Kogan Technologies has released a new, high tech product as an alternative to Senator Conroy’s Internet Filter.

The Catapult Festival is in Bathurst this week and some of my students are working as volunteers shooting video and still photographs. I have been making sure they are enjoying the opportunity to practice the skills they are learning without any pressure to capture “perfect” images. Because of the nature of the Catapult Festival, with [...]

We have slow Internet speeds in rural Australia but IT workers in South Africa have taken it to another level.
In a recent story brought to us by news.com.au a carrier pigeon transferred 4GB of data (including downloading) from Pietermaritzburg to Durban in 2 hours 6 minutes 57 seconds whilst only 4% of the data [...]

The news that the US Army has decided to standardise all of their “non-critical” desktop systems on Microsoft’s Windows Vista is drawing derision around the world. The choice of Microsoft’s second worst operating system (Windows ME being the worst ever) as the standard desktop must also be sending shivers through Microsoft because they will have [...]

Linux is developed all around the world and in many different languages and sometimes English just doesn’t help. The mascot for Linux is Tux the Penguin and many variants on this animal exist including a few distros being named after penguins, like Gentoo, Penguin Sleuth and a defunct Emperor Linux. A new product Tux Droid [...]

Dilbert – www.dilbert.com – is the tech cartoon loved around the world because everyone working in IT has come across similar situations at some stage in their working career, so it is not too far a stretch to believe some of the outlandish statements. One of my favourite quotes comes from Dogbert, Dilbert’s dog, “I [...]