Dallas Clark
Software Developer
BRISBANE QLD
AUSTRALIA
Internet users will have to start thinking seriously about their illegal use of downloading music and films without paying for them as France will shut down web access to each individual who makes the offence. Other countries are in discussion of following France’s ‘ground-breaking’ agreement such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
The plan won’t [...]
Just a quick post: Nick Bradbury created a post recently about the new features of FeedDemon 2.6 RC2a Pre Release. You can “Export Subscriptions” as an APML file, but is experimental at the moment.
Look forward to checking FeedDemon out this afternoon.
I found this on digg.com today that stood out amongst the rest (due to the fact of me thinking about Christmas lights lately), a homeowner has setup a website where the public can control his Christmas lights. You can access the site here and join the queue to get into control.
He has also given [...]
In recent study, the booming demand for Internet Services lately (video, messengering, news and more), the current infrastructure could leave the Web vulnerable to brown outs within three years. Nemertes Research said the Internet providers need to spend around $50 billion to be able to handle the next phase of online technologies.
We may not [...]
Google Map’s Street View is now heading outside of the United States, in September cars were spotted in Canada and the United Kingdom. Today there have been sightings of the cars in Sydney and Perth, Australia.
In relating news, there have been a lot of privacy aspects that Google are infringing with Google Maps Street [...]
to regional educational institutions, students and faculty only
Adobe have made this effort to encourage the use of Web 2.0, a new version in the World Wide Web. However I’m sure they have also done this to get more people to use the software after their education.
Adobe Flex 2 is an integrated development environment (IDE), [...]
Some researchers at Cambridge University’s Computer Science department have used Google to help crack obfuscated passwords in the Message-Digest Algorithm 5 (MD5) format. Steven Murdoch (Security Researcher – Light Blue Touchpaper blog), discovered that someone had intruded his wordpress blog and created an administrator account.
He later carried out some computer forensics to discover the [...]
Auctioneers used to quote that online auctions were a major threat to the auction industry but they’re now saying it has contributed to a huge boom. This is due to rivals forming partnerships that produce bigger audiences for their sellers, often by simulcasting live auctions onto the web.
Buyers are also moving away from auction [...]
These days it doesn’t matter where your business is, you can still reach any audience. This also affects the way you think about competitors, are competitors only local or are they international?
A post from Read/Write Web shows some of Africa’s Web 2.0 sites that are coming in by the masses as you can see [...]
Firefox 3 is months behind schedule but Mozilla has finally released the first official beta of Firefox 3 on Tuesday (20/11/07). Whilst it is a beta, so it has bugs, the release shows some brilliant ideas and improvements to both the user interface and performance that are looking good for the final release, which [...]
Came across this cool site today that enables you to put your name down on pending lists for invites to Private-Alpha, and Private-Beta stages of applications. The site is called Invite Share and allows you to browse/search through all the organisations/developers that have listed their product on Invite Share.
There are a lot of large [...]
These types of sites seem to be appearing everyday and it’s starting to get a little bit too crazy. Another company to hit the web-top based market is FanBox with it’s Microsoft Vista type of interface.
The online desktop is fairly buggy with moving windows issues (cannot stop a window from dragging, very jumpy), and [...]
If it wasn’t bad enough having bloggers being sponsored about their materials by PayPerPost but now bloggers have a more serious issue with Google’s new implementation. Google will be lowering the PageRank of PayPerPost bloggers which will not only affect the bloggers but PayPerPost as well (less people will see the posts).
IZEA (the new [...]
Wall Street Journal (WSJ) have taken on an unexpected decision to add “Digg This” (Digg) to their articles. Which means both their free and premium articles will be available to public when an article is digged.
Some statistics about WSJ
* Average age: 48 years
* 63% male
Statistics about Digg
* 94% male
* 88% 18-39 years
* 64% HHI [...]
1. Gmail Java app for mobile phones
http://www.google.com/mobile/mail/index.html
Very useful for your everyday needs, calendar, email, contacts and more.
2. Google Maps for Mobile
http://www.google.com/gmm/index.html
Very easy to use and works well with your GPS, maps are clear and there is constant data updates. A real competitor to Nokia’s attempt.
3. Opera Mini
http://www.operamini.com/
A lot faster then Internet Explorer Mobile and [...]
