Cuil Search

A  new search engine (do we need another one?) has opened for business today. Cuil (pronounced Cool) is brought to us by a couple of ex-Googleites. I thought that I would give it a spin. Cuil reckons that it indexes three times the pages of Google and ten times that of Windows Live Search so [...]

Intel Predicts Positive Future for Mobile Web

A report from Intel today (via the BBC) predicts that mobile web is in for a bright future with 1.2 billion connected devices by 2012. This prediction was made at an event to highlight a range of Intel chips for web-enabled mobile devices.
Gadi SInger, head of Intel’s mobility group, made an interesting point that [...]

Giving something back

There’s an interesting post over at Web Worker Daily that asks the question “How do you give something back to those providing information on the web?” It’s a good question. Whenever I need information the web is the first place I turn whether it is for the parameters for an obscure function to who was [...]

Project management – a beautiful thing!

I was sent this today and thought that it deserved a wider audience as it is all so true…

It takes one woman nine months to have a baby. It cannot be done in one month by impregnating nine women.
Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn’t have to do it.
You can con a [...]

Windows Virtualisation with Sun VirtualBox

Virtualisation has become all the rage recently. Running multiple instances of a system on a single piece of hardware is a very compelling proposition as everyone try’s to get more out of their investments. While virtualisation is typically applied to server environments there is no reason why it cannot be used on a suitably specified [...]

Open mailto Links in Gmail

Here’s a neat tip to allow mailto links to open in Gmail (or any other application) rather than the usual default, which in most cases on Windows will be Outlook/Express.
Set Gmail as Your Default.