iPad Workflows … think outside the app!
The following video explains the concept of ‘workflows’. Due to the limited functionality in some applications it is necessary to use multiple applications to get the desired effect or end result. This professional development session was inspired by a workshop I attended at Slide2Learn 2013 in Perth, Western Australia. Special thanks to Kate Maccoll
EDU Essentials List
Over the past year I have developed an Essential Educational Application List. One of the biggest mistakes schools can make with their iPad programmes it to overburden students and staff with a device packed with applications which never get used. This is a bare basics list which will encourage creativity and practical functionality of the [...]
App-Astra: the iPad reaching it’s potential
“Ad astra” is a Latin phrase meaning “to the stars”. This blog post summarises by student-focused session at Slide2Learn 2013, encouraging a positive view of the tablet for senior students who are particularly reluctant to adopt the technology late in their high school journey. Ways will be suggested for using ICT to assist students in [...]
Technology-enabled Assessments
The aim of the Tea Road Project was to modify the “pen pal” experience and allow Chinese and Australian students to open a dialogue, thus exposing the students to different cultures through modern mediums. Students created a podcast in Chinese about their “Life in Australia” and posted it on the Tea Road website for Chinese [...]
Can Australian Teacher’s download videos from YouTube for classroom use
We have been having an on-going debate regarding whether or not YouTube content is regarded as “free-to-air” and if it is legal for Teachers to use show archived YouTube clips for offline playback. There is heaps of blog articles relating to this but there are few credible sources of information which give you a ‘black [...]
Review of Survey Software for the Classroom
I was recently asked by a selection of teachers from various disciplines to research which Survey Software would be suitable for educational application in the classroom. As we are quickly becoming a mobile school, it was a requirement that the survey software be device agnostic and able to easily export results for school reporting. My [...]
Storyboarding Podcasts
Storyboarding is carried out in the pre-production stage when developing a video response. This process involves making a comic-book like “story sketch” of the video. If you have a lengthy podcast it can take a long time, but it is essential to work out the logistics of a shot/scene before production takes place. It helps mostly with [...]
One ‘Sub’ to rule them all!
So far we have be using Sub Procedures which have been generated when we double click on a button and an event method is called. This lesson we are going to create our own “Custom” Sub which will help us make our code more efficient. If you haven’t already you need to download and run [...]
Many ways to skin a cat!
Last lesson we looked at using If Statements and Checkboxes to control styles applied to fonts. Once you successfully ran your program you would had found that there were issues with using the “CheckState.Checked” and “CheckState.Unchecked”. This lesson we will look at two methods to solve those issues. Remember that with programming there is more [...]
Programming: Classic Controls
The Checkbox is classic control in Visual Basic 2010. It allows the user to elect one or more item by checking the checkbox/checkboxes concerned. The check box control displays a check mark when it is selected. It is commonly used to present a Yes/No or True/False (Boolean) election to the user. You can use a [...]
Programming: Converting Data Types
Last lesson we played with receiving inputs from a user and then performing a mathematical sum with the value. When you are converting one datatype class to another, you must realise that the result of that conversion could vary depending on the type of conversion that you perform. For example if you try to convert a Decimal [...]
Introduction to Programming
For Year 10 – Computer Science we just started learning to Visual Basic as a part of the programming course work. As this is first time many of you have encountered a programming language many of the concepts and terms will be very foreign, but rest assured if you stick with it you will get [...]
Evernote Plugin
Evernote is an awesome tool to keep your class notes. It allows you to index link, categorise and develop relationships between different topics. The best thing of all is that you won’t lose your notes so you can search for the correct topics when it comes time to study. You can also add PDF attachments, [...]
The Adventures of TinTin Intel: CPU Architecture
We have covered the Input, Processing and Output (IPO) procedure for computers and also the basic hardware components and their purpose. We will now look at the CPU Architecture and machine cycle. The Central Processing Unit (CPU) of a simple computer contains hardware (control unit and arithmetic logic unit) that executes the instructions, as they [...]
Preparing for Disasters: Backup, Sync and Restore
Everyone who uses a computer to save or store files will at some time or another experience that heart stopping moment when they realise their files are lost. Don’t let those files be lost forever. It’s plain and simple: if you use a computer, you need to backup your data. It’s not a question of [...]
