A weekly tech column written for The Southland Times, a company that pays well enough to keep me in handbags and Drambuie
(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 they did four years ago. Interestingly, of the top 10 New Zealand sites that held […]
Safety first at dating sites Read Post »
(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 get into that how about something to make you smile? New Jersey amateur videographer Gary
Something to smile about Read Post »
(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 denied rumours that the problem was caused by a hack attack. In an effort to
Techno-woes for Google and Firefox Read Post »
(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. If you’re connected to the net, you have the ultimate reference library at your fingertips.
Let your fingers do the discovering Read Post »
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 truly believe they are missing something in their lives, I’ve found a virtual husband to
Virtually perfect life.com Read Post »
(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 all the mushy, gooey commercialism it brings. The St Valentine’s Day massacre is a little
Valentine’s Day … massacre Read Post »
(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 think I’d be pretty chuffed with the big yellow thing in the sky putting in
Interfacing with your artistic side Read Post »
(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 the online hoaxes is the Nigerian scam. Back in the 1920s this was called the
Scan for e-mail scams Read Post »
