Emulators are not new. Playing old games is something of an internet obsession, especially arcade games under the MAME system. When a couple of friends emailed me saying their workplace had ground to a halt since discovering a x86 emulator I was interested but not shocked. I was more intrigued when I found out it was [...]...

While making arrangements for my vacation this week I really needed to sort out my iPod library. Since moving from PC to Mac my mp3 collection was in disarray. The only trustworthy set was on my iPod, and I was very worried I was going to lose it through a disk crash or worse. What I [...]...

Three different people have alerted me to a minor storm in a tiny teacup over the news/rumor/allegation that WordPress are to disable XMLRPC publishing by default In order to protect the majority of blogs which don't use these protocols against any possible security vulnerabilities we should disable them by default. Really? Is this what we are supposed [...]...

Webmasters have been using tools like Alexa for a while to see how competitors compare in terms of traffic. Recently Compete came along, with much the same kind of features. Now Google is getting in on the act. Enter "Google Trends for Websites". Google Trends has been around a little while, with that you can see the [...]...

As more and more blogs grow from being a one-person operation to a multiple blogger situation, and more companies bolt on a blog to their corporate site, the one size fits all contact form is not cutting it. Consider the scenario where everything goes to one person. So all contact, from "nice article" to "I have [...]...