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Static or dynamic Websites: Which Is Best

If you want to develop a website to start making your online presence felt or even if you think that you have discovered the next big way to make money from home, then chances are you will hear terms like static or dynamic website from your web developer. Before choosing any one of them you must know the difference between the two. Each of them has their own advantages and disadvantages. You will have to decide which one is More

The Sarcasm Spiral

Do you remember when people didn’t learn to be sarcastic until they were about fourteen? Those were the days. And how things are different now! In this day and age it’s not uncommon to get jip from a six year-old. Even they know how to joke about things like the state adults have got the world in and breast reduction surgery! A six year-old child I tell you! When, and more importantly where, did they learn to be sarcastic? More

Letting It Out

I have to confess that I’m not a big sci-fi fan. I loved Star Wars, of course, but that really is as far as my devotion stretches. Go through my wardrobe and you will find no light sabers or special outfits marking me as…well…whatever you call those specific people who wear those specific things. When it comes to Star Trek and all the rest of it, you see, I’m a total amateur.

Now, normally this isn’t an issue. In fact, More

The Truce

I grew up in a village and, therefore, the chance of coming across a city nerd was almost zero. And it was difficult for me. Difficult because I was a village nerd and becoming a city nerd was something that seemed entirely unobtainable. At school our group of village nerds would often discuss sightings, but nobody ever had any proof. And we didn’t dare venture in to town to where the city nerds frequented–that just wasn’t the done thing–

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Get It

I have to admit it: I didn’t get touchscreen phones when they came out, in the same way that I didn’t get organic moisturiser. With the moisturiser I just didn’t trust how slippery it was, even after I’d rubbed it in. With the phones it was that 1) The little pens you had to carry around with you to use them got my goat royally. 2) They were so small they were easily losable. 3) I’m just rubbish with More

Software Review: Bento

Filemaker’s new database application Bento for the Mac has many useful features for creating great looking templates for all your database needs. However, at times it would appear that Bento is unfocused and some users will not be able to optimise the inherent abilities of the software.

Whatever your cataloguing needs are, from documenting your recipes, to organising a vacation with your friends, Bento More

Classic Gaming: Streets Of Rage

Streets of Rage: fighting, brawling, exploding heads with fists and generally getting mad in the most fun way imaginable. I’m an adult now. Sometimes when I’m bored in the office playing that game is all I can think about!

Streets Of Rage was one of the first fighting games to really be exciting. By exciting I mean special-moves, loads of characters to choose from and different styles of fighting to master. Then there were the cheats–it really was where More

How To Buy Your Milk – And Survive.

This is a deceptively useful gadget… Okay, so it’s basically just a key ring that can hold some money, but it could get you out of a whole lot of trouble. In my experience, the very greatest inventions are also the simplest.

A couple of weeks ago I went into a supermarket and filled my basket with twenty pounds worth of groceries (I’d only gone in there for a carton of semi-skimmed!). When I got to the checkout I discovered More

Star Trek Online for PC Review

The launch of Star Trek Online is bound to take the gaming world by storm. Star Trek fans are in for a ‘universal’ treat with the MMORPG set to bring Spock and his crew back to life. Gamers have the option of joining the Klingon or the Federation, the two factions in this space adventure. If you aren’t too familiar with Star Trek and its world, it won’t be long before you catch on and join in the fun. The More

Remember The Flap?

There was once a BBC TV sitcom with so many stars—I’m talking almost as many as you can see on a clear night with your eyes squinting and no mistaking, honest!—that was truly fantastic: haven’t guessed the name of it yet? Cast your mind back to a very strange sounding sitcom in the mid 80s–A sitcom featuring not only the cast of The Young Ones and written by Ben Elton, but a large number of awesome British actors. Yep, you More