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Australian broadband speed test

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, if your ISP is in the list you can conduct a test without actually adding to your [...]

Posted: Wednesday 4th July, 2007 at 8:53 pm under The Internet
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Welcome back

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 stick with the status quo when it comes to IT, even though in the vast majority of [...]

Posted: Saturday 7th April, 2007 at 9:00 am under Software, The Internet
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Social bookmarking

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 is a bit of a waste of time
What does Technorati actually do again?

To anyone who hasn’t taken advantage [...]

Posted: Tuesday 15th August, 2006 at 10:34 pm under The Internet
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How to force MSN to open links in another browser

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, Spaces, Profiles, etc) in IE. So, if the same thing is happening to you, here’s [...]

Posted: Saturday 23rd April, 2005 at 7:46 pm under Random snippets, The Internet
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If you have 8 minutes..

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 2014. It covers the creation of the Google Grid in 2006, and Google and Amazon’s merging in [...]

Posted: Tuesday 22nd February, 2005 at 11:43 am under Search engines, The Internet, Web
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