First of all, sorry for the lack of posts. I’ve spent the past few weeks at my new job! No, it’s not a IT related job. I’m working 10-12 hour shifts at a sports store to earn money so that I can pay for tuition and so that I can take my girlfriend on holiday. [...]

One of the many things I hate about the online world is the religious stances many seem to take regarding their favourite software. By visiting any social news website you can clearly see that pro-Apple and Linux stories are dominant in tech circles, with anti-Microsoft hate bringing up the rear.
Every Mac and Linux distribution I [...]

I don’t often like to talk about the state of different companies and their actions online, but when it’s about Microsoft, a company that all computer users are almost indebted to, I just had to write about their current stance with the online world.
At my university Live Search is the default choice on Internet Explorer’s [...]

During the night a website I had been working on for a friend needed some hefty changes to the database, involving optimisation, security-related bug fixes and integration with new scripts. The problem was that this was early in the morning, coming up to the peak time that users would want to use the websites’ services. [...]

The Internet has struggled with everything its received. Domain names have become a hassle for many individuals, companies and countries, hosting companies come and go without telling their customers, millions of users use websites that take little to no security practices into consideration, and so on.
A group of people that have suffered the most are [...]

With online video taking the Internet to new levels in entertainment pleasure there is a massive grey area that seems to be swamping not only those who live outside of the United States, but those living in there who want access to our shows. This grey area is International Restriction.
International Restriction is a cancer, not [...]

Ever since Internet Explorer 7 came out of the depths of Microsoft the browser has tried to distance itself from the basic attitude to browsing that same with the Operating System. The reason for such a shift was from the underdog that likes to make itself known as the underdog, Firefox!

Photo by Brett Taylor. (License: [...]

I’m sure you’re all very aware that the powers of the Internet are shifting from sharing information to providing services. It’s a trend I noticed early on after trying out early versions of Housecall by Trend Micro for some of my anti-virus needs.
One of the ‘greatest’ services of the past couple of years is Social [...]

For the past couple of years I have been using Linux on and off for basic development and to get accustomed to Operating Systems other than Windows, something that anyone who is serious about development work should do.
Don’t get me wrong! Linux is a fantastic OS and the development that has gone into it is [...]

Recently I came across a quite perplexing question about Accessibility from someone I work with. Today, Accessibility is something we all demand from our web pages, although many websites commercial scripts still haven’t grasped the concept of accessible coding/design on the Internet.
The question arose from writing the Accessibility page in the FAQ for the script [...]