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Improve the typography on your Mac in 5 seconds.

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: September 27, 2009
As you are surely aware, Microsoft ripped off Helvetica to create the Arial font. It’s not as nice, and doesn’t look nice on screen at all. The image below shows some of the differences. As you can see, the ends of each letter aren’t lined up properly, they are all at weird angles. Though Helvetica is the [...]
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A Vision of Students Today

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: July 19, 2008
An interesting view into how students live today. I’m thinking that it depends what degree you study on how much work and classes you have to do – 3 hours of class + 2 hours work a day is much less than I did, and I only graduated last year! Also, noone brought laptops to lectures [...]
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Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: June 9, 2008
Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us Really interestingly made video, definitely worth watching! Covers the history of the internet in a really creative way.
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Secrets of the Eee

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: January 24, 2008
Icons exist for the following programs that are no included on the Eee – perhaps these were planned for inclusion at one point. Find these at /opt/xandros/AsusLauncher. Use ls | grep iptv in that folder to find the filename for iptv for instance. iptv kturtle kvisio openarena planner skool splashtop supermario xterm music store googleearth webstorage Xterm is available by pressing ctrl – alt – T, but the others [...]
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Pageflakes launches new portal for teachers

By admin | Published: December 5, 2007
Pageflakes is a customizable start page that allows you to add small widgets or flakes that can display custom content. They have recently launched a prepopulated page designed for teachers. Default layout of the Teacher’s Pageflakes page    The default items on the page include a teaching timetable, a calendar, email, online file storage, some educational bookmarks, [...]
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Retrievr – search for flickr images using sketches

By admin | Published: December 3, 2007
Ever wanted to draw a picture of what you want? Try Retrievr, it lets you draw a quick image, and in real time searches for images on flickr that look like your sketch. Really quite amazing – no idea how it works, but it’s good!
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Yahoo to place adverts in PDF files

By admin | Published: November 29, 2007
As reported by the BBC, Yahoo have reached a deal with Adobe that allows them to place adverts in a panel inside Adobe Reader. This is the first time that Adobe have allowed dynamic adverts inside their software. Luckily, there is a myriad of alternatives now that the PDF format has been opened including: For Windows: Foxit [...]
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Solutions to ‘Man in the browser’ online banking security threat

By admin | Published: November 27, 2007
As reported by Computer World UK malware is shifting towards intercepting traffic inside the browser – a kind of man in the middle attack, rather than keystroke logging or phishing. This style of malware would intercept the password entered on the webpage using exploits in the browser. How about this solution to combat [...]
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New kid on the block – Mixx to overthrow Digg?

By admin | Published: November 25, 2007
After reading TechCrunch’s thoughts on unhappy Diggers leaving for Mixx, I tried it out myself – it’s definitely an improvement on Digg…  It’s got a much nicer look and feel to the site, it’s quicker, has a pictures section, and allows other users to tag and categorise existing stories. Overall – it seems much more [...]
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