"Back for 2007, it's the Haiku Podcast - Episode #09 - our one year anniversary episode.

We've got lots to catch up on this month, as well as we have an interview with Team Haiku's operators - Curtis Wanner and Urias McCullough."

You can find us on iTunes, Feedburner or visit us at HaikuPodcast.com.

{mosimage}Jaiku (not to be confused with Haiku), is a web site that brings all sorts of different RSS feeds together onto the one page.


You can also do micro-blog-type posts and manage contacts looking at other Jaiku user's feeds.



Click here to check mine out.

"Back for April with Episode Two, we start things off with the teaser trailer of MySims, followed by our review of Spectrobes and topping it all off with the latest Puzzle Quest trailer."

I recently came across a cool little app for Windows called Launchy, an Open Source program similar to QuickSilver for OS X.



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For those unfamilar with QuickSilver, Launchy is activated with a simple key combination and then you are prompted to launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks. While it’s nowhere as comprehensive as QuickSilver, it is joy to have and no doubt long awaited for XP users.



These types of apps remind me of one I was developing in the early 90s called Gravity that had the same functionality, but was also part AI that you could interact with as well.

{mosimage}Bigpond, the self-called Internet experts are a joke.



My fiance recently sent out 20-30 email invitation to our wedding using Google Mail and because of that, she has now had her email address blocked by Bigpond. After ringing them to find out what was the problem, the Telstra employee advised that our address has been blocked for sending spam (the invites). Their advice was that we talk to our ISP, even though, we had informed the guy we used GMail, so there is no ISP involved. This just goes to show that Bigpond employees don't have a clue what they're talking about.



There is a lesson to be learned here. Don't sign up with ISPs like Telstra Bigpond.



Updated 10/4: Telstra have confirmed that Google's mail servers were blacklisted by BigPond for being used to distribute spam and have hit back at Google saying that "Google had approached BigPond about the issue last Thursday but did not immediately take steps to address it."


Ah, so now Telstra are saying they knew about the issue, but still fobbed us off when we rang up about the problem. This is Telstra's typical support at work, their "talk to the hand" attitude.