(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Top New Zealand auction site Trade Me has had a bit of a facelift during the past couple of weeks. Trade Me’s management team had been promising the revamp for…
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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
The evolution of language
(This is the Online column written for The Southland Times) The internet has had a huge impact on our day-to-day lives and now it’s starting to make an impression on our day-to-day language. Not so many years ago, the average…
Plague on your desktop
(This is the Online column written for The Southland Times) With so many worms, Trojans, viruses and other nasties lurking online these days it’s more important than ever to make sure your anti-virus software is up to date and to…
Close friends out, total strangers in
(This is the Online column written for The Southland Times) It could be said that the internet has made us somewhat antisocial when it comes to family and friends as we spend endless hours gazing at a monitor and ignoring…
Shuttle, Vatican and back to school
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) The big news this week has been the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its seven crew members. While thousands of news sites are covering the story, it’s worth…
The web’s weirdest links
As 2002 draws to a close now seems as good a time as any to announce my choices for the best of the net’s weird links. During the past 12 months I’ve scoured the net looking for interesting sites with…
What’s in a name?
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) If you’ve ever wondered what your name means, wonder no more. Behind the Name covers the etymology and history of first names. Interestingly, our very own editor Fred Tulett’s name…
Freeware programs are readily available
There are thousands of useful programs readily available for download over the internet and often the person who wrote the software is more than happy to make it available free of charge. There are several sites that specialise in bringing…
Little nasties not so cute
There are still lots of nasty surprises awaiting the unsuspecting surfer so take care when opening e-mails and surfing the net. Both McAfee and Symantec are warning users to watch out for an e-mail with a subject line: “Thoughts…” Apart…
Another worm doing rounds
Has your computer had a visit from Klez yet? If you’ve managed to avoid it, then well done. Klez is the latest mass-mailing worm doing the rounds. It uses random subject lines, message bodies, and attachment file names and exploits…