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Testing Net Speeds

Posted in Computers and Internet on August 19, 2006 by Shane Williamson
One of the things that is frustrating about trying to find a good site for testing Broadband speeds is that they are mostly US centric.
 
I’ve just stumbled onto Speedtest.net that has links to international servers including one in Sydney. This helps greatly in tracking down if there are issues with international pipes.
 
 
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A looking glass into Flickr

Posted in Computers and Internet on April 26, 2006 by Shane Williamson
Steve Rubel over at Micro Persuasion has this link to a great way to browse through Flickr photos called……..
 
 
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Internet 2.0 – Damn the torpedoes and full steam ahead.

Posted in Computers and Internet on March 17, 2006 by Shane Williamson
Well if you are still waiting in the sidelines not sure if this Internet 2.0 stuff is the next big thing or not, then check out this report on the Podcasting company PodTech raising US$5.5M in VC.
 
Podcasting’s a fad eh?

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PictureCloud

Posted in Computers and Internet on March 17, 2006 by Shane Williamson

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Google’s personal webpages

Posted in Computers and Internet on February 27, 2006 by Shane Williamson
Steve Rubel notes that Google has now launched their Home Page service.
 
You can create a basic web page very quickly with their clean user interface. It only gives you 100Mb space, but that’s far better than a lot of other free sites and no forced advertising either.
 
Another great Googleisation!
 

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Apple Itunes surpasses 1 Billion song downloads

Posted in Computers and Internet on February 25, 2006 by Shane Williamson
DigitalMediawire.com had this pointer to Apple announcing that they have surpassed 1 Billion song downloads since it launched 3 years ago.
Itunes today incorporates;
  • 3 500 videos (15M purchased)
  • 35 000 Podcasts
  • 16 000 audio books
  • 2 000 000 songs

Apple’s anouncement

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Dell’s 30″ LCD widescreen monitor has landed in Oz.

Posted in Computers and Internet on February 10, 2006 by Shane Williamson
I noticed that the Dell 30" Widescreen LCD (30007WFP) has landed in Australia and if you order direct from their website its AUS$2600.
 
Warning to those that wish to pursue this widescreen eye-candy machine as you must have a dual head DVI video card to drive the thing.
 

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The Prejudice map – or how to use Google to make things up

Posted in Computers and Internet on January 16, 2006 by Shane Williamson

From the department of "I’ve too much time on my hands, so I’ll….." comes this little gem called the Prejudice Map. This map was created by doing context searches in Google for each of the countries displayed.

The Google search string used is this (with Germany as an example) = "germans are known for *"

It’s an interesting insight in how Google can become a dangerous source of biased information from a global context.

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Google the next Amazon.com!?!?

Posted in Computers and Internet on December 16, 2005 by Shane Williamson
Google’s latest service is bringing the Internet beast closer to stomping on Amazon.com’s sacred turf.
 
Millions of cyber surfers use Amazon.com to search & research for books, CDs, DVDs and the such before either buying online or purchasing from one of those local bricks & mortar equivalent.
 
Google’s information retrieval dogma is becoming many things to many people. It’s been a library assistant for some time, but now it’s becoming more and more like a mega shopping centre or mall too.
 
Although this Google’s service does push users to Amazon’s stores for CD & DVD searches, what will happen as this changes people’s habits from going to Amazon first to using only Google?
 
Googlezon is a lot closer than we think.

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2THousand5 Machinima Film Festival Mackie Winners Announced

Posted in Computers and Internet on November 14, 2005 by Shane Williamson
The 2005 Machinima Film Festival has posted this years award winners up on their site.
 
"Game On" has taken out Best Picture.
 
 
To view the winning entries head over to Machinima.com….. be patient though as it looks a bit overloaded at the moment..

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