One of the selling points of Spotify is the ease with which you can discover new music, either completely new tracks or different versions of the same piece. I've found that this is only really true if you know what you are looking for as the Related Artists page often requires quite a bit of time to give of its best. One solution I've found is to use Wikipedia as well.

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One of the aspects of Computeractive that readers often comment on is how easy the pages are to read. Another is how the illustrations and photographs we use in feature articles instantly communicates the content of the piece. That's no accident - we spend a lot of time thinking about the images that complement the writing, and this is particularly true of someone Computeractive is saying goodbye to today.

Nick Palmer has been with the magazine's art team (affectionately known as 'art monkeys' in the publishing trade) since March 2001, three years after our launch, and was promoted to art editor in November 2004. Today is his last day with us before moving on to the freelance market. 

We don't often publish blogs on comings and goings at the Computeractive office but in Nick's case I felt it was important to note his contribution to the magazine over more than a decade.

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What's the best way to measure the scale of the internet?

Youtube, one of the most popular sites on the web, has announced that it now sees one hour of video uploaded to its servers every second. Every day, these videos receive five billion views.

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With the news that Andrew Crossley has been banned from practising law for two years, plus Golden Eye, yet another firm engaged in speculative invoicing failing to convince a judge of the merits of its cases, is this the end of speculative invoicing?

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CES 2012 rumbles on, but I'm just about to board a plane back to the UK. So with my time in Las Vegas coming to an end, who are the winners and losers of the show?

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There's a huge amount of technology on show at CES, some of it good, some of it bad. We've spent the last three days trying to track down the best of the best at CES 2012. So, what did we pick?

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I'm covering CES 2012 using a Macbook Pro. The idea was to carry a portable but powerful laptop with good battery life that could handle the basic day to day rigours of covering a trade show.

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