May 26, 2012

Sync your mobile data online

I don’t use my mobile phone much for taking photos. At various times I’ve bought phones with ramped up camera capabilities, but for various reasons I haven’t utilised them much. My brain hasn’t tuned into the fact that phones today are also cameras, voice recorders and music players among other things. They do almost everything [...]

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rssHugger worth a look

I’m taking a look at rssHugger. It claims to be a unique website that aims to bring bloggers and readers together. “rssHugger aims to provide blog owners with a unique easy-to-use way to promote their blogs by sending them traffic, building backlinks for search engine optimisation, as well as attracting new rss subscribers if the [...]

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Another webmail service goes

Gigya email shuts down

I logged into Gigya webmail tonight. I’ve always liked its clean, open layout and speed of operation. It also has lots of other sharing features and things I never used. On logging in I was greeted with this announcement: Note: the Gigya webmail service will be discontinued permanently on June 15th. We recommend that you [...]

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Government services online

I read earlier this year the new Rudd regime plans a whole-of-government approach to Commonwealth IT services. Labor believed the Howard Government wasted money allowing an ad-hoc uncoordinated system to develop whereby individual departments and agencies contracted their own services. Labor is right in this this regard. While decision making at a local level should [...]

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New video camera

I bought a Sanyo Xacti nine-megapixel video camera through eBay from Hong Kong before it was readily available in Australia. The gadget has only just arrived and I haven’t had much time to experiment with it yet, but first impressions are very positive. It’s small and shoots high quality. There are recording options for television [...]

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