This is a special entry today. Last year I got talking to a lovely new friend called Amanda and she told me about a project that she was working on called Amanda On Ellen. As she explained what the project was about I was intrigued, so I offered to help by hosting the site. Now I want to spread the word to as many people as I can, so please read on. What is Amanda On Ellen? At a recent event that Amanda Tapping attended, she was asked by a...

Some of the world’s most popular Windows programs are vulnerable to a major bug in how they load critical code libraries, according to sites tracking attack code. Among the Windows applications that can be exploited using a systemic bug that many have dubbed “DLL load hijacking,” are the Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera browsers; Microsoft’s Word 2007; Adobe’s Photoshop; Skype; and the uTorrent BitTorrent...

OK, it’s been a while since I wrote anything on here, so what better way to come back with a peeve / rant or annoyance… So, as many of you know (or are about to find out) I love Twitter. Its sucked the life out of me for hours when I either should have been working or I was bored. Anyway, over the last few months it seems to me that Twitter has started going down hill. It’s server performance just sucks, Its slow, API...

Is it just me? For Christ’s sake tell me that this doesn’t just happen to me. You’ve decided, for whatever reason, to go to Tesco/ASDA/Sainsbury/Lidl (apparently pronounced Leedel now), Morrisons or wherever else you buy your food and you’ve decided to go at a time when you think it’ll be less crowded like eight in the morning or at midnight or something like that. You get in there and every single place...

From time to time nature shows us that we are not as almighty as we might think. Consider, for example, the recent volcanic ash clouds that plague air flights across Europe. These two things usually don’t mix well together. Although one could argue that some disasters happen because of technology, I think usually disasters are outside of our control. But only when a big one is happening do we come to realize how dependent we are on...

I love it when there is a simple way to fix certain problems. Working in support can be a real pain sometimes when you have to explain a process to a user that is pretty scared or has confidence issues using a computer. So when this utility came along, its a godsend. Microsoft’s FixIt solutions generally work well, but sometimes they just take way too long to run, especially on Vista and Windows 7.  Some of them also require a ...

A sneaky new Trojan attempts to extort money from BitTorrent users under the guise of a fictitious copyright infringement lawsuit. Malicious pop-up messages (shown below) generated by the malware, which is being spread via fake files offered up for download through BitTorrent, seeks to bully victims into agreeing to pay out for a “pre-trial settlement” of $400 in order to avoid possible prosecution over supposed copyright ...