Much has been said recently on broadband performance and the problem with ISP’s flogging “Up to 8Mb!” connections, then supplying much less. They went into it during The Gadget Show, and no doubt Watchdog has ranted about it with their usual hysteria.
My broadband at the start of the year was fine, bit up and down [...]

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With the massive new relaunch of this blog, I’ve been asking some pretty searching questions about social networking. Less “Wow, someone could steal my identity”, more “why do I bother?”. I do this blog because I’m a nerd and I’m interested in web site design stuff, and the back-end bits that pull it all together. [...]

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One of the most amazing things in Leopard, in fact probably the best new thing they’ve done with it, is of course - jazzy backgrounds in Photobooth + ichat. I can’t explain how brilliant this is, but James can, and he has done. See, brilliant!

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Just got Leopard installed on the MacBook. Everything seems generally ok, bit zippier (expected that with clean install), apart from it has a bug connecting to Windows Shares on the network. It connects to the server ok, but you can’t browse the contents - after a bit of googling, found lots of other people having [...]

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