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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
Microsoft’s “Engineering Windows 7” blog has announced that the UAC
prompts in Vista are being worked on in Windows 7 to reduce them, make
them more informative and to provide more obvious control over the UAC
mechanism. Cancel or allow?
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
The rumours of an Apple event to release new MacBooks on October 14
have turned out to be true, after all, following Apple’s invitation
that shows a titanium notebook with glowing Apple logo, and the
tagline: “The spotlight turns to notebooks”.
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
It’s all over the news – Asus is launching the slimmest netbook that
comes close to challenging the MacBook Air in sleekness and slamming it
in price, but certainly not in power, screen or keyboard size, while
being pretty pricey all its own. Won’t 2009 be the year of a zillion
slim netbooks at ever better pricing?
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
Calling it the “first” online and mobile dedicated 24 hour news
channel, Telstra has taken a customised “Sky News” feed and made it
“freely” available online, or for $1.95 per day or $4.95 per month for
Telstra Next G mobile customers.
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
Think of MyKey as the ultimate car key to “parental control” in 2008,
letting you set speed and audio volume limits for teen drivers among
other safety features. It’s meant to deliver safer driving, improved
fuel efficiency and increased parental peace of mind, while parents get
their own key without the limitations.
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
A day after Optus raised prices on pre-paid mobile broadband, Vodafone
cuts its prices instead, showing competition is alive and well in the
3.5G wireless broadband market.
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
Uh-oh. Hazmat time. 0.001% of 1.04%* of the world’s Linux die-hard
supergeeks are about to descend and call me all kinds of names, but
facts are facts: one of the world’s biggest makers of netbooks says
Linux models are being returned at a rate at least four times higher
than XP netbooks. Could it be that Linux sucks?
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
“You’re fired”, says eBay to 1600 workers globally, likely unaware that
the world’s biggest and most profitable online auction house was going
to put workers on the chopping block, with 18 of those poor souls in
eBay’s Australian operations.
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
Optus has officially gone mad with its announcement that pre-paid
wireless broadband pricing is actually going up in price – unless it’s
an oddly clever way for Optus to reduce the heavy load on its
overburdened 3.5G network. QueTF?!
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
Telstra has finally announced that its network will be capable of
reaching “peak” speeds of 21Mbps, but just as there are no 14.4Mbps
devices on the current 14.4Mbps “peak” capable network, we won’t see
any 21Mbps-class devices anytime soon, either.
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
With Windows 7 due in either 2009 or in 2010, and plenty of companies
still happy with their XP deployments, Microsoft has done the
inevitable, extending XP downgrade rights for another six months.
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Saturday, 04 October 2008 |
Ah, Linux! Is there anything it does that can't also be done with Windows? Linux is a great Windows alternative, but with hundreds of millions more Windows users and thus a much larger potential user base, there’s no need to change entire operating systems to do simple stuff like surf the Internet, write documents and calculate taxes. And hey, Windows can ALSO help you to look after your health and well-being, including getting you off cigarettes and avoiding repetitive strain injury.
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
Apple’s “Mac Pro” range of desktop computers are apparently emitting
toxic gases that could give some people leukemia, or so claims a
French newspaper.
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
Nintendo’s upgraded handheld games console has been dubbed the DSi,
coming with interesting new features that could well have been better,
although only Japan will get it before Christmas, with the rest of the
world missing out – until 2009!
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
Are
you willing to sell your soul to the Dark Side of the Force? If so,
you’ve probably purchased LucasArts’ hit new game, Star Wars: The Force
Unleashed. But now there’s news of upcoming downloadable content, some
are annoyed it will cost more money, leading some to exclaim that
today’s game purchases simply don’t end when you initially buy the
game.
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
Although there’s no “Reef View” to rival the Street View on Google
Maps, a bird’s-eye view of the Great Barrier Reef using new map data
and satellite imagery is now available for anyone to go ogle!
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
With all the financial turmoil and US banks melting down, Australia is
a very big target for the world’s online criminals, what with our
strong commodities-based economy and AA rated banks with billions in
profit each year. How can you outsmart the crims?
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
Several Australian states will go forward an hour this Sunday, October
5th at 2am, as Daylight Saving starts again for the year, but "watch" out
– some of your devices or computers might not automatically make the
change. Here’s what to do...
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