(Repeated Wednesday 9th July at 9.30pm)

New series

This week presenter Adam Walton returns with a shiny new series of our technology show and gazes into the clouds - cloud computing is being touted as a strong future trend. We hear how a community in Mid Wales have now got their own broadband service, and we get a psychiatrist's view of Wikipedia.

Cloud Gazing

Technology writer Bill Thompson joins Adam for a chat about "cloud computing", which allows programs to be processed remotely away from your desktop, and gives access to powerful applications, which you can purchase and use "on demand". This method of working is set to increase as internet connections get faster and more reliable.

Community Broadband

After a long time with snail's pace dial-up internet, villagers in Powys have now set up their own micro community broadband - Llanfihangel.net by bypassing the problem of being "too far from the exchange". With the use of an innovative wireless system, locals now have fast broadband at reasonable prices. Nan Pickering reports for mousemat on the system's impact.

Summer Gadgets

As we hit the Summer, what gadgets might prove most useful to take with on you holidays, and what new techy toys are just around the corner? Adam is joined by Michael Brook, the editor of T3 magazine, and discusses the merits of a camera-phone compared to stand alone camera, and has news of a forthcoming solar powered iPod.

Gaming Graduate

Whatever strides towards equality of the sexes in the workplace, one of the areas which remains a male preserve at the moment is computer games development. But, the latest graduate from University of Wales, Newport's Computer Games Development course, Stephanie Hill, hopes that will be changing. She's just become the first woman graduate in the department and, as she explains to Adam, is hoping to move into the industry.

Wiki psychiatry

One of the internet phenomena that has given power to the web surfer is the "wiki" - a webpage that the user can edit easily. The most famous wiki is "Wikipedia", which is ranked 7th most popular site on the web. Psychiatrist Justin Marley has been studying articles on the site and has come up the idea of a set of standards which could be used as a "marker" to flag up an article's accuracy and neutrality.

PC Doctor

Our PC Doctor Simon Zerafa will be joining us on next week's programme, but if you have a question about your home PC, or any other technology, send us an email to mousemat@bbc.co.uk

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