I'd like to introduce a concept that has some equivalent in the real world, but like most analogues it has been cranked up to 11 by the introduction of the internet.

Bored Browsing. On some nights I can find my wife simply browsing websites. Using the hyperlinks between brand and category links like the winding twisting corridors of an emporium's labyrinth.

The web has taken the planning and time component of bored or recreational shopping out of the equation and put...

As part of a project I was completing in Computer Security I thought I would target war-driving.

For those who do not know what war-driving is - it is essentially the process of using off-the-shelf computing equipment to identify unsecured or poorly secured networks to exploit for free bandwidth or to access.

I thought the most practical way of gaining data was to simply walk from one end of a street to the other end, using my modest Blackberry mobile phone to scan...

It is often surprising to people from a marketing or business background to find that creating software is in reality different to the conceptual simplicity of the idea for the software.

Case in point, my brother, who is a senior member of a well known job searching agency in Australia wanted to do an app that on a conceptual level seemed easy. He wanted the app to analyse photos to see if they conformed to standards of composition so they could be rated and the user provided feedback...