I don’t normally take part in debates such as this but for once I’m going to break my own rule. The issue over Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross making “lewd” phone calls to actor Andrew Sachs is, in my mind, being blown out of all kind of proportion. The main issue that the media is…

After my recent post about making changes to your phone line to improve broadband performance, I thought I’d mention a helpful test facility that allows you to hear a quiet line (and hence check if there is any interference). To access… Hopefully, there should be no pops, clicks, whistles, buzzing, etc. If there is, though,…

Firefox 3 is great. Particularly the new tag facility for bookmarks. However, it would appear that this initial version is, possibly, a bit buggy. I say “possibly” because after reading some of the forums it would seem that these may not be bugs but intentionally done to “save the user from themselves”. Let me explain.…

Google provide some excellent tools for adding translation facilities to your website. They also provide browser tools so that you can quickly translate a page that you might be on. With that in mind they’ve taken the appropriate step of adding facilities for web developers to override this. For example, to stop translation on a…