It's been nearly four years since this site last had a redesign. I had grown rather fond of the simplistic style, of the various coloured boxes that made up the slimline, fast downloading design that's been ...

Most techies know that e-mail, instant messaging and other Internet-borne communication is never truly anonymous. They also know that it can hang around for a long time, loitering on backup disks, mail servers and local hard ...

About a decade ago I worked on one of the most addictive computer games of its time; SimCity 2000. I did a bit of localisation and product development, but a lot of technical support, and answering ...

Numerous reports into the life of the average British office worker have shown that people in this country work harder than anyone outside of a Bolivian salt mine and plough through, on average, 237 e-mails per ...

Having recently moved house and thinking that it might be nice to have a decent home Internet connection rather than two yoghurt pots and a piece of string (or dial-up, as it's sometimes known), I entered ...

IT Reviews went live six years ago this week. I believe that Internet years are like dog years - they're worth seven human years each - so this site is actually approaching the ripe old age ...

On April 1st at 8pm, tickets for the Glastonbury Festival 2004 went on sale. Potential buyers had two options; the phone line or the Web site. To reduce the chances of touts getting their hands on ...

In 1998, when this site first went live, traffic to these pages at Christmas was only around 10 percent of normal levels. Fair enough, you might think - there are better things to do with your ...

I can rarely be accused of shouting at my television set, because I haven't owned one for a few years, but when visiting a friend's house and seeing Intel's laughable "Wireless broadband on top of a ...

A few months ago I wrote about the perils of working too hard. In September this year, the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) promoted "Work-life balance week" in an attempt to curb the ...

It's not so long ago that I wrote about 'SpouseTracker', an imaginary system that would allow you to type your partner's mobile phone number into a Web site in order to find their location in the ...

It's not often that the UK benefits from a run of decent, sunny weather. But we're doing fairly well in this respect at the moment, and global warming may increase our chances of fine weather in ...

Hard work isn't all it's cracked up to be. Quite apart from the fact that working your proverbials off is likely to result in stress, depression, heart disease and possibly even some types of cancer, it ...

A couple of years ago I commented that the Web was little more than a glorified library, with many of the same benefits and disadvantages. Since then, though, I've changed my mind. Arguably the Web's most ...

Since I last wrote an editorial on the spam menace, things seem to have taken a turn for the worse, with the vast majority of e-mail users now affected by regular offers of prescription drugs, pornography, ...

Strange as it may seem, Christmas can be one of the most stressful times of the year. People who spend the rest of their time successfully juggling the demands of home life, work and play often ...

Recently, we've reviewed a couple of speech recognition packages (you can read the reviews here). They're good; with a bit of training you can get far higher word speeds than you could get by typing, even ...

A couple of weeks ago I went to the "Game On" exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London. It's a temporary shrine to all that's ever been wonderful and ground-breaking in the video games world. And ...

"Hello, could I speak to Mr... Crickshaw? Crankshaft? Crewickshank?" "No. (click)" I'm not a fan of cold calling, whether it's for double glazing, roofing, 'free' holidays (how naïve can people be?) or any other pointless marketing ...

Too much sunshine can go to your head, especially if there's loads of work to do and you really can't be bothered. So, while piles of paperwork beckon, I'm sitting outside listening to the Belgium versus ...