The IEEE Society and Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) are presenting two free public seminars on recent developments in the Internet sphere including the “Kill Switch” used in Egypt and Libya, Wikileaks and beyond. This should prove a very timely event, given the recent developments concerning the Internet, and I’m […]
Free and Fun Stuff
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Well, this is fun – this would probably be me (without glasses) as a Star Wars Lego MiniFig You can create your own Star Wars Lego MiniFig courtesy of DK Publishing who are promoting one of their recent new publications, the Star Wars Lego Visual Dictionary, which is excellently done, […]
Many years ago now, I used to enjoy the functionality of the Windows Power Toy suite of utilities (which included TweakUI, an image resizer, “command prompt here” etc). Unfortunately, they have long since been forgotten and do not run on the newer Microsoft operating systems. One of my most often […]
Here’s my version of the Olympics. Okay, so you might have seen that one coming? Australia’s not doing too badly for a country of population circa 21 million – a total of 33 medals, 6 more than Great Britain! Now, let me ask.. Who went out and bought a new […]
Lunchtime special presents……"I remember when…" – Monitors where monochrome– Cartridges were the only source of fun– 512kb seemed huge!– My dot matrix printer required a sound booth– I had a 40mb HDD on my 386sx/16mhz with 1096kb of RAM– …but it was VESA compatible!– My first word processing package was […]
Hi Everyone, If you are interested in learning about Windows Server 2008, there is a free event being held next week in Sydney on Tuesday (yes, Melbourne Cup day) and Wednesday at Cliftons (in the CBD). You can register here and also, the course is being held overseas too – […]
Just when all your civil liberties are busy being stripped away comes free WinForms evaluation controls from Telerik and, if you act fast, complete this survey to perhaps win a free developer license. http://www.telerik.com/ – you need to register to download the evals Take this survey: http://surveys.telerik.com/Surveys/TakeSurvey.aspx?surveyid=1048 […]
Hi. If you live in Sydney and/or if you’re attracted to the prospect of walking across the Sydney harbour bridge sans traffic, you’ll get your chance on March 18. The harbour bridge, icon, mass transit saviour and skyline king, turns 75 years old on March 18th and to mark […]
Good news for classical music lovers. Hot on the heals of this author’s attempts to get popular, but copyrighted, content into the public domain comes this great bit of news which is filed accordingly under the ‘Free Stuff’ category; LONDON (Reuters) – Mozart’s year-long 250th birthday party is ending on […]
Welcome to the first publication under the category "Free Stuff". I’ve created this category as a way to publish information about, you guessed it, stuff that is free. Occasionally I run into various websites or information about free content, so I’ll post it up here. So, in that […]
MS Labs is a research arm of Microsoft. They’ve released a tech preview of some pretty exciting technology: http://labs.live.com/photosynth It’s pretty impressive stuff.. recommended for viewing on a broadband (fast) connection, for optimum viewing. You need to be running on Windows XP or Vista (though it will run on […]