Archive for February, 2008

Mod Your Mac Dock

February 29, 2008Matt No Comments »

If you are using Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and want to change the look of your dock, try out Dock Library. It’s very simple to use and makes changes to the appearance of your dock very easy. And the best part, it’s free! I’m sure the creator, Pete Callaway, wouldn’t mind a donation though [...]

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Safari Excluded from Paypal’s “Safer Browsers”

February 29, 2008Matt No Comments »

Paypal have released an FAQ on safer browsers for users in light of the large amount of phishing scams over the past year. Ultimately, you can still fall for the scam, but there are anti-phishing features built into various newer browsers. The most prominent one is in IE 7 which prompts you to enable it [...]

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Claiming My Blog

February 29, 2008Matt No Comments »

Just claiming my blog on Technorati. Don’t mind me.
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Wireless Broadband Providers

February 29, 2008Matt 2 Comments »

I was reading an article on the Sydney Morning Herald by David Flynn entitled “Road test: mobile broadband” which goes through and ranks the main 3G wireless internet services providers in Australia and thought I would make a few additional observations.
David gives the following ratings to each provider:
BigPond 7.2 Mobile
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 [...]

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1.2 Gigabytes Per Second

February 26, 2008Matt No Comments »

It would be nice if we could even get 100mb/s on standard home connections. Or even if we could all get a stable 24 megabit connection, I live in Brisbane reasonably close to our exchange and I can still only get 11 megabits. Over in Japan though, they have launched a satellite that will provide [...]

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Day 1, Semester 1, Year 2

February 25, 2008Matt No Comments »

Ah the first day back at uni for the year.
It ended up being a great day. I just had two lectures today, KKB101: Creative Industries - People and Practices and ITB001: Problem Solving and Programming.
Yes, they are both first year subjects. ITB001 is regularly a second year subject in double degree’s, KKB101 I was supposed [...]

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R18+ Rated Games in Australia

February 25, 2008Matt No Comments »

According to an article earlier today on the Sydney Morning Herald, the censorship ministers will be discussing giving an R18+ rating to games at the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General (SCAG).
At the moment, the highest rating a game can have in Australia is MA15+ and there is almost no ID checking taking place to ensure that [...]

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IT Theories Continued

February 24, 2008Matt No Comments »

After my blog regarding some theories I have on future direction of some of the major IT companies at the moment, Tim from Spyjournal has added a few additional thoughts and idea’s that are very relevant. I would like to make a few comments on some of them.
Economics
Tim pointed out that the cost, even just [...]

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Theories and Possibilities

February 23, 2008Matt 7 Comments »

I was reading today about Microsoft’s decision to support interoperability and it didn’t really come as a huge surprise.
Some people would know I’m all for interesting theories regarding the direction of the major technology companies, Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc.
Now, upon reading about this, it reminded me of a theory I had that I shared with [...]

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Touchpad Computer Remote Control Via iPhone

February 22, 2008Matt No Comments »

This has got to be one of the coolest aps I have seen for the iPhone. Yes, the iPhone is cool and all that jazz, but like the iPod’s before it, I’ve never been a huge fan of it.
This, is an excellent idea though Touchpad for the iPhone, turning the touch screen on the iPhone [...]

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