Tomas Mowlam
Tom grew up on the windy south coast of Dorset, before shipping up to London where he studied Journalism and History. He enjoys writing about computers, but enjoys taking them apart and seeing how they work even more. His main interests are history books, being pedantic, punk music, pubs and running.
McAfee releases details of teen internet use survey
Monday, June 28, 2010
Tomas Mowlam reports on the a McAfee which highlights the dangerous amount of information American teens give out about themselves online.
Google Chrome: new OS of choice for netbooks?
Monday, June 28, 2010
Google’s Chrome operating system might just be the future for netbooks; Tomas Mowlam gets out the crystal ball and explains about the pared down, web centred system.
Chrome now has native PDF reader
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Google has announced that their Chrome browser will now feature a PDF reader. There are already existing plug-ins which allow you to open PDF files in your browser, but this development uses the API to make it a native part of Chrome, as with the browser’s support for Flash. Marc Pawliger, Engineering Director, posted in [...]
Registration opens for Adobe’s MAX 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
The annual worldwide Adobe conference is now open for registration. MAX 2010 will be hosted at the Los Angeles Convention Centre, California from October 23-27. There will be keynote speeches from Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch and CEO Shantanu Narayen (pictured). “MAX is a great forum for top industry experts, designers and developers to gather [...]
Anti-malware in latest Apple OS update
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Apple has included an anti-malware fix to the Snow Leopard operating system, to protect from a Trojan horse. The Trojan is disguised as the iPhoto software to fool people into downloading it, but allows access to the HellRTS Trojan. Macs are traditionally safer than Windows based machines, but are not invulnerable to malware, and as [...]
