I have a new shared blog as part of the MSP team in Western Australia.
The blog provides information on Microsoft related information, events and other technical info.
If you are interested you can check it out at http://www.wamsp.com.au
I will continue to update this site with bits of stuff I find around the Internet as per usual.
I have made another little utility. This time it checks stock prices from Google Finance, Yahoo!7 Finance and Trading Room. (ASX Stock Exchange).
If you are interested, you can download it at
I’ve finally got around to creating my own WiFi HotSpot!
Tomizone allows you to create your own HotSpot, allowing any user of the public to access wireless internet generating revenue for you.
This is especially good for people such as cafe or chain operators who want to give their customers access to wireless internet at low cost and minimal setup. I bought a Linksys WRT54GL for about AUD $80, loaded the free firmware from the Tomizone website, and away you go.
For more information see www.tomizone.com
For a list of available hotspots see http://locate.tomizone.com
Banana Rating: 5/5
Mozy gives you 2GB of completely free online storage.
This is great for off-site automatic secure backups. I only wish I had found it earlier!
Banana Rating: 5/5
I use the Three mobile network here in Australia, and sometimes use my Nokia E65 mobile phone with my notebook to connect to the internet.
Normally I connect my mobile phone to my notebook via Bluetooth, and use the Bluetooth modem to dialup.
To dial up, you need to use a specific dial-up number, which I always forget. So, for the convenience of everyone, and myself, here are the dial-up numbers when using the mobile as a dial-up modem.
For Nokia handsets use: *99#
For Sony Ericsson handsets use: *99***2# or *99***1#
I have not tested other makes but I believe *99# will work.
This is a small java arcade game my group made for a uni project.
We had less than two weeks to make it, so it’s not perfect. Check out the splash screen for keys.
http://www.cheekimonki.com/dsa/
Psiphon is a human rights project designed to bypass censoring blocks to the internet, and promote freedom of speech in censoring countries. It works by routing encrypted traffic via a country where the content is not censored allowing the user to visit whatever site the user deems appropiate and not it’s govenment.
Psiphon is open-source and developed by Citizen Lab who offer it as a free download from their website, http://psiphon.civisec.org/
Banana Rating: 4/5
It’s no secret digital camera use and purchases exploded in recent years, and now even novice consumers are clued up on picture quality and how it’s measured; in megapixels.
The average consumer camera is now around 5 megapixels. Imagine that times 500.
The Gigapxl Project set out to capture our world, using technology to produce amazing quality and great sized pictures. Their photos range from 1000 megapixels to 4000 megapixels. Some of this stuff has to be seen to be believed. Imagine a print 50 square feet print with the quality of your average 6 x 4!
Check out http://www.gigapxl.org/ to see their latests prints.
Banana Rating: 5/5
Wikipedia is fast becoming the most popular source of information on the web.
With already more than 895,000 articles in English, and more in several other languages, Wikipedia is the latest online free Encylopedia available. It is dynamic and responds to the fast pace and ever changing speed of the world we live in today.
Wikipedia isn’t your normal website. It is actually maintained by it’s users. Moderators are used to ensure it’s accuracy, but it can be edited and updated by anyone! This means, it always has the latest information on just about everything.
Banana Rating: 4/5
