Six years ago Oracle, the database company which acquired the Java programming language when Sun Microsystems went titsup in 2009 started a lawsuit claiming that Google, by using some of the Java APIs in its Android operating system.After trying to licence Java from Sun in 2005 …

I was just talking to my colleague Pete about how useful Google’s Did you mean? feature is as a spell checker. It comes up with much better suggestions than other systems. So here is a quick lunchtime hack that uses the little-known Lynx browser -dump command and some Perl to make a comma …

At New Internationalist, where I work, we often struggle to find Creative Commons images that are large enough to use for print. This is a custom google search form that sets up parameters for a search of commercially reusable and modifiable images suitable for print at sizes of 5.333x4 inches or …

NOTE Google changed the gmail API some time ago. I haven't been able to suss out how and they haven't documented it. So I’m no longer able to support this project. My apologies.This Greasemonkey script hides the right hand side ads on gmail and widens the email bit. You'll need to install …