Disaster Aftermath: System Recovery
After disaster strikes, you will be left to pick-up the pieces and recover what is left of your digital data. Depending on the extent of the damage you will need to restore your system and get back to work as quickly as possible. In order to do this there are physical and virtual preventative measures [...]
Ride the Bus!
Within computer hardware architecture, a bus is a sub-system or channel which allows transfer of data between components inside a computer circuitry,or between computers via network interfaces. A computer processes and stores data as a series of electric bits. These bits transfer internally within the circuitry of the computer along electrical channels. Each channel, called a [...]
Memory Hierarchy
The term memory hierarchy is used in computing theory when discussing performance issues in computer architectural design and lower level programming constructs such as locality references. A ‘memory hierarchy’ in computer storage distinguishes each level in the hierarchy by response time. Since response time, complexity, and capacity are related, the levels may also be distinguished [...]
Purpose of Components
The following blog entry extends the human body metaphor to show how the different components process different types of information. A computer is compose of at least six components, and each has a specific purpose. The main components are the motherboard, processor, memory, storage (hard drive), sound card and video card. Short Term Memory - The Read-Only [...]
Physiology of Computers
Computers are complex machines built upon some very basic principals, but to begin to understand computers, you must first know the basic parts of the computer. An easy way to remember what the purpose of each computer hardware component is to think of them as a part of the body. Whilst this metaphor is widely [...]
Character Reference
Template to assist in designing a character. Download: Character – Planning Character
Kinect for Windows, SDK Beta 2 Released
Microsoft have finally come to their senses and decided to make it offical, Kinect for Windows will be released for both a commercial and private market. First off, this includes the Kinect SDK Beta v.2, witch has already been released. This include’s hundreds of new bug fixes, more features for the SDK and should also [...]
A New Template
Welcome to a new view for the Teachbook blog; Now with nice images and some styling that will please your eyes. Go scroll through the categories, and look through the navagation to find other articles and wiki pages related to your question. If you find anything that does not work, or something that you think [...]
HTML5: Menu with CSS3 Curved Edges and Gradient
This tutorial walks you through creating a curved navigation bar with a gradient using CSS3. The tutorial uses 100% stylesheets and no additional images to achieve the effect. This tutorial does not cover the creation of the actual drop down menu. Create a new HTML document Create a new HTML5 document with two elements <header> [...]
CSS3: iPad Orientation
With a well constructed fluid layout (dynamically expandable) it wouldn’t generally need to make the distinction of different stylesheets … but it works. The HTML solution is very simple and is shown here: <link rel=”stylesheet” media=”all and (orientation:portrait)” href=”portrait.css”> <link rel=”stylesheet” media=”all and (orientation:landscape)” href=”landscape.css”> This will allow you to have varying layout dependent on [...]
CSS3: Resolution Dependent Layouts
One of the fantastic features of CSS3 (in-conjunction with HTML5) is the ability to create resolution dependent layouts. This being where you can assign a stylesheet to a browser dependent on its maximum horizontal resolution. There is a W3C standard way of declaring them. One way is to test the “device-width”, like this: <link rel=”stylesheet” media=”screen [...]
Gears of War 3 – Game Review
Now Teachbook may be a blog for Computer Science and Applied Information Technology; but why not mix it up a bit? Here is my game review for the new Gears of War 3. I have been only playing this third-person shooter for about four hours, but it has already dawned to me as one of [...]
mCommerce: security concerns with Mobile NFC technologies (Google Wallet)
With the release of Google Wallet this week it has sparked a range of questions in class regarding Near-Field Communication (NFC) and the risks associated with performing everyday transactions using a mobile device. Cutting edge wireless technologies… NFC isn’t really a new or necessarily cutting edge technology. It is essentially the same short-range wireless technology [...]
Distributed vs. Centralised Databases
Fore-thought Here is a little article to bridge the gap between topics and create some sort of logic to the workflow. Previously we were developing GUI Applications, we then looked at the Modelling, Development and Management of Databases, last lesson we attempted to connect our databases using Visual Basic to our GUI Applications (school security [...]
