‘I Didn’t Think It Would Happen to Me’: WordPress Security

Essential reading: ‘I Didn’t Think It Would Happen to Me’: WordPress Security by Joanna Paterson

When fashion met technology (and said, ‘Pink is so last season’)

Forget pink tech. Editor, Jenny Williams, looks at how fashion is infultrating the technology industry – and there isn’t a shade of pink in sight
Let’s face it; technology isn’t a sexy industry. To remedy that, technology companies have been throwing pink at all of their products. Legally Blonde’s Ellie has been blamed for starting a [...]

Surfing abroad: Hot or not?

Sunglasses, suncream, swimsuit…and laptop? As more holidaymakers than ever before are logging on while abroad, editor Jenny Williams asks if internet access abroad is enhancing or hindering our summer holidays

A recent survey claims 94 per cent of summer holidaymakers will be logging onto the web while abroad this year – double the number of [...]

Musings | 3D glasses

 You need 3D glasses to participate in any form of media these days. Next week, tabloid newspaper, The Sun, will publish a 3D issue (as reported in The Guardian), every new film release is in 3D, there’s 3D TVs, 3D adverts, heck, you can even get 3D scratchcards. By 2012, it is predicted that half of [...]

Musings | How to be a DIY Diva

My mother can often been found on the roof. Whenever there’s a leak or a tile that needs fixing, it isn’t my Dad who rushes for his hand tools; my Mum is the DIY diva in our family home. So, when I recently found myself in an electrical goods shop, asking about electrical fuses, I [...]

Zooey Deschanel to play Ada Lovelace in film adaptation?

According to Production Weekly, Zooey Deschanel is in talks to play the world’s first female computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, in “Enchantress Of Numbers”, to be directed by Bruce Beresford and released next year.
Born in 1815, Augusta Ada Byron – now known as Ada Lovelace – wrote the world’s first computer programme. She has become a [...]

Musings | Is Guitar Hero ruining creativity?

It has become quite acceptable to find yourself at a party being challenged to perform your best SingStar song. Since 2005, with the release of Guitar Hero, play-along gaming has got bigger and bigger. We’ve been given SingStar, DJ Hero, Lips, Rock Revolution and even Easy Piano on the DS.
Meanwhile, the Mix Me In iPhone [...]

Campaign launches to protect right to link

As sharing content on the internet raises questions of plagiarism, a campaign protecting the freedom to link has launched today

Trust me, I’m a Doctor: The rise of cyberchondria

With the increase of health-related searches on Google and the introduction of web-based diagnosis websites, Witch Tech looks at the rise of cyberchondria in face of free information and asks if self-diagnosis is ever productive

Musings | Confessions of networked shopaholics

With a recent increase in the number of online social shopping networks, Jenny Williams asks if online shopping can ever compare with a Saturday afternoon shopping spree.