iPhone 3GS – OK, so we didn’t get the voice control

But otherwise our list of features wasn’t too far out was it? The phone launches June 19 but rumour has it you can order one from Carphone Warehouse from Wed.

Better battery life – 5 hours talk time, 9 hours surfing A better camera that finally does video – 3 Megapixel autofocus video-capable camera Voice [...]

Steve Jobs to launch new iPhone?

You may have read here earlier in the year that a new iPhone was likely to appear this summer. Well that time is almost with us, with rumours of the product being launched at the Apple worldwide Developers Conference tomorrow. And just to add to the excitement there are now stories curculating that Steve Jobs [...]

How to install RealPlayer in Ubuntu

Real Player is a high quality media player, which is freely available for Linux operating systems. It isn’t included in Linux packages because it is not a fully open source program. There are .rpm and .deb packages available for RedHat and Debian variants but nothing that will obviously work for Ubuntu. Fortunately it is fairly [...]

Bing – bong?

Microsoft is due to launch a new search engine, Bing,  on June 3. The launch may initially be restricted to the US, as Microsoft is taking time to sign up partner websites in each country. These partnerships may be both a strength and a weakness, as the quality of information could be good but perhaps from a limited [...]

Fixing the Windows ‘low or out of virtual memory’ errors

Windows uses hard disk storage when the memory needed by the runnning programs is bigger than the amount of RAM memory your PC has. This ‘virtual’ memory is called a page file and is located in C:/pagefile.sys.

Sometimes the error arises because one or more of the applications has a ‘memory leak’ bug. When this [...]

What is the difference between raisins, currants and sultanas?

Ever wondered what raisins, currants and sultanas were before they were dried out? The answer is simple:

Raisins     = dried grapes Currants  = dried grapes Sultanas  = dried grapes

Of course it isn’t quite as simple as that or raisins, currants and sultanas would all look and taste the same. The differences are primarily due [...]

Wolfram Alpha goes live – so what is so special about it?

The new search engine, Wolfram Alpha went live today, although its 10,000 computing cores seem somewhat overwhelmed at trying to deal with the SlashDot effect of thousands of consecutive users trying it out for the first time.

There are now three different types of search engine:

Contextual (eg Google) - finds web pages in which your search [...]

How can I find my Nokia N95 WiFi MAC address?

There is a simple keypad shortcut to find the wifi interface MAC address – simply type:

*#62209526# (the numbers spell ‘MAC WLAN’ on the keypad)

Knowing your phone MAC address can be quite useful. Many wifi access points will allow you to restrict service to a list of specific MAC addresses, which improves your home [...]

Barbecue gas – butane or propane?

Buying a gas barbecue can be more than a little complicated. You think you have worked out what you want, then you discover there are two types of LPG (Liqueified Petroleum Gas) – Butane and Propane. Not only that, but the gas bottles come with different sized valves. And what on earth is Patio Gas?

Butane was [...]

Nokia N97 due July

Nokia’s latest smartphone, the N97, is due in the UK this July, according to Vodafone. The 3G quad-band phone features a large touchscreen display and a full QWERTY keyboard. Storage is a massive 32 Gb and another 16 Gb can be added by inserting a microSD card. As you can see below the form factor [...]