So in 40 years time (assuming I’m not in an ‘urn’ on my one of my kid’s mantle-pieces) I just might wind up in an Old Folks Home and have a bit of spare time on my hands. Apart for the zillions of TV and radio shows I’ll (finally) have the chance to catch up [...]

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In an attempt to combat online fraud Barclays Bank have introduced Pin Sentry, a glorified calculator come card reader for use in conjunction with online banking. As far as I can tell you pop your card in to it which then generates another security number for online verification. My Pin Sentry finally arrived this morning [...]

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To anyone who doesn’t reside or originate from the Waterside down here in the south of England this post will probably be of zero interest, sorry. Back in the 70′s I attended Hardley (Secondary Modern) School and for the most part had a whale of a time. One of my most vivid memories is of [...]

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There’s a rather nifty add-on for some Garmin and Microsoft Mobile SatNavs called RoadTour which to me looks like POI’s (Points of Interest) on steroids. Click on the screen-dump above to see and hear a brief demo of it working… should keep the kids quiet for a while on that long car journey. What with [...]

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Gmail never ceases to amaze me, the spam filting alone giving many commercial spam offerings a run for their money not to mentions over 4GB of storgage, customised mobile access for dozens of mobile devices and a ton of other good stuff. Now there’s a great little free Firefox plug-in called Gspace that lets you [...]

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