“Mobile phone users in the UK sent a record 3.3 billion text messages in May, figures show.” BBC NEWS | Technology | Texting levels reach record high

That’s an average of over 100,000,000 text messages per day or about 1,200 per second! Or a lot of people with repetitive strain injury on their thumbs.

As for me, [...]

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For those of you with widescreen macs, who use Apple’s Mail.app for your email, may like the following hack to convert it to a 3 column view for viewing messages.

It is not quite as neatly done as you would expect from a proper Apple release, there is a slight quirk with resizing the two main [...]

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An article in The Guardian Newspaper shows just how much personal information we throw away, without thinking about it.

In this case it was a stub from an airplane boarding pass, which had the traveler’s name and frequent flyer number. From this it was possible to get his Passport number, date of birth, and then [...]

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I have just watched the very interesting, funny, and thought provoking, “Robert Newman’s History of Oil” on More4.

Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years – but rather than adhering to history, he places oil centre stage as the cause of all the commotion.

Robert argues, as has been [...]

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Another detailed, but succinct (if that’s not an oxymoron), post by John Gruber. This time about apple’s decision to release ‘Boot Camp’ (which lets you run Windows on a new Intel mac), well worth reading if you are into technology: Daring Fireball: Windows: The New Classic

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