Communicate
-
BigPond Outage Across NSW, Victoria
7Telstra-owned BigPond is Australia’s largest ISP, which means that its glitches tend to affect more people than anyone else. Suzanne Tindal at ZDNet reports that a number of NSW and Victorian customers were left without access to email and other services over the weekend, though Telstra claims those services were due to be restored by…
-
Gmail To Get Multilingual Translation
Google hasn’t made it official, but PC World/IDG News Service and the Google Operating System blog are totally convinced that Gmail will get multi-language, on-the-fly translation of their email messages at an event in Brussels to celebrate Gmail’s fifth birthday. The screenshot above, hot off Google’s servers, seems to give away the meaning of Google’s…
-
Get Free Wi-Fi At The MCG
Good news for sporting types planning on hitting a few events at the Melbourne Cricket Ground: the MCG is now offering free Wi-Fi throughout the venue, courtesy of a deal with Internode. I wouldn’t necessarily advise taking a notebook PC to a match, but it’s a handy way to tweet for free if you’ve got…
-
TheF***ingweather.com Tells You The Weather (NSFW)
There are plenty of sites that will let you check the weather, but the domain ‘thef**ingweather.com’ is one you’re unlikely to forget in a hurry, even if prevailing social mores mean we can’t reproduce it in its entirety. While the site looks US-centric at first glance, you can enter Australian cities and get suitably accurate…