Over the past few months, I’ve gained quite an interest in the crypto-currency Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a new currency which has no physical form, but can be considered Internet cash. If you want more information on Bitcoin in general, take a look at the We Use Coins website, which has a great introductory video and [...]

This is a report about what it will be like in ‘the future’, when we will be reading news from our computer. This is ‘newspapers by computer’. It is truly awesome to see how far we have come in terms of the Internet and networking computer communication. It is also slightly amusing to see how [...]

I’m a huge fan of reddit, the social bookmarking/community website found here. One of the features you have as a registered user is to save threads. I feel like a completely moron but I’d never been able to find out where these saved threads were listed until today, when I looked it up. Apparently I [...]

About this time last year, Wikipedia requested donations and given how much I use the site, I donated and gave the cause a little bit of promotion. It makes sense. Coming back to this year, an appeal from the Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has recently gone out. I’ve quoted a part of it below. I [...]

I’m not a Windows user primarily. The vast majority of time my computers and laptop boot into Linux, specifically Ubuntu, as of recent. However, I do have several of my machines set-up with both Ubuntu and Windows 7. One of my major gripes with Windows, which has always been there, is that after a clean [...]

Update: Although geolocation is commonly referenced when discussing HTML 5, it is a API which is maintained in a separate specification and is not actually a new feature of HTML 5. Identifying the physical location of a computer via HTML 5′s geolocation is now incredibly easy and only requires a few lines of JavaScript. Due to the simplicity [...]

Although some of the most talked about tags coming in HTML 5 are the video, audio and canvas tags, there are many other new tags which primarily focus around content. One of the aims of HTML 5 is to remove styling from the HTML mark-up and ensure all styling is defined within the cascading style sheets where [...]

If you are trying to retrieve the ‘value’ of a file input box via Javascript, and you are receiving C:fakepath within the returned value, it is time to blame Internet Explorer 8. The inclusion of C:\fakepath\ is a security feature of Internet Explorer 8, designed to prevent information regarding the file system structure being exposed [...]

Google is huge. Really huge. Let’s see what that does to the graph. Graph sourced from Arbor Networks blog entry. The main reason for Google’s huge increase in general Internet traffic was its acquisition of YouTube in 2007. YouTube delivers huge quantities of streaming video traffic, and the impressive growth of YouTube alone is enough [...]

Both Google and the BBC have recently released new beta web designs for their homepages. The BBC beta homepage is available for all to look at via http://beta.bbc.co.uk/ while the Google homepage has been released to a select number of Google users, as Google tend to stagger the release of their new designs and features. You [...]