The Gadget Show Campaign For Free wifi.

Well I keep meaning to blog about this but keep forgetting finally I remembered!

But if you watch “The Gadget Show” on five you will know about their free wifi campaign in the UK for free wifi, I think this is a brilliant idea they have done it in a couple of places in the US and it has helped poor communities to build up their community.

But in this campaign I can see a lot of problems for example carrying your laptops around with you in busy areas can lead to much more problems with anti social behaviour as you will see a increase in crime rates, which is already a massive problem.

It will confine the war drivers though as they will just stay in towns sniffing people’s traffic but could this also lead to a new generation of hackers?

I have signed up to this campaign and I hope all the readers out their reading my blog will also sign up for free WiFi.

I would love to hear your comments on this as I’m not too sure about the subject in hand as it could be a very dangerous idea to unleash.

Vista, well too me it sounds like a load of hot air.

Lets start off from looking at Windows 95/98.

Windows 95: It was a break through in computer operating systems, I still have 95 running on a machine somewhere you compare it to any before that and you will see that it was unbelievable at how good it was it practically lead the way to our more modern operating systems like XP and for this windows will never be forgotten.

Windows 98/SE: I was a user of this for many many years it was very recent that I actually switched to XP maybe a year ago I was still using 98SE fabulous operating system had the 95 feel too it but with a much wider range of usage.

Windows ME: This was pretty much a failure you couldn’t see anything new about it, 98 was still loads better than ME, so nothing else I can put here really.

Windows XP: Now were getting to the big players, XP was simply amazing with its looks and many more features one of the biggest features I can think of now are “plug and play” and this was a large reason why a lot of people switched from 98.

Spam how do we get it?

Well the most common way as you might already know is posting your email address online, which if you’re a webmaster is very annoying because you have to make a image with your email address on so that the ‘spiders’ can’t read it.

The other way is submitting your email address to people, a while ago I submitted one of my old email addresses to a free host website and I started to get a lot of spam and increasing amount of spam over the couple of months from what I recall I had about 20 emails a day.

But thinking back to it now it was a very stupid thing to do submitting my email address to a free host website but now you see companies actually giving out emails (bulk) for a charge and these are their customers or it could even be someone from the inside of the company leaking the information out.

But nowadays you need to submit your email address to practically everything you do for example posting a comment on a blog you need to use your email to verify your not a spammer or you want to download something you need to verify your email address again.

Google Desktop

Well I’ve been playing around with Google Desktop now for the past couple of weeks to see what its like as it looked very interesting, normally I would be very picky with something like this but its completely customizable, I have the google search (for my computer) which indexes all my files (brilliant) scratch pad really handy if you haven’t got notepad running or Opera, Email this is the best one of all it will make a email bold if I haven’t read it theirs no need to click send and receive all the time or go to your inbox to check its just on the right side of the screen I love it!

GdRSS Reader if you read a couple of blogs this isn’t too bad but not something I’m bothered about having but you know if you like to keep up with all your blogs it’s a life saver.

There is loads of other brilliant gadgets out their from clocks to virtual plant pots, give it a go Google Desktop

Blogging the Hardest Thing about it.

Well very lately I’ve been completely stuck for what to write about, and as many of you bloggers out their you will know.

But what should you do about it, a couple of people have recommended that I go searching the news sites but I feel as if that’s plagiarism when I write about something I want it to be from my head, I have experimented before with trying out writing news reports which I’ve found from sites like the BBC etc, but the main thing at why people like blogs (in my mind) is because its coming from the bloggers point of view (not in the third person).

So what ever you do, do not copy do not get ideas from other blogs, read books about what you want to write about then research it so you can put it in as much detail as possible from your point of view.