The Magical World of Aircraft
I love planes. Part One. So in this blog post, I will be taking my very short experience in Aviation and comparing it to today’s technology filled Aviation industry and comparing both of them together. First, let’s put these two into perspective. Currently I fly (with an instructor) a Cessna 152 that was invented in [...]
Let’s get Blogging!
Hello Everyone! So I have noticed that there has not been that many blog post’s submitted on the Teachbook Blog for quite some time! Let me remind you that it is part of the Computer Science / Applied Info Tech course and your end mark is affected by it! So get blogging! ~Damian
HTML5: What’s New!
Whilst a lot is the same there are a couple of new tags that are making their debut in HTML5. This article will explain some of the more prominent ones that you will no doubt encounter. <header> If you were previously in the habit of using <div id=”header”> in your sites, this new <header> tag will be [...]
HTML5: The Basic Semantic Structure
The idea with the release of HTML5 was to stop versioning HTML so that backwards compatibility is easier. An example if a browser doesn’t recognise a tag it will simply use the tags which it does understand. I’m not sure if this will work on not but at least W3C is trying to be progressive…. [...]
HTML5 Forms: New Elements
The following are the new elements which are applicable to building forms in HTML5. If you haven’t already please also read the following blog articles related to HTML 5 forms: HTML5 Forms: Attributes HTML5 Forms: Input Types These are the new elements for HTML5 Forms: datalist – Contains a number of <option> elements with values [...]
HTML5 Forms: Attributes
Top complement the new input types, there are a number of new attributes. If you didn’t read about the new input types available in HTML5 check out “HTML5 Forms: Input Types“. These new attributes are handy for actions web developers often need. autocomplete – An option to turn off automatic form completion of values for [...]
HTML5 Forms: Input Types
This blog entry covers some of the new input types which are available in HTML5. There are still various incompatibility issues with web browsers (i.e. HTML5 is not supported yet). If there are any issues with incompatibility the web browser will just default back to the regular <input type=”text”> element. The web browser will not [...]
(Google+) A First Look
Google over the last few months and years, has been creating something that can compete with Facebook. Last year, they tried this with Google Wave only to end in utter failure. Now with Google+, Google could now become a very big contender. The service launched on June 28, 2011 in an invite only state. High [...]
html5 and css3
I was look around on the net for some html5 code samples and i came along this site it looks good not that far in to it have a look at see what if was about. It not just on html5 there css3, JavaScript, Ajax and more. just have a look and see if it helps [...]
Decimal to Binary Conversion: Method 3
And….. the 3rd and final Sub Module for converting Binary using the ‘Alternative Subtraction Method’. Public Sub Method3(ByVal num1 As Integer) ‘ ############################################# ‘ METHOD #3 – Alternative Subtraction Method ‘ ############################################# Dim A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, [...]
Decimal to Binary Conversion: Method 1
Below is the sub module solution for converting Decimal to Binary using the Division Method. As with the other method please post any ways you think the code could be improved. ‘ ############################## ‘ METHOD #1 – Division Method ‘ ############################## Public Sub Method1(ByVal num1 As Integer) ‘declare variables Dim working As String = String.Empty [...]
Decimal to Binary Conversion: Method 2 [UPDATED]
In class yesterday we were set the task of creating a program which can convert decimal numbers to binary. The program must use modules and demonstrate all three conversion methods outlined by the Curriculum Council Specification Guide. The idea of this activity is for students to recognise decimal, binary (and eventually) hexadecimal numbers and be [...]
Like the blog on Facebook!
Hey guys! We all know what Facebook is (unless you have been living under a very well shielded rock for the past few years). If you would like to ‘like’ the blog and get up-to-date information, click the link! ~ Damian. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Teachbook/155219997861788 <– Here http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/
PlayStation Network Outage: The Real Costs
Now that Sony’s PlayStation Network is back online again, analysts are beginning to assess the real-world cost of the network breach and shutdown of the giant gaming establisment. Even as recently as this past week. Sony was still having trouble with the PlayStation Network, taking down its password resetting facility because of another Sony oversight: [...]
iPhone 4GS or 5?
