Day of German Beer

Apr2007 06

"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."






Spectrobes Rating: "*" "*" "*" "*"

Apr2007 05

Launchy for the PC

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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.

Apr2007 03

Bigpond, the joke ISP

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{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.

Mar2007 21

{mosimage}"Security company Kaspersky claimed that Vista's User Account Control (UAC), the system of user privileges that can be used to restrict users' administrative rights, will be so annoying that users will disable it.



Natalya Kaspersky, the company's chief executive, said that without UAC, Vista will be less secure than Windows XP SP2. "There's a question mark if Vista security has improved, or has really dropped down," she said to our sister site ZDNet UK at the CeBIT show in Hanover last week."



Click here for the full story.

Mar2007 15

{mosimage}The 10.4.9 Update is recommended for PowerPC and Intel-based Mac computers currently running Mac OS X Tiger version 10.4.8 and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes or compatibility updates for the following applications and technologies:



  • RAW camera support
  • Handling of large or malformed images that could cause crashes
  • Image capture performance
  • Mouse scrolling and keyboard shortcuts
  • Font handling
  • Playback quality, and bookmarks in DVD Player
  • USB video conferencing cameras for use with iChat
  • Bluetooth devices
  • Browsing AFP servers
  • Apple USB Modem
  • Windows-created digital certificates
  • Open and Print dialogs in applications that use Rosetta on Intel-based Macs
  • Time zone and daylight saving for 2006 and 2007
  • Security updates



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