Smartphones Are Hot: A decade-old take on ‘What would Marshall McLuhan make of the smartphone?’
Computing
2025-01-19
2025-01-19: The US Tiktok ban goes into force
Google Maps turns 20, adds AI features, new countries to beat Apple: Next month sees Google Maps' 20th year anniversary; it is kind of hard to imagine life without this type of software.
2025-01-08: What we learned about LLMs in 2024
2025-01-04
Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South: Due to new state-level age verification laws.
Your App Should Have Been A Website (And Probably Your Game Too): Modern web browsers are powerful and capable.
2024-12-31
The beautiful sentence that is the web: ‘In web development, HTML is the noun, CSS is the adjective that describes the noun, and JavaScript is the verb that makes it do something.’
2024-12-29: Just learned that you can now turn off Microsoft Excel’s previously incessant desire to …
2024-12-28: Edit csv is a very handy tool if you need to make some basic edits to a CSV file on a computer …
2024-12-25
AdGuard Mail — a new AdGuard product to protect your email: AdGuard enters into the cadre of services like SimpleLogin and Addy by offering a product designed to keep your email private.
making a website is hard: cathode ray dude bemoans the lack of a modern Microsoft Frontpage or Dreamweaver equivalent.
2024-12-21
Mobile Communications Best Practice Guidance: Largely sensible advice from the US cyber defence agency on keeping your mobile communications secure.
2024-12-18: Noticed that Mimo, one of the ‘Duolingo but for coding’ educational apps I sometimes …
2024-12-14: GoFullPage is a useful Chrome browser extension that lets you take a screenshot of all of a webpage …
2024-12-08
Smartphones don’t suck. People do: We shouldn’t let our phones bore us so often.
2024-12-07: OpenAI may be planning a ChatGPT Pro plan for $200 per month. Well, that’s quite a hike if …
2024-12-06: A friend kindly informs me that if you’re a customer of O2, a common mobile phone carrier in …
2024-12-05: Cybersecurity has gotten so bad that even the US government is imploring us to encrypt our communications
2024-11-30
Why you should use a different email address for every site: The list of things you might want to do in order to maintain some semblance of privacy/safety on the internet these days grows ever longer.
2024-11-26
Helpline for Yakuza victims fears it leaked their personal info: A Japanese government agency was phished.
2024-11-26: From The Register: A local Japanese government agency dedicated to preventing organized crime has …
2024-11-19
What I want from Mozilla: To fulfil their stated mission by ‘fostering an ecosystem of open, accessible software that promotes user independence, privacy, and safety’.
2024-11-10: OpenAI released their web search engine - at least to paid subscribers. Looks to be integrated into …
2024-11-10
Introducing ChatGPT search: OpenAI releases its search engine.
2024-11-10: RSS as a method of subscribing to your favourite online content is not dead, and thanks to its open …