Archive for October, 2009

Turn your Windows 7 machine into a WiFi router

Here’s a great concept I came across: Connectify lets you turn your computer into a WiFi router, letting you share your internet connection with friends and family. There are a number of things you can do with this, ranging from sharing your wired connection with other devices around, all the...

Firework season is upon us

Image via Wikipedia It’s that time of year again, when fireworks light up the sky and kids sit around street corners collecting money for fireworks. I’m not actively taking part in Kempton Fireworks this year, but I’ve helped them put their website up and tickets are now available for sale....

Firefox turns off WPF plugin

I was greeting with an interesting dialog box when I got back to my computer just now: I did some digging and it turns out that WPF did have a vulnerability, but it was patched a couple of days ago. Firefox, however, has no way of knowing if you’re running...

Isle of Man Event: Focus on your soft skills

The Isle of Man Section of the BCS is organising an event on the 19th of October called: Focus on your Soft Skills. Here’s a quick snippet about the shape of the event: The first session will start at 5.30pm and is entitled Understanding and applying your relationship tendencies.  There...

Google Wave plugin for Firefox

Here’s an interesting plugin for Firefox if you have Google Wave. To date, I’ve been keeping my browser open on Wave in the hope that someone will send me a message, but that’s quite wasteful on resources. Yes, bandwidth is cheap, it’s not like I’m using commercial satellite or anything...

National Identity Fraud Prevention Week

I’ve just found out that it’s National Identity Fraud Prevention Week in the UK at the moment. What is ID fraud? Well, it’s when someone impersonates you or your company and commits criminal deeds which you may eventually be blamed for. The most common crime committed is fraud, using your...

Introducing Alexander and Aristea

You might have noticed a bit of a gap in my blogging over the last couple of weeks, though there has been some action on my personal blog, but for those not in the loop, we’ve been blessed with a gorgeous set of twins; a boy and a girl who...

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