So as we know already, Apple always like releasing something from the same product line every year. For example, last year the iPhone 3GS was upgraded to the iPhone 4. So the spectliaction is pointing to another new iPhone, but this time instead of going from the 4 to the 4GS, everyone beleves that we [...]
Autodesk 3ds Max
Autodesk 3ds Max software provide powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing tools that enable artists and designers to more quickly ramp up for production. The two versions share core technology and features, but offer differentiated experiences and specialized toolsets for game developers, visual effects artists, and graphic designers on the one hand, and architects, [...]
Unreal Development Kit
What is it? UDK is Unreal Engine 3 – a complete professional development framework. All the tools you need to create great games, advanced visualizations and detailed 3D simulations on the PC and iOS. The best tools in the industry are in your hands. Who’s it for? Anyone. Everyone. You. Unreal Engine 3 has been used [...]
Facebook, the most annoying form of blogging
The social network Facebook is the most common form of blogging. Its also the most annoying. Some people post a status every 5-10 minutes, I wont name names but you all knwo who I mean. People post everything imaginable. Ranging from what they did today all the way to how their current relationship is going. Accepting friend requests is like subscribing to [...]
Bloggin’ – Like writing in a diary, but without all the Carpel Tunnel
Blogging. It’s something a large proportion of us all do. It gives us (and any others who may read it) a source of news, entertainment, or general rantings. Blogs of today originated from online diaries, but to todays crowd, they now act as more of source of current events. For those who do not use [...]
Nokia X7-00
Have you been wondering what Nokia plans to do between now and whenever it launches its first Windows Phone handset? We have, too. It turns out it’s business as usual for the number one smartphone manufacturer, with today’s announcement of two new Symbian-powered phones, one of which is the X7. But this isn’t Symbian as [...]
For all those Xbox Haters – PS3 in a Sony HD LCD TV
Well I like Xbox’s, so please expect a bias blog post here… Along with Sony’s great TV range and their gaming console; this was always going to happen. They have combined a good gaming console into one of there best new TV’s, allowing for full HD viewing of you most watched programs and instant switching [...]
web accessibility
1 What is Web Accessibility? Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web. 2 Why is so important? It is essential that the Web be accessible in order to provide equal access and equal opportunity to people with disabilitiesProvide [...]
Web accessibility – It’s a big world out there.
If you couldn’t capture the title, this has to do with the differrent ways of accessing the Internet (Preferably not 4Chan) and the duties required to provide a sustainable system. Web accessibility is ensuring that Articles, Media, etc. on the Web, are able to be viewed and understood under different circumstances. These circumstances can relate [...]
iiNET – BoB’s Big Brother
BoB. It’s so cool they spelt it’s name wrong at birth. (Broadband in a box > >). But the old BoB many of us have is made in America from a well known company. Because of this there has been many problems. From day one iiNET said it would make it’s own router and hardware [...]
Web Accessibility – The Interwebs for all…
The internet has been created for every single person on earth, no matter how different. Some people can’t listen to speach, or read the text on a website; but companys and websites are trying there best to make it better for those with a disabilitiy. Because of this, when a website is being created special [...]
ICT Trends – iPad’s In-Classrooms
A recent article posted on Mashable (prob. a week ago now) looked at the Apple iPad trial in schools and whether iPad’s and in deed students are ready. http://mashable.com/2011/05/16/tablets-education/ The following topics are covered: Tablets are the Best Way to Show Textbooks Classrooms Are Ready for Tablets Tablets Fit Students’ Lifestyles Tablets have the Students [...]
The Interwebs – Usage :)
The Internet (Also called the Interwebs). It’s a beautiful world. Full of infomation, publications, games, YouTube, Facebook and other less-inviting aspects*. Every single day there is something new on the internet, not to mention every second. It’s been looked at as a huge help for people at work, allowing them to colaberate with others around [...]
Blogs – The Development Over the Years….
From the start of the interwebs, people have been opening up their lives for the world to see. In the early days when the first blogs on the internet were created, they were usaly in a diary format; being very simple and easy to use only containing a few images and text. Over the years, blogs have [...]
