The new purpose of Viewpoint from the Web is to become a central point for users to comment on other sites. It will provide the users with a single place to check the comments they have made, and reactions to those comments.

The old blog has moved again from Pyromagix to unravelthe.net. Pyromagix just didn’t reflect the nature of the blog. The post categories have been shuffled around a bit too. The key posts are: Flexible/Fluid Web layout with contraints Hacking Minimum and Maximum CSS widths into IE6 GNU/Linux Web Access & Communication Applications Best Addons for T […]

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Wolfram Alpha is not Skynet has been moved to gkspk.com. Mashable has a few easter eggs for the Wolfram Alpha search engine. Here’s one more …

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Dell have been offering Ubuntu as an option for many of their PCs for a while, Asus have EeePC, and Lenovo offer various distributions of linux. Now HP have joined the ranks by supplying SuSE on their enterprise desktop systems

Netgear is due to release a new model in their Digital Entertainment Elite Media Streamer range of products.

The smartphone market is finally getting a full-fledged flash player. Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch demonstrated Flash 10 running on Nokia Series 60 (based on Symbian), Windows Mobile and even the Google Android platforms. There was a major but expected absentee ... The iPhone.

Here’s some funny email banter I stumbled across! It’s between a guy who apparently can’t pay a bill, so offers a drawing of a spider as payment … Continue reading Isn’t this worth $233.95 ozzy dollars?

The Multipage Posts in Wordpress article has moved to gkspk.com. In Wordpress it is simple to create a multipage post. Simply use the following code where you want a page break. I don’t think there is a simple way of having a dropdown with the title of the first section in that page like many news sites [...]

Mozilla are creating a new IM client that works with msn, yahoo, aim and googletalk.

You can easily set up a linux computer to contact/ping windows computers using their netbios name (computer name set up in windows). This will show you how.

The installation was simple, very similar to a Windows installation with no questions that should appear difficult to anyone who's used a computer before. In under 30 minutes I had a workable system running Ubuntu, and that included Open Office and a working network/internet connection including WIFI!

The HP Pavilion dv2899ea (Artist Edition) is a nice little laptop that departs from the usual design of the plain plastic case, and replaces it with a case that is decorated with some fancy artwork. As for specs, it does come with a lot of punch, A 2.5GHz Core 2 duo T9300 CPU with 4GB RAM and an nVidia GeForce 8400M GS ...

Google have just released their own Web browser.  When they announced it via a set of comic strips, it took some people by surprise especially after the april fool stunt a couple of years ago. The comic strip itself tries to explain how the web has evolved and why we need a new browser to [...]

Mozilla ubiquity gives you a command line interface to the web, but how useful is it?

There's a new box on its way that lets you watch internet video on your TV without the need for a computer in between!

There are desktop email and feed readers and there are web based feed aggregators. Where does Snowl fit in, and does it provide additional value?

Infoworldhas coverage of Ubuntu Linux Founder Mark Shuttleworth speaking Open Source Convention (OSCON), asking the audience Can we go right past Apple in the user experience we deliver

There are a fair few project management tools available for Linux that differ in simplicity of use as well as the features they include. Most of them would be suitable for smaller projects, but there are a couple that would be as suitable for complex large scale projects as the commercial solutions such as Microsoft [...]

Does the lack of a common interface for applications to register themselves with the OS/Desktop Environment hinder the development of custom and user-friendly installers?