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John A in a Nutshell
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Google Earth gives users the ability to fly around the earth - so why not allow people to fly through space? That's exactly what Google's trying to do now, and they've joined the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project to make it happen. The telescope is a "proposed ground-based 8.4-meter, 10...
Read More | Jan 7th, 2007
Hitachi has now announced a 1-terabyte internal hard drive, claiming they're the first to unveil a 1 terabyte hard drive in the industry. It doesn't sound terribly impressive, given the fact that storage mediums are increasing faster than you can blink an eye. However, they have done quite a feat...
Read More | Jan 6th, 2007 | Comments: 5 | Last Comment: Jan 8th, 2007
According to Engadget, the second version of the Xbox 360, code-named "Zephyr" has had a photo leaked from a Xbox insider. It looks quite interesting; the only picture provided was a backside of the console. It's still white, but has some extra ports on the back. It seems like Microsoft really...
Read More | Jan 5th, 2007
In response to this article, claiming that the DVD format war may soon be over, I highly doubt it. In the article: They go on further to state that hybrid players coming from Warner Brothers and LG will bridge the gap between Blu-Ray and HD DVD. Well, it's just not going to happen. There's...
Read More | Jan 4th, 2007
While Apple has displayed a new banner on its website declaring Happy New Years, "The first 30 years were just the beginning. Welcome to 2007," the Month of Apple Bugs has been launched, as if to scorn Apple's website banner. The Month of Apple bugs aims to reveal a new bug everyday related to Mac...
Read More | Jan 2nd, 2007
Endless beta testing does still not guarantee a bug-free program, as Microsoft found out a few weeks ago. Recently, a major flaw was discovered by a Russian programmer, in Windows Vista that was released to businesses earlier this month. This particular flaw allows a user with standard user system...
Read More | Dec 26th, 2006 | Comments: 5 | Last Comment: Jan 3rd, 2007
Blog Stats: Entries: 121 | Views: 348,103 | Last Entry: Nov 28th, 2007 | Overall Rating: Rating: 181 votes, 4.33 average
happygeek in a Nutshell
I am a freelance technology journalist from England, and have been for fast approaching 20 years now. For 14 of them I have enjoyed being Contributing Editor with PC Pro magazine, the biggest selling monthly IT publication in the UK. Currently, I hold the title of Information Security Journalist... (Read Blog)
Some would say blue, given the amount of sex that can be found on the web. Others might go for black, thinking along the lines of increasing online crime. To many the whole idea of Internet technology is a grey area. But, my friends, thanks to researchers at the Chinese Academy of Science, the...
Read More | Jan 6th, 2007 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Jul 1st, 2008
Research published by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) just before Christmas revealed that UK consumers are being conned to the tune of £3.5 billion every single year. The detailed analysis suggests that nearly half of the adult population of the UK has been targeted by a scam, and as many as one...
Read More | Jan 3rd, 2007
Here in the UK it is pantomime season. A peculiar form of traditional slapstick stage play that is performed during the Christmas season. In essence favourite tales such as Peter Pan, Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk and Aladdin are retold with the lead boy played by a girl and an ugly woman played...
Read More | Dec 27th, 2006
Well not quite, but the Wikisari search engine could make quite a splash if Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Amazon.com have anything to say in the matter. Using the same basic technology as Wikipedia, and with a provisional launch date planned for the first half of 2007, will be a people-powered,...
Read More | Dec 24th, 2006 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Dec 26th, 2006
Blog Stats: Entries: 511 | Views: 1,616,730 | Last Entry: 8 Hours Ago | Overall Rating: Rating: 766 votes, 4.78 average
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