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Supermarkets are killing the shopkeeper we are often told. Whilst many butchers and greengrocers have found themselves shutting up shop over the last twenty years or more, I believe there still exists a niche for small businesses in food retail.

As other retail businesses have sought to expand their services to cope more effectively with the competition provided by online retailers, grocers must seek greater attractions for their customers beyond sheer convenience of location and opening hours.

The status bar has traditionally held a nice little progress bar. The problem is that they cease to be visible when you switch to another window or browser tab. This add-on turns the top edge of a tab into a tiny progress bar, so you can keep an eye on things whilst you multitask.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14644

I have recently spent many hours learning to use Hugin, a photo-stitching application for Linux. It is less automated than some similar apps for Windows, but at least it costs me nothing. Above is one of my most successful efforts, a view of Cardiff Bay taken from the southern end of the barrage.

The new Audi S5 Sportback is amongst the most pointless vehicles unveiled at Frankfurt's autoshow this year.

Quake III Arena was, as for many other gamers of my generation, my first First Person Shooter, or FPS. Over the last ten years the FPS market has been dominated by the consoles and the Windows platform. Whilst Linux has played its part as the server operating system of choice for game servers, few games have been ported to Linux. Today, I experienced QuakeLive on Linux for the first time.