May 2008
75 posts
Google Grabs New Australian Agreement →
Google is gaining new ground in Australia.
The search engine has signed an agreement with Netregistry and Devnet to bring a specially tailored version of Google Apps to the country….
Banning Websites in Offices Can Make Employees... →
If blogs, personal emails, social networks and other time wasting websites are banned at your workplace, show this to your boss.
A study of office workers in UK has found that banning…
MacOS X 10.5.3 is here →
Apple finally released MacOS X 10.5.3 today. The update comes in at just around 200 MB and is available trough Software Update. The release notes show a lot of changes. Let’s see if this update…
Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts →
By Mike Morton, Google Mac Team Are you one of those people who find that no matter how hard you try to keep your contact info organized, it always winds up scattered all over? Your dad’s IM…
Yahoo BrowserPlus aims for better surfing →
A year ago it was Google with its Gears project. Now Yahoo wants to make your browser better, too.
A year after the Google launched its Gears project, Yahoo announced software called BrowserPlus…
Australian Professional Bloggers Neerav, Darren... →
Video Demo of Windows 7 Running on Dell Tablet PC →
Google Announces App Engine Pricing [podcast] →
Google, tomorrow, opens up the Moscone Center for the Google I/O conference with about 100 technical sessions designed to educate the developers of the world interested in making their…
Google Hosts Popular JavaScript Libraries →
If you’ve ever wanted to use a JavaScript library like script.aculo.us, Prototype, jQuery or Dojo, but you couldn’t upload its files to a site or you found it difficult to manage all the…
Test post, please ignore.
AjaxDaddy Adds Slick Applets to Your Web Site [Web... →
Need to give your blog or personal site a more modern look? AjaxBuddy, a free repository of Web 2.0-style site tools, is great for site owners who don’t have time to learn an entire…
Parents attempt to sell baby on eBay →
German police are investigating a couple after they offered their eight-month-old son for sale on internet auction site eBay.
Facebook Tries to Take the FriendFeed Concept... →
Facebook is quickly moving into the aggregation game, today adding a half dozen different services you can now import into your Mini-Feed. The new services include YouTube, StumbleUpon, Hulu,…
Google Docs ventures closer to Word territory with... →
One of my pet peeves with Google Docs has just been remedied. The company quietly released a new view that users can see when editing documents. It’s called “fixed width page view,” which…
Google Sites now open to everyone →
Posted by Andrew Zaeske, Engineering Manager A few months ago we launched Google Sites exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies and organizations that wanted to use the service on their…
Australia Gets TiVo Minus the Subscription Fees... →
The Seven Media Group is so excited to distribute TiVos in Australia before the Beijing Olympics (and worried about fierce regional competition) that they’re actually offering the boxes…
How to Make Facebook Useful Again →
Oh the heels of some of Facebook’s missteps (ahem, Beacon) and the proliferation of a myriad of useless, silly, and time-wasting apps, some former Facebook users decided to quit the site…
Space Saving Ironing Board Ladder: As Smart As It... →
There is no doubt about it—space saving design is a big selling point these days. Take this ironing board ladder for instance. It combines the functionality of a step ladder and an…
Facebook's new profile design is all about tabs →
Facebook has just published new photos and descriptions of its impending profile redesign to their Facebook Profile Previews page. The new profile design will, as we have known for a…
Jessica and Cash: Hitched! →
I love it when celebs get hitched on the sly! It looks like while we were all futzing over the Ashlee and Pete nuptials, Cash Warren and Jessica Alba took advantage of the hullabaloo and
More Problems For Yahoo: They Might Lose Bebo Ad... →
Financial Times speculates that, after AOL’s acquisition of social network Bebo, which has been officially finalized today, Yahoo might lose its advertising deal with Bebo. This deal was one…
AOL completes take-over of Bebo →
Filed under: Internet, Social Software, AOL, web 2.0
AOL completed its acquisition of social networking site Bebo today. You may remember that AOL announced it would buy…
Converting A ColdFusion Query To CSV Using... →
The other day, someone asked me about converting a ColdFusion query to a “comma separated values” file, or CSV. I was about to point them to my QueryToCSV() user defined function when I realized…
New Rumors Of Microsoft-Facebook Purchase →
Microsoft may have Facebook in its sights, according to rumors moving through Silicon Valley this morning.
