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Take control of your email to tackle spam and phishing.

Fri 12th Feb 2010

If you've had an email address more than five minutes, you'll have received a phishing attempt. An email claiming to be from the tax man or a bank will try to persuade you to log into a bogus website or launch a virus payload sent via an attachment. For example,

spam (photography: Ben Prescott)

Cheques to check out?

Tue 15th Dec 2009

Reports are abound today that the Payments Council will vote tomorrow, 16/dec to phase out cheques.

Chequebook. (photography: Matt Raines)

Free software!

Sun 6th Sep 2009

A treasure trove of simple free utilities, such as cd burning and wave editing.

Random sites fail to load, time out.

Mon 31st Aug 2009

ADSL router got reset back to factory settings by the power tripping. After getting all the basic things reconfigured, everything looked ok.

Postal vote envelopes (photography: Matt Raines)

Number lock on windows XP

Sat 29th Aug 2009

Setting the number lock on or off by default required a few hacks.

UK contribution to EU to increase 60% to £6.4bn

Mon 24th Aug 2009

According to http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk, total local and central government spending in 2009 is £638bn, putting this higher EU figure at broadly 1%.

Some insight into the Madoff hustle

Fri 3rd Jul 2009

Some insight into how Madoff managed to keep his scam going for a decade or more, courtesy of This World, BBC Two, 29/Jun/09. Narrated by Robert Vaughn of recent 'The Hustle' fame, the scam had a couple of interesting threads in there.

Green your home

Thu 2nd Jul 2009

The Guardian is tracking a bunch of people installing solar power and so on.

Blogger API - more intelligent use of RSS

Sun 26th Apr 2009

Blogger offers the ability to customise the RSS feed it generates on each site.

The wonderful thing about release notes ..

Thu 23rd Apr 2009

Is that they answer questions you'd never got round to finding answers to.

RDF Site Summary News Story Feed (v1.0).



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