June 2008
35 posts
Telstra finally woos the iPhone: News -... →
Telstra customers won’t have to feel left out any more, now that the telco has announced that the iPhone will be winging its way to its stores 11 July.
Jun 29th
3 Australia Lies to Customers about the iPhone --... →
Shared by Leon Ridge-Cooke what the…
Jun 29th
Confirmed: Marc Andreessen Joins Facebook’s Board... →
Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, Opsware and Ning and the former CTO of AOL, is adding a new notch in his belt: he has joined the board of directors of Facebook, two sources close to…
Jun 29th
Mozilla pitches Firefox 3.1 alpha for July release →
A week after shipping Firefox 3.0, Mozilla has proposed having the first alpha of Firefox 3.1 ready by next month.
Jun 26th
Red Chile Marinated Grilled Chicken →
This is some of the best chicken I’ve ever eaten - grilled, roasted, baked, whatever. Juicy, spicy, tender, lipsmackin’ good. Here’s the deal, there are two ways to make this recipe. One way…
Jun 26th
iPhone Wars Get Nasty: Virgin Spamming Three →
The coming launch of the iPhone in Australia is getting nasty, with carriers spamming other carriers as the battle for iPhone access rages. According to a well connected source, Virgin Mobile…
Jun 26th
From the desktop to your TV →
Posted by David Garcia, Software Engineer In the old days, we used to watch a simple device called a television. Nowadays, all the stuff worth watching and listening to tends to be stored on or…
Jun 26th
Google Lists Your Reviews →
Google gathers all your comments and reviews from services like iGoogle, Google Maps, Google Base, Google 3D Warehouse and lists them at http://www.google.com/reviews/search . The list of…
Jun 26th
Google launches new iGoogle and artist themes →
Shared by Leon Ridge-Cooke I don’t see it yet :( It looks like Google just launched the new version of iGoogle that developers have had access to in the sandbox for a while now. The new version is…
Jun 25th
Yet Another Unsolicited Yahoo Turnaround Strategy... →
Watching Yahoo’s decline is rather sad. If you take any pleasure watching it, you must’ve enjoyed a weak kid getting beat up by a couple of bullies in the schoolyard. Yahoo’s decline is the…
Jun 25th
Temporarily turn off Windows Update restart nags... →
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Microsoft, Freeware Since you want your computer to be as secure as it can possibly be, you have Windows set to automatically install updates…
Jun 25th
Learn 101 Photoshop Tips & Techniques in a 5... →
This is simply awesome. Adobe Photoshop guru Deke McClelland has done an entertaining but very helpful video where he shares 101 Photoshop tips and techniques in a five minute video.…
Jun 24th
10 awesome Internet Easter eggs →
Adding hidden items in Web sites is what separates good developers from great ones. Below I’ve compiled a list of 10 of my personal favorites from the past few years. If you have any of your own…
Jun 24th
Nokia to acquire Symbian: make it open source →
Shared by Leon Ridge-Cooke this will be interesting GLOBAL - Nokia today annonced a plan to acquire the 52 per cent of Symbian it doesn’t already own and set up the Symbian Foundation, making…
Jun 23rd
Making your mark on the world →
Posted by Lalitesh Katragadda, Software Engineer and Sanjay Jain, Product Manager Have you ever wondered why some parts of the world don’t have great maps and thought how nice it would be if they…
Jun 23rd
John Lewis' Ultimate kitchen combo includes... →
Filed under: Displays, Household While those of us here in America puff our chests out each time we waltz by that LCD-equipped centralpark Connection refrigerator, folks in the UK…
Jun 23rd
Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD →
I wrote about this a while back on my blog, hackaddict, but it was such a popular post I thought I’d give it a revisit. A lot of people buy used Macs, and they often run into the problem of not…
Jun 23rd
Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD →
I wrote about this a while back on my blog, hackaddict, but it was such a popular post I thought I’d give it a revisit. A lot of people buy used Macs, and they often run into the problem of not…
