Registration opens for .me domains - Internet - iTnews Australia
Registrations for the .me top level domain started yesterday afternoon, giving users a new crack at getting a personalised web address.
Unlike the recent staggered rollout of the .asia domain, the .me registrations are open to everyone from day one.
The .me domain name was previously assigned to [...]
Time machine needed to get iPhone? - Boing Boing
Eric Mueller took this photo of an AT&T store on lower Broadway in downtown Manhattan (near Park Place / City Hall) today. Seems the iPhone is “temporally out stock.” Perhaps it’ll be available last year.
Apple pushes 1 million iPhone 3Gs, 10 million iPhone Apps
Apple announced this morning [...]
Community to Gilliard: ‘Consider Open Source’ - Linux & Open Source - iTnews Australia
The Australian Open Source community has called for the consideration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the implementation of the Rudd Government’s Digital Education Revolution Policy.
In an open letter that was submitted last week to the Deputy Prime Minister Julia [...]
Geek Girl Dinners Melbourne can be found on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=15128236963
OLPC Australia is located at:
http://www.olpc.org.au/
New Trojan targets business bankers - Security - iTnews Australia
Security provider RSA is reporting a new and unfamiliar Trojan attack that exploits business bank account holders’ heightened awareness of security and uses it against them.
Customers receive an email claiming to be from their [...]
Engadget WWDC coverage
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/steve-jobs-keynote-live-from-wwdc-2008/
MacTalk Australia
http://www.mactalk.com.au/
KeyNote in 60 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGY28Qbj76A
Apple Snow Leopard
http://www.apple.com/au/macosx/snowleopard/
Apple MobileMe
http://www.apple.com/au/mobileme/
Apple iPhone 3G
http://www.apple.com/au/iphone/
Optus iPhone offer
http://www.optusiphone.com.au/home.aspx
Vodafone’s as yet inactive site
http://iphone.vodafone.com.au
Alphababy (Mac):
http://alphababy.sourceforge.net/
Baby Smash (Windows):
http://www.hanselman.com/babysmash/
Free Scheduling Software | Integrate Outlook, Google Calendar & Exchange Availability - TimeBridge
TimeBridge’s free scheduling software helps you share availability and schedule meetings easily with individuals or groups across time zones
Napster goes DRM-free MP3 - Boing Boing
“It’s great that we have finally gotten here,” said Chris Gorog, Napster’s chairman and chief executive. “It is really [...]
Australia plans counter-terrorism email checks - Security - iTnews Australia
Australian companies providing critical services to the economy will be allowed to intercept the emails and internet communications of their workers under new security counter-terrorism laws. The government’s current Telecommunications Act, which expires in June 2009, only allows security agencies to monitor employees [...]
Conroy confirms expert broadband panel - Telecommunications - iTnews Australia
The six industry and corporate experts making up the Panel include; John Wylie, Lazard Carnegie Wylie CEO; Tony Mitchell, Allphones Chairman; Laureate Professor Rod Tucker, University of Melbourne; Professor Emeritus of Communications Reg Coutts, University of Adelaide; Tony Shaw, former Australian Communications Authority Chairman; [...]
BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft targets the mobile web
Microsoft has launched a bid to capture a segment of the growing market for rich web content on mobile phones. The software firm has signed a deal with handset manufacturer Nokia to bring its Silverlight platform to millions of mobile phones. Silverlight is [...]
Byron’s list of essential Macintosh applications/utilities for Leopard 10.5
The Unarchiver - http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html
Cost: FREE
Multi format de-compression utility. Quick, fast and easy. Takes care of standard stuff like ZIP but also stuff rare to Macintosh like RAR.
1Password - http://1password.com/
Cost: $33 (approx.)
Full featured password management application. Automatically keeps track of any password and/or form you enter into your [...]
Byte Into It podcast Digg Technology Slashdot The Register It news Australia Digg - Linux/Unix Arstechnica Law and Disorder Radioactive It - gaming Ars Technica - Apple