Eduwise Pc
The Eduwise Pc by Intel is $400, although titled as a “Pc” it is in fact a laptop. It is cheap and simple alternative for those with a lack of money and resourses. These people with lack of money, education and resources compared to those who can afford and are able to fully understand and work technology are the people who make up the digital divide. The Eduwise Pc [...]
Eduwise Pc
Eduwise Pc is a personal mobile computer which is used for the learning enviroment for teachers and also students around the world. The ‘project’ is aimed at spreading the latest technology and trains students and teachers in what they call a ‘real sense’. The ‘Eduwise Pc’ is well priced at $400, and it includes features such [...]
The XO series Laptops – Bringing technology to children Worldwide
http://www.tech-news.com/imagesap/xo-1pc.jpg While the main priority to people of developing countries is generally to provide the big 3 – Water, Food and Shelter, The ICT community is also helping provide another important resource: Technology. The use of technology to developing nations helps further their economy by shifting up the global status, while also improving morale. The [...]
Ipad 2
It’s 33 percent thinner and up to 15 percent lighter, so it feels even more comfortable in your hands. Two powerful cores in one A5 chip mean iPad can do twice the work at once. With up to nine times the graphics performance, game play on iPad is even smoother and more realistic. And [...]
AMD Geode & The Digital Divide
AMD and Intel alike have started to work on improving the Digital Divide over the world by intergrating older styled technology into computers that can cost less then $100 dollors Australian. By using CPU’s created in the 90′s, the companys can offer these processors for a very little price tag, and even offer some for [...]
What is Software Piracy?
Unlike other things you purchase, the software applications and fonts you buy don’t belong to you. Instead, you become a licensed user – you purchase the right to use the software on a single computer, but you can’t put copies on other machines or pass that software along to colleagues. Software piracy is the illegal [...]
Digital Divide
The above video is about the adoption of technology in Uganda, peoples attitudes towards technology and the Digital Divide. The above video is about the Rasberry Pi micro computer which has recently been developed
Intel Tri Gate 22nm Technology
Intel Tri Gate 22nm Technology First benchmarking test with Intel’s new Technology
Apple Granted Patent For USB/Thunderbolt-Compatible 30-Pin Connector
Apple has just won a patent, which I totally saw coming a mile away, that seemingly allows for their semi-ubiquitous 30-pin connector to support “DisplayPort (dual lane)”, which sounds a lot like the Thunderbolt standard so recently added to the Apple stable. Their is a patent that shows a step in this direction: further coalescing different [...]
eBook’s – The New Book
Wow that title makes this story sound really intresting. Sadly, book’s are not as interesting as they used to be, but Apple, Amazon and other companies are bringing it back into style by making the book become something digital. So iPad’s, iPhones and Kindles have been around for a few years now. You can buy [...]
iOS 5 – A new beginning?
According to two “solid sources” for TechCruch, Apple’s forthcoming iOS 5 software may bring with it a major revamp of the operating system built around the cloud, but we’ll have to wait for a fall release to enjoy its new features. A fall release would break the pattern of previous iOS releases, which have typically been [...]
Plane Finder – The Legal Way
The wonders of the intrenet! Each and every day, we discover new websites that do so much more then we ever expected. A brand new company has taken a great idea, and turned it into something that can become very popular. Todays new aircraft have a AIS or ADS-B transceiver for the airline to track and [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
First unveiled at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade show in Barcelona, Spain, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play features a “4″ multitouch display, a touch-sensitive joystick, a D-pad and four of the PlayStation’s famous control buttons; triangle, square, circle and X. PlayStation games on the XPERIA Play will be downloaded through the ‘PlayStation Suite’, an [...]
Will the Xphone be real?
We know that the PSP Phone aka the Xperia Play is real, as confirmed by an official Sony and Android commercial at the beginning of this week, but what about Xbox? The gaming platform is integrated into Windows Phone 7 as Xbox Live, but we’re lacking a genuine gaming phone with Xbox features, unless you [...]
New Functionality: Print Friendly
New Functionality has just been installed which allows you to Print, Email or Save a PDF of a particular page or blog post. As well as the ability to Print you can also remove sections of text, headers, images and YouTube Videos so that you don’t waste paper or colour. The print friendly button appears [...]
