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Blogging, once relatively unknown has recently taken the world by storm, people from countries around the globe have begun to release blogs on the internet, be they personal or for profit.

Hell, lets face it, this website is a blog, most of my other websites are blogs and a lot of people I know have a blog of one sort or another. But then it comes to customising your blog, how do you make it stand apart from the others and how so you make your blog look better than just the bog standard.

The answer is quite simply blogger templates… Continue Reading»

Virtual worlds are nothing new, from world of warcraft to second life our virtual online escapes vary from the fantasy to the social.

Now however Metaversum have begun to trial the virtual reality Twinity, a bridge between the real and the virtual by allowing you to visit real world locations walk the streets of the cities and see some of the worlds most famous landmarks.

It is true that this will never replace the real experience of visiting a city, but I can see a billion uses of Metaversum’s Twinity.  Finding hotels you would like to visit, checking out monument locations, seeing… Continue Reading»

For those of you who have started their own blog on Blogger before I am sure you are aware how bland and boring their default templates are.  For this reason I have started collecting my favorite templates from across the internet into one comprehensive website, Free and Easy Blogger Templates.  On this website I have compiled a collection of my favorite free blogger templates for my readers to use on any blog they decide to create!

So if you are starting up your own blog on Blogger take a look… Continue Reading»

Phorm, for those of you who don’t know, is the logging of personal information to provide targetted adverts to the user.  In recent years this has been hotly debated across the EU as to wether or not it is in fact legal.

Many people do not like to have their search information recorded, but lets face it, it’s not just the internet that does this.  Your local supermarket, be it Tescos or Walmart will be recording what you buy and when you buy it so it can send out advertising to you on the right day about the right products.

Personally I… Continue Reading»

To all my loal reader (s) I would like to apologise for the recent downtime on this site, it seems Servage are not as Digg-Proof as I currently thought as I found a warning and a site suspended email in my inbox when I returned from work a couple of days ago.

Yes it seems I was hit by the Digg Effect -  Although in this case at the instigation of Slashdot.

It seems my Article on Google Chrome was quite popular.

In the matter of 10 minutes my site was hit by 30,000 unique visitors and suspended by servage, after that in… Continue Reading»

Google Chrome is Googles second foray into the world of Internet browsing software.

Google Chrome itself was released yesterday and is available to download at http://www.google.com/chrome for free.

The best thing about Google Chrome is undoubtedly its new Back End, unlike nearly all other internet browsers Chrome has the unique feature of running each tab and window with its own process, this has several significant benefits.

• Memory Usage
• Browsing Speed
• Crash Protection (Not Recovery)
• Visual Management
• Security

For those who keep abreast of Google’s latest announcements you may be aware that a google comic book (Here) was released to the public yesterday outlining Googles new internet browser – Google Chrome.

While there are no screenshots yet Google Chrome is set to have a beta released today!

So why should you go for Google Chrome? Well the Google comic points out all the pros of Google Chrome, but in a rather technical sense, so I am going to cut things down and make it all just a little bit simpler for you!

First off, Google Chrome… Continue Reading»