John Furrier first reported the idea on his site. Now former Microsoft man …
Google Health Launches →
After a year and a half since the first announcement, the much-anticipated Google Health has been released at Google Factory Tour of Search. “Patients need to be able to better coordinate and…
Vlog: Joikuspot is a Must Have S60 App →
Joikuspot is a must-have application for our S60-powered Nokia phones. This free download turns the phone into a wireless access point for other devices like laptop, internet tablet, iPod touch,…
Kongregate serves up a Facebook challenge platform →
The online gaming site, Kongregate, makers of some of the best time sucking games out there, is adding a challenge platform to its Facebook application on Monday. As of Tomorrow, Facebook users…
Will Gmail Get Themes? →
A source is telling me that Gmail will get themes – custom layouts to personalize Google’s web mail client. According to the source, the launch of this may happen within the next months. There…
Stop snoring with this vibrating pillow from Japan →
A Japanese company Francebed has developed a vibrating pillow to help alleviate snoring. The pillow is equipped with sensors which control the intensity of vibration.
The pillow even…
YouTube - iBand →
Facebook’s Glass Jaw →
Facebook finally has a real problem to deal with - an exceptionally rational and well-thought-out strategy by Google that puts the leading social media cloud in the path of a wave of angry…
How to Be On Time Every Time →
In my last post, I talked about why being punctual matters. The short version: people who are habitually late (or are late even once, when it counts) project incompetence,…
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is here →
On schedule, according to the latest estimate, Mozilla has released the first Firefox 3 release candidate. For Mozilla it means what says in the label: unless there is some major bug…
Sync Desktop: A Workspace With Integrated PC and... →
Besides being absolutely beautiful, this Sync Desktop concept from designer Gareth Battensby features a fold-away widescreen monitor and keyboard, a built in USB hub, scanner, mouse,…
Voice recognition software can tell if you're... →
Employers are turning to voice recognition software to crack down
on unnecessary sick leave. - The Sydney Morning Herald
Rumor: Google To Launch Hosted Site Search, Ditch... →
A source has informed us that Google plans to announce the replacement of its Mini Search Appliance with a new enterprise search solution called Hosted Site Search in the next few days.
We hear…
YouTube - Female Train Conductor Leaves Mic On →
Shared by Leon Ridge-Cooke
The Dutch. What can I say?
Icahn takes on Yahoo board →
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has sent a letter to Yahoo’s board announcing he is nominating 10 candidates to replace all incumbent directors at the company’s shareholders meeting in July.
How I met your Download.com: CBS buys CNET →
Filed under: Internet, News
CBS is buying CNET. For $1.8 billion in cash. While that might seem like a drop in the bucket compared to some buyout offers we’ve seen recently,…
Official Indiana Jones Fedora Available Now For... →
The reason that the official Indiana Jones Fedora is available on Think Geek is that only geeks think that they can pull off wearing a fedora in the year 2008. The only fedora you (us) nerds…
The Vitamin Update - Home →
Vitamin Update informs you of the latest developments in vitamin and mineral research. Combined with comprehensive background information, our regular updates will keep you informed of the very…
Google Maps Adds More: Wikipedia Entries and... →
If you go to Google Maps, you’ll notice there is now a “”More” button right next to “Street View”” and “Traffic.” If you click on it after getting a map, you will be given the options to tick…
Welcome to our Playground →
We’re finally launching playground.last.fm! One of the best things I discovered after joining Last.fm was the playground – a hidden website where my colleagues showcased their weekend projects….
A New "World's Most Expensive" Gadget? →
Watches were the original gadget. But unlike their silicon counterparts, good watches tend to appreciate over time. So barring that 5G iPhone prototype sitting in Jobs’ desk, we believe this…
ColdFusion Hosting, Adobe Cold Fusion Website... →
Shared by Leon Ridge-Cooke
hmm, this sounds interesting. I might have to move some of my sites here.
HostMySite.com has been supporting ColdFusion since its inception in 1997 and we have more…
How to Quickly Grab Pictures from Web Pages Into... →
You know how easy it is to pull an image from a website into an online photo editing applications - you simply have to copy-paste the URL of the picture into Picnik and the software will…
Preventing Bike Theft by Parking Bikes Up in the... →
Bike theft is a pretty sizable problem in cities, with only the most industrial-strength locks keeping nimble-fingered thieves from taking off with your two-wheeler. This Bike Tree concept helps…
New Get a Mac ads: Pep Rally / Group →
Filed under: Cult of Mac, Apple
Apple just released two new “Get a Mac” ads — Pep Rally and Group. In Pep Rally, PC tries to pep himself up despite the fact that the Mac is the…
A friend connected web →
Posted by Mussie Shore, Product Manager Have you ever wished you could share information and interact with friends while visiting some of your favorite websites? There are a number of great social…
Optus Gets iPhone In Australia Too, Looks Like... →
The rumours are true - the iPhone is coming to Australia, and it will be on multiple carriers. After Vodafone shouted out First! last week with their announcement that was rather short on…