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by Tony Austin
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 |
SkypeOut enables you to make inexpensive voice calls from your PC to the
switched telephone network, to destinations anywhere in the world. Here's an
update on call quality and pricing plans, as well as a dose or two of web site
design and content management advice for Skype.
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by Tony Austin
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Sunday, 14 September 2008 |
A recent report says there's a "Digg Throat" who is using his popularity at
Digg to get paid for boosting other peoples' submitted articles onto the Digg
home page.
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by Tony Austin
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Sunday, 14 September 2008 |
ProcessQuickLink is a free Windows utility that enables you to discover the
nature of those mysterious tasks you find running under Microsoft Windows.
It can help you find out with a single mouse click whether a given task is benign
or suspect.
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by Tony Austin
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
Listen to IBM executive Rich Lechner describe the reasons behind Monday's
extensive storage hardware, software and services announcements, explaining the information
challenges they address in the movement of data from institutions to individuals and “clouds.”
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by Tony Austin
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Tuesday, 09 September 2008 |
IBM today announced its largest launch ever of new storage hardware, software
and services that are the building blocks for the world’s strongest information
infrastructure portfolio, with the aim of enabling clients to tackle information
challenges and move data from institutions to individuals and “clouds.”
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by Tony Austin
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Monday, 08 September 2008 |
Google was conceived by its two founders in the mid-1990s. But if you accept
the date of incorporation as its birthday then today, 7th September 2008, is the
10th birthday of this amazing company.
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by Tony Austin
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Sunday, 07 September 2008 |
URL shorteners such as TinyURL are nothing new, but bit.ly has just entered
the scene with some powerful additional features that promise to really stir
things up.
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by Tony Austin
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
If you're the owner of a web site, or interested in web site design or
maintenance or traffic analysis, here's a pictorial snapshot that shows some
things to look for. Included are some current trends, including the state of the Browser Wars
just as the upstart Google Chrome browser appears.
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by Tony Austin
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
On 26th August 2008 Mozilla Labs introduced Ubiquity for Firefox, described
as an experiment into connecting the Web with language, and at first sight it
appears very promising.
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by Tony Austin
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
The pie-in-the-sky hype surrounding "Web 2.0" seems to have enticed some organizations to the honey pot with less than impressive results. Buzzwords
abound: is Web 2.0 the same as Web Services or SOA, and does Web 2.0 have to be
implemented using AJAX techniques? Where are we now with all this, and where's
it all leading?
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by Tony Austin
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Saturday, 30 August 2008 |
Should we already be thinking about leaving all our desktop system cares and
woes behind and take supposed advantage of what cloud computing is tempting
us with?
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by Tony Austin
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 |
In this iTWire podcast, Derek Austin of Nuance Communications Australia
outlines the history of speech recognition, tells us why Dragon
NaturallySpeaking 10 is even better than previous releases, and points us in the right
direction to take advantage of its advanced features and make our lives easier.
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by Tony Austin
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
Adobe Reader 9, part of the Adobe Acrobat 9 package, seems to have omitted an
important user interface feature that was present in earlier Reader releases,
making its usability worse rather than better. I hope this wasn't part of a
nefarious plan by Adobe Systems, but just an amazingly clumsy oversight!
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by Tony Austin
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
MyVitalAgent is a free PC utility that can help you to keep an eye on
Internet traffic. At a glance, you can monitor activities such as FTP, e-mail
and Web sites visited, via a nifty graphical user interface. Here's a summary of
MyVitalAgent, together with a Flash video demonstration.
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