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YouTube and the PRS

YouTube has always been one of my favourite sites on the Internet and so I’m extremely disappointed that a row between the site owners,Google,and the Performing Rights Society has culminated in them prohibiting UK users access to thousands of music videos. Apparently the two groups were unable to find “mutually acceptable terms for [...]

Google Street View

I’m not sure what it is that they put in the water over at Google HQ but whatever it is,I want some. Such a large percentage of my articles have been devoted to the material that Google relentlessly produces that,without them,I genuinely doubt I would have found sufficient interesting content to keep [...]

Google Docs

Google Docs has been around for some time now but until recently I’d never managed to find a use for it in my life and my lack of experience with the service means I’ve not felt confident enough to recommend it to readers. We are currently going through the process of getting another shop up [...]

Flightgear

I have always been astonished,confused and secretly impressed by the amount of time that people voluntarily spend creating or helping others online. As an example,there are hundreds of thousands of forums online with specific themes that anyone can use;Hayley is taking her first steps to opening a salon and the advice given [...]

Predictions for 2009

With a New Year looming it seems appropriate to look to what the coming year holds for us from a technology perspective. Although the lack of anything major on the horizon almost caused me to shelve the idea,I am an eternal optimist and so must look forward in anticipation of [...]

Mahalo

I came across an interesting search engine the other day which appears to be heading in a completely different direction to practically anything else available at present. As you probably know,search engines function by using crawlers that search the Internet endlessly picking up new and revised content and then cataloguing the whole lot neatly [...]

Google Chrome

I’m considering giving up my reviews of Internet browsers in the future;things are changing far too quickly to keep abreast of developments and it seems once I’ve got on top of things the entire playing field changes dramatically and I have to start again from scratch. Some might argue that I spend too much [...]

Googleplex

I like to think that working at Refresh can be an enjoyable experience however after reading through an article featuring the Google campus at work this morning;I feel our employee benefits package may be woefully inadequate. The article focused on the Googleplex complex which is situated a few miles from San Francisco bay and [...]

Google PageRank

I often trump Google as being my Search Engine of choice and one of the main reasons behind this is due to the relevancy of the results that it returns. Most would just take these results for granted but I believe that sometimes it’s nice to know what factors contributed to a page being recommended [...]

Home design CAD

I must be one of the only mugs buying a house at the moment;this is at a time where the majority of other prospective buyers are running for the hills due to the current economic climate. To make matters more interesting I also made an offer before the property officially came on to the [...]