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Archive for February 2012
Review: Safari 5.1.2 Web-browser
“With a simple, elegant interface, the Safari browser gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the Web. Features include: fast performance; an elegant user interface, easy bookmarks, pop-up Blocking, in-line find, tabbed browsing, SnapBack, automatic form filling, built-in RSS, re-sizable text fields, private browsing, and security.“ The browser wars are back. Firefox 9 … Continue reading
How-to: Manage Multiple Authors Online Pt One – Identity
“Your mission, should you choose to accept it…” When we started, there were four of us, bumping along with a germ of an idea that we would write about whatever interested us. So we did. Then two got busy and pretty much dropped away. Then we were joined by a third who posts infrequently in … Continue reading
How-to: Troubleshoot Slow Internet Connections Part 2
In Part One, we ran through the hardware diagnostics for the home Internet connection that was running badly; speeds up and down, intermittent drop-out, low signal wireless signal strength. Before calling the service provider, there’s still some research to do to add weight to that irksome technical support call. A poor connection could be down … Continue reading
Movie Catch-up: Brighton Rock
This is a reversal; Catling gets the chick-lit adaptation, I get the 60′s gangster flick… Rowan Joffé updates the 40′s classic Brighton Rock to 60′s angst and proto-feminism, complete with rioting mods and rockers, youth counter-culture with scooters set against old-school gangsters and a decaying Brighton so filthy you want to slash your own throat…
How-to: Troubleshoot Slow Internet Connections Part 1
I had to run a colleague through some diagnostics recently. The home Internet connection was running so badly; speeds up and down, intermittent drop-out, low signal wireless signal strength. While your first inclination may be to ring your service provider, you have to have done your research and have your fact straight before you waste … Continue reading
Full Circle Magazine no 58 Out Now
Full circle Magazine no 58 is available now from the main site This month: Command and Conquer. How-To : Beginning Python – Part 30, LibreOffice – Part 12, Backup Strategy – Part 6, Screencast Your Desktop, and The Paperless Office. Linux Lab – Useful Investigative Tools. Review – Linux Mint 12 I Think – Which … Continue reading
How-to: Add RSS Feeds to Facebook using RSS Grafitti
The WordPress plugin for Facebook isn’t working for us; we don’t know why, we can reset every day but it stops feeding soon after. So rather than push from WordPress to our Facebook page, we’ve opted to pull posts via the existing WordPress RSS feed using a successful Facebook app called RSS Graffiti. There are … Continue reading
Opinion: More Flash Not Less?
I got into a debate with a colleague recently in which he took me to task for my premature burial of Adobe’s Flash technology, used for media-rich web-sites all over the Internet. I cited every news story of last November, such as Adobe kills mobile Flash, giving Steve Jobs the last laugh (remember, Apple devices … Continue reading
Review: Lana Del Rey – Born to Die
We have a new queen of re-invention: Lizzy Grant, the small-town girl from Lake Placid moves to New York, flops, changes her name to Lana Del Rey and is now the bright star. It’s like a 1950′s pulp novel and probably about as true. What is real is the backlash from fans hearing this ambitious, … Continue reading
How-to: Search the Web More Effectively
The Internet is filling up. I don’t mean that it’s running out of space, there’s an infinite number of data bits we can create and store on it. I mean its getting crowded. This is good; as a fount of much human knowledge, more power to it. What’s not so easy any more is finding … Continue reading
Movie-Catch-Up: The Eagle
Loosely based on an historical incident in which Rome’s Ninth Legion disappeared over the Scottish border and was never heard of again. An engaging mashup of Gladiator, Braveheart and Last of the Mohicans, its an old-shool adventure with a touch of British grit. Centurion Marcus Aquila (Channing Tatum), son of the missing Legion’s commander, arrives … Continue reading
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