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The screening of The Bang Bang Club at the Tribeca film festival gave additional pause for thought, coming as it did in the same week as the deaths of photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros in Libya. Based on the real-life experiences of four photojournalists covering the tribal violence between Inkatha and ANC supporters in the early 90s, writer/director Steven Silver admitted the tragedy had “cast a long shadow over the film”. Indeed, it’s hard to watch the dramatic conclusion and not be chilled by the similarity in which Hetherington and Hondros lost their lives. Read full review on Guardian Unlimited
It’s not the most user-friendly application in the world, but Excel can sometimes be crucial to our working lives. Loathed by many, it’s a bit like a cantankerous old man: intimidating at first, but scratch the surface and you’ll develop a grudging respect for its wisdom.
One of the big problems with Excel spreadsheets is their size. At more than 16 million cells, they’re great if you’ve got a lot of info to input but a bit tricky when it comes to navigation. Usually you won’t need to see all of the data in a spreadsheet, and it’s even less likely you’ll want to print it all. Read full article on Guardian Unlimited
Instant Messenger isn’t just the favoured mode of communication for depressed teenagers avoiding homework; it can be invaluable for those urgent work questions that need an answer sharpish, too. Unfortunately it’s unlikely that all your friends and colleagues have the decency to choose the same messenging client – some will use Yahoo, others can dabble in Google Talk or AIM. So what do you do to prevent your desktop becoming cluttered with buddy lists from all your different IM accounts? Read full article on Guardian Unlimited
If the stickers dotted around coffee shops are to be believed, the UK is one big Wi-Fi hotspot. But unfortunately, a hotspot is often not a free spot. While it’s nice to believe we’re living in a free wireless internet utopia, in fact you’ll probably have to pay for your web surfing along with your skinny mocha. Combine that with the fact hotspots are location-dependent, and getting online no longer seems quite so easy. Read full article on Guardian Unlimited
Ploughing through the reams of results generated by your search terms in Google can be a tedious affair – and it doesn’t help when sneaky web designers use their dark art to make sites pop up that bear little or no relevance to your search. Those links and text-only snippets that Google provides often don’t give much away – so it’s all too easy to end up on an irrelevant or potentially harmful rogue site.
To help combat this problem, the third-party browser extension GooglePreview shows thumbnail images of the sites included in your search results. Read full article on Guardian Unlimited
