I’m a big fan of open source software, so it will come as no surprise to hear that I have been using Mozilla’s Thunderbird as my main mail/calendar client for a number of months.
What I particularly like about Thunderbird is the large number of third party add-ons which allow you to adapt the software to […]

Its a question that I’ve only just started to challenge. I have worked at Yahoo! for around 4 months and until now dismissed Yahoo! search as a poor relative to Google in the search industry. An age old ‘has-been’ whom anyone who knows anything about the internet would never use. But is this really true? […]

This week we have been conducting some user research into a new web project we are developing here at the BBC. As always, its been an incredibly insightful process helping us to focus our product around our audience needs. After all, as my boss says ‘Audience is at the heart of everything we do’ - […]

This just appeared on my twitter alert:
bbcnews: A man who denies murdering his wife by asking his lover to stab her, says he loved his wife “to bits”. http://tinyurl.com/2nq3pl

Phew! It was pretty complex but thankfully painless!
http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress#Detailed_Instructions

Picnik - edit photos in your browser

Originally uploaded by badboyuk.

Picnik provides a new convenient way to edit your Flickr photos without re-uploading (i.e. via the Flickr API). Until now Fauxto looked likely to be the clear winner in terms of online image editing, but the Photoshop style interface now feels too advance for the average […]

“As an art director, my experience prior to joining TimesOnline was primarily print-based; mainly magazine and newspaper launches/redesigns. It’s been interesting to apply this experience to the online medium, to experience the learning curve so far, and to kick over some of my own statues in the process…”
A quote from Tomaso […]

Perhaps some conflict of interests here?
Charlie Brooker attacks the pretentious ‘Fisher Price’ computer revolution. Perhaps he should take a look at the advertising around his article before he takes a swipe at the hand that (indirectly) feeds him.

“The BBC Trust wants your views on whether it should allow the BBC to provide new video on-demand and podcasting services.”
A similar analogy would be if the Ministry of Transport asked road users if they wanted motorways.
Thankfully, the iPlayer has now been approved. Yet for me the whole process it raises concerns about how […]

I found this personality test on digg today. I don’t normally try out these tests, but this one seemed to be scientifically researched.
I was quite impressed with the accuracy of the results. I am defined as a ‘INTJ’…so what does that mean?:
A summary from Dr. C. George Boeree
“INTJ (Introverted intuiting with thinking): These are the […]