I am not sure if this is a problem with me or not, but I have noticed a strange performance issue with new Digg when viewed in Safari.
I have a new 2Ghz Intel iMac with 1Gb RAM yet when scrolling through a list of results returned by the Digg search it is hardly bearable… ! [...]

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var VE_api = VE_getPlayerAPI(”1.1″);
VE_api.embedPlayer(”/gid328/cid1096/OU/17/1151358820cSBcfGdLKNuF5QB4tS3c”, 350, 330, false, “”, “”, “”, “”, “”);

VideoEgg clip of Emily and Rhiannon playing in the garden a couple of weekends ago.

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var VE_api = VE_getPlayerAPI(”1.1″);
VE_api.embedPlayer(”/gid328/cid1096/YJ/4Z/1151355486FAiszhyUHpeXKcEywluj”, 350, 330, false, “”, “”, “”, “”, “”);

VideoEgg is one of the latest web sites that allows web users to easily upload and share their video content with friends, family or the public. The video above was uploaded to the VideoEgg service in less than a minute over a standard broadband [...]

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Like many people today I suffer from lack of time and conflicting demands on my time both at work and at home. It seems as though the older you get the worse this effect becomes. Personally I am now the father of 4 children ( three under the age of 7 ) and manager of [...]

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In the world of software for Mac’s there are a number of applications that have the power to satisfy professional users whilst at the same time being simple enough for primary school students to use easily.
iStopMotion from Boinx.com is one such application. It is a very simple to use tool for creating stop motion movies [...]

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It seems the stream of positive reviews of Apples latest addition the MacBook is set to continue for a while yet, despite initial rumours of early teething problems with overheating and discolouration.
In this review on BBC News Alfred Hamida follows suit and suggests that the big names in the PC world such as HP, Dell [...]

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Working at the chalk face in a large UK acute Hospital we face many challenges in controlling users access to the Internet and in particular limiting inappropriate access. At SWBH we have for a long time relied on Websense to police our users and control their surfing habits.
It was with interest therefore that I read [...]

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A few days ago Microsoft took the step of releasing Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 for public download. If you don’t have broadband then you probably won’t want to download it, and if you also don’t want to part with the six or so quid ( UK Pounds ) for the DVD to be posted [...]

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DSLZoneuk.net have an online ADSL bandwidth checker which claims to estimate the top speed that your telephone line will support. It does this by asking you enter 3 values into a form, your current line speed ( 512k, 1Mb or 2Mb ), your Downstream Signal/Noise ratio and downstream Attenuation. The latter 2 values will need [...]

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So I have been using Office 2007 beta 2 now for a week or so and at the moment it is a pretty mixed bag. There is some really promising stuff in here, but at the moment I am finding my main app ( Outlook ) just a little too broken for comfort, and I [...]

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