Archive for 'Tech'

Playing Fetch

Playing Fetch

FetchTV Last year, I talked about Foxtel; the main pay TV provider here in Australia stepping in to IPTV with their Foxtel on Xbox 360 service. From my other post, you can see this didn’t go so well for them. Well, there’s another player in the industry now and they try very hard to be […]

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The FoxBox… or not

The FoxBox… or not

Foxtel, the main Pay TV provider here in Australia, recently partnered with Microsoft to bring their TV platform to the Xbox 360. This service works over IPTV instead of using the traditional satellite or cable systems that Foxtel would normally use. To me, this is a big advantage due to not being in a cable […]

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Flash back to the 90’s

Flash back to the 90’s

One thing that has been really annoying me lately is the sheer amount of ads on websites that use flash animations. Seriously, it makes websites look like they’re from the 90’s with the amount of animating crap on them. Several sites that I visit often have decided to place 4 (some sites more) ad spots […]

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The Multitask Mess

The Multitask Mess

Over the past few days, quite a few media outlets have said that Windows Phone 7 will not have multitasking support. Of course, that’s not true at all. I downloaded the SDK for the new operating system and decided to see for myself.

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The Canned Response

The Canned Response

There’s one thing that really annoys me when it comes to companies that provide email based support. It’s known as the Canned Response. When the company doesn’t even read your message properly and just sends back a prewritten response that has absolutely nothing to do with the issue.

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The DSL Debacle of 2010

The DSL Debacle of 2010

I have recently moved house. Still within the same city, just to a different suburb. Of course, when you move house, you need to get services relocated with you. Most of these were easy to do. The internet, however, was not. I called up iiNet (my ISP) on the 3rd of February, told them that […]

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Lack of respect for fellow hackers

When I was first learning how to crack and patch apps, most of the people who I came across generally respected the skills of someone who can make a tool which makes their lives much easier. That is until I decided to release one of those tools. For the past few months on and off […]

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Centrafuse 3.0

Centrafuse 3.0

As many of you would already know, I have a computer in my car. The interface I use regularly is called Centrafuse, and they recently released version 3.0. So far, the biggest problem I’ve had with it was actually getting the download. I got really annoyed when the server reset the connection for my download […]

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Sygic vs TomTom, round 2 of the Navigation apps

Sygic vs TomTom, round 2 of the Navigation apps

A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed Navigon vs Sygic. Today, I decided to give the new heavyweight in the arena, TomTom, a good test. Seeing as though Sygic won the first round, I thought I’d pit it up against TomTom.

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Idiots on Youtube

Idiots on Youtube

Recently, someone released an obvious fake for a jailbreak on the new iPhone 3GS called the “ttys” exploit. This user was called iH8sn0w, the reason it was obviously fake was the fact that he used an SSH connection to his iPhone to actually apply the jailbreak. Anyone who knows anything about the iPhone knows that […]

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