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AJAX Write and Sketch and Tunes

By John Garner on Thursday, August 24, 2006

Well I just came across this AJAX based Word Processor system called ajaxWrite that can actually read and write MS Word documents and several other formats. It is AJAX based so it just works directly in your browser, it's really cool ! But I then realised that this was just the tip of the […]

FireFox Crop Circle Celebration

By John Garner on Wednesday, August 23, 2006

For the cool guys and girls from the Oregon State Linux Users Group, celebrating the 200 million download milestone, the decision was made to better the previous events with a really memorable one. What better than a crop circle of over 45,000 square feet. So August 2006, only one year and nine months after the […]

The fight of the free in Newspaperland

By John Garner on Tuesday, August 22, 2006

London is the place to be for free newspapers. Soon there will be three free newspapers for Londoners to choose from ! The Guardian's opening paragraph : Newspapers are dying, but no one can accuse them of going quietly. London is home to a "free frenzy" in Newspaperland. Next month there will be three free […]

Web 2.0 Bubble and Star Bubble

By John Garner on Thursday, August 17, 2006

So what do film stars and Web 2.0 have in common ? Read on to see why value is not always where you think it is ! While checking out CNN I came across an article called "Beware the return of the Web Bubble", which turned out to be about media companies potentially spending too […]

Making Maths look Cool

By John Garner on Wednesday, August 16, 2006

The reason I changed from 'not liking maths' to appreciating how useful it can be, was due to a more appropriate teaching method. What I should first confess is that I donâ€™t like the way maths is taught in France. I spent most of my later schooling years in France. I left England when I […]

Someone stole my magic sword

By John Garner on Tuesday, August 15, 2006

An article at CNN (Reuters) covers the trend that criminals are now targeting online games to steal people's hard earned 'virtual' gold. The multiplayer online games are now being targeted by criminals that will try to steal the hard earned rewards from players of succesful games like World of Warcraft. " 'Those of you who […]

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