Jun 22nd
Nokia - Going Plazes →
Nokia just announced the agreed acquirement of Plazes, a location based, social status sharing website. This looks like a move to integrate location based social status updates for Nokia’s…
Jun 22nd
Too Many Windows Live Services are Dead →
Microsoft has done a lot of revamping and renaming to their web services over the recent years. The strategy of renaming was an awful attempt at trying to break ground on the web. It only …
Jun 22nd
If Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were on Match.com:... →
Up until a few years ago, any lengthy feature on Bill Gates usually elicited a fair amount of words on the Gates-Jobs rivalry. The two tech behemoths were always pitted head-to-head, with…
Jun 22nd
Australian carrier Telstra coming a little late to... →
According to a recent newspaper report from The Australian, the local carrier Telstra is indeed preparing an announcement of their very own for the iPhone 3G. Sadly, based on the report it looks as…
Jun 21st
Tweak Firefox to Display Richer Colors [Firefox 3] →
If the digital photo you just uploaded looks more washed out in Flickr than it does in your desktop image editor, that’s because Firefox 3’s advanced color management capability isn’t turned…
Jun 21st
AppleInsider | Apple's eclectic Sydney... →
Shared by Leon Ridge-Cooke cool, this is closer to home. Literally. A fourth location, in Stonnington has also been rumored as part of lavish $200 million redevelopment project targeting a…
Jun 21st
Video: Disable Firefox 3's 'awesome bar' →
Delighting some Firefox browsing loyalists and distressing others is the so-called ‘Awesome Bar’ in Firefox 3 (download for Windows and Mac.) The officially-known Location Bar has earned…
Jun 17th
Apple Store in Sydney, Oi Oi Oi! [Apple] →
Our brothers from down under at Giz Australia got a full-on press-packed walkthrough of the new Apple store in Sydney, the first on the continent, and it looks as nice and Apple-y as you’d…
Jun 17th
How to Make Yourself Indispensable →
Let me ask you a question: could you disappear? If you didn’t show up at work tomorrow, if you weren’t home at 6:00 for dinner, if nobody ever heard from or saw you again, would it matter? …
Jun 17th
How to Make Yourself Indispensable →
Let me ask you a question: could you disappear? If you didn’t show up at work tomorrow, if you weren’t home at 6:00 for dinner, if nobody ever heard from or saw you again, would it matter? …
Jun 16th
E-Mail Etiquette For Wireless Devices: 7 Tips →
An increasing number of e-mail messages are being received on small, wireless devices with limited screen space - devices such as Windows Mobile-based Smartphones. Being polite is still important….
Jun 16th
Flock 2.0 Beta: Using Firefox 3 to Bring It All... →
Bringing it all together. That’s the theme of 2008: How to integrate multiple online accounts, activities, profiles, feeds, etc. into one comprehensive service (which is of course aside…
Jun 16th
Opera 9.5 Review: It is More Than Just a Beautiful... →
While the Techmeme crowd is busy talking about the upcoming Firefox 3 release, one cannot ignore Opera (version 9.50) web browser that has just left the building. Opera 9.5 sports a…
Jun 12th
Grab Screenshots of Web Pages & Post Them On... →
DashBlog is a Tumblr-style Firefox extension that makes it easy for you to share screenshots of web pages on any blog or on Twitter. You open a website in Firefox and select “Grab a…
Jun 12th
Nokia S60 support, new iPhone tap & zoom, Windows... →
Posted by Petteri Koponen, Product Manager Much as we like sharing photos online, we know that sharing photos with the friend who’s right next to you is even better. That’s why we launched a…
Jun 9th
Google Makes RSS Embedding Easy [Web Utilities] →
Looking to embed up-to-date headlines into a personal web page, start page, or other HTML-friendly project? Google makes it seriously easy with its code generating tool. Choose a layout…
Jun 8th
Introducing Gmail Labs →
Shared by Leon Ridge-Cooke This is so cool. About time. Posted by Keith Coleman, Product Manager We have a lot ideas for Gmail — many come as suggestions from Gmail users, many come from people…
Jun 5th