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tamar in a Nutshell
I'm a girl. I like social media. I like gadgets. I will take your gadgets for free. My main website is Techipedia. I also blog about search at Search Engine Roundtable. You might have seen me elsewhere, like Lifehacker or anywhere, really. I like Twitter. I like Digg. I like StumbleUpon. ... (Read Blog)
So, MacWorld finally came and went. For months, I've anticipated this event. After Apple released Leopard in November, I had my eyes set on moving over to the Mac world. But without any guarantees that Apple would preinstall Leopard on existing laptops in their inventory and after hearing about...
Read More | Jan 15th, 2008 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Jan 17th, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 6 | Views: 7,946 | Last Entry: Apr 1st, 2008 | Overall Rating: 
happygeek in a Nutshell
I am an English geek with the perfect job: I write about technology for a living. Something I've been doing for a couple of decades now.
For the past 14 years I have been a Contributing Editor at PC Pro magazine, the biggest selling monthly IT publication in the UK, as well as a contributor to... (Read Blog)
In an attempt to wean her students off of what she calls ‘white bread for the mind’ one University of Brighton professor has banned her students from using either Google or Wikipedia in their research for the first year of study. Instead, in what many will consider a neo-Luddite move, they get...
Read More | Jan 15th, 2008 | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: Feb 2nd, 2008
CES always provides plenty of great news, and plenty of juicy gossip, but I love it best when it mixes the two and you end up with a nice big fight. This would appear to be what is happening right now after the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project announced that it and Microsoft were working to...
Read More | Jan 10th, 2008 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Jan 10th, 2008
Yes, in a bizarre twist and turn of fate, the original bad boy of illegal MP3 downloads which then went legit and hooked subscribers into music with Microsoft's digital rights management system has changed tack and announced it is to sell MP3 format tunes. So, OK, maybe not a real return to its...
Read More | Jan 8th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Jan 10th, 2008
Kaspersky Lab has published its list of the most prevalent viruses for the end of 2007, and although an email worm retains the top spot the more interesting stuff is happening immediately below it in the rankings of shame.
Specifically, the second, fourth and seventh places which are all occupied...
Read More | Jan 2nd, 2008 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Jan 7th, 2008
Things are not looking good for KDE, following the news that KDE will not be getting long term support (LTS) whereas GNOME will according to Canonical. The Hardy Heron will be assured of LTS status it seems, making Ubuntu 8.04 the second version of this Linux distro to get the Canonical commercial...
Read More | Dec 29th, 2007 | Comments: 12 | Last Comment: Jan 3rd, 2008
With Xmas fast approaching, one almost expects the unexpected. It would not come as a shock, for example, if a clip of a dancing cat were to be the most viewed video on YouTube this month, or for that matter one of some rather pathetic Harry Potter puppets, or even Britney Spears singing. Indeed,...
Read More | Dec 23rd, 2007
Blog Stats: Entries: 428 | Views: 1,186,749 | Last Entry: 9 Hours Ago | Overall Rating:
newsguy in a Nutshell
I live and breathe technology news, it is what turns me on. Sad, but hey I am a news nerd, what can I say? (Read Blog)
A posting at Daily Dave, which is part of the Insecure.org security website, by the founder of a Moscow based security vendor called Gleg, would suggest that it's not a very good start to the new year for RealPlayer 11 users.
Gleg Ltd chief technology officer Evgeny Legerov made a very brief...
Read More | Jan 7th, 2008
A press release landed on my computer today, claiming that Samsung has launched the world's toughest cellphone. The Samsung Solid, so the release assures me, has "strengths that make it stand out from other mobiles" which include built in anti-shock and water and dust resistance. The release goes...
Read More | Jan 4th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jan 8th, 2008
In an interview with Australian publication Computerworld and ahead of his appearance as a keynote speaker at the Australian Linux Conference 2008, renowned security expert Bruce Schneier has compared Linux to Star Wars and suggests fanboys feel the force a bit more.
Schneier will give a...
Read More | Dec 27th, 2007
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