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Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback 21 Hours Ago
Replies: 4
Views: 128
Posted By happygeek
DaniWeb does have a proper office you know :)

Address can be found by clicking the Contact Us (http://www.daniweb.com/contactus.php) link at the bottom of every page.
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback 22 Hours Ago
Replies: 4
Views: 128
Posted By happygeek
Donating brings additional benefits over and above normal membership of the site, such as an advert free experience for example. More accurately it should be thought of as a subscription rather than...
Forum: Windows Vista and Windows 7 3 Days Ago
Replies: 4
Views: 212
Posted By happygeek
The UAC default is all wrong in Windows 7, much safer to allow nothing even if it does add more hassle for the user. That said, the Sophos testing was rather misleading I think. I wrote about it here...
Forum: Game Development 4 Days Ago
Replies: 0
Views: 564
Posted By happygeek
It would seem that there is something of an ongoing battle in the world of online Chinese gaming, and World of Warcraft is right in the midst of it.

As I reported...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge 5 Days Ago
Replies: 6
Views: 255
Posted By happygeek
There is free music out there, which is legal. You just have to do the donkey work and find it.

We will not be pointing you at sources of illegal music downloads however.
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP 5 Days Ago
Replies: 3
Views: 172
Posted By happygeek
You cannot. You have to buy a genuine copy of Windows.

DaniWeb will not help you find an illegal copy of Windows or a source of illegal keys, read the Keep it Legal...
Forum: eCommerce 6 Days Ago
Replies: 1
Views: 1,071
Posted By happygeek
If piracy and illegal downloaders really are killing the music industry, how come more singles have been sold this year than ever before and people who file-share spend more money on legal releases...
Forum: Community Introductions 6 Days Ago
Replies: 4
Views: 174
Posted By happygeek
Yep, DaniWeb is a global community and we have members from all over the world contributing here.
Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties 9 Days Ago
Replies: 0
Views: 482
Posted By happygeek
You probably call it Halloween, for myself and other pagans it is Samhain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain), but for the cyber-gangs it is phishing time. Seasonally-themed spam is on the up at...
Forum: Web Browsers 11 Days Ago
Replies: 0
Views: 412
Posted By happygeek
Some Twitter postings just demand you read them two or three times to take in what is being said in 140 characters. One such posting was made today by Mozilla CEO John Lilly which simply said:...
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback 12 Days Ago
Replies: 2
Solved: Username Change
Views: 299
Posted By happygeek
Done :)
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 17 Days Ago
Replies: 2
Views: 917
Posted By happygeek
Forget the Windows 7 launch, the real big news from Microsoft this week is that it has reached a deal with Twitter to include real-time tweet data in Bing searches. If that wasn't excitement enough...
Forum: Growing an Online Community 18 Days Ago
Replies: 6
Views: 1,060
Posted By happygeek
I think the real problem is that Twitter is like a giant child, growing very quickly but still not mature. So when it runs around the playground knocking the small kids over it doesn't actually...
Forum: Growing an Online Community 18 Days Ago
Replies: 4
Views: 1,316
Posted By happygeek
Well quite.

"What do we want"

"Political change"

"When do we want it?"

"Are you free next Thursday for lunch and we can talk about it then"
Forum: Growing an Online Community 19 Days Ago
Replies: 1
News Story: 5 Billion Tweets!
Views: 707
Posted By happygeek
GigaTweet (http://popacular.com/gigatweet/) has been counting the total number of messages posted to Twitter in real time, and the rolling count is almost hypnotic. Overnight the 5 billionth Tweet...
Forum: Cellphones, PDAs and Handheld Devices 19 Days Ago
Replies: 2
Views: 769
Posted By happygeek
One point which I didn't make in the review is that the speaker unit is not magnetically shielded, so iPhone users will need to switch into airplane mode to prevent the annoying mobile phone signal...
Forum: Network Security 19 Days Ago
Replies: 1
Views: 699
Posted By happygeek
Some high profile people have been caught up in this kind of scam. "As phishing messages go, it was never likely to be the most successful. A high ranking member of the British Government asking his...
Forum: Growing an Online Community 19 Days Ago
Replies: 3
Views: 590
Posted By happygeek
Indeed. As soon as I see a survey about how important white teeth are has actually been conducted by a toothpaste manufacturer I tend to stop taking notice :)
Forum: Network Security 20 Days Ago
Replies: 0
Views: 779
Posted By happygeek
Just when it looked like every avenue to prevent the extradition of self-confessed NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon had been exhausted, especially when just last week a couple of High Court judges denied...
Forum: Cellphones, PDAs and Handheld Devices 20 Days Ago
Replies: 2
Views: 769
Posted By happygeek
It's just small enough to fit into your pocket, uses a specially developed high-tech gel and vibrates like crazy. But this latest must have addition to the iPhone accessories cupboard is no sex toy:...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge 20 Days Ago
Replies: 15
Views: 583
Posted By happygeek
Not only do I still read the printed word, but I still write books that are published in dead tree format as well.

