Why is it, that as a 28 year old ‘grown up’ guy, I can still get choked up when I reminisce about the past?
I recently added an old boss of mine as a friend on Facebook. Now, I am not a big facebooker but I like seeing what people are up to these days. I [...]

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I can understand when things are in a public beta stage and are still going through testing, that things may not work. But, when a web application has been launched and there is no trace of ‘Beta’ or ‘testing’ anywhere on the site or service then you’d expect things to work ok and in this [...]

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I am setting up a local development server at work as our main development server is in Melbourne and we have no root access (so permissions changes on directories can take days, literally, before they are actioned). I am using debian as it is the OS used on the main dev server (if it was [...]

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I have been looking for something like this for a long time. I hate ring tones with a passion and my phone is almost always on silent. Enter my ipod and a productive morning and I miss a lot of calls. So, Nokia has built in a desktop call notification feature in their new PC [...]

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I thought it was time I post about the web services that I could not live without. Basically, last week I bought a new Nokia E71 so that I could do as much work / organisation from my phone as possible. So, my ongoing drive is to have as much of my web accessible data [...]

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Lifehacker today posted about a site called iSearch which allows its users to search for people online.
 
I read the post and I thought “great, there are a bunch of people i’d love to contact”. I went to the site and was a bit bummed that it thought that ‘Sydney’ meant ‘Sydney, FL’ and not [...]

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For ages I have wondered what the point of some spam messages was. They didnt ask for anything and they did not include a link in the message. I just always thought that it was just some kids thinking they were being funny.
Well, apparently I was wrong. These spammers want you to send them [...]

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Picasa was updated recently to include a new face recognition feature to allow you to group your photos by person once you had updated a few with their names (Like facebooks ‘tag’ feature).
This is a screen shot of Picasa on my sisters computer asking her for the name of her button.

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No developer likes to merge their code in with other code after finishing a big project. Its a royal pain in the ass. I find myself having to do it at work a lot (we have a largish team) and at home because at home, I somehow find that I have 84 copies of the [...]

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After an impatient wait of ohh, say, 24 hrs (that’s when I initially found out about Chrome), Google has released Chrome as a public beta.
My first impressions are; wow!
In the ten minutes I have used this so far, I am already very impressed. You can see the feature list for chrome here. Or, [...]

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