3D printers have been a reality for some time now, but if we’re honest the majority of them are – let’s say – for hobbyists. Although it’s very impressive and meta to say that one RepRap printer can print off 40% of the parts for another, those parts still need a delicate hand and a good amount of geekery to produce another machine. Until now, these things have very much been out of the hands of consumers like you or me.

One problem that faces us as bloggers is how to keep users on the site, how to show them other content they might be interested in. The best way to do this appears to be a “related posts” plugin of some sort; but which to choose? For a long time, I’ve recommended YARPP (Yet Another Related Posts Plugin), but nRelate is a fairly new contender.

Are we in the midst of the final days of Microsoft as we know it? Feedback from tech professionals about Metro UI has been predominantly negative so far, but that’s the least of our worries if recents trends are any indication of the future. Here, dear readers, are 3 reasons why I think Microsoft is truly losing, if not lost already, the proverbial plot.

A recent UK high court ruling from a case brought by the British Phonographic Industry (the UK version of RIAA) means that The Pirate Bay is now inaccessible from many ISPs, with BT and remaining ISPs set to follow suit in the weeks to come. It’s a similar case in other European countries.

Writing a popular blog, getting famous, and then living off the Internet from a desert island beach are faily common dreams for many aspiring bloggers. With the advent of content management systems such as Wordpress which make it incredibly easy to get a professional looking websites up and running in no time – full of sophisticated features – the only thing really holding you back is your talent.

Sculpt is specifically made for the iPad – and is free for the time being. Sculpting is a natural fit for the iPad touch interface, and the app is an incredibly powerful way to realize your most horrific nightmarish creature designs, or simply as a fun creative exercise.

With the 3D printing revolution officially under way, the problem remains of how to get actually get a digitized 3D representation of something. You could start from scratch, using something like Google Sketchup, but I’d be lying if I told you it’s easy to create anything reasonably complex. Instead, it would be great if you could just take some pictures of a real life object, then somehow auto-magically transform that into a 3D model.

Posting recipes on a blog is something many of us do. This plugin called GetMeCooking makes it easy to manage and present your recipes in a nice and search engine friendly format, as well as automatically gives your recipe the chance to be listed on the Getmecooking.com recipe directory too, linking back to your site in the process.

The Internet is amazing, I think we can all agree on that. But have you ever sat down and thought how on earth a website actually makes its way to your computer? What technologies are behind MakeUseOf, for example? It’s a lot more than just a simple collection of HTML files and images. Read on to find out exactly what goes into running, hosting, and serving up a website for your consumption, dear readers.

As Bakari previously reported, the well loved Read It Later – which enabled users to save articles to read later from a bookmarklet or various apps it was integrated with – was discontinued and replaced with a new, free service called Pocket. Let’s take a closer look at Pocket today and what makes it the ultimate digital bookmarking service.