…BOATS! Yes, boats big and small, yachts, dinghys, catamarans, heck even junks if your heart so desires. So what’s the best boat to zip around in in your local ‘hood, where you can deliver fresh water to that cute girl a couple of doors away? Read on below for our top five…
