That Danny!

On the day after the two emblematic retail groups Woolworths and MFI had gone under in the UK, their websites showed the signs of disaffected (and potentially jobless) web staff - and who can blame them.
At Woolies they couldn’t be asked, so the website simply reported that the site was “undergoing essential maintenance”, which is [...]

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Google Flu trends tracker - the new service launched by Google.org holds both an amazing promise and a somewhat disconcerting threat.
The flu tracker was created by Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, and it uses aggregated search information to estimate flu activity in the US, or as Google.org itself explains: “We’ve discovered that there is [...]

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Website statistics: what’s wrong with the following statements?
1. My website gets 20,000 hits a month!
2. My website gets three million unique visitors a year!
3. Our statistics show that users spend an average of 30 minutes per visit to our website!
When you boast to your friends that your blog gets 10,000 hits, or tell your boss that your company’s [...]

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The web design space is getting crowded, and it’s getting difficult to tell the good guys from the ones who try to sell you a falafel of sales jargon. Or does it?
It never ceases to amaze me when a company, purporting to design websites, lets its own site look like it was cobbled together by [...]

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Your passwords and indiscretions for world+wife to see.
OK - I admit it’s a problem that’s also inherent in Firefox, but Google’s new browser, supposedly built from the ground up, should really NOT do this. It’s absolutely effing bonkers!
What am I on about? Google Chrome allowing users to view ALL their saved passwords for different websites, [...]

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Video Cameras for Cyclists - Using video to film your cycling journey and protect you from drivers.
There seems to be a new fashion in England for cyclists to wear helmet cameras. My other half cycles to work, and I was intrigued by this trend. From my experience as a car driver in London, cyclists aren’t [...]

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Fujifilm FinePix F50fd Digital Camera - an Honest (though gushing) Review

This is a review of the Fujifilm FinePix F50fd 12 million pixel camera which, at the time of writing, was selling on Amazon UK - here for almost half price at £129, and on Amazon USA here for $209.99.
This isn’t one of those technical reviews [...]

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How to repair a corrupted Microsoft Word file that would not open?
“Corrupted Word files” refers to files that you tried to open in Word, and couldn’t for some reason. Sometimes you would get a message that they are corrupted, whereas other times Word would simply say that it can’t open them.
Follow these steps:
1. Check [...]

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