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The coyote profits are set to rise

By John Garner on Tuesday, August 1, 2006

A Newsweek article discusses the adverse effect the US move to tighten border control is having, by making smugglers richer. There is often a hot debate about what legalising certain drugs would have, but a tighter control can sometimes make things worse for all parties except the real bad guy : in this case the […]

Remove the tourists from your photos

By John Garner on Thursday, July 27, 2006

I was curious when I came across Snapmania's Tourist Remover. I thought now how on earth can they guess what is behind the tourist and fill it in. The system actually relies upon you having several (for a better result) photos of the same place. This way it takes the photos and uses each to […]

Image flicker in IE 6

By John Garner on Tuesday, July 25, 2006

I'd had this problem before and it still seems to come back and bite you. Internet Explorer 6 is still going to be around for a while so you can't just ignore it. I was at one of my best mates, showing him a personal site I'm working on. As you can see below the […]

Our Evolution explained

By John Garner on Monday, July 24, 2006

There is a fascinating article about human evolution at the washingtonpost.com that explains how human genome research has helped understand specific changes in the human DNA around the world : Europeans seem to be adapting to the increased availability of dairy products, with genetic changes that allow the enzyme lactase, which breaks down lactose in […]

Brainwaves replacing the mouse

By John Garner on Monday, July 24, 2006

In a futuristic article, Fortune discusses the way research in to reading and interpreting brainwave activity, has lead to conclusive initial experiences that allow the brain to replace the mouse for basic functions. Science Fiction Novels have often given us images of a future with voice controlled and complex computer systems providing valuable services and […]

Office 2007 in your Web browser

By John Garner on Sunday, July 23, 2006

If you downloaded the previous beta versions of Office 2007 then it replaced any previous installed versions potentially creating compatiblity issues with documents from earlier versions of Office. The solution as discussed on ComputerWorld is to have the program(s) running in your browser and voilÃ ! no more those issues... Among the programs availble to […]

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