Review

Pingdom have released some facts and figures relating to internet usage during 2008.
Some of them jump out, others one just wants to say meh at!

Email

210 billion – The number of emails sent per day in 2008.

53.8 trillion – The number of spam emails sent in 2008 (assuming 70% are spam).

Websites

186,727,854 – The number of websites [...]

In my last post I talked about not controlling what my children click on.
Well this is only partially true. I don’t monitor or log their keystrokes or any other form of intrusive monitoring but I do use a URL filter. In keeping with wanting to use the best and, if possible, for free (personally I [...]

[tags]crayon physics, games, fun[/tags]
I came across Kloonigames the other day and whilst I’m not a big games person I am a bit of a sucker for certain types. One of them is puzzles that involve placing random elements around a stage in order to get an item (typically a ball) from one position to another [...]

[tags]backup, photo scanning, slide scanning, photos to cd, picture scanning, qoop, scandigital[/tags]
To go along with my other posts on keeping your digital pictures safe and backing up your books / documents, here’s another post on backing up - but with a twist.
This time it’s a service that offers to scan in and digitise your precious [...]

I never went through this myself as I had grand plans to join the RAF at 16 as an apprentice electronics technician. I was amply qualified, I sailed through their tests but (as I later found out from a neighbour) I was only offered a job as a truck driver so that they could fulfil [...]

[tags]wi-fi, broadband, free, hotspot[/tags]
Do you have spare capacity on your broadband connection or just feeling benevolent?
Then grab yourself pretty much any old PC, stuff two network cards in, make sure it has a bootable CD drive, minimum 128Mb of RAM and then download yourself a copy of Zone CD. Oh and depending on your confidence [...]

Courtesy of Mashable and StumbleUpon (having a vested interest), I have come across “Firefox Campus Edition,” which appears to have just been launched by the Mozilla team. As in just last week!
Go grab a download here.
The difference? It would appear to have StumbleUpon pre-installed to help while away those college hours. Second, it has [...]

This is one of those things that nobody wants to do, but if you don’t it will surely turn round and just like an untrained puppy, bite you when you least expect it.
The main pain, at least I think so, in performing backups is the question of what to back up and what to leave [...]