Toby Leftly — Historical articles

It's been 18 years since AutoCAD ran on Macs, but now they're back - and boy are they back. After a short period of existing only within the Windows...

Let's face it, even in a world where spam is a daily occurrence, we still receive a load of email that isn't spam, but might as well be. For example,...

The big news announcement of the day is that MPEG LA, license holder for a number of high profile video standards has declared all h.264 video will be...

The tech world is a heated place, with cutthroat competition and backstabbing commonplace. Microsoft has been known to be as harsh a competitor as anyone...

Two big studios have joined forces to tackle a problem facing the industry. Which is great news, except they're working on the wrong problem. Warner Bros...

Google's new calling feature, typically poorly named and chucked out there to exist somewhere between Google Chat and Google Voice is a hit compared to,...

If you hate Facebook, mark the date September 15th in your calendar. The guys from Diaspora, the anti-Facebook, have announced that their product is ready...

Okay, I've watched the video three times now, and I still don't entirely get what this thing is actually used for. But I've run...

You know those little icons you see in the tab of each website you visit? They're called favicons, from 'Favorite Icon'. Ever wondered what a million of...

There has been some concern over the past few days about a potential security hole in iTunes, although reviews by Apple and PayPal show that no...

Shocking though it might be, Good Ole' Boy John Mellencamp hates the internet, despises iPods and tortures kittens in his spare time.Okay, he doesn't...

It's been talked about for a while. It's been hypothesized, contemplated, dissected, discussed and dismissed, but it might actually see the light of day....