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Print journalists learn to use video

Admin | Monday 26 March 2007

The Guardian looks at how print journalists are beginning to use video and asks whether web video could mean a new ‘golden age’ for newspapers.

Free books

Admin | Monday 26 March 2007

Project Gutenberg has 20,000 free out-of-copyright books online. Page By Page Books is also worth a visit.

A week ago yesterday I awoke to find I had a large black ‘floater’ in my right eye. It was like a daddy-long-legs at a window. As I moved my eye, it leapt around — sometimes in the opposite direction. It was disturbing… But I wear contact lenses and I thought maybe I had a … Posterior Vitreous Detachment

Free wifi wireless hotspots in Manchester

Admin | Sunday 25 February 2007

A useful map of places that offer free wifi in Manchester city centre. There’s talk of free wireless internet across the whole of Greater Manchester by next summer. Which will be great if they can do it. It would totally change the way that I work, that’s for sure. Though I wonder if restricting it … Free wifi wireless hotspots in Manchester

‘Snow chaos’ doesn’t hit Manchester. Hundreds of thousands severely not affected by lack of weather disruption

Admin | Friday 9 February 2007

Looking out of my high-rise window across the whole of south Manchester, the only snow I can see is about 15 miles away on the hills of the Peak District and some more further east on the hills near Stalybridge…

Resource-hungry websites

Admin | Wednesday 7 February 2007

The animated Flash advertisements on some websites can hog an extraordinary amount of your computer’s processing power.

Manchester City Council – the ‘system error’ council

Admin | Thursday 11 January 2007

If there was a prize for the website with the most downtime then Manchester City Council’s so-called ‘online payments’ page would surely win it.

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