If you own an iPod that supports video here’s something to try over the holidays – The London Travel Guide for iPod It (rather cleverly I thought) makes use of iTunes to sync over the maps in the podcast section whilst the guide notes use the iPod’s notes feature. Loading instruction for both Windows PCs [...]

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Having worked in the I.T biz for err…. over 20 years I’ve thankfully managed to keep abreast of some of the more useful tools such as rss, Wikis, blogs, Twitter and Social Networking to name but a few (not so sure about the latter but anyhow!) The trouble is.. to try and explain this sort [...]

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Funny, folks from three different companies have ask me the same question today – how to send a large (over 2MB) file by email, the problem being that many corporate email servers bounce mails over 2MB in size. There are a number of easy front-ends to ftp servers that just have a button on the [...]

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In light of recent media focus a number of Government Agencies are reportedly busily encrypting their laptops using the AES 256-Bit encryption standard. I thought I’d have a look to see how strong AES actually is. Here’s what Apple had to say about AES 128-bit used on their older (1) OS X 10.4 Tiger operating [...]

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I have to confess that I haven’t got around to trying out Sky in google earth yet and it looks like Microsoft are joining in with the Microsoft Worldwide telescope due to launch in the Spring. If you can spare about 100MB of bandwidth and ten minutes of your time you could download Roy Gould’s [...]

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