Getting the free Dropbox software. The free Dropbox program is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. It will synchronize your cloud storage with local folders, saving you the hassle of manually uploading/downloading each file. All the file transfers happen in the background. Dropbox software is the best and easiest way to use Dropbox storage. Most […]
See a word translated across a map of Europe You have to hand it to The Guardian newspaper, they have an impressive Data Store section with both raw data and interesting presentations of it. Their latest is a clever use of the Google Translate API to present a map of Europe with an English word […]
Is your net access better or worse, cheap or costly compared to other countries? BBC Online has an interesting – though hardly scientific – look at Internet access around the world. Think you’ve got it bad — try a ‘gold’ package with just 4GB for £75 a month (US$119) in the Falkland Islands or the […]
An extended report on our Editor-in-Chief’s visit to Christmas Island or Kiritimati. Kiritimati is a largely unknown dot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean – Google Maps. Known in English as ‘Christmas Island’ though there’s two islands of that name, the other is an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. I’ll go into a […]
A good explanation of web & email encryption plus how it’s crippled by the US government. Discover Magazine has a good explanation of the maths behind encryption used in web secure pages and email. It’s somewhat misleadingly headlined “How to create codes that even the NSA can’t break“. The article explains the prime number maths […]
