Submitted by James Purser on Wed, 11/04/2012 - 23:12
Sigh,
Yet another article running the line that because we're all moving to wireless devices (such as smartphones, tablets and laptops) the NBN is now about as useful as clay tablets.
Look, let me use our home as an example.
We have a number of different devices that use wireless:
1 x iPad 1
1 x Xoom
1 x Nexus S (smartphone)
1 x Huwei Android Phone (smartphone)
1 x iPod 3
Submitted by James Purser on Mon, 02/04/2012 - 12:31
So I've finally acquired an android tablet to with my Android phone. I went down to my local ebgames yesterday and bought myself a Motorola Xoom.
Of course the first thing I did was to root the thing and put ice cream sandwich on it. It's running smoothly so far and I'll be looking into what else I can do with it.
Submitted by James Purser on Tue, 13/03/2012 - 22:45
So yesterday I had a bit of whinge about the fact that I couldn't update my Logitech Revue because for some bizarre reason, they had geo locked the update.
Well last night I figured rather than wait around until Logitech or Google or whoever was responsible got to fixing the issue, I would utilise one of the many vpn services which allows me to pretend I'm actually a USanian for the purposes of accessing various web sites.
Submitted by James Purser on Sun, 11/03/2012 - 23:37
For those of you playing at home I have a GoogleTV based Logitech Revue. It is a thing of beauty, being snappy, well integrated and with added App goodness.
However, over the past few days I have been less than pleased with it.
Why? I hear you ask?
Mainly it relates to the recent move by Google to bring all their Market type stuff into one brand: "Google Play". This meant of course, that all Android Market apps needed to be updated to reflect the new branding and the new, integrated services.
Submitted by James Purser on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 11:54
Thought I would put something up for the end of the week.
Over at angrybeanie.com I've put up a quick look at the Independent Media Inquiry report and their brilliant idea to start counting page hits to determine whether your site counts as real media or not. 41 hits a day is the magical number by the way.
Submitted by James Purser on Sun, 26/02/2012 - 04:06
Okay, I thought I should follow up the previous post with something completely different.
This morning I finally got around to integrating my Logitech Revue (a severely under-appreciated tool by the way), with the rest of my home entertainment system. As such I thought I would put down on bits what I have :)
Lounge Room
1 x AWA TV (42 inch/1080p capable) - $500
1 x Samsung Sound System (5.1) (2nd hand, around $200 when we got it)
Submitted by James Purser on Mon, 19/12/2011 - 01:30
The Illawarra Mercury ran an article on the weekend entitled "IT tipped to boom in Illawarra", the basic premise being that as manufacturing winds down, Information Technology and Communications are tagged to grow and fill the gap.
Excellent, I personally think that Wollongong and the Illawarra makes a perfect spot to setup an IT shop if you want to be close to sydney without the costs of being based in Sydney.
Submitted by James Purser on Mon, 28/11/2011 - 04:32
To whom it may concern,
I have money. It is good money, in fact, being australian money, it is both pretty and hard wearing money. I would like to give you that money in exchange for the music you sell, the films and video productions you make and the books you write.
But I can't.
Submitted by James Purser on Sun, 13/11/2011 - 03:34
Submitted by James Purser on Wed, 09/11/2011 - 02:14
Google Plus is dead! cries Farhad Manjoo in Slate. It's chance to compete with Facebook has come and gone and thus GooglePlus is effectively a dead man walking, destined to join Googles other social projects such as Buzz or Wave (which wasn't a social project but the media do like to pretend that it was).
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