Telstra are at it again!

Telstra have let their PR bull terrier out of his cage again, and he’s certainly got his hackles up.
Telstra’s Communications Chief Phil Burgess explained why high-speed broadband is crucial to Australia’s future. But what’s more, Telstra have upped the price of high speed wireless broadband by $5 accross the range of their broadband products, and [...]

Show 8 of 2007

2007 is an election year here in Australia with a federal poll scheduled towards late October or early November. Both major parties seem to have a difference of opinion when it comes to telecommunications and connectivity in Australia.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, we currently have 20,757,869 people living in this country of which [...]

Telstra Announces Next G Boost … *sigh*

For 20 million Australians, the 6th October 2006 was an important day. The way we live, work and play began to change forever.i
How, I hear you ask? An act of terrorism? A natural disaster of unprecedented proportions? Or maybe a scientific breakthrough [...]

Show 7 of 2007

Listen to it here
Digital rights management is back in the news again this week stirred up by Apple Boss Steve Jobs. In a speech to industry on February 6 he said some have called for Apple to “open” the digital rights management system that Apple uses to protect its music against theft, so that music [...]

Make Firefox FASTER

I’ve been hunting for this for sometime and finally managed to track it down so I thought I’d post it here for everyone. Thanks to the guys at forever geek, I found this little gem burried in their site.
Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:
1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and [...]

Punctuation Substitution

Ze Frank moderated the 2007 RSA Conference; I could not resist including this little sketch of his. 
Enjoy!

Coolest Google Rumour

Late January, Michael Eisenberg, partner at Benchmark Capital – (and he should know, Benchmark Capital are one of the investors in Second Life) mentioned this on his blog:
 “Google is working on turning Google Earth into a virtual world a la SecondLife”
Google Earth ( a 3d mockup of the planet generated from satellite photo’s) is terrific, [...]

How to Link Bait

The idea of generating traffic to your website seems daunting for many; people often use not too clever ideas, sometimes learning about the Google death penalty as a result.
You don’t want that.  If people can’t find your site, they won’t come to your site; if they don’t come to your site – no surprise – [...]

4 Cool Free Tools for Webmasters

domaintools.com
whois record, domain name, registrar and contact, indexed data, Wikipedia info, SEO
Validator.w3.org
Browsers accept Web pages and try to display them even if they’re not legal HTML. Usually this means that the browser will try to make educated guesses about what you probably meant. The problem is that different browsers (or even different versions of the [...]

The Art of the Blog

A recent study by MRI research and CBS chief research officer David Poltrack, only 8% of Americans read blogs.  This figure is based on a survey of 20,000 people.
Yet here I am telling you to blog.  Huh?
Eight percent of people read blogs on a regular basis. 
Search Engines READ blogs; better, search engines LOVE blogs.
Blogs update [...]