A year old now I know, but I just came across this article on the Northern Rivers Echo website from the end of 2006 when I found my best mate Rhi, another of my class mates, and myself, selected for the NSW state-wide Art Express Exhibitions for 2007. As I said, it’s a year old, [...]
I came across this nifty open-source piece of web-based software last night that is really quite an interesting and useful idea. Created by Johann C. Rocholl, Browsershots allows you to submit a website for any of the available browsers on any of the available operating systems. You can also specify things such as with or [...]
As you may recall from my earlier blog about my recently acquired <a href=”http://blog.stillaslife.com/hardware/3g-wireless-broadband-vodafone-usb-modem/”>Vodafone 3G USB Modem</a> on the 4th of December, I was having trouble getting the modem to work correctly on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.5.1, or Leopard. I was following the provided instructions to the letter but it simply [...]
My sub-standard internet connection provided by my lazy landlord has finally ticked me off enough that I went out and bought a wireless modem. I’ve been looking into this possibility for a while now and have looked at the offerings from 4 of the major providers in Australia, Telstra, Optus, Vodafone and Three. None of [...]
Sitting in the Microsoft MiX On Campus presentation, it’s currently about three quarters through and Nick Hodge, Professional Geek, is giving a presentation on Microsoft’s new web based Popfly software based around their new Silverlight software. We have just received free Red Bull, and this is proving to be quite the interesting look into what’s [...]
Today I discovered, that MSN for Mac does not have webcam support. At all. Surely Microsoft have to realise that despite the fact that OS X is a competitor, not writing a compatible version for Mac that works completely is a very big downer for their reputation that already struggles anyway. I did some searching [...]
Isn’t it pretty? I have spent the last couple of hours working on setting up my new baby the way I like and have come across a few things that may be of use for anyone else in a similar situation to me. First off, my new Macbook came with Mac OS X Tiger (10.4), [...]
From – Skype When I saw the new Skype mobile phone, I thought, wow, this is great! It’s due to be in Australia soon, 3‘s mobile plans are generally pretty reasonable and I use Skype quite regularly on my computer so this would be absolutely perfect! Beside’s all that, I’ve been looking at getting a [...]