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For those who follow the technology and those who don’t, you’ll probably know that Apple, the maker of the iPod, are releasing the iPhone in Australia July 11th, in true Apple style, the new iPhone has a tonne of new features, can do twice as much, much thinner than its predecessor, and even costs less [...]

Last week I had a number of tasks I had to complete. All three tasks required me to be the customer. All three situations made my think to myself how these three businesses aren’t an advocate of technology. 
Task One
This task required me to seek the opinion of an expert. I had an idea of someone to use [...]

This Year I was lucky enough to be able to travel on down to Sydney for the largest annual ICT show in Australia. Also known as CeBit. 
Now, what is CeBit you might say? Well I wasn’t all that sure either when I signed up, I knew it was IT based and really, that’s all I [...]

Why do most people hate free-to-air TV networks? Well there are probably a million reasons, from too many crap ads, to crap tv (Gladiators, Home and Away, Biggest Fat person, etc) but one thing that REALLY annoys me, is the inconsistancey of programs.
For Example, lately I have been watching Two and A Half Men, on [...]

I’m normally not one stealing other peoples blog posts, and reposting it, but I found this on a blog I read, and it really makes you think, from a running-a-business-point-of-view

Do you have a market with a sufficiently unmet need?
(Can you articulate what that need is??)
Is the target market big enough to sustain your business and [...]

I own a large number of domains… one of them is a fan site for Rove (Rovefeed.com)
I got an email (as the registrant) from the almighty G. Stating the following,
Dear site owner or webmaster of rovefeed.com,
While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside [...]

Welcome to the Fraser Coast… thanks to our former Premier, Peter Beattie - the Councils of Hervey Bay, Maryborough, Tiaro and some other smaller towns have now merged as the Fraser Coast Council.
As much as many people think that Hervey Bay, or Maryborough has lost it’s identity, it’s really just the council that has lost [...]

I am the first to admit that I’ve been slack lately with keeping the website up-to-date, it’s a unique time of the year.
We have our labor govt. and interest rates going up (12 times in a row), fuel going up and up, which is causing a much slower business sector. Never the less, I’ve been [...]

Australia Post, yes, it’s where we get our mail from. It’s also where you can buy some technologies. I remember years ago I went to pic up a NEC N412i mobile phone from the post office once, and while I was waiting to collect my phone, I saw them for sale brand new, [...]

With any new invention or piece of technology, there are those who can use and operate it, and there are those who are incompetent and ruin the experience for anyone else who may be close or associated.
When email was a new thing for the home user, we’d receive large amounts of “chain-email”. This annoying emails, [...]