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iPhone solutions for cold hands in winter
As many iPhone owners who have experienced cold winters know, you often have to make a very difficult choice: keep your hands warm or take off your gloves to use the iPhone to text your best friend about how cold you are. Unfortunately, the iPhone’s touch screen does not recognize gloved fingers. I discovered this [...]
Continue reading...Dell Zino HD headed for Australia .. ?
21. November 2009
The ‘Bloody Hell Dell’ Run-around I had a simple question for a local Dell staffer - “when will the Zino HD be released in Australia?”. You’d think that calling a local 1800 or local exchange number might actually get you a local , wouldn’t you? However, after several calls during which [I swear] I was transferred between [...]
Continue reading...HP MediaSmart Servers coming to Australia .. kinda
6. October 2009
LX197 & EX490 for Australia - no EX495 Just got off the phone with HP Australia (Melbourne and Sydney) … HP will release LX197 & EX490 Windows Home Server based machines on the 19th October 2009 (less than two weeks). That’s right, no EX495 (Grrrr! HP). This is contrary to reports on the OzziCom Blog which [...]
Continue reading...Website Monitoring Services
12. July 2009
Following the migration of a number of my websites from physical servers to virtualised hosting, many of the sites experienced worrying outages. I subsequently went in search of a decent web server monitoring service that could shed some light on the actual downtime. The following is a review of the top 3 of those services, along with screenshots and recommendations.
Continue reading...Cancelling Rhapsody
24. June 2009
I’ve been a long-time subscriber of Rhapsody’s music service (since 2005), but recently I decided to switch because of many little annoyances that finally made it almost unbearable to use. I may do a Rhapsody vs. Napster comparison at some point in the future, but today I thought I’d share my experience with trying to [...]
Continue reading...Wolfram|Alpha answers life’s tough questions
5. June 2009
The new Wolfram|Alpha “computational knowledge engine” is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long while. My first impression was that this was just a big fancy calculator to help people solve NP-complete problems and complex differential equations and whatnot. Not that this wouldn’t be impressive in its own right, but it’s not exactly something [...]
Continue reading...HD Resolution Smackdown: BluRay vs AppleTV vs DVD
18. May 2009
HD, SD, 720p, 1080p & Upscaling - wheat from chaff I once penned an email to my friend (Sarah) extolling my perspective on the relative quality a range media and TV hardware resolutions. The data was far from scientific, but it’s based on a reasonable exposure to a range of media and output formats. The following [...]
Continue reading...Google Reader iPhone App: problems
16. May 2009
The Google Reader iPhone App (or any reader application for that matter) and Desktop Readers are the types of interfaces [and if not the model for those] that will eventually the replace age-old practise of scanning broadsheet newspapers, the writing for which is already on the wall. This makes these types of UIs crucial in [...]
Continue reading...GMail - too much space is never enough
16. May 2009
What a full GMail inbox looks like I always wondered what GMail would do if, and whatsmore if I even could, reach/ed the capacity of my GMail account. Well, as if to prove one of the corollary of Parkinson’s Law, today I discovered the limit of GMail’s patience with by hammering it (as an ‘email mule’) [...]
Continue reading...How not to write a job posting
19. April 2009
I keep an eye on the job market, just so I know who’s hiring, what they’re hiring for, and where I fit in with my current skills. I don’t read postings on monster.com or anything like that, I just keep up with a few choice job boards. After reading some well-written postings, it’s easy to [...]
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10. January 2010
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