Apple iPad 2 Gets iMovie to Go With Camera
Since the iPad 2 has a pair of cameras, Apple is porting iMovie to the iPad. The popular movie editing software debuted over 10 years ago on the Mac and brought it iPhone with limited capability last year. While even some professional movie makers used it, the small interface make it challenging to edit complex [...]
Netgear DGN1000 Modem
The Netgear N15 Wireless Modem Router DGN1000 is a simple ADSL+2 modem/router with an 802.11n wireless access point. it also has four 10/100 Eternet ports, a built in firewall, parental filters and the Netgear N150 Wireless Modem Router DGN1000 even has physical bottons for controlling the state of the wireless network. It isnt a fully blown [...]
Intel Solid State Hard Drives
Intel Solid State Drives represent a revolutionary breakthrough that delievers a giant leap in storage performance. Intel Solid State Drivers are designed to satisfy the most demanding gamers, media creators, and technology enthusiasts. These new drives bring a high level of performance and reliability to notebook abd desktop computer storage, at a fraction of the [...]
Billion BiPac 7800N
Connections: The 7800N sits above the norm by offering gigabit Ethernet ports and interestingly, a WAN port. Unlike many consumer routers, Billion has chosen not to include USB ports for print sharing or storage — perhaps because usually they are rife with compatibility problems and cause more frustration than joy. Performance: After analysing the spectrum [...]
D-Link DSL-2740B
D-Link DSL-2740 has been around in some shape or form since 2006 now, and it shows in the design, this is one box you’ll want to hide away in a dark corner. The 2470B amounts to a middle of the road effort from D-Link. It’s not missing any features, but it doesn’t do much above [...]
BELKIN PLAYMAX MODEM ROUTER
Speed Double your performance and bandwidth with Dual-Band N technology. Simultaneous networks eliminate interference and optimize media-intensive applications like videos and gaming, with speeds of up to 300 Mbps. Modem supports ADSL 2+ connection. Security WPS/WPA2 encryption standards and preset security settings get you up and running safely. One-touch Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) securely connects [...]
BoB – Broadband in a Box! Wait a second….
You have seen the ads, people singing over this box called BoB. He stands for broadband in a box somehow and the people at iiNET think it is the best thing to ever happen to Australian internet before the NBN. BoB combines the modem, routor and also voip modem in one that allows acceess to [...]
Microsoft – The New Logo’s
So a few days ago, several, if not hundereds of images and video’s poped up all over the internet after Microsoft had a internal, closed conference. The companys ‘new logo design concept’ along with there brand new slogan “Be What’s New” have been revealed and leaked. Now other then this weird-ish slogan these new logo’s seem simple, too simple [...]
Revision of Course Topics
I have just implemented some new functionality into the Teachbook Blog site. This functionality will allow us to develop revision quizzes based on the topics that have been covered. Each quiz will generate 10 random multiple choice questions from the database of questions, this means that each quiz won’t be too long. Every time you [...]
Microsoft Silverlight
Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications and business applications for the Web, Desktop and mobile devices. Silverlight is basically a free plug in powered by the .NET framework that is compatible across mulitple browsers, devices and operating systems to bring a new level of interactivity wherever the web works. With [...]
Google Docs: Google Cloud Connect
Thursday was a very busy day in the internet world. As well as the release of new Apple products and releasing of Intel’s new hardware, Google has announced the release of their new Google Cloud Connect technology for Google Docs. I do lots of research publications with my Dad who lives and works in the [...]
Thunderbolt (a.k.a Light Peak) Explained
Following on from the previous post about Intel’s light peak (thanks Ricardo). http://blog.teachbook.com.au/index.php/2011/02/intel-light-peak/ Thunderbolt is the new technology that Apple has integrated into its new Macbook Pro line. This is the same technology referenced in Ricardo’s article and was formally called Light Peak. This technology was developed by Intel and collaborated on by Apple in [...]
Possible Apple Store Refresh Today?
Looks like the Apple store are updating there line of products! Over the last few weeks a lot of news (that you should already know, if you don’t live under a rock) about the Macbook Pro’s being updated look to be correct. With possible moves from Nivida to ATI graphics, to actual confirmed details that [...]
