Web art advice

So, you’ve decided you’d like to paint in oils, fantastic! Now you need to know a few things about it, otherwise that stunning picture you’re intending to paint might not turn out exactly as your vision intended.

1) Don’t go out and spend a lot of money on a proper artist board; have you got any old paintings you don’t like? Great! Then take the backing board out and paint on that.

2) Always cover the board in an emulsion Read the rest of this entry »

Malicious hackers always keep themselves one step above security experts, their methods keep on changing to adapt to new barriers and they find new and better techniques all the time. Even the most secure web users fall into their traps. So do you really know how to be safe from shareware? Or Trojan text messages? Or social network data harvesting? One of the most common security threats is the shortened URL. Here is some simple advice on how to stop Read the rest of this entry »

The Cure are a band that I have always liked. It’s difficult to believe, but they have now been going for a staggering 34 years and have recorded 13 studio albums. I reckon that Robert Smith has been threatening to call it a day for the last 24 years…

I was thinking back to watching them on TV at Glastonbury in 1995 when they headlined. It had blown me away at the time and I wondered if there was any Read the rest of this entry »

For anyone who is into camping, DIY or hiking there a couple of really smart multi-tools on ‘I Want One of Those!’. The first one that caught my eye was the ‘SLP 2 Survival Tool’. When I first saw the main photograph I was under the impression that it was specially designed for cutting a block of Double Gloucester (with chives) in the dark. However, upon closer inspection I saw that it had far more about it than that…

The Read the rest of this entry »

Tengu is a strange little USB gadget to have… but if you get a bit lonely when you are busy on your computer then he may just be the perfect answer!

He is, apparently, a very sensitive little chap. No, I don’t mean that he will start blubbering uncontrollably when he sits through E.T. or Bambi; it is all to do with sound, you see. According to the info about him on ‘I Want One of Those!’, Tengu will respond Read the rest of this entry »