Battlefields and bikes: blogging from the edge
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“Get yourself set up with a Twitter account. It’s a nice, low-cost way of letting people know if you get into trouble or are kidnapped. You can agree on a keyword with friends to use if they need to start mobilising help for you and then you can just text that word when you are [...]
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The future of data is geographically aware
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In the future, more data will be tagged with geographic information. Already, you can tag photographs on Flickr, for example. The trend is set to explode, and it’s all because of GIS. This three-letter acronym means Geographical Information System – that is, any software system for creation, correlation, display and interactive analysis of geography-related data. [...]
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12 reasons PC gaming is better than consoles
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While Xbots and the Sony Defence Force argue among themselves, and Wii-mers (Wii-ers?) throw ever more ridiculous shapes pretending to play the tambourine or something, there is another group of gamers who quietly, happily, enjoy the best gaming platform yet invented – the PC.
And while, granted, some huge percentage of PCs are never used for [...]
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