Windows only: TreeSheets is a hierarchical notes manager structured like a spreadsheet. Although it sounds unwieldy, it’s surprisingly easy to move around and create well structured notes, to-do lists, and more. More »
Food.com’s recipe search is worth getting excited about. It comes from Food Network founder Scripps Networks, but can pull recipes from Epicurious, Food & Wine, Cooking Light, Gourmet, Chow.com—basically, any US food site you’ve heard of. More »
We’ve already taken the bold (for us) stance that Twitter can be actually useful. Now Wired comes along and suggests it can actually do something else—serve as a fresh searching pool for new music. More »
Earlier this week, I appeared on ABC Radio Australia’s Tech Stream, contributing to a discussion about technology and how to use it to enhance the travel experience (a familiar topic around here, obviously). You can access the full extended broadcast in glorious MP3 format on the ABC site, and maybe pick up a few useful tips (such as how Wikipedia can help you book cheap fares). Tech Stream
Now that Optus has joined the government’s controversial mandatory Web filtering trial , a lot more people are potentially going to be included than with the original list of small ISPs. But with Optus offering an opt-out option, the question arises: should you say yes or no if you get asked to participate? More »
There are plenty of services offering to help get unmanageable debts under control, but a shadow shop by Choice suggests that most won’t offer an appropriate solution. More »
In a typical “Australia one year later than the States” move, Warner Bros is going to begin offering movies via download services at the same time as DVD releases, beginning with The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button on June 3. More »
Been contemplating placing some Google AdWords ads? The search giant is offering a carrot to attract Australian businesses: $75 of free advertising. More »
When iWork ’09 was released this January, a pirated version of the application spread a trojan horse named iWorkServices. Now it seems that the trojan in question is being used in denial-of-service attacks on various web sites. (In short, the virus is controlling unwitting zombie computers, sending them to specific sites with such persistence that the sites crumble under the non-stop requests.) The takeaway: Macs can get viruses the same way Windows computers more often than not do—though careless downloading practices. Photo by marcopako . [ZDNet]
