If you’re used to working with version control systems like CVS, Subversion or Git in order to keep track of changes to your code, then you will be well aware that changes to binary files such as images, just can’t be tracked in the same way. Sure, there is no problem storing your binary data [...]

Last night at roughly 8:17pm New Yorkers got a chance to experience ‘Manhattanhenge‘, the semiannual occurrence where the setting sun aligns perfectly with east-west streets.  If you missed it don’t worry though, a second date this year is expected to take place on Monday, July 11 at 8:25 p.m. I so wish I lived in [...]

For anyone familiar with the movie The Day After Tomorrow you will have seen the effects of Supercooling.  This happened thousands of years ago in Antarctica. It happened before, It will happen again. The annual mean temperature of Antarctica is below 0c (freezing temperature of fresh water). Salt water has a lower freezing point, depending [...]

Mozilla has released the first publicly available beta of Firefox 5, which acts as a halfway house between the final stable, final release of Firefox and the developmental version, Firefox Aurora. The beta version offers a more stable environment than Aurora in which to road-test developmental features before they’re implemented into the next final release. [...]

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Data theft is, quite simply, the unauthorised copying or removal of confidential information from a business or other large enterprise. It can take the form of ID-related theft (the theft of customer records) or the theft of a company’s proprietary information or intellectual property. ID Data Theft ID-related data theft occurs when customer records are [...]