As an author, I have to say that there is nothing quite like getting the...
Forum: Apple Hardware 20 Days Ago
Replies: 11
Views: 3,663
Posted By happygeek
If it was a DAB radio I'd be more interested. Most FM radios built into MP3 players are, frankly, pretty awful to listen to in my experience.
Forum: Web Browsers 20 Days Ago
Replies: 5
Views: 3,535
Posted By happygeek
You most certainly are not alone in being surprised, my friend.
Forum: Web Browsers 20 Days Ago
Replies: 5
Views: 3,535
Posted By happygeek
Odd isn't it, how Microsoft kicked up a fuss when Google announced the Chrome plugin for Internet Explorer on the grounds that it could make the browser more insecure. Indeed, it went as far as to...
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback 21 Days Ago
Replies: 6
Views: 520
Posted By happygeek
Done
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback 21 Days Ago
Replies: 9
Solved: Name change
Views: 601
Posted By happygeek
Done
Forum: Apple Hardware 23 Days Ago
Replies: 1
Views: 1,328
Posted By happygeek
As promised in the review, I now have word from CoPilot about the in-app purchase pricing for the traffic live service:

"it will cost £19.99 for the year, and will include fuel prices and local...
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies 23 Days Ago
Replies: 1
Views: 685
Posted By happygeek
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has signed a deal with YouTube to bring full TV programmes online, streamed for free. It's the first time that any broadcaster in the world has made such a comprehensive...
Forum: Apple Hardware 23 Days Ago
Replies: 1
Product Review: TomTom for iPhone
Views: 3,745
Posted By happygeek
I have now added screenshots of the TomTom app, and there is also a review available of the CoPilot satnav app for the iPhone here (http://www.daniweb.com/reviews/review230373.html) for comparison.
Forum: Apple Hardware 23 Days Ago
Replies: 1
Views: 1,328
Posted By happygeek
CoPilot Live 8 Mobile Navigation on the iPhone has been a runaway success at the App Store, consistently keeping ahead of its TomTom rival in the 'top grossing' app charts at least in the UK Store....
Forum: Geeks' Lounge 24 Days Ago
Replies: 17
Views: 610
Posted By happygeek
This thread is now closed - DaniWeb will not be party to discussions about taking down websites.
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback 24 Days Ago
Replies: 84
Views: 35,388
Posted By happygeek
There's a forum fit for pretty much everything, but if a user truly cannot find somewhere then they should PM me and I'll point them in the right direction.
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback 26 Days Ago
Replies: 43
Views: 3,417
Posted By happygeek
Yes it can - if you do agree with something then vote it up. As long as people use the voting system then the abusers will be drowned out and deserving posts will get positive scores. If the 'wisdom...
Forum: Mac Rumors and Reports 26 Days Ago
Replies: 5
Views: 9,146
Posted By happygeek
Actually, I won't be giving this a try right now as it appears doubleTwist does not support the iPhone 3.0 OS only iPhone 2.0 at the moment. Damn it.
Forum: Mac Rumors and Reports 26 Days Ago
Replies: 5
Views: 9,146
Posted By happygeek
I hate iTunes with a passion, but love my iPhone with an equal passion. Might have to give this doubleTwist thing a look.
Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties 26 Days Ago
Replies: 1
Views: 648
Posted By happygeek
The European Commission has called on EU member countries to do more, and do better, in fighting spam and other online privacy threats. In a newly published study...
Forum: Web Browsers 26 Days Ago
Replies: 3
Views: 887
Posted By happygeek
My first web browser was Lynx, just text at the time. Am giving my age away now :)

I am still happygeek, no id change here. When staff writers post a news story rather than a normal forum post, it...
Forum: Growing an Online Community 26 Days Ago
Replies: 6
Views: 1,060
Posted By happygeek
I love Twitter, and post a lot of links to security related stories via my @happygeek (http://twitter.com/happygeek) account. But now I am getting a little worried that I might suffer the same fate...
Forum: Community Introductions 27 Days Ago
Replies: 5
Views: 319
Posted By happygeek
Er, did you need a toilet just then?

Seriously, most people tell us a little more about themselves than just 'weeh' you know. :)
Forum: Web Browsers 27 Days Ago
Replies: 3
Views: 887
Posted By happygeek
Remember when a web browser was so much more than just a web browser? It seems that the days of the all-you-can-eat Internet suite are back as the SeaMonkey 2.0 release code...
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