I picked up a new Telstra Pre-Paid Wi-Fi Next G Modem last week as unfortunately, even though Vodafone has full 3G reception in Kempsey, data services are practically non-existent, so I couldn’t use the internet with my laptop tethered to my Blackberry as I normally would (I might get data services on for long enough [...]

If you want to quickly and easily add a Facebook Like button and Open Graph meta tags to a Drupal website as I recently setup to trial, there are two modules that allow you to do this, OpenGraph_Meta and Facebook Like Button. These two modules certainly don’t offer the advanced functionality of the heavyweight Drupal [...]

Overview Yahoo! Pipes is a composition tool that was released in February 2007 (n.d.) designed to aggregate, manipulate and mashup data from around the internet (n.d). In short, you can pull in all sorts of data using all sorts of inputs, both user input or from a web source. It then uses a patching style [...]

As of version 0.7.97, Dropbox has an extremely useful feature called LAN sync. Basically the way it works is that, when enabled, after a file is updated on one computer, it syncs with the Dropbox servers. Then, when other computers that are synchronizing the same files go to download the changes or new file, they [...]

My parents have been having an issue with the internet at their place for a while now. I’ve just had a chance to look at it and it is quite suspicious. Randomly when a Google search was performed, when you clicked the links you would be redirected to sites that you were not expecting, primarily [...]

I noticed an article on IT News Australia this morning about talk of the “Australia Card” identification card/system coming up again. This got me to thinking a bit today, and also trends I’ve noticed previously and things that people have pointed out to me and that sort of thing. Who really is watching? Think about [...]

I posted yesterday regarding a problem I was having with Internet Explorer 7 rendering some JavaScript controlled pop ups incorrectly in one of my current projects. I ended up fixing it by applying a position: relative; and z-index: 100; to each <p> tag. Nothing below 100 would display the text. It turns out its a [...]

IE and problem in the same sentence, not surprising is it? I’m working on a project at the moment where I’ve come up against a rather frustrating problem in Internet Explorer. I have a series of pop ups on a particular page that are opened with JavaScript when help links are clicked. The JavaScript for [...]

This morning, I came across this CSS property that I’ve not seen before whilst I was having a look at whats available in CSS for special devices, like screen readers. CSS 2 introduced the azimuth CSS property which is effectively targetted at users browsing the web with screen readers. I’m not sure that any of [...]

Come along to the #nocleanfeed rallies and protests Australia wide on Saturday the 13th of December. For more info, have a look here and here. While you’re at it, if you haven’t already signed the petition, head on over to GetUp’s Save The Net Petition.