Jason Jordan
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All up in the cloud
According to what I was bombarded with this week at the 2010 Microsoft Australia Partner Conference on the Gold Coast, they're "all in".And by "all in", Microsoft are wanting us to believe they have fully committed the company to the...
Fri, September 3, 2010, 4:36 pm WST -
Say kids, what time is it?
There is only one correct way to write the date and time and both Australia and the United States get it wrong.In the Australian system, a date and time notation looks like this: 01/12/2010 13:54:50 - the template being DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SSWe use the...
Thu, June 24, 2010, 11:59 am WST -
The iPad: this is not a love song
Last week Apple invited me to Sydney for the opening of the new Bondi Junction Apple Shop and the launch of the iPad in Australia. It was an amazing experience and I learned quite a lot about the Apple Marketing Machine and their cool new gadget....
Mon, May 31, 2010, 11:43 am WST -
Cleaning up the IT support industry
When you visit your doctor, you can be reasonably confident you're dealing with a trained, accredited professional who keeps his skills up to date and has the appropriate insurance in place....
Tue, April 27, 2010, 5:28 pm WST -
Tips on computer placement
The Great Perth Storm of March 2010 saw hundreds if not thousands of PCs and servers die.Not from power spikes, surges or brown-outs (although there was some of that) but...
Tue, March 23, 2010, 1:23 pm WST -
Neglect backing up your data at your peril
This week my team at PCGURU spent just over eight hours recovering data from a server that suffered multiple hard disk failure. We managed to retrieve about 90 per cent of the data, but unfortunatelythe most critical files were gone for good.The...
Thu, February 18, 2010, 6:29 pm WST -
The iPad? I'm underwhelmed
I'm disappointed. For months, the rumour mill has been going crazy over the release of Apple's new iPad. And unfortunate name choice aside, it fails to impress in a number of areas.For a "magical" and "revolutionary" device (as...
Thu, January 28, 2010, 10:28 am WST -
Is your web browser making you vulnerable?
Are you using Internet Explorer to read this blog post? If you are, you're either brave, silly or at the short-sighted whim of an IT department that needs to get a clue. In recent days, both the German...
Tue, January 19, 2010, 1:19 pm WST -
Conroy's filter folly
And so it begins. Australia will join the likes of Iran, Burma...
Sun, December 20, 2009, 1:36 pm WST -
In defence of Twitter
Twitter is seen by many as a waste of time. The word itself can rile people. David Letterman suspects it's radioactive. Criticism abounds with comments ranging from the derogatory to the indifferent....
Tue, December 1, 2009, 12:37 pm WST -
The NBN: Not Bloody Necessary
If you're using Australia's largest internet service provider, Telstra Bigpond, for your access to the internet, you're probably still connecting at less than 2Mbit. And chances are, your upload speed is limited to less than 1Mbit....
Wed, November 11, 2009, 1:26 pm WST -
Is it time for an Internet Driver's License?
The internet hasn't been around very long. In fact it celebrated its 40th birthday on September 2. But in practical terms, the internet only began to hit the mainstream from the early 1990s via...
Mon, November 2, 2009, 7:50 pm WST -
Who owns your iPhone?
Who owns your iPhone? You or Apple? I think you'd agree that if you own something, you have the right to modify it.But according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Apple recently told...
Mon, October 26, 2009, 12:43 pm WST
Our choice
Opinion
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Paul Murray
May 16, 12:32 pmGiving money for doing nothing simply wrongWho would have thought we’d see a prominent ALP politician speaking out against the debilitating effects of the handout mentality just a week after t...
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The Burning Issue
May 15, 12:49 pmLittle to learn from CanberraFederal Labor governments have a simplistic view that Australia would be better off if all public activity were managed out of Canberra.In many areas...
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Talking Point
May 16, 12:34 pmTesting times for NAPLANAs you read this, one million school students across the nation will be ploughing through reading comprehension questions on the second of three days...
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