£20 Laptops?

Students at the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science have developed a laptop that could cost less than £20.


It has been designed as a touch screen for browsing the internet, word processing and holding video conferences.

It uses a memory card rather than a hard drive and can run on solar power.

A manufacturer for the device is now being sought.

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10740817

Police trialling crime software

According to the Guardian newspaper, two Police forces in the UK are trialling a system called Crush - Criminal Reduction Utilising Statistical History which helps to identify where crimes are mostly likely to happen. It has been likened to the pre-crime units used in the film Minority Report.


Crush, developed by IBM, evaluates patterns of previous incidents and can help police to determine potential hot-spots and deploy resources to that area.

Browser Check

Qualys has launched a free tool to "check your browser to identify any security issues" You need to install a plugin and it checks for security holes in your browser and its plugins.


The FAQs can be found here: https://browsercheck.qualys.com/support.php#s2  

If you want to speak to someone about potential security threats, speak to your IT support team.

.co Domains

The new .co domain was made publicly available to everyone yesterday. Anyone can now register a .co domain. It opens up many opportunities to buy a domain name that is not available as a .co.uk or .com.


Companies wanting to secure their trademarks could purchase .co domains first which ended on 10th June 2010 and was called the .co Sunrise Phase.

co could stand for company, corporate and commerce.

Blacklisted Email Address

Am I blacklisted?
Find out your IP address by searching on the internet for 'what is my ip address'. Enter this number into spamcop at http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml and it will tell you.

To find out if you have been blacklisted you can ask your ISP:
will need to find out what your IP address is.
Go to Google and type in “what is my ip address” and any of the websites listed will tell you if you click on them.
Then go to http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml
You will then need to request your IP address is removed.

Add an email address to a whitelist

How do add someone onto my Whitelist?

You need to go to find out who your registrar is.

You can find this out by visiting www.names.co.uk and entering in the domain. This will tell you the name of your Registrar. Contact them and ask them for access to your control panel so that you can add people to your whitelist.
Alternatively, if you have webmail you may be able to add people to a whitelist under preferences or settings.

Online Egg Timer

If you find that you are always getting carried away searching the internet you can use http://e.ggtimer.com/


Simply enter in the time you want the egg timer to set off an alarm and click go.

You can even use it for counting down years and months.

eps Viewer

I have a file in eps format but I can’t open it as I don’t have the software – what can I do?
You can use the 3m Eps viewer

Find the file on your computer and click on the view button.

http://promote.3m.com/eps_viewer/index.jsp