(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) It seems us Kiwis are spending more time online. A four-week Nielsen//NetRatings NetWatch survey of regular internet users shows New Zealanders are spending up to 90 more minutes online than…
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A weekly tech column written for The Southland Times, a company that pays well enough to keep me in handbags and Drambuie
Something to smile about
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) With all the reports of worms, hackers and internet banking fraud lately, the average punter could be forgiven for thinking the net is a hotbed of nasties. However, before we…
Techno-woes for Google and Firefox
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Search monster Google didn’t have such a good time on Saturday. It seems a domain name server problem put the site out of action for 15 minutes. The company has…
Let your fingers do the discovering
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Every time the internet is mentioned in the news these days it seems to be bad news but take heart, there’s more to the net than spammers, scammers and paedophiles.…
Virtually perfect life.com
Click here for Toothpaste for Dinner (This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Valentine’s Day might be over but the net is still littered with reminders of the sappy event. For any single women out there who…
Valentine’s Day … massacre
(This is the Online column written for The Southland Times) Valentine’s Day is just around the corner but since it’s one of those crass, retailer-invented events that falls into the same category as Halloween, I’m going to ignore it and…
Interfacing with your artistic side
(This is the Online column written for The Southland Times) It’s hard work being on holiday. Right now I’m about halfway through a little post-Christmas break and I’m wondering how I usually manage to find time to work. You might…
Scan for e-mail scams
(This is the Online column written for The Southland Times) Last week’s column generated a few questions about online scams and how they work, so it’s time to check out the information superhighway’s hall of shame. The granddaddy of all…
Watch for scams in wake of tsunami
(This is the Online column written for The Southland Times) As the death toll from the Boxing Day tsunami continues to rise, the depths to which scammers, thieves and fraudsters will sink to also appears to be increasing. The first…
This year’s award winners are ….
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Welcome to the annual Southland Times internet awards. I’m not Billy Crystal and no one’s going home with a gold-plated GI Joe. Now, on with the awards. The Do You…