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I read an article in the Guardian’s technology section about a game for the iPhone called Drop7. Now I don’t own an iPhone (nor do I want to) but the reporter said it is one of the most addictive games he has played since Tetris. I managed to find the original version that the [...]

Away from home or just don’t fancy installing a fullyfledged image editor? Then have a look at Pixlr. Pixlr is an online image editor written in Flash that has all the features most people need such as red eye removal, cropping, rotation etc. It also has filters for doing such things as turning images into [...]

Just thought I’d give a shout out to my mate Dan. I’ve known Dan for far to many years (always seems longer). Dan’s a mixed martial artist and plays in a band called Rancour that you can see performing in and around the Manchester area. Anyway just thought I’d mention him in my blog and [...]

You a child of the 80s? Yeah I know makes you feel old

Anyway go check out Once Upon A Win and remember the good times!

I got there by a post on I Can Haz Cheez Burger which contained a link to a video of the opening credits to “The Greatest American Hero” which [...]

I just read this news story.

Microsoft is trying to improve the image of Vista (I personally have no problems with it) and they decided to get a load of XP users together who had all said they didn’t like Vista. They filmed them giving their opinions on Vista and then let them try a new [...]

Apparently there is a virus email going around which claims to be from UPS. It contains a zip file which contains an executable (.exe) claiming to be an invoice. I’m sorry but I feel you have to be a bit stupid to open any attachment from someone you don’t know let alone run a file [...]

Apparently in 2003 Bill Gates sent an internal email complaining that the userability of Windows was actually going backwards. He comments that it took to many steps to install Windows Movie Maker. You can read the email at http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp.

Just to say that Mozilla released Firefox 3 today so go download your copy from mozilla.com.

I have just read the news that two spammers who had been abusing MySpace to send out spam messages for various things from selling ringtones to porn sites failed to turn up in court and were fined $234,000,000 (about £119.5 million) in their absence! Read full story.

If anyone actually visited this site this morning you would of seen a notice saying my account had been suspended. This was because I made a script to demonstrate how realistic fake login pages can look and how easy they are to make. You can see the page in question here (page design changed. See [...]