For a suggested donation of a fiver the NSPCC will arrange for Santa to write a personalised message to a child of your choice and have it specially delivered by Rudolf. Cheap at half the price. What are you still reading this for? get over to...

I just updated my Humax-HD Freesat box to the 1.00.23 firmware and decided to have a furtle with it. As this update is supposed to enable iPlayer (although it can’t be used until Freesat say so) I thought I’d try and see if anything funky was going on...

Yes folks, it’s the craze that’s sweeping the nation (well the ‘tinterweb), it’s fun, it’s funky, it’s Spotify! It’s like a version of Last.FM that plays the actual songs you want to hear and what’s more, the app works with Ubuntu. OK, so it’s not a...

An interesting Slashdot article about high altitude balloon photography just sparked my interest. The first article tells the story of a group of students launching a balloon to a height of 20 miles, for just under $150 USD, using only off-the-shelf...