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The Australian Labor Party (ALP)

The first of my Australian political party website reviews - better late than never!
On top in alphabetical order, the Australian Labor Party’s website is relatively plain and filled with the rather American red, white and blue (or is it the blue, white and red French tricolour?) of the party. Visiting first [...]

FreePOPs is a POP3 daemon which allows you to use your normal email client to check web-based email services including Gmail, Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo or any Squirrelmail-based site.
Free and open source, FreePOPs works with any email client which supports POP3 including Mail, Entourage, Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and many more. It is cross platform, [...]

As Australian taxpayers, we all contribute towards the running costs of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), therefore we should all be entitled to have reasonable access to their recorded material, right?
Well yes, up to a point. As long as you aren’t making a documentary which might upset those in power.
Judy Rymer was refused permission [...]

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) appear to be having a battle to see is capable of generating the worst reputation. Up until now, the RIAA had lead the race by claiming billions in lost revenue due to piracy while at the same time having [...]

Microsoft is famous for their “Where do you want to go today?” advertising campaign, but for 30,000 passengers the answer was “Home!” or “Anywhere!” after a “maintenance failure” left aircraft pilots around Los Angeles without radio communications for three hours.
After being migrated from UNIX to Windows based servers, the radio communications system for Southern California [...]

I’ve been very quiet on the posting front for the last week or so - rest assured that I have a valid reason. Most of my spare time has been spent working on moving from Blogger’s free service over to the open source Wordpress software.
Blogger’s service is a fantastic one but I’ve become frustrated [...]

But we’re not stupid.
Or are we?

How to pick up and carry your iMac G5
Don’t know how to pick up and carry your iMac G5? It’s easy.
Before moving your computer, make sure all cables and cords are disconnected. Pick up the iMac G5 by grasping both sides of the computer. Carry it to wherever you wish.
Apple [...]

Who says you can’t mix Apples and methylated spirits?
Feeling a little dopey after a bad night’s sleep last night, I managed to spill a good deal of methylated spirits over the keyboard and display of my running Apple laptop (don’t ask how). After a panicked removal of the battery and a thorough wipedown, I [...]

Inspired by a Slashdot story about learning touch typing at school, I decided to check my own typing skills.
During high school I was forced to suffer through six months of touch typing; classes I absolutely hated at the time but that have been very valuable in the years since. It seems that the six [...]

Nearly nine weeks after I placed the order, my Airport Express base station has arrived. For those who haven’t heard, Airport Express is Apple’s new networking solution which uses 802.11G to provide 54mb/sec wireless connections. It also allows you to share a USB printer and stream audio to your stereo from iTunes.