On reading this morning that Google has opened Knol to everyone, I thought I should have a go. There seems to be a predominance of medical Knols right now, so my Knol...

Desktop Keeley is a new Adobe AIR application from UK tabloid newspaper The Sun. If you are foolish enough to pass this dialog: then you can benefit from: Gorgeous...

Escherman’s Andrew Smith, in technology PR, asks whose site traffic figures do you trust – Google’s (via Ad Planner), or the site owner? I don’t have Ad Planner,...

Not that there’s anything wrong with a CD, when done right. Still, if you pay extra for something like a Linn Studio Master, at 96kHz / 24 bit resolution, you...

At least, not according to Jeff Barr, Amazon’s Web Services evangelist. I was reminded of this when reading Om Malik’s post on the recent S3 outage, in which he...

Lukas Biewald of Facestat says Amazon S3, which is business-critical, is his #1 cause of failure: Using Amazon’s S3 has about the same cost and complexity as...

Thawte is a supplier of digital certificates. I’ve used the company to purchase certificates for code-signing. Today I received an email inviting me to complete a...

I wanted to adapt my Silverlight CRUD sample (which I also ported to Adobe Flex) to fix a glaring weakness, which is that any user can amend any entry. I decided to add...

Short comment in IT Week: http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/comment/2222045/cloud-suspicion-hangs-online-4124287 The article was prompted by this incident. Of course I...

I happen to be in London this morning for iPhone 3G day. Congratulations to Apple on another successful launch. There were queues outside the (numerous) branches of...

Chris Green, editor of IT Pro, has written about analysing professional writers in terms of “costs per unique user visit”. He says: I honestly believe that in the...

We all know what Web 2.0 means. Google, Flickr, Facebook, Yahoo, mash-ups usually with Google Maps or Flickr, Salesforce.com, and anything but Microsoft. But what does it...

Microsoft employee Kirk Allen Evans has a go at Microsoft’s marketing efforts: I am so completely and utterly sick, as an employee and a Microsoft...

The LG Viewty (KU990) is a decent camera phone which came out last year in the wake of the first iPhone; yes it is me-too product but it has a few advantages over...

Adobe has released the free Adobe Reader 9. This includes an AIR application to support Acrobat.com, a document management and collaboration site now in beta. Since...

I’ve complained before about the quality of Microsoft’s Live Search vs Google; but today’s example seemed too good an illustration not to mention. I needed to...

Not long ago I created a simple CRUD example using Silverlight 2.0 beta 2. I used Visual Studio 2008 and the ASP.NET Development Server. I wanted to test the same WCF web...

DNSstuff has a handy test here. My ISP has already patched. This relates to the recent advisory which is alarming as it is (or was) a security hole in the entire...

I wrote up a simple example for The Reg. As someone has commented, it should work; but I was still pleasantly surprised to find that it succeeded without needing to...

I’m not at Tech Ed in Orlando, but was ready to watch the Bill Gates keynote which this web site tells me starts at 8.30am Eastern - trouble is, that was 45 minutes...