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• • Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam, Love the Spam
  • by SeasideMan
    

  • in seasideman.blog.co.uk

  • 2 days old
  • Monty Python’s Flying Circus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8huXkSaL7o&feature=related Two American blokes have just been fined millions of dollars for sending out over 700,000 spam emails. Hooray! I don’t know about you, but I get lots of “snail mail” Spam too. I snapped the chap above promenading very slowly... more
  • Tags: + email , + monty , + monty python , + photography , + python , + spam
• • Advertising of the online sort!
  • by benobrien
    

  • in benobrien.blog.co.uk

  • 12 days old
  • I've stumbled upon a new classified ads website the other day when looking through the old net, and have to say I was quite impressed! The site in question is adflyer.co.uk a UK based online classifieds site where you can buy and sell for free. What I did like about adflyer was how easy it is to use, you can place a free ad plus add a pic... more
  • Tags: + advertising , + auction , + business , + buy , + car , + cheap , + for sale , + free ads , + free classifieds , + homes , + houses , + local , + property , + second hand , + sell
• • QWERTY TUMMY
  • by kendrive
    

  • in grumpy.blog.co.uk

  • 15 days old
  • YOUR COMPUTER KEYBOARD COULD BE FIVE TIMES DIRTIER THAN YOUR TOILET SEAT Disgusting: In tests, some keyboards were found to have five times as much bacteria as a toilet Computer keyboards can harbour more harmful bacteria than a lavatory seat, it has been claimed. Many users are at risk of becoming ill with stomach bugs, according to the... more
  • Tags: + germs , + keyboards , + life , + tech
• • Sorted
  • by 359Rabbit
    

  • in Rabbitthought.blog.co.uk

  • 17 days old
  • I have sorted the problem out, this time it was me that was at fault, somehow my LAN settings become messed up, so I wasn’t able to view some web pages correctly, but being a good engineer, I managed to solve the problem. Rabbit more
  • Tags: + life , + problem solving , + the web
• • DO YOU SPEAK NERDIC?
  • by kendrive
    

  • in grumpy.blog.co.uk

  • 26 days old
  • 'NERDIC' IS FASTEST-GROWING LANGUAGE It is claimed that more than 100 new words were added to the 'Nerdic' vocabulary in the past 12 months — more than three times the number the Oxford English Dictionary added to the English language. Researchers reckon it might be the next Esperanto. Remember Esperanto? The language designed to be a second... more
  • Tags: + geekspeak , + life , + nerdic , + tech
• • Navigating the easy way
  • by guitarman2uk
    

  • in technology-today.blog.co.uk

  • 30 days old
  • If there's one gadget that gets everyone talking these days it has to be the humble sat-nav.It's hard to think that some time ago we all used to get from a-b, or in my case a-x, with a piece of paper - otherwise know as a map or an A-Z.I suppose some of you still do and swear by it, but once you've discovered the delights of satellite technology... more
  • Tags: + gps , + journey , + nagivate , + satellite , + satellite navigation , + tech travel
• • Study finds Open Source benefits business
  • by interpreters
    

  • in technical.blog.co.uk

  • 40 days old
  • Open source software makes economic sense. Floss for economic health. That's the conclusion of a newly released European Commission study on the impact of Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (Floss) on the European IT sector. The EC study, conducted by UNU-Merit, a research institute of the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, finds... more
  • Tags: + broadband , + computer repairs , + connection , + faster , + internet , + internet connection , + repairs , + security , + speed , + tips , + wireless
• • Open source technology
  • by interpreters
    

  • in technical.blog.co.uk

  • 40 days old
  • Senator Kate Lundy hosted a pre-2020 Summit event in Canberra last week to generate ideas on how open source technology, open standards and open access to information might transform the way government departments and the business world operate. Senator Lundy, a former Shadow Minister for IT, said she'd elected to focus on open source as the... more
  • Tags: + broadband , + computer repairs , + faster , + internet , + internet connection , + repairs , + speed , + tips
• • Firms fail to secure wireless networks
  • by interpreters
    

  • in technical.blog.co.uk

  • 40 days old
  • Wireless security vendor AirDefense has released new research which suggests that even the most cautious organisations are leaving their networks unprotected. Tests across 1,000 companies in the San Francisco area – conducted ahead of this week's RSA Security Conference in the city – exposed widespread failures in wireless protection, even at... more
  • Tags: + broadband , + internet , + internet connection , + repairs , + speed
• • Backup your data!
  • by SeasideMan
    

  • in seasideman.blog.co.uk

  • 52 days old
  • (the picture gets bigger if you click on it) I have taken 16,000 pictures since we moved here in December, which is about 150 per day. Each one is over 2Mb in size. I’ve had an ongoing policy of trying to sort them into folders of like-minded pictures and keep the wheat and discard the chaff as I was doing so, but all the same I had ended... more
  • Tags: + photography , + seaside