British government Web site warns of the dangers of terrorist threat

With an attack on Iraq imminent and following Saddam Hussain's threat to carry the war throught the world, the government has chosen today to issue guidelines to the British people about any possible terrorist attack. The Home Office Web site states flatly, 'We are.. ...more

The PDA bounces back

The death of the PDA has been somewhat exaggerated it seems. Despite a slump in demand between 2002 and 2004, sales are once more picking up. According to the latest figures from research company Gartner, worldwide PDA shipments totalled 3. ...more

www.iwantmorecoffee.com

In a bizarre melding of two technologies, a leading coffee machine manufacturer announces its plans for the 21st century. Italian company Lavazza has teamed up with US technology group eDevice to produce a 'smart' coffee machine with Internet access. I know it sounds like a character from Douglas Adams' Hitch-hikers' Guide to the Galaxy books but the new e-espressopoint machines have a serious application. ...more

Apple releases iPod shuffle reset utility

Apple has released a reset utility that addresses four potential problems with first-generation 512MB and 1GB iPod shuffles. The software fixes the following: with the iPod shuffle switched on, pressing the Play button will cause amber and green LEDs to flash for a few seconds, and the unit will not play any music, nor can you sync music to it from iTunes; on a Windows PC, iPod shuffle will appear in My Computer as a 'Removable Disk', but the iPod shuffle volume will not mount correctly; on a Mac, the unit will only be recognised in Apple System Profiler under Hardware>USB and will not appear or mount in the Finder; when attempting to restore, the unit may not be recognised at all and if it is (possibly after several minutes), the restore may fail with an error dialog 'Firmware update failure. Disk write error' or another error - it may take three restore attempts before the error appears. ...more

Macromedia powers up Contribute

Macromedia has updated its Contribute application, which enables the editing of website content without the need for specialist skills. Contribute 3.1 for Mac and Windows fixes half a dozen performance issues - see the release notes for details - and is available from www. ...more