Use Google CSE on your blog
Google’s customised search engine service is really cool, useful and dead easy to use. It’s what I used to create LGSearch, which is one of the most successful bits of online work I have done. What Google CSE does is…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
A social media software toolkit
Being a blogger is about far more than just words. To that end, you need tools which you feel comfortable with to enable you to create in any number of different media. Here’s some of the software I use to…
Newsgator RSS apps now free!
The Newsgator family of desktop RSS applications are now available for download free of charge! This is great news, and I would heartily recommend that anyone who hasn’t tried it before gives the Windows application, FeedDemon, a try. I have…
Seariki
Seariki (a conflation of search and wiki) is a new China based search engine which provides a way of finding information in Wikipedia. The Wikipedia search itself can be slightly frustrating, in that if it can find an exact match…
Interview with Mike Butcher
Mike Butcher is the editor of TechCrunch UK, and keeps his eye on the new tech startups in this country and across Europe. Here he is interviewed by Robert Scoble. Your browser does not support JavaScript. This media can be…
The 5 most annoying programs on your PC
Are, according to Download Squad: Acrobat Reader iTunes Real Player Internet Explorer Outlook Some pretty easy targets there. I use only iTunes out of this list on a regular basis, which I have to because I have an iPod, as…
John Darwin was found out via Google!
Heh. Social media can be used to fight crime. I didn’t realise, but the photo of John and Anne Darwin taken in Panama, was actually found via Google’s image search, on the website for the company they used to relocate.…
ITunes aggravation
I’m not having a lot of luck, technology-wise, at the moment. After all my problems with FireFox, it’s now ITunes’ turn to start playing up. I thought it had been behaving itself for a while… Anyway, last night I bought…
Firefox 3 Beta
Have downloaded and am using the FireFox 3 beta, partly out of interest but also because of the many problems I have been having with version 2 since I switched to Vista. I’ve found myself having to reinstall FF on…
Google Maps API
I have had a really great idea for a little site that I think will be of use to quite a few people in the UK. Trouble is, it relies on using the Google Maps API, and I haven’t a…