Yes – it’s a message that we here in Australia are all too used to seeing. Most ISPs here offer their broadband in various speed limited / capped plans to rip us off even more. I’m with Telstra Bigpond and my billing cycle starts on 10th of the month. Due to Telstra monopoly over the phone exchanges they are the ONLY ONES that I can use to get DSL2 + here at … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2009
FAQcast 4
Disaster Recovery - a few years back, Ian and Janine Brown from Tamworth in central New South Wales experienced first hand their own real life disaster as their IT business burned to the ground overnight. Here they talk about the lessons that they learned at both a business and technical level with the issues they experienced along the way. Hopefully you can learn from their … [Read more...]
Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000
I d a lot of presentations and I often have been using a Logitech Wireless Presenter. Unfortunately the one I’ve had died. I needed to find a substitute quickly. The only real option available was the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000. This mouse is a fairly small notebook style device that is not moulded for either left or right hand and as such for me it’s … [Read more...]
FAQcast 3
Jeff Middleton – known as the master swinger talks about his Swing Migration process. This video interview was recorded in June 2006, but all the key concepts are still very relevant today. Jeff talks about the overall concepts of the process and the background behind why he decided to document it to the depth he has. You can find out more about Jeff's process at … [Read more...]
Explorer Mini Mouse
I was talking to Shannon Dowden the local Microsoft Geek Gadget Girl about the problems with mice and certain desktop environments. Shannon told me that the Bluetrack mice would solve all my problems. Sure… right, I’ve heard that before :-) Ok – so Shannon put her money where her mouth was and gave me one to try out. I took it home and the first thing I tried it on was my … [Read more...]