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The Metro free newspaper circulated around London rail stations reports: The Internet is turning many Britons into cheats, spies, thieves and liars who pretend they have far more interesting lives. More than half of us regularly illegally download music and films for free, while 46 percent of people...

27 years ago (or there abouts) as a young lad, I desperately saved to buy a Heathkit Hero Jr. Hero Jr was the little brother of the Hero 1 (which featured in an American TV serious and got me hooked on robotics). By the time I had enough money to phone Maplin and order a Hero Jr they had discontinued...

Finally getting time to tidy up the Wotudo installation. Latest correction is on anonymous comments - you can no leave a comment without having to be a signed in member. Which is just as well because I'm not allowing signed in members on the site yet as there are no forums - yet. Please do leave...

If you read this blog at all you'll know I enjoy building and dreaming of robots. So to co-inside with the Robots Supplement that is available this month we're running another competition - yes another one, that's three if you include the one in the robots supplement!!!! - where you can win...

Hot on the tail of the Robot Supplement is another collaboration with Future Publishing! Together we are running the Winter Snaps competition - with some VERY cool prizes . All you have to do to enter is upload a picture that - for you - captures the spirit of the festive winter season and then get your...

Linked to Gizmodo post. The Eye-Fi is an SD memory card that adds Wi-fi to almost any camera and is coupled with a free Eye-Fi service that supports automatic uploads to 20 different web photo sites inc. Flickr as well as your home computer. Cool. Technorati Tags: Paul Foster , Eye-Fi , Photography

This year's Poppy Appeal has a number of new virtual ways to participate. You can now send a Poppy to friends on Facebook. Get a Poppy email signature and poppy wall paper for your mobile phone! The Poppy Appeal supports British men and women who have bravely done our bidding all over the world in...

Another product announcement which makes online web life super fun is Microsoft Popfly is now in open beta - which means we can all play with it! Popfly allows you to make the most of web stuff in a way that suits you (sir) by using a simple drag and drop tool to 'program' your mashups. You may...

You take lots of photos while out enjoying life - but do you get to share them? You may be surprised to know that most people don't either. It seems that most of us don't know how simple it is to share photos on via the web or are even to frightened to look! Well now, thanks to Windows Live Photo...

Saw this PC Plus magazine article which tells a great story. After doing some photography focus groups we have discovered the astonishing fact that out there in the 'real world' - where people have real lives that don't revolve around technology - technical awareness is really really low...