Spam Reaches The Big 30 – Here’s Predicting Another 30
May 3, 2008
The scourge of the Internet has reached a major milestone in its life. The first ever unsolicited email was sent way back in1978, on 3rd May, to 400 people. The email was advertising a company known as DEC, a computer manufacturer that is no longer in existence. Unfortunately, spam not only lives on but continues to grow in strength.
The BBC website has a cracking list of statistics to depress every email user on the planet. Email scamsters made more than £120m last year with more than three quarters of all successful scams being delivered by junk email. Nearly 85% of all email sent is spam, equivalent to more than 100 billion obnoxious messages every single day.
While unsolicited email has been around for 30 years, the term Spam was only coined in 1993 by a Usenet administrator, who took his inspiration from a Monthy Python sketch.
While spam is predominantly seen as being a major nuisance, it can and does often harbour more serious and underhand intent. Fraudsters and scamsters use spam email as a means to unlawfully gain information, or to perpetrate the downloading of infected files onto user’s computers.
Palm Centro Smart Phone Specification
May 2, 2008
Palm Centro Smart Phone
Was £199.99
£169.99 - Save £30
Great all in one device with £30 off. Keep in touch with your friends where ever you are, small lightweight design to let you surf the web, check emails, make calls, take photos & even listen to music.
Toshiba L350-10L Laptop Review And Specification
May 2, 2008
Toshiba L350-10L
Only £399 with free home delivery
This is a fantastic Toshiba laptop at a very reasonable price! With a large memory for a first class performance and a 17″ widescreen, the L350 10L is perfect for watching all your favourite movies and is more than capable of taking on the workload of the family or office. As it is a Toshiba you know you are getting quality and this is a great price.
USB Noodle Strainer – Everybody Needs One
May 1, 2008
If you’re at all like me, then you’ve probably sat and pondered how you can strain your noodles without having to leave your computer. It’s one of life’s wonderful little mysteries that has never before been solved. Until, the USB noodle strainer was invented and now that it’s here it really makes you question why it’s never been done before doesn’t it?
Specifically, this little beauty is designed to assist in the preparation of soumen, which is a cold noodle dish. Add cold water, place the noodles in the river, and let the strainer do its stuff. After a few minutes all you need do is fish the noodles from the water and hey presto.
Rather handily, the USB noodle strainer also includes a little serving island where you can store your preferred noodle accompaniments for addition at the final stage. I think you’d agree that you would have to go a long way indeed to find anything quite as useful and beneficial to the average computer owner.
The alternative is to boil a kettle, place hot water on Pot Noodle and then leave to cool for twenty minutes while playing your favourite multiplayer game. This offers the advantage that various synthetic cardboard shapes have already been added to spice up your noodles for you.
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3 Lowers Mobile Broadband Modem Price To £49.99
May 1, 2008
Mobile broadband dongles offer an excellent method of connecting to the Internet and bring truly wireless networks to reality. 3 has made the prospect even more appealing by reducing the price of their Pay As You Go dongle from the original £99.99 to £49.99 – an impressive price reduction no matter how you cut it.
Pay As You Go customers buy add-ons that range from £10 to £25 and provide the user with a one month download allowance. £10 buys 1GB, £15 buys 3GB, and £25 buys 7GB. Considering the technology is still relatively new, the prices don’t look that unattractive to those that have a real need to be able to connect to the Internet while on the move.
Alternatively, Pay Monthly deals are available, which include the dongle free of charge. The standard Pay Monthly tariff costs £15 per month and offers a 3GB allowance. The monthly costs are actually identical to the Pay As You Go costs but you do get the dongle for free.
And I’m sure you’ll all be pleased to hear that even though the USB Modems aren’t the ugliest thing introduced, you can also buy skins to customise them – skins are currently offered at two for the price of one.
Uno - The Motorised Unicycle… Sort Of
May 1, 2008
The 2008 National Motorcycle Show threw up a bit of a blinder in terms of unique concepts and brilliant design. The Uno uses two side by side wheels and balances perfectly upright through the use of two gyroscopes. The 18 year old inventor, Ben J Poss Gulak boasts that the machine is so simple to operate that it only requires a single on/off switch.
In order to accelerate, the rider leans forward. The more you lean forward, the more the Uno accelerates. In a similar vein, leaning backwards causes the Uno to decelerate. The gyroscopes and the lay out of the twin wheels also mean that leaning to either side will cause the bike to steer in that direction.
It looks precarious but it went down a storm at the motor show. Ben answered all the questions that were inevitably thrown at him. He learned his trade from his Engineering grandfather and plans to create more one-off inventions. Quite where you go after creating a motorised unicycle I have no idea but for its uniqueness and engineering brilliance this is one incredible machine.
