Category Archives: The Internet

Australian broadband speed test

Posted by Tim Malone on Wednesday 4th July, 2007 1 comment

I just thought I’d post a link to an Australian broadband speed test site I found: www.ozspeedtest.com It appears to work very well, and has links to a number of mirrors run by ISPs and web hosts. So, chances are, …

Welcome back

Posted by Tim Malone on Saturday 7th April, 2007 No comments

thinkStack is back – with more regular posts. To start off, I’m going to be writing a few articles aimed a bit more at the non-technical people. I’ll be writing about The Alternatives. It strikes me how so many people …

Social bookmarking

Posted by Tim Malone on Tuesday 15th August, 2006 No comments

I’ve decided recently to get into some of those social bookmarking type sites: del.icio.us, digg, Technorati, etc. You can see what I’ve done through my feeds and profile links on my home page. In summary: del.icio.us is pretty cool digg …

How to force MSN to open links in another browser

Posted by Tim Malone on Saturday 23rd April, 2005 No comments

Finally – I’ve found a way to force MSN Messenger to open it’s links in Firefox. Even though Firefox is set as my default browser (because I don’t use IE), MSN has been insisting on opening links (such as Hotmail, …

If you have 8 minutes..

Posted by Tim Malone on Tuesday 22nd February, 2005 No comments

Then have a look at web history in the year 2014. Barry Welford pointed it out on Cre8asite this morning. The presentation covers the creation of the Internet in 1989 till when the New York Times is taken offline in …