Tag: technology
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Banned From Facebook
Dan gets banned from Facebook, for being too awesome. Or something. He wasn't really paying attention to the reason, because he was distracted by all of the adverts and clutter that Facebook's full of, these days.
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Cold-call scam attempts to trick users into thinking their PC has a fault, sells them a "solution". Here's a recording.
More and more people are facing calls from companies claiming falsely that their computer is infected by a virus.
Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones had one such call and outlines how the scam works and how to avoid it.
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Goodbye Reader
After Google apply an ugly-as-sin new style and break some of his favourite features, Dan finally gives up on Google Reader and sets himself up on Tiny Tiny RSS instead.
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QR Codes of the Bodleian
For the Bodleian Libraries' latest exhibition, Treasures of the Bodleian, Dan's produced some unusual QR codes to sit alongside the exhibits.
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What's Wrong With My Phone
Dan finally puts his finger on what it is about his new phone that he doesn't fully get on with, and goes on to complain about the state of smartphones and mobile devices these days, which are being "dumbed down" to the lowest common denominator.
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A New Sensation
Dan's phone breaks, and even though the damage is minor and repairable, he gets a new one, simply because (a) he loves to get new geeky toys and (b) he thinks that the Universe talks to him through the medium of technical faults. Here's his review of the HTC Sensation, his new phone.
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On This Day In 2003
Today is the ninth birthday of Dan's blog on scatmania.org. Okay, okay, so he's actually been blogging in some form or another for almost four years longer than this, but it's still cool, however you look at it.
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Leading By Example
After getting thoroughly confused by the new European Union directives on the use of cookies, which come into force later this month, Dan goes to the Information Commissioner's website to look for some guidance... only to discover that they don't meet the new requirements, either.
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Deliciously Silly Password Restrictions
After being reminded that social bookmarking service del.icio.us exists, Dan logs in and gives it a go. His first experience with its new version... isn't terribly promising.
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Bank Security
Dan tries to tell a bank that their website is insecure. You'd think it'd be easier than this.
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World Backup Day
Dan encourages you to make backups, or to check that your existing backups are working, as part of your celebration of World Backup Day. Stop procrastinating and go do it.
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IE6 Countdown
Microsoft have finally started telling people NOT to use Internet Explorer 6, an awful outdated browser that's holding the web back. If you're one of the minority that are still using it, then please stop. Please.
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A New Way to Be Creepy on Facebook
Breakup Notifier is a useful - no, wait, that other thing: creepy - new service that lets you know when the relationship status of somebody you have a crush on changes, maximising your chance to exploit the window of opportunity in their romantic availability. Feel dirty yet? Wait until you read Dan's suggestions to improve the tool's profitability.
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Fox News on IPv6
Journalists continue to misrepresent and generally fuck up the public's understanding of the future of the Internet, and Dan simply can't help himself but to try to put them right.
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Parsing XML as JSON
This morning, I got an instant message from a programmer who's getting deeply into their Ajax recently. The conversation went something like this (I paraphrase and dramatise at least a little):
Morning! I need to manipulate a JSON feed so that [this JSON parser] will recognise it.
Here's what I get out of the JSON feed …