Future of Wireless Networks
Here is a great article to start of our merge into Networking for next week. http://mashable.com/2011/02/23/future-home-networking-tips/ Netgear employee David Henry talks about consumer demands for prioritising bandwidths, media streaming and faster transfer. The recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) showed that all devices are now being connected to the internet, be it a TV, Blu-ray play, [...]
WordPress 3.1 – Update on its way!
Mashable has just reported the arrival of WordPress 3.1 update! http://mashable.com/2011/02/23/wordpress-3-1/ Whilst I haven’t had a chance to update this particular blog yet you can expect it very soon. The new features include customisable Administration menu and blog types which will allow you to post galleries and various other styled blogs entries.
Top 5 Gaming Keyboards of 2010
#1 Logitech G19 Large color LCD supports digital photos and video playback; included software development kit opens LCD up to homebrew and community-made apps; 16 million color options for backlit keys; built-in USB 2.0 ports; improved macro recording capabilities with support for five simultaneous key presses. Price: $399.00 #2 Razer Tarantula Razer brings all [...]
The National Broadband Network
The national broadband network (or NBN for short) is the next best things for all gamers, nerds and people who use the internet in Australia! The NBN is designed to bring fibre to the premises, basicly meaning that eventualy, they will get a fibre optic cable and either above or below ground attach it to [...]
Apple Event Announced – 2nd March 2011
Apple is holding an event in San Francisco on March 2, and many feel the company is getting ready to unveil the newest version of the highly successful iPad – Mashable.com has just posted. http://mashable.com/2011/02/22/apple-event-ipad-2/ There are also lots of rumour surrounding the release of the new Macbook Pro which is also due for release [...]
Alienware m15X Review
Following the redesign of the m17X gaming notebook, alienware went and gave the m15x the same extreme make over as they did to the m17x, its the newest 15 inch notebook today. Not only does this notebook have the smae extreme looks like the m17x like the menacing grill and backlit keyboard but the new [...]
Intel “Light Peak”
Light Peak is a new high-speed optical cable technology designed to connect to your electronic devices to each other. Light Peak delivers high bandwidth starting at 10Gb/s with the potential ability to scale to 100Gb/s over the next decade. At 10Gb/s you can transfer a full length Blu-Ray movie in less then 30 seconds. Optical [...]
Google Docs Viewer… updated!
If you don’t use Gmail or Google Chrome you may not be aware of Google Docs. Google docs basically allows you to view and in some cases edit multiple forms of documents. The system also allows you to manage documents with simple document management system functionality. A recent article by Mashable.com references the official Google [...]
Who do you follow?
I dont know if any of you use Twitter at all.. however one person that I follow is Vivek Wadhwa (@vwadhwa) he is an academic and Senior Research Assistant at Harvard Law School and often writes for TechCrunch. Although he is very critical of Google his articles do raise some very good points. In a [...]
Samsung Galaxy Review
The Samsung S Galaxy could definitely do with a sprinkling of individuality, espicially for customers looking for a variable iPhone alternative, not an iPhone look a like. But its flaws are mostly skin deep and once you immerse yourself in the class leading 4- inch screen you would forgot all about the flaws. The Android [...]
Game Design – Minecraft
Several games studios latley have tried to find a sweet spot for user’s to bring there own passion and ideas into that game. Other then Call of Duty, there are many new games around that have been created by one or two people that have no story-line at all, but is as large as other games [...]
Flash Memory
A computer chip which is read only memory (ROM), which retains its data when the power is turned off and that can be electronically erased and reprogrammed without being removed from the circuit board. Many modem and PC’s have their BIOS stored on flash memory chip so that it can be easily updated if necessary, and [...]
Top 30 internet millionaires who are under 30 years old
For all young students aspiring to a future of entrepreneurship and commerce, perhaps you should consider a career in information technology? This list was developed by Michael Dunlop from Retire at 21. Topping the list is Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. His company was recently valued at 50 billion dollars and his personal value at $700 [...]























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