iPhone app tracks swine flu, other disease outbreaks
A free iPhone app called Outbreaks Near Me is designed to help users track and report oubreaks of swine flu and other infectious diseases.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
I read The Road with a element of apprehension after a couple of people had told me it was depressing. Before I read it I checked put what Amazon had …
Screenium Review
My Mac set up has been pretty stable for a while now. By that I mean that I haven’t had the need or desire to add any new applications for …
3 Cats and a Feather Duster
Spending half an hour in the morning with the 3 cats and Sands up on the roof is one of my best daily pleasures. We recently got them (the cats …
Google blames Gfail on ‘availability’ upgrade
Calling Tuesday’s one-hour-and-forty-minute Gmail outage a “Big Deal,” Google has pinned the breakdown on some recent changes to the request routers that direct queries to the service’s web servers.
Buggy home routers expose O2 customers to hijacking
If you get your internet service from O2, there’s a good chance Paul Mutton can remotely log in to your router and make configuration changes that surreptitiously allow him to …
Twitter more popular than MySpace in Britain
Twitter, which has proved a hit with Barack Obama, Stephen Fry and Sarah Brown, picked up one in every 400 UK internet visits last week, according to data from Hitwise, …
Sony to install Google Chrome browser on PCs
It is thought that Chrome will be installed on select Sony laptops in the coming months, putting Google in direct competition with Microsoft, whose Internet Explorer web browser comes as …