May 26, 2012

Yakedi! free SMS

Yakedi! free SMS

Yakedi! is a free web-based service for sending text messages to Australian mobile phones. I’m so impressed with Yakedi! that this post is simply a blatant plug to say thanks and well done. I read somewhere the modern human has evolved to be more dextrous with his thumb than his pointer finger, thanks to the [...]

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What’s in a name?

That’s the logo of the Federal Government’s Area Consultative Committees (ACC). Not very impressive, is it? And you couldn’t blame anyone for wanting to change it. However, at what cost should it be changed? Regional Development Minister Anthony Albanese announced just before Easter that ACCs would be replaced by a similar organisation called Regional Development [...]

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Hoon problem

hoon driver

Western Australia has a hoon problem. It exists everywhere to some extent, I suppose, but I never encountered it in the parts of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia I lived in previously. Hoon activity can be doing a burnout; dangerous or reckless driving; racing another vehicle, speeding, and accelerating or braking and skidding [...]

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Newspaper novels: The truth will make you fret

There aren’t many novels about newspapers. Stories involving print journalists are far fewer than those about lawyers, soldiers and police for example. That’s a little surprising when you consider that journalists are writers. But when you think about it, we are craftsmen while novelists are artists. We ply a trade while they follow their creative [...]

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Online page creators

There are some options appearing now for people who want to create web pages online and have them hosted for free. The first I came across was Google Page Creator. It adds another feature to the Google suite. A more recent entry to this market is Weebly, which I think has the edge over Google’s [...]

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