I've really been getting into podcasts in the last few weeks.

This epiphany has come about for two reasons:

- I got my iPod's battery replaced ($US46.99 including return shipping from USA which equated to $A70… a $30 saving on the Apple service)…

I'm evidently not the only one who has been scratching his head in bemusement at some of the names emerging for Web 2.0 sites. iLaugh.com has provided a handy translator for what Web 2.0 names really mean.

Some of my favourites from…

It only took me a few days to decide to switch my calendar from Outlook to Google's brilliant new Calendar.

It has always been a pain accessing my work calendar remotely — we're lucky enough at ACP to have the…

Thank god for the sanity of Judge Franklin Elia of the 6th District Court of Appeal, who said to Apple on Thursday:

"All you want here is the name of a snitch, so you're saying you have the right to…

I noticed a few people had found my blog by searching for "Daniel Warne" this weekend. I wondered why they'd be doing that, as I haven't used "Daniel" since I was at school… everyone refers to me as "Dan". I…

I got a new job at work last week: rebuilding the APC website.

I won't be physically doing the programming: that will be the job of our excellent new developer Declan "Standards Compliant" Kennedy.

However, much of my APC magazine workload…

Via Techcrunch.

It's not just your email address that's being sold to spammers, it seems. Your phone number, address, job title … it's all for sale, if someone has 'dobbed you in'.

A new web startup called Jigsaw buys and sells…

Here's one for Phil Sweeney at Whirlpool, self-proclaimed hater of "Web 2.0" hype.

From the Ajaxian blog:

We would like to alert you that there’s been a patch release to Web 2.0 to address some minor bugs and address valuable new…

Hello from downtown San Francisco, where I am for the Intel Developer Forum which is starting on Monday (US time… Tuesday Australian time).

Intel flew journos business class (the first time I've ever flown it internationally) and it really was an amazing…

Apple Computer is famed for sending lawsuits to bloggers, but Tim Gaden, the prolific writer of the Hawk Wings blog which focuses solely on Apple Mail, has caught the eye of Apple's Mail development team — in a good way.

He…

If you have a huge LCD monitor (mumble, grumble, envious look) you'll want to check out these magnificent high dynamic range photos on Flickr. Your monitor wants to be filled with one of these as a desktop wallpaper.

And, if you're like…

Today's announcement of Google Desktop Search 3 and subsequent press release from the Electronic Frontiers Foundation warning people not to use it if they don't want the contents of their computer mirrored at Google has sparked some very interesting debate.

GDS3 offers…

UPDATE | According to this story, the M600i is not only Blackberry-like, it actually supports Blackberry Connect for push email. Looking nicer all the time! (Microsoft ActiveSync is also supported so I guess that means it should be easier to sync…