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Archive for September 2011
Review: Barefoot into Cyberspace
Barefoot into Cyberspace – Adventures in Search of Techno Utopia by Becky Hogge Can we keep the Internet an open, democratic and free tool for the betterment of mankind? Barefoot into Cyberspace tackles this question. Written by a recent guest of ours on the Full Circle Podcast, Becky Hogge is a journalist and former director … Continue reading
Review: BBC World Service The Secret War On Terror
The Secret War On Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against al-Qaeda over the last decade since 9/11. It’s a typical Bush-ism “the War on Terror.” Leaving aside that you can’t declare war on an emotional state, neatly wrapped and justified in a simple, direct and hawkish … Continue reading
Review: Jane Eyre
If literary adaptations, bonnets, crinolined-skirts and repressed Victorian romance is not your thing, move on. Otherwise, stay on for the most understated, least hystrionic version of the Charlotte Brontë classic yet. Rejected by her aunt, spirited young orphan Jane Eyre (Mia Wasikowska) is shipped off to a stark boarding school until the age of eighteen, … Continue reading
Review: BBC Our World – Crossing Steinbeck’s America
As America grapples with a deepening recession, white-collar workers are now losing their homes in increasing numbers. Paul Mason travels the country down the same road as John Steinbeck’s migrants in The Grapes of Wrath. Visiting homeless shelters along the way, he unexpectedly finds a growing number of middle-class people who have ended up on … Continue reading
Tips from a Screenwriter
TV and movie screen-writer Jeremy Brock (co-creator of BBC’s Casualty, writer of Last King of Scotland, Mrs Brown and Brideshead Revisited) could be heard on BBC World Service Radio this morning (Sat 24th Sept, 2011) to talk about screen adaptations.
Windows 8: the Story so far
If you’ve not yet seen Windows 8 and are wondering what the fuss is about, here’s the story so far as we’ve covered it on ‘Everything Express’. AJS Windows 8 Explorer Ribbon Interface News: Internet Explorer 10 ‘Metro’ Goes Flash-Free Review: Internet Explorer 10 ‘Metro’ Review: Windows 8 Metro Interface How-to: Install Windows 8 Preview … Continue reading
News: Internet Explorer 10 ‘Metro’ Goes Flash-Free
Harking back to the Build 2011 Conference and the Windows 8 preview, we heard the news that IE 10 Metro style browsing comes with the mixed blessing of plug-in-free HTML5 support. That’s right, Metro IE 10 is completely free of plug-ins, this is an HTML5-only environment, that means no Adobe Flash, Shockwave and other ‘legacy’ … Continue reading
Review: Puppy Linux 5.2.5
Puppy Linux was designed as one of those small, light-weight Linux distributions, intended primarily for lower specification hardware whilst still providing a full suite of applications and utilities for a usable desktop environment. Frugal with resources, it was blindingly quick. Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 is not the latest release, dating from April 2, 2011. The download … Continue reading
500th Post on Everything Express
It’s our Quincentennial post on Everything Express. Who would have thought it? You may wish us many happy contrafibularities* and maybe tell us what we’re doing right, what we’re doing wrong and what we should be doing instead. Keep it clean, folks. The Editors. Urban Dictionary: * A form of congratulations as used by Edmund … Continue reading
How-to: Windows 8 with Keyboard and Mouse
Microsoft’s new Metro interface is designed for touch screens, but not exactly intuitive for keyboard and mouse users. We’ve culled the following list of mouse and keyboard short-cuts from the trial of Windows 8 Developer Preview, supplemented with a couple of discoveries among MSDN users. AJS
Review: Internet Explorer 10 ‘Metro’
Internet Explorer 10 on Metro has been called ‘a two-faced work-in-progress’ as we now have Internet Explorer as full screen Metro interface app and the conventional desktop workspace sharing a common rendering engine. The real story is that the user experience between Metro and desktop chrome versions are completely different. Microsoft explains them as skins, … Continue reading
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