I was one of the lucky bastards who picked up his brand new 3G 64Gb iPad on the day they were released in Australia from My Mac Northland in Preston. Breezed into the store at 2pm and was out complete with iPad, case and keypad dock by 5 past 2. Wandered into a Telstra shop [...]

I never thought I would ever be jealous of an American but I am today… the lucky Yanks can today get their hands on the new Apple iPad. iPad is the best way to experience the web, email, photos, and video. Hands down. All of the built-in apps on iPad were designed from the ground [...]

Google has introduced this very cool new feature imbedded into search results which we will call Scrolling Latest Results. Check out the search results for the word melbourne below to see the scroller about a third of the way down the page. melbourne – Google Search The scroller displays from news, blogs, twitter!

We recently developed a mobile version of one of our web sites publishing and treating it as a sub-domain of the main web site.  It was actually fun creating this mini version of the web site ensuring everything displayed properly on a mobile phone.  We used my  LG U990 mobile phone for testing purposes. A few weeks after [...]

Google is celebrating it’s Toolbar’s 8th birthday by announcing the latest release of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, launching out of beta and available in 40 languages. Here are just a few things you can do with this latest version: – Add gadgets to your Toolbar to bring content from your favorite websites closer to you – [...]

If you are like me, you are always on the lookout for new ways of making a dollar, specially where it is automated and seemless! I pointed out in a recent post Making Money from Publishing that the eBay Partner program coupled with BANS was one very good revenue generator, and now I have found [...]

First it was books, Google saying they wanted to publish online every book ever printed and now its newspapers. Google announced today, we’re launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives.   Bringing history online, one newspaper at [...]

In unique Google fashion, the search engine giant has launched its latest product Chrome, with a cartoon that explains the background of the open source browser based on WebKit. Unlike other modern web browsers, which can only run one process at a time, Google Chrome gives each tab its own process. This speeds up overall [...]

AUSTRALIA today became the third country to have its cities, streets and landmarks “scanned into” Google as the search giant unveils its most ambitious Street View project to date. Google Street View is an online tool that lets users take a virtual tour of landscapes from their computer by perusing an interactive database of millions [...]

The Google Gadget eBar from eBarster displays eBay content in a Google widget on your web site. It conforms to both the Google Gadgets Api and the OpenSocial Api, making it easy to install on any website, including social networking sites that support the Google Gadgets Api or Orkut and is linked to your eBay [...]