I am actually working from a beach thanks to GoToMyPc

GoToMyPC allows me to access my PC from anywhere on the Internet as though I were sitting in front of it. So when I am on vacation or just at a friend's house I can deal with urgent email and see if I've got any eBay or Amazon orders. Now what is wonderful about this is that I don't have the hassle of trying to load everything I think I'll need onto a laptop and then having all the subsequent problems of re-updating my main PC. GoToMyPC has allowed me to take working holidays and I love it. It's not cheap though so I'm amazed to see that www.logmein.com are offering a FREE remote login service, they hope you'll upgrade to their professional service of course. So there's nothing to stop you giving this a try. You can even use this on your home network to maintain other PCs without leaving your desk.

A reader Matt recommends the also free RealVNC which is widely used by the technical community, the only hassle with this is that an Internet Cafe etc might not allow you to install the RealVNC client.

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Most Internet Users: China Overtakes the USA

Well that sure is a milestone and symbolic of the increasing power of China, but I'll be impressed when there is a chinese Google or Facebook. America (and I'm not American) is still the powerhouse of ideas from Silicon Valley to Hollywood and not to forget that marvel the iPhone!

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test/share your code at www.codepad.org

codepad.org is an online compiler/interpreter, and a simple collaboration tool.
Paste your code into the textbox, and codepad will run it and give you a short URL you can use to share it in chat or email.

This is a great idea which allows you to get/offer debugging help without the hassle or risks of supplying FTP details to another person, installing compilers etc.

Supported languages are PHP,Perl,C,Ruby,Python,C++,TCL etc etc

What it is
codepad.org is an online compiler/interpreter, and a simple collaboration tool. It's a pastebin that executes code for you. You paste your code, and codepad runs it and gives you a short URL you can use to share it. Paste the URL into chat or email to get help or to show someone how to do something. Or just try things out when you don't have an interpreter handy. It works well on many phones.

MK14 Corner

My first business venture, I made and sold accessories for Sinclair's First Home Computer the MK14 which cost just £39.95. Boy was it primitive but great fun, used a calculator display as a "screen". A dreadful 16 key touch pad (I sold a real mechanical keyboard). It had no permanent memory, you had to manually enter the program in machine code.

I remember the duckshoot game and you could make it play a tune.

FireFox 3 New Features

What is extraordinarily useful in the new FireFox is the predictive URL when you type in the URL toolbar. Formerly these operated on the beginning or the URL eg www.go would autmatically flash up all urls you'd typed beginning www.go in your history log. Now if FF3 it will match any text anywhere in the URL or in the description. So if I wanted to recall a page about goats, all I'd have to do is type goat and the URL would pop-up. Excellent