Don't believe the hype
Gartner has been telling European clients which technologies it thinks are ready for adoption and which ones can wait a few years.
Schofield column
Guardian Online

Choosing a digital camera for copying and other close-up tasks. Printing multiple pictures on a single sheet of paper. Eliminating some of the Google-spammers who are getting their sites too prominently displayed. A browser hi-jacked by Lucky Search, and how to get rid of it. Backchat: a drive to store photos on the move, and more ways to pickup RSS feeds with and without Microsoft Outlook.
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The coming software patent crisis
Tim Berners-Lee, the Web's inventor, has joined in the fight to help Microsoft, which lost a software patent case over browser plug-in technologies.
Schofield column
Guardian Online



The Royal College of Art's Secret postcard sale. A launch pad for sites about the US presidential elections. A great collection of police mugshots. Google now lets you define: words. Mooter -- a search engine that clusters results. Brainstorm -- software to help you organize your thoughts.
Web watch


A resistible offer from Top-Sites; one way to keep your digital pictures on a long trip; getting RSS feeds in Microsoft Outlook; and dealing with a PC that dials by itself. Backchat: synchronizing a PC's clock; keyboard shortcuts; and more on movie formats.
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