February 2009Monthly Archives

Have you heard of Bletchley Park? It’s just north of London, where more than ten thousand men and women worked during WW2 to decode messages sent between the German forces, most notably by Hitler, and the German high command. The cracking of the codes, the use of the intelligence gained and the subsequent related actions of the Allies is said to have shortened WW2 by two years possibly saving an estimated 22 million lives.

What is IEs4Linux?

IEs4Linux is the simpler way to have Microsoft Internet Explorer running on Linux (or any OS running Wine).

No clicks needed. No boring setup processes. No Wine complications. Just one easy script and you'll get three IE versions to test your Sites. And it's free and open source.

Astrobiologists have often pondered "life as we do not know it" in the context of extraterrestrial life, says Paul Davies, an internationally acclaimed theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University. "But," he asks, "has there been a blind spot to the possibility of 'alien' life on Earth?"

AUSTRALIA will honour victims of the Victoria fires on Sunday February 22, on what has been declared a national day of mourning.

THE Federal Government's internet filtering plan has been compared to censorship in China by one of the participants in its blacklist trials.

Primus Telecom is the largest internet service provider of six announced to take part in the trial by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy

It's 25 years since Spinal Tap found fame in a classic rockumentary. Bassist Derek Smalls recalls the film – and hints at what's next .

Speaking out about the latest attempt to criminalize speech in Britain, Rowan Atkinson said…

Katie Kirkpatrick, 21, held off cancer to celebrate the happiest day of her life. Katie had chased cancer, once only to have it return-to clog her lungs and grab hold of her heart.

I fell in love with the time-traveling double-hearted weirdo from space long ago. Luckily, he feels the same way about me.

Generally the monkeys at ThinkGeek are here to make your life more fun. This time, we're here to make your life simpler. You already have the lightsaber. Here's the second of the two elements that will make your Star Wars costume a hit: your own Jedi robe. Officially licensed, no less. Buy the robe, and you can spend the time you would have spent making it scrounging up the other bits of your costume like the obi or the tabards. And the boots. Don't forget the boots. Ain't nothing worse than seeing a spectacular Jedi costume finished off with a pair of sneakers.

I am sure you all got Google Sync working with your calendar and contacts on iPhone or Windows Mobile devices. Now your life is in sync with Google –
One thing which is still not here is the TODO activities.
Not sure about you, but I keep adding all the activities I need to do using a tool from Toodledo – Ultimate Todos. The application is FREE for a limited time. Generally it costs $4.99 and is available through iTunes Stores.

Valentine's Day is almost here, and for those of you wanting to make it nice for that special someone in your life, we've created these wonderful cards to give them. After all, chances are you're going to spend a fortune this "holiday" on flowers and candies and plush toys and dinners and hotels and god knows what else. Might as well save a few bucks and use one of our free cards… they're every bit as good as a Hallmark.

Our most consistent criticism of 3 has been its high roaming costs outside capital cities, which will probably disappear eventually. On the other hand, 3's super-cheap mobile broadband deals will probably also get subsumed into slightly more costly plans. Given Vodafone's dominance in the new joint venture, if you were in the market for a new phone or 3G plan, Vodafone might seem a better choice. But the ultimate guiding principle should be the suitability of the deal as it stands, not how it might change in the future.

If you're planning to upgrade your current PC to Windows 7 when Microsoft releases their new OS, there's good and bad news for XP and Vista users. Here's a closer look at your upgrade options.

Synchronize the built-in calendar and contacts on your iPhone with your Google account.

The earliest known sex education film was 90 years ago and now the British Film Institute has compiled nearly a century's worth.

In this extract from The Mystery of Marriage (1932), comparisons are drawn between the courtship and mating rituals of animals and plants and that of humans.

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is warning IT organisations that they risk provoking an end user backlash if they don’t move off the XP operating system.
Umm, sure. VISTA??? as an alternative?? dont think so.

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