Aug 8, 2010

From the Kickbee website: “The Kickbee is a device that updates Twitter when a baby kicks its mother from the womb.” Yes, that’s right, let the world know when your unborn baby kicks you. Why would you bother> Who would follow these tweets? Like, “kick”. “Kick”. “Kick” …. I really cannot see the tweets...

Aug 8, 2010

Digital radio has been with us now for just over a year. But what exactly is digital radio, and what does it mean for you? Do you need a new radio? Does it sound better? Will it make you that morning cup of coffee? This week we caught up with Jeremy Sedley from Smart IT, the Australian distributors of OXX digital radios. Jeremy is very well versed in the ins...

Aug 8, 2010

With the federal election just two weeks away, the two major parties have declared different positions on two major points of technology. On the NBN, the Gillard government is planning to continue with the rollout, while the Abbott opposition wants us to continue to lag behind the rest of the world in terms of internet connectivity, and take us back to the dark...

Aug 8, 2010

Kaspersky, the makers of some great PC security tools, reported this week of an interesting hole in the Windows platform. Apparently, if the security certificate being used to install software onto your system has been tampered with, Windows does not pick this up, and fails to report this important breach of the security regime. it seems that a new worm that...

Aug 8, 2010

Apple have added support for raw image files produced by MILCs to Aperture and iPhoto. So, if you use one of these cameras and a Mac, you can now process your raw image files directly on your MAC.