February 28, 2019 Standards-based VPN service? I’m wondering if there is a standards-based, open source friendly VPN service out there. While I’m not paranoid it would be good to have…
January 30, 2017 BuddyPress in a sea of social networks for business Late last year Facebook made splash with the announcement of Workplace. Social networks for business are nothing new of course, but when The Book…
October 22, 2016 Facebook phishing app A few “apps” in Facebook’s ecosystem appear to have fallen under the radar of its security checks. I was invited to verify my account…
April 30, 2016 TV chef Adam Liaw stumbles into an Hoffice On his culinary journey through Scandinavia, Adam Liaw shed some light on the “Hoffice” trend in Sweden where people gather at a house to…
January 17, 2016 Messing with Markdown A few forums I’m on – most notably Github – support Markdown so I thought I’d take a look at how i can work…
September 30, 2015 The IoT value chain I had a chat with a journalist this morning about IoT and the opportunities for IT service providers. The whole concept of the “Internet…
May 31, 2015 WordPress child themes with Child Themify If you want to reduce some of the pain of managing theme changes in WordPress take a look at the Child Themify plugin which…
September 29, 2013 What to do when the NBN comes to town: ONT time After waiting some time expecting to be notified of fibre availability in my area, and with the election nigh, I went ahead and selected…
August 30, 2013 What to do when NBN comes to town: fibre fandango A few weeks after the pits have been upgraded in your area the product at the centre of the whole national broadband network debate…
July 29, 2013 What to do when NBN comes to town: RSP redux When was the last time you received some internet service provider advertising material in your letterbox? AOL CDs anyone? When the NBN comes to…
June 30, 2013 What to do when NBN comes to town: it’s the pits Who would have thought boring telecommunications pits could attract so much media coverage. That’s the PR magic the NBN carries with it as it…
May 29, 2013 What to do when NBN comes to town As it happens I’m one of the lucky few pre-Abbottians with NBN fibre rollin’ past my door so I thought I’d share my experiences…
October 21, 2012 User Data Manifesto I couldn’t agree with it more: http://userdatamanifesto.org Diaspora tent.io All Unhosted apps status.net ownCloud It would be good to see some open source blogging…
September 30, 2011 The BlocksNet concept I fired up BlocksNet the other week when investigating some cross-platform, online backup options. BlocksNet is developed in Ruby and after some “bringing together”…
February 28, 2011 DuckDuckGo added to Firefox search options A few weeks ago I discovered the DuckDuckGo search engine. If you’re a Firefox user you can add it to you list of search…
August 23, 2010 Fixing Flash I’m generally not on the lookout for flash content on the Web, but after upgrading to KDE SC 4.5 I was forced to take…
April 28, 2010 5 years of blogging This week I chalked up five years of continuous personal blogging. No big deal. From memory I started blogging just as the hype factor…
April 6, 2010 Optus Music Store – an open option I’ve often wondered if there was a music store out there that fulfilled my (not unreasonable) needs. A few years ago I tried eMusic…
August 5, 2009 Finally on Facebook My recent social networking splurge has led me to join Facebook. I like the idea of social networking portals. The concept really brings the…
May 25, 2009 I’ve been sucked into Twitter Due to the requirement to manage TechWorld’s Twitter feed I signed up to Twitter today. My feed is @rodneygedda. Tweet away, and away, and…