Today’s the day for us down under to grab the latest upgrades from our friends at Apple. iPhone owners will want to sync up their phones and download the 3.1 update, and while you’re at it, grab the new iTunes 9. There are some good reasons to upgrade, especially with regards to iTunes.
Thanks to ESET Antivirus for inviting me out to the Queenland Raceway this weekend as a guest of the Race Image / ESET V8 Supercar team. It was great to be out there over the weekend, and special thanks for letting young Darren climb into the hot seat and check out the drivers view of [...]
Tom Tom have finally released their long awaited turn by turn GPS application for the Apple iPhone, and yours truly decided to splash out and grab a copy to see what it’s like. In short, if this software is as good as Tom Tom gets, I don’t know why anyone would buy a Tom Tom [...]
The patent system continues to create problems for companies in tech, and now, the giant of them all, Microsoft, has managed to get a judgement against it brought by a smaller company with an obscure patent. The patent in question describes a method for reading XML, which in turn is a standard technology that Microsoft [...]
Virtually none of our clients have yet even heard of SSD, but all of you soon will, as Intel moves to slash pricing on the new technology by over 50%. SSD’s are a new type of hard drive that use ram chips rather than a spinning magnetic disc to store your data. They are fantastic [...]
Today’s the day for iPhone fans; The new iPhone 3GS is now on sale in Australia. This updated model comes with a slew of improvements moving the iPhone further in front as the leading smart phone in the marketplace. The 3GS features a faster processor that the previous model, which take the good user experience [...]
June 17th; Today’s the day, and if i have timed this post correctly, the 3.0 firmware for the iPhone should be available via iTunes. Talk is it will be rolled at at Midnight in the US, which means it should be live here early this afternoon. This new firmware has loads of new features and [...]
The twitter service not only came into it’s own over the past few days, but also proved to be fantastic world citizens by postponing scheduled maintenance that would have seen the server offline for almost an hour. Since the recent elections in Iran, twitter users inside Iran have been posting updates on the violence and [...]
Microsoft have launched their newest search engine, named Bing, and for once the software giant is actually making some headway in the search market. Bing has managed to leapfrog Yahoo into second place after only a week or two; Time will tell if this is just curiosity, or if people are really switching their day [...]
Just quick post to alert anyone who uses Twitter, and who might care if it stopped working, that they have run into a problem similar to the Y2K bug of nearly a decade ago; Like any database, every tweet has a number that uniquely identifies it in the stream, and that number is about to [...]