Monthly Archives: July 2003

Column: Finding The Holy Grail of Finding Things

 I have lost count of the number of times I have written about finding text in files on your computer.  It’s such a basic idea that you would think it would come as a standard function on most operating systems.  In fact, if you’re a Mac user, it does.  For the rest of us, finding… Read More »

News: XP Has Made Everything Better. No, Really

 From the I Must Be Living in a Parallel Universe Dept,  I read with interest of PC Magazine announcement today that it has issued its “Annual Report Card on Service & Reliability Of Major Technology Companies” in which it says that ”consumers are more satisfied with the computer products and peripherals they’re using and the companies behind… Read More »

News: Bothered By Mosquitoes? Use Your Cellphone

 From the Why Use Bugspray When You Can Use Your Cellphone Dept, a report from the Korea Times on a new service by SK Telecom. Its seems South Korea’s top mobile operator is offering downloadable ring tones which, er, generate anti-mosquito sound waves that deter mosquitoes within a range of one metre.     The mosquito… Read More »

News: The Spam Top Ten

  From the We Already Knew That But It’s Still Interesting Dept,  FrontBridge Technologies Inc, which calls itself “a trusted provider of email protection and secure messaging services” (as opposed, presumably, to those Distrusted Providers of Email Protection, or the Somewhat Trusted Except When They’ve Had A Beer Or Two Providers of Email Protection) have, after… Read More »

News: Big Brother’s Net

 For those of you interested in how the Internet is not an unrestricted place for everyone, Reporters Sans Frontieres/Reporters Without Borders last month published their second annual report on censorship in cyberspace, “The Internet under Surveillance – Obstacles to the free flow of information online” which details “attitudes to the Internet by the powerful in 60… Read More »