by Collin Van Uden on January 24th, 2011 Found this:
[..]This simple decision, taken by a computer scientist used to working in environments that promoted openness and transparency, eclipses any hype about subsequent Twitter revolutions, Facebook campaigns or political protests ascribed to the platform since. The invention of the web is comparable to Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press in 1450.
Like the printing press, the [...]
by Collin Van Uden on January 19th, 2011
“But but but,” I hear you protest, “what about the children? They’re learning bad things online!” Yes and they used to hang out on street corners and learn bad things there too. Now that we’re so scared of one another in real-life that we won’t pop next door for a cup of sugar in case the [...]
by Collin Van Uden on May 23rd, 2010 Cool, I got the current round of Facebook spam on my wall. It’s cool, because now I get to show you folk the one simple thing you can do that will protect you from phishing attacks more than any anti-virus software you’ll ever get.
It uses legacy technology known as ‘eyeballs’ and really isn’t that complicated.
But first [...]
by Collin Van Uden on May 23rd, 2010 I had to push a photo taken on my HTC Desire to my Laptop today, and got a little stuck. After connecting, it wasn’t immediately apparent which folder contained the photos.
A quick Google search sorted it out (not to mention the Pacman awesomosity) but I think this is something HTC could have done a whole lot [...]
by Collin Van Uden on May 9th, 2010 Nothing special here, just a quick little .vbs script that makes it easy for your users to hook up to a shared printer using Windows [...]
by Collin Van Uden on April 20th, 2010 In an article published by the Australian yesterday, in which the Australian Federation against Copyright Theft (AFACT) claimed that ISPs are refusing to negotiate on Copyright (self) regulation, a claim that ISP iiNet – whom AFACT unsuccessfully sued earlier this year – strongly deny in their responding statement, in which the ISP points out;
“The internet industry and copyright holders [...]
by Collin Van Uden on April 15th, 2010 A little while ago, after a day buried in work stuff, and a night pondering how to make this site ‘fit’ with the online world (when it evolves from being a chaotic dumping ground of sporadically interesting plugins, features, styles, naked code and other such silliness into something more elegant, stylish and with any luck – profitable) I had a thought…
… Knowing the way the web works, it’s quite likely such a beast exists already – and Google have been displaying timelines with News site references for a while now – but clearly my idea is better. That doesn’t mean, however, that Google are resting on their laurels when it comes to tracking what’s going on in the land of the interwebs… [...]
by Collin Van Uden on April 5th, 2010 I found something really cool today. When that happens, I like you share it with you people, because as you all should know, I’m a caring, sharing kinda guy.
As some of you may also know, I don’t take myself, or this site too seriously (yet) So when it comes to the nitty gritty fine print type stuff, I can get a little .. well, slack. [...]
by Collin Van Uden on March 19th, 2010 You may have seen it. The stunning, (slightly creepy) culinary mad science that is the Steve Jobs Cheese Head. I get the feeling that The Cooks Den site probably got a spike in page visits today, Jobs bless ‘em.
Essentially, they’ve provided us with what some Apple fans have no doubt already got set up on a special altar [...]
by Collin Van Uden on March 14th, 2010 So, Stephen Conroy’s Australian Mandatory ISP Internet Filter was featured in a Yahoo! news article today, but the comments are limited to 1000 characters. If you’ve been paying attention it’d be pretty clear theres no way that’ll be sufficient for my ramblings, so here’s the full response below:
(Note: if you’d like to leave a comment on the Yahoo [...]
by Collin Van Uden on March 12th, 2010 On the social web, and why some folk fear it… [...]
by Collin Van Uden on March 1st, 2010 An initiative of the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, PlanBig is a place for you to get your ‘Big Idea’ started. It’s kind of a crowdsourcing slash community outreach mashup – a concept growing in popularity on today’s social web.
This is something I think Australia has needed for a little while (assuming something similar doesn’t already exist [...]
by Collin Van Uden on February 13th, 2010 A nice little tool I tripped over poking my nose over at the Google Code pages – The Recrawl Tool
Over on the Social Graph API pages there’s all sorts of info for developers, the curious enquirer, scriptkiddies (and spam kings) to get their hands on. Check out the Social Graph API FAQ page for more info
So, [...]
by Collin Van Uden on February 13th, 2010 On the 9th of this month, YouTube enabled a new Parental Control style feature :’Safety mode’
An opt in setting that blocks out undesirable search results. Keep your kiddies safe (or, frustrate the hell out of someone you know goes looking for undesirable videos on YouTube.)
According to YouTube’s blog, the filter also blocks out “newsworthy video that [...]
by Collin Van Uden on February 13th, 2010 Apparently, Facebook have decided we have too much information in our lives, and have decided the best way to deal with this is to limit the friends that show on our news feeds to 250. How they do this remains a mystery, no doubt involving complicated algorithms, technical jargon, and possible a HUGE wall and multi-fire [...]
by Collin Van Uden on February 4th, 2010 What a great day in Australia for truth, freedom, and the ‘not being an idiot’ way.
Those of us (with no lives) who appreciate such things waited with baited breath today for the verdict in the AFACT vs iiNet case from the Federal Court, and I for one was ready to pen some angry words and shout [...]
by Collin Van Uden on February 1st, 2010 Well, I’m only a few days behind Mashable on this one, so I thought I’d post it out anyway
Twitter has enabled local trends for all Twitter accounts but Australia is noticeably missing from the list of countries.
Local trends for the globe, but Oz misses out so far..
Now, I didn’t expect humble little Ballarat to appear [...]
by Collin Van Uden on January 25th, 2010 I’ve tried a few times now to write this post. It’s about Stephen Conroy’s Mandatory Internet Filter, and I’ll be damned if it hasn’t been difficult not to have it descend into a sledgefest.
Here’s the thing. Conroy is not being honest with you. At all, about anything he’s said regarding the filter. And here’s the latest [...]
by Collin Van Uden on December 4th, 2009 Alright Outlook. We’ve been friends for some time, and so far the relationship has been OK. We’ve had our ups and downs, but we always work it out in the end don’t we? So why would you go out of your way to make my life miserable?
For the last 3 or 4 days, I’ve been in [...]
by Collin Van Uden on November 29th, 2009 So, a (nameless) friend of mine created a facebook account recently, and like many new users, made the mistake of clicking on a link sent received in her inbox. Easy mistake to make, irritating when it comes to getting rid of the resulting malware that takes up residence on your PC.
With a little assistance from TrendMicro, [...]
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