by cameron | Jun 28, 2006 | Podcast
Join Cameron Reilly, Australia’s #1 podcaster, and his special guest co-host Mike Seyfang, as they try to uncover the truth about WinFS and Vista!
In today’s episode we cold-call a couple of senior folks at Microsoft Australia to try to get them to answer two questions:
- What the hell happened with WinFS? Did the web kill it?
- What are the top five reasons why we should buy Microsoft Vista
As you’ll see, one of the Microsoft folks refused to give us the time of day and the other gave it his best shot.
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Opening Theme Song: “Save Me” by The Napoleon Blown Aparts, America’s baddest rock n’ roll band!
by cameron | Jun 27, 2006 | Uncategorized
I have no idea why I find these ASCII versions of people so hilarious – but I do. Erin McNaught is Australia’s entry into the Miss Universe competition this year and I suspect this ASCII picture was the part of her portfolio that won her the gig. Okay, so she looks okay in flesh-mode as well. I saw her on TV today (thank god it isn’t the 4th of July yet) talking about how she did some partial nude shots (oh my god say it isn’t true! women come in nude flavour?) for her modelling portfolio a couple of years ago and some folks think she shouldn’t be allowed to represent her country in Miss Universe as a result. Mind you, Australia’s Miss Universe winners do have a history of wardrobe malfunctions, don’t they?
Okay, forget Erin, here’s an ASCII image to get you geeks REALLY hot under the collar.
by cameron | Jun 26, 2006 | Uncategorized
Thomas Reynolds brought this article in The Age to my attention this morning.
HERE is an idea for a pilot for a new reality television show: it’s about a small coterie of powerful men who grew very rich because they held the only licences to the four television networks that became far and away Australia’s most popular mass medium.
Worth a read. Interesting that we’re starting to see more of these stories hit the MSM.
by cameron | Jun 24, 2006 | Uncategorized
Looks like this news is a couple of weeks old, but I just found out about it, so perhaps you missed it as well. Via Shazbot:
CompanionLink for Google Calendarâ„¢ is a two-way synchronization solution for people that want to extend their Google Calendar onto their desktop calendar systems or mobile devices. It can synchronize Google Calendar with all the latest Pocket PC, Windows Mobile, Palm, and BlackBerry devices in addition to Outlook, Lotus Notes, Palm Desktop, and Groupwise applications.
Well that’s half of the ideal solution for Pocket PC users like myself who no longer want to use Outlook but still want to use a Pocket PC. Ideally I’d like a Pocket PC application which can run offline but synch with Google Calendar once I dock it (or via the web, but at the rates mobileco’s in Australia charge for mobile internet…).
I’ve installed the 14-day trial of CompanionLink but I’m having trouble getting it to connect to Google Calendar. It keeps telling me my email address or password is wrong, and I’m pretty sure it isn’t. So I’ll keep trying. If anyone else gives this a try, please pop over to the Productivity forum and let me know what you think of the product.
by cameron | Jun 24, 2006 | Uncategorized
For those of you living in Australia, TPN gets a small but worthy mention in an article of page 16 of the Weekend Australian Financial Review today in a story about radio networks and their podcasting strategies. I’d like to thank Mark Jones, the IT Editor of the Fin for making sure we got a mention.
