Today I set myself a challenge: to use no other device except for my iPad. Purely as an experiment to see how well it can handle the busy-ness that is my life. I will put to test the range of free and paid apps that I have at my disposal and see which ones excell at helping me with vital day to day goals. 8:56am – Pages – £5.99 I am writing this on the Pages app by apple themselves. It is brilliant. It has everything I feel I...

This small script will read a single line of text from a .txt file on the inter-webs (untested with multiple lines). It will save the data as a string and then can be converted to an integer for later use. This is a very “mock-up” way of doing this as I am currently learning Java and have not as of yet found a better alternative. I don’t recommend using this in a large project as it could become unstable under high load. I...

Google has removed more than 11 million .co.cc websites from its search engine index. Google has modified its malware detection system to identify sub-domain level services which have been used by criminals to register thousands of domains and host malware and fake anti-virus software. As the result of these changes, Google has removed more than 11 million .co.cc websites from it search engine results pages on the basis that most of them...

British police are currently dealing with a digital crime have arrested a 19 year-old in Essex who was accused of participating in LulzSec’s recent attack of online accounts. This marks the first time that someone has been nabbed since the group set up in early June. The investigators, working with the FBI, ZDNet reports, arrested the teenager under charges from the Computer Misuse Act and Fraud Act. Presumably tying him to...

Nowadays hard drives are all about how much data you can shove on to them and how fast you can do so. And this soon-to-be announced Phase-Change memory is expected to up the ante quite a bit. Students from UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering are getting ready to show off their new type of SSD that they have nicknamed, “Moneta”. But Moneta isn’t just a regular SSD. Instead it’s a Phase-Change memory...