Friday, November 20, 2009
Design
Use Windows 7 Themes In Vista Or XP
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Microsoft put far more work into the look and themes of Windows 7 than its previous operating systems. Pull down that design work into your non-7 system with Digital Inspiration’s simple work-arounds. More »
Work
Chrome OS Virtual Machine Build Ready For Your Testing
4:28PM Adam Pash | If you’re aching to try out Chrome OS after taking a glimpse earlier today, friendly power user Mark Renouf has compiled a VMware image of Chrome OS for testing out in your virtual machine environment. More »
Money
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Scams hitting Internet banking are pretty common (and quite easy to recognise), but online criminals will have a go at any potential source of income. The latest target? Self-managed superannuation funds. More »
Fraudsters Hitting Self-Managed Super Funds
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Scams hitting Internet banking are pretty common (and quite easy to recognise), but online criminals will have a go at any potential source of income. The latest target? Self-managed superannuation funds. More »
Communicate
1:30PM Angus Kidman | If you want a particular phone model (or colour) that hasn’t been released in Australia, then buying it as a “grey market” import can seem like an appealing way to solve the problem. But as well as not getting any local warranty support, you might run into trouble when it comes to making 000 emergency calls. More »
Grey Market Phones Might Be A 000 Risk
1:30PM Angus Kidman | If you want a particular phone model (or colour) that hasn’t been released in Australia, then buying it as a “grey market” import can seem like an appealing way to solve the problem. But as well as not getting any local warranty support, you might run into trouble when it comes to making 000 emergency calls. More »
Work
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Having a sensible backup strategy is vitally important, but so is knowing how to restore your backup if things go wrong. Microsoft’s storage blog runs down how to make that happen in Windows 7. More »
Restoring From Your Windows 7 Backup
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Having a sensible backup strategy is vitally important, but so is knowing how to restore your backup if things go wrong. Microsoft’s storage blog runs down how to make that happen in Windows 7. More »
Organise
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Google Maps has already made one upgrade to its real estate search since introducing it in July, and now there’s another why-didn’t-they-do-that before? option: searching for property by adding the words “real estate” to a map search. More »
Google Real Estate Adds Obvious Search Option
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Google Maps has already made one upgrade to its real estate search since introducing it in July, and now there’s another why-didn’t-they-do-that before? option: searching for property by adding the words “real estate” to a map search. More »
Communicate
YouTube Adds Machine-Generated Automatic Captions
10:00AM Sarah Rae Trover | YouTube clips have previously allowed for captioning, but it was a system that was a little buggy and only worked from YouTube’s site. That’s all changed with the advent of machine-generated captions and auto-timing. More »
Work
9:00AM Angus Kidman | If you want a no-brainer TV recording device, you’ve got two choices right now in Australia: the Foxtel iQ or the TiVo. Now Telstra is throwing its hat into the ring with the planned release of its own device, branded the T-Box. More »
Will Telstra’s T-Box Change The DVR Market?
9:00AM Angus Kidman | If you want a no-brainer TV recording device, you’ve got two choices right now in Australia: the Foxtel iQ or the TiVo. Now Telstra is throwing its hat into the ring with the planned release of its own device, branded the T-Box. More »
Work
LockThis! Password Protects Your Open Programs
9:00AM Whitson Gordon | Windows only: If you’ve ever wanted to keep a program safe from prying eyes but don’t want to close it, free utility LockThis! will let you easily protect any open program, so that un-minimising it requires a password. More »
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