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Voicemail is dead.

July 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, YES! Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has it SO right in his article, Think Before you Voicemail. I could not agree more! Voicemail is a horrible relic of the 90s from an era before everyone had…

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Search engine optimisation rap

April 18th, 2008 · No Comments

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Make Safari use CMD+K for Google Search

April 8th, 2008 · No Comments

picture-2 Make Safari use CMD+K for Google Search

One of the things that really annoys me about Apple Safari is that it doesn't use the CTRL+K / CMD+K keyboard shortcut for activating the Google Search dialogue box, which is standard across most browsers — particularly Safari.

Instead, Safari makes…

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Stop websites disabling your browser address bar, toolbar, bookmarks etc

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Do you hate it (like I do) when you click a link and a website opens a new browser window without the address bar, toolbar, bookmarks, scroll bars etc … and you can't even resize the window?

Banks are particularly annoying…

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Caffeine candy

June 16th, 2007 · 3 Comments

 blackblack Caffeine candy

I think I am in heaven…

http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/

Also, I got all web 2.0 and started a Facebook profile. Facebook seems like Myspace for non-retards… no flashing animated GIF backgrounds or teenagers trying to out-emo each other. I really like it!

It's interesting, I…

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Death to Outlook and Exchange: two-way, over the air Google Calendar to Blackberry sync!

April 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments

If I could sync my Blackberry with Google Calendar over the air, bidirectionally, I'd be able to dump Outlook forever. (Though admittedly Google doesn't have a particularly robust contacts system for Gmail yet and it would be nice to sync…

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Why I am not an A-list blogger

April 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment

… because A-list bloggers work harder than I do.

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Best of YouTube video blogs 2006

January 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment

It's 10 minutes long but it's WELL worth watching. The guy who edited this together is very clever.

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Internode has enabled 8Mbit/s … woot

January 10th, 2007 · No Comments

The day has come…! I can finally get something faster than 1.5Mbit/s at home. I have applied for the 8Mbit/s upgrade with Internode and I will be leeching Linux ISOs as soon as they go to air in the US…

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My rapidly growing email habit

December 4th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Interesting. I used Smart Mailboxes in Apple Mail to count how much mail I've been receiving month to month.

November 06 - 4373 emails
October 06 - 3963 emails
September 06 - 3583 emails
August 06 - 2833 emails
July 06 - 2233
June 06 -…

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John C. Dvorak explains how he trolls Mac users

August 31st, 2006 · 3 Comments

Ah, you gotta love this guy. He's been trolling the tech community since tech journalism was invented, and people still fall hook, line and sinker for him every time.

Here's him explaining how he earns tidal-waves of page impressions every…

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My first fairytale… about Telstra

July 27th, 2006 · No Comments

solwizard80.thumbnail My first fairytale... about TelstraOnce upon a time there was a big fat telco called Telstra. King Solomon ruled the villagers with an iron fist. Then, one day, the villagers heard about VoIP and were set free of the tyranny of long distance. Calls…

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Customise your Google Personal Mobile homepage

July 27th, 2006 · No Comments

Nice.

http://www.google.com/ig/cp

Now you can customise what appears on your Google Personal homepage when you access it via your mobile.

Via DownloadSquad.

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Opera CEO wants widgets on mobiles

July 26th, 2006 · No Comments

Opera's grand plan for widgets has become a bit clearer with the news that it plans to make its widgets run on mobile phones, TVs, car stereos … anything that can have a screen and a simple processor embedded.

jon_s_von_tetzchner Opera CEO wants widgets on mobilesThis…

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Internet sync: better than sex, sliced bread

July 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

OK, I admit the headline is inflammatory: internet sync may not be better than sliced bread. But it is such a useful feature in software that supports it, the mystery is why more developers aren't doing it.

I don't believe that…

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