A few years ago the tech media was awash with talk of Second Life, a virtual existence in Cyberspace where players could choose just about any lifestyle they’d care to imagine performing virtual commerce including dealing in property and goods, in some instances actually converting newly acquired cyber wonga in to real world dosh. For [...]

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Just in case you missed the news Eoin Colfer’s sequel to Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series airs at 10:45 this evening as BBC Radio 4′s Book at bedtime …

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We all know about the BBC’s iPlayer and ITV’s Player but were you aware you can now watch most BBC and ITV channels LIVE over the web these days? A few examples…. BBC news – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7459669.stm BBC 1 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/watchlive/ BBC 2 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/watchlive/ BBC 3 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/livearena/ BBC 4 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/watchlive/ ITV 1 – [...]

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You may have read the news bulletin three years ago about the poor chap who died so his car couldn’t be recovered by the AA because his membership had lapsed.. errr as a result of his death! Well, my daughter had a friend call on her today whose car developed a fuel leak rendering it [...]

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At least once a week I get a phone call from a friend or work college who has accidentally downloaded Antivirus 2009, Antivirus 2008 or Doctor Antivirus.  These are really nasty spyware programs that embed themselves deep in the Windows registry  trying to dupe innocent folks out of their hard earned cash and capturing their [...]

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