Category: Tech News

Ah i love the internet, each day it seems that i find something else i didn’t know about and this time it is with the wondrous Google. I am sure a few people will have known about this but its the first time i have seen it. I remember finding the Google calculator a fair […]

Whilst i understand that a lot of people don’t trust Wikipedia all that much, i have to say that i can spend hours upon hours reading article after article. Whilst i can appreciate that not all articles are 100% accurate i think that Wikipedia is one of the best things to ever happen to the […]

I just read about the new Google mail labs ‘invention’ that aims to stop you sending emails that you will later regret, more than likely under the influence of our good friend alcohol. The cleverly named ‘mail goggles’ becomes active at certain times during the weekend, of course you can set the times that you […]

Quick posts but thought it was rather interesting. Google maps have just added comprehensive transit info for the entire New York metro region, encompassing subway, commuter rail, bus and ferry services from the Metropolitan Transit Agency (MTA), the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New Jersey Transit and the City of New York. […]

Well some web developer might be in a bit of trouble. Less that 24hrs before the Premier League kicks off and the BBC Football site is messed up, oops.

I had to laugh at this when i was reading BBC news today. Not because BBC news is particularly funny, on the contrary, since most of our news is dominated by youths getting stabbed up in London… innit blood? No. The reason i was laughing is because Google are facing some issues with street mapping […]

Then the speed dial extension is to blame! I don’t really want to write this because i love speed dial so much, but i have to admit that it is really starting to piss me off. Every single time i write something in a text area i lose focus. It means that every time i […]

I was chatting away with EvilGreenDonkey and he told me about a Firefox script that he found called speed dial, so i installed away and now i am loving it. What is speed dial? Speed dial allows you to open thumbnails of your favourite sites in one tab or window. You basically add the sites […]

Not sure if this still works, but if you want to have a bit of fun/really piss people off then tell them (say it gives their name cool colours or something) to set their name or status (in some cases just get them to type it into the chat window) to this string… n—a_Á—ay±m—aÁÇáç±Çáß±Çá§ÁaÇáDZOÇá—±Ç᧱Çár×ÁÇá+NÇáLáÇá It […]

So i stumbled upon a rather interesting project this morning which allows you to drive a tiny little car around Google Maps using a flash applet. It really is so cool, you use the arrow keys to accelerate and you can drive around. Here is a screenshot of my motor parked outside the Ayima office. […]