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How Governments have Tried to Block TOR

Posted on July 9, 2012July 9, 2012 by rich

TOR (The Onion Router) is a second Internet running inside the existing Internet. It allows people from countries with strict regimes to bypass blocking and monitoring software. This is a video from the guys behind TOR claiming lots of things about how Governments are using Internet surveillance and censorship to execute totalitarian control of their […]

Firefox OS

Posted on July 3, 2012 by rich

As many expected, the Mozilla “Boot to Gecko” project has become “Firefox OS”. Gecko is the software behind the scenes of the Firefox web browser that reads the HTML, style sheets, etc. code and converts it into a webpage. Boot-to-Gecko is Mozilla’s plan to make a mobile phone platform based entirely on The Web. WTFFFOS? […]

Google Glass Steals the Show at IO ’12

Posted on June 28, 2012June 28, 2012 by rich

Today, Google’s annual IO developers conference kicked off at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. During a talk by patronising Google+ Chief, Vic Gundotra, Google co-founder, Sergey Brin thankfully interrupted wearing one of the pairs of “Google Glass” glasses we’ve seen him and vocally-impaired other-co-founder, Larry Page, sporting lately.One commenter rather epically said, “Coming soon… […]

Facebook to Allow Post Editing

Posted on June 25, 2012 by rich

Facebook will soon let you edit your posts and comments, but in my gut I don’t agree with this. It feels wrong. You see, Facebook is special. Very special in fact. It isn’t just a website, it’s grown beyond that. It’s much more than just a fancy bulletin-board or a blog, or a big Twitter. […]

New Google Maps – A Real, 3D Virtual Earth!

Posted on June 6, 2012 by rich

Google are making me eat my words about them not being innovative on an almost-daily basis. And i couldn’t be happier!! Have you seen the new Google Maps? They say… Since 2006, we’ve had textured 3D buildings in Google Earth, and we’re excited to announce that we’ll begin adding 3D models to entire metropolitan areas […]

Web Fonts: Making the Web Beautiful

Posted on June 6, 2012June 6, 2012 by rich

There is an old adage which states, “how you say something is just as important as what you say”. I believe this to be true. You can’t give a serious presentation while giggling like a schoolgirl or warning of the dangers and hazards in the home while making toast in the bathtub. The same is […]

Google Maps Cube

Posted on May 8, 2012 by rich

Fantastic! Finally Google shows off some of its creativity and innovation!! You know my feelings about Google, but this has gone some way to reaffirming my faith in the big primary-coloured search-and-ads behemoth. You should also know my feelings about WebGL being the future of the web (and everything). So, before you do anything else today, fire […]

Google

Posted on April 22, 2012 by rich

I was all set to write an apology to tech mega-giant, Google. Even though my AdSense woes are still unanswered, there are aspects of the Google operation which really excites me. Self-driving cars is important and they’ve put nearly a billion dollars into renewable energy. In fact, they say they want to run their entire […]