Phil Bradley's weblog

Dave Pattern the Library Systems Manager, University of Huddersfield has recently created the HotStuff resource. This is a collection of feeds from almost 1,000 library related blogs, which are col...

As regular readers will know, I like the concept of start or home pages. While there are a fair number of these around the three major contenders are Pageflakes, Netvibes and iGoogle. There's been ...

I was recently tasked with finding a user manual for my wife's sewing machine. Normally the first place that I'd go for something like this is to the website of the company that produced it, but cu...

If you like to know what you're missing on television because you're too busy sitting on your computer you might have used TV Genius in the past. As of today however they've closed their doors. The...

Noticed via Twitter is ButtonAll which looks rather like this: ButtonAll :: Search it all on the internet’s universal remote via kwout It's fairly straightforward as you can see - simply type in wh...

Social search engines are all the rage at the moment and I'm fully expecting that to continue way into 2009. The first on the list for the new year is Gajeebo 'your search ends here'. Well perhaps....

Fun article from the BBC NEWS | Technology site which has picked up on a TNS survey looking at internet use. UK housewives spend 47% of their leisure time online. I'm rather doubtful of this figure...

According to the website SideStripe is "a social network search engine that provides
answers from the only source of information that you can really trust:
your friends. Your days of searching alon...

You have to look closely at the name here - I misread it to begin with and thought it was Who Stalkin'? and thought it was some sort of way to find out if you had some sort of rabid moron hiding ar...

The AllInOneNews search engine collates data from 1,800 news engines from 200 countries in order to provide searchers with very basic, but reasonable results. A search will provide users with title...