digital internet

How Secure is Your AdWords Account?

I have just read a thread over at WebProWorld that you really should know about if you are using AdWords to market your business. The original post is headined ‘180.000 daily limit!‘ and is by someone called dracula. dracula describes how he woke up one morning and checked his AdWords account to find that the account [...]

BBC iPlayer Coming To A Wii Near You

It has been announced that the Nintendo’s hugely popular Wii games console will soon be accommodating the BBC iPlayer, which has itself proved incredibly popular having recently surpassed the 42 million downloads and streams in the past three months. When the service is live Wii users will receive a message on their console advising them that [...]

The World’s 50 Most Powerful Blogs?

A few weeks ago the Observer Magazine ran an interesting article detailing the world’s 50 most important blogs and the people behind them. The magazine has been sitting on my desk since then. The cover star is Nick Denton of Gawker Media fame. Nick was listed in last years Sunday Times Rich List at number [...]

Upgrading Wordpress to the Latest Version

First things first. Back everything up! Download your website from the server and back up your database. Wordpress very kindly offer comprehensive instructions on how to back up your database. If you follow the instructions to the letter you shouldn’t go wrong. If this is the first time you have ever backed up a database I [...]

Upgrade to Wordpress 2.5

Wordpress 2.5 has recently been released and it is now time to upgrade. Upgrading can be such a chore, but having used the latest version of Wordpress (2.5) on another site, I know it will be worthwhile as the user interface is much, much better. I have been using 2.5 for about a week on the [...]

Mind-Controlled Gaming Headset Unveiled

A NEUROHEADSET that allows the wearer to play videogames simply by thinking has been unveiled at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and will go on sale later this year. The Emotiv EPOC “brain-computer interface device” looks like a headphone strap with 14 neurosensors that branch off it like fingers. The sensors sit on the [...]

Microhoo: Sergey Brin is Annoyed, and Unnerved

The Associated Press is reporting from an event at Google’s Lunar X Prize headquarters tonight on some comments co-founder Sergey Brin made regarding the potential Microhoo buyout. I was first taken back a bit by the fact that there’s an actual headquarters specifically devoted to the Lunar X Prize project, but once I got [...]

v7n.com Webmaster Community Website Up For Sale

v7n.com is up for sale on Site Point. The massive webmaster community website has been online since February 2004 and currently attracts 3,000,000 page views per month across the main domain and all sub domains. If you are interested, it can be yours for a minimum bid of $400,000 or you can buy it now [...]

Are Gmail’s Anti Spam Filters Leaking?

When I first noticed a spam message in my Gmail account I actually thought it was a genuine message simply because I was so used to Gmail’s antispam filters working so well. From my previous experience, zero spam passed through Gmail’s protection, and other users I’ve talked to have had similar experiences as well. Read the [...]

Which Photographs Are Hoaxes?

If you have got ten minutes to spare, nip over to Museum of Hoaxes and have a go at their hoax photo tests. They have four tests, each wth ten photographs. Some of the photos are hoaxes and some are real. All you have to do is guess which is which! You can get the [...]