Open Office on eBay!
For anyone who has used open office, this will amaze you. Because instead of going directly to open office and downloading the latest version of the software for free, you can quite simply go directly to the great eBay and find that the open office suite is being sold there.
This is not just a one [...]
Nobel Prize for hard drive scientists
It is said that without the work of France’s Albert Fert and Germany’s Peter Gruenberg computing as we know it today would not exist. They discovered “Giant Magnetoresistance” which is basically doing fantastic things at a microscopic level.
Without this technology we would not have seen the wide range of computing devices that use data storage. [...]
A secure flash drive
Flash drives are great and recently the prices a fallen considerably, which means that more people are using them. Now this can be a problem, with so many people using flash drives to store different types of data, the problem of security arises.
If the flash drive is lost then whatever is stored on it, can [...]
Could the PC ruin relationships
People these days are spending more and more on their computers, so is there a point where the computer is taking precedence over your partner?
In a recent survey it was found that 64 per cent of Americans say that they are spending more time on the computer than they do with their partners, which is [...]
Computer pillow stops snoring
A scientist in Germany has developed a fantastic new solution that is supposed to stop snoring; it does this by moving around the persons head position until the snoring stops.
Daryoush Bazargani whose idea this is demonstrated the pillow at a health conference in Germany this week, the computer which is only the same size as [...]
Security breach at Nature Conservancy
A hacker as managed to breach the security measures on the Nature Conservancy’s computers in the US, the hacker managed to find and copy the details of over 14,000 people, which included employees and their families.
Amazingly the organisation had stored on their databases names, addresses, birth dates and social security numbers of all employees that [...]
One in every twenty eight emails infected
It is a sorry state of affairs when you see a figure like this, 1 in 28 emails carries some sort infection, its ok if you only get around 28 emails a week, but if you are receiving hundreds of emails a day then eventually someone is going to slip up and it makes no [...]