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After the purchase of Writely giving them onine word processing, it appears that Google will shortly be offering a spreadsheet too. These, with Gmail and Calendar effectively provide a free to use Google Office suite. For home users with a…

I’ve had to have a bit of a review of my online life since I started my new job. I simply haven’t got the time that I used to for administering all the sites I have managed to become involved…

…has been given a bit of a face lift. Last week, Quentin and I finally bumped into each other in IM-land and between us upgraded to WordPress 2.02, installed a modified K2 theme, installed all the various plug-ins that make…

Un-Made-Up is a great little blog just started by the journalist and author William Shaw. It features true stories submitted by readers, all under 1,000 words long. Well worth a look.

Yep, I am giving you all a chance to do something that will make you better people. You’d be fools/really unpleasant not to take it! The future Mrs Dave is to take part in Race for Life this year, raising…

LWM is a great site, one that offers a different angle on the MS debate. Rather than being rabidly pro-Mac or Linux, it instead aims to offer sensible alternatives for those people who would rather not use MS software. Solutions…

The one blog post I have written which got the most attention was on my old blog, called ‘My Ten Thoughts on Successful Blogging’. It received quite a few links and comments, and it was pretty clear that I had…

Today, I have been doing some work on a side blogging project that I have been thinking about for a while. I’d got the remit of the blog sorted, a name, decided (as usual) on WordPress and on the K2…

Since Lee (who is rapidly losing my respect) has pooh-poohed my earlier attempt at a logo for B.O.L.L.O.C.K.S., and even Amsterdam-resident Neville thought it a little on the risque-side, I have attempted another one. I thought this might suitably reflect…

AJ’s blog features a nice piece on keeping your desktop free. It’s Windows specific, but the principles could be applied to any OS, I guess. I am with him on this one. The idea of having icons on the desktop…

Lee Hopkins, antipodean blogger extraordinaire and contributor to Shel and Neville‘s For Immediate Release podcast, and I have been bantering on various posts about the lack of an offline blog editor that, well, does what we want it to. This…

ajaxTunes is the latest in the line of web based desktop replacement services from Michael Robertson. It claims to be: …a web-based media player that lets you play, pause, forward and rewind high-quality streaming music straight from the Internet on…