I have been considering buying an iPad because it would make life much easier *if* it had the tools to become a mini-office machine where I could tap out letters and do some basic sorts of things. However, initial reviews suggested it couldn’t do these things so I held off and then my partner bought one. So I had a play with iWork and this is what I found.

Looks like there is a scam going round the email for this grand marque champagne. If you get an email like the one below, ignore it unless you want to lose a lot of money (Cristal 2002 is approx £175 per bottle).

Unless you have been living under a rock recently, you will have noticed the fervent debate and campaigning over the Digital Economy Bill which was made law today. Back in Q1 2009, the EU Data Retention Directive also became law in the UK, and it would appear that as long as you follow it, you mitigate the liability of operating a public hotspot. Here’s how.

This isn’t a post aimed at sysadmins, as they will know this already. However, it’s a post intended for a business owner or decision maker who places the contract for web hosting, and is intended to highlight at a high level some of the security risks that exist to their websites just by being on the Internet.

The auto-upgrade feature of Wordpress can stall on Cloud hosting. Here’s how to quickly and easily fix it to save time and effort.