Webism Today

  It appears as if today is not going to be a slow news day. Already it’s been reported that The Guardian has taken its newspaper out of print and onto Twitter, dangerous hummingbirds have been spotted in rural Gloucestershire (by Dr Julius Doctor) and Warner Bros have acquired the Pirate Bay. It’s April 1st [...]

If you’re finding you’re spending too much time online, surfing the net and watching online TV, don’t worry – you’re not alone – in the UK that is, anyway. This is the latest findings that the UK is ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to embracing new digital technologies, particularly when [...]

It doesn’t matter if you’re a fanatical PC gamer, a web designer, an office worker or just someone who spends hours surfing the web; if you use a computer mouse on a regular and prolonged basis you’re sure to be affected by sweaty-palm syndrome. It’s a biological fact that when a person comes in contact [...]

At the time of writing this post, there were 8006 members on the new Hoff Space. That’s right, David Hasselhoff’s, of Baywatch and pop star (well in Germany) fame, very own social networking site. More than a fan site, this brings together the fans with all the additional add-ons like gadgets, groups, photo and video [...]

If you were worried that snail mail was a dying art, then fear not – it’s making a comeback. The project by Bournemouth University’s Vicky Isley and Paul Smith is perhaps taking the well-known nickname for letters sent over land a little too literally, though – it’s involved fitting three snails with electronic devices that [...]

Becky Stern of the CraftZine’s blog found this quirky looking purse. What do you make of it? Refreshingly new, not for you or perhaps even a little off? Quite a few people we’ve showed the picture too thought the design was pretty funky. The commends at CraftZine less welcoming though and commentator Ellen even asked, [...]

As the video from the HouseholdHacker shows, after soaking an onion in Gatorade for 30 minutes, he literally just plugs his iPod USB cord directly into the onion and hey presto – the iPod appears to start charging. However, there has been much debate online as to whether this is genuinely possible, or whether it’s [...]

MoneySavingExpert has been subject to a DDOS attack. Martin Lewis told the Register that the timing of the attack is “probably not a coincidence“. The Register thought the story had some weight – but how did the blogosphere react? It wasn’t such a big story for the internet community. The original Digg picked up only [...]