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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

http://www.tidesoft.com.au/stockprice/

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.

I was having a coffee with my business partner and during which we needed his company ABN and details from ASIC. We didn’t have this information on us, but luckily I had just bought my Dell Axim X50 Pocket PC. Within 2 mins, I had it downloading the www.business.gov.au site through bluetooth on my mobile phone.

Pocket PCs are great for for any number of things, including scheduling, contacts, notes, media player, internet and email. Dell make a great one in the Axim X50, which is what I think good value for money, nice and small, and lots of useful extras. The X50 520Mhz has bluetooth and WiFi for wireless access.

Banana Rating: 4/5

Since the early days of DSL, I have had a lot of modems. Perhaps it was because I was an early adopter, but it just seemed like nothing was completely rock solid as I would have liked.

7 modems, 4 brands and 5 years later, I’ve found the Netgear DG834. It’s fast, supports up to ADSL2/2+ (24Mbit), has a built in firewall and 4 port switch and looks cool!

I’ve put one in at home and one at work, and they are super fast and have not missed a beat. And they are cheap too.

Banana Rating: 4/5