Archive for 'Web'

A Bad Week For The Cloud.

The world is abuzz with talk of the next big thing in computing, the cloud. Well this week my experiences have told me one thing, the cloud sucks, it is the biggest pile of BS since the bailout of the banks. First, Google Mail (gmail for the US) failed. Leaving customers both on hosted and [...]

Good God – Redmond makes offer for Yahoo!

2008 has just got a whole lot worse if the deal comes off. Microsoft has offered $44.6billion to buy Yahoo! At least if Microsoft does by Yahoo!, Live! search becomes half decent and there are some real brains in the web division, it could also go the other way and Yahoo! becomes what Live! is now.  [...]

Podcast Replace Classrooms?

In the beginning, the iPod let you listen to every CD you owned, even when you were stuck on the Red Line. Then Steve Jobs said, “Let there be video,” and lo and behold, you could watch “Lost” die a slow, overwritten death on a two-inch screen. But while people seem content to load their [...]

forget office, Oo.org get ThinkFree Office

I have dabbled in many office applications google’s offerings microsoft open office and some i cant even remember. I am amazed at ThinkFree Office it is exactly what a web app should be and the learning curve is 0 cos it looks just like office on you desktop. Wel done guys, and ThinkFree Office is [...]

Note To Self: Crucial Things When Updating theme

Don’t forget to put the google analytics code into the footer part of the new theme, else you think your site has had no hits for a week (might not be far wrong)