I’m a tad surprised that none of rss news feeds I subscribe to have picked up on this story yet: a local Gym owner here in the South checked his Facebook account only to greeted by an advert from a personal injury claims company inviting him to sue his own company! An example of targeted [...]

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Of late I’ve been using various APIs for one reason or another, and as most are irrevocably linked to your email address it doesn’t take long before you see a message informing you that the email address you’ve entered is already registered to another account. Gmail to the rescue with it’s username+ feature.  For example [...]

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I popped round my Mum & Dad’s this eve, Pop’s 77 and very much an eBay fanatic.  He’d lost his web connection with the Netgear router I’d given him so decided to use the router his ISP had sent to him some time ago but never used.   Make sense, if you central heating pump packs [...]

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If (like me) you’ve been try to get Stephen Ollis’s WordPress plugin for Google Latitude working and failing miserably check you badge number in the html code, mine has a – in front it. <!– Google Public Location Badge –> <iframe src=”http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge/api?user=-8716246790221957302&type=iframe&maptype=roadmap”  etc. etc .–> Kutos to Steve for tracking this annoying little critter down.

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Something I’ve yet to test but was featured on the latest Frequencycast podcast is the Flatenna, a simple little add-on on to WiFi routers and dongles that have external  antennas.  The design is the same as any direction antenna like a TV aerial or satellite dish, you’re just concentrating the energy in a particular direction [...]

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