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 [...]
iPhone not such a big deal
The introduction of the iPhone to Australia on Friday was a marketing success for Apple. They created a real buzz and a perception the product was so sought after you’d be lucky to get one. That turned out to be the case. Whether it’s true, or whether release numbers were deliberately restricted, I can’t be [...]
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 [...]
Another webmail service goes
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 [...]
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 [...]
