AMPED FREESTYLE SNOWBOARDING, for Xbox, RRP $64.95: It may be the middle of summer here in New Zealand but anyone who would rather be a snow bunny than a sun worshipper can relive winter with Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding. Playing as a novice snowboarder out to learn the slopes, Amped lets you takes a few runs […]
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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 my trusty sidekick Seymour the cat. It’s at his insistence that the first award is
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(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 means peaceful ruler. Anyway, I decided to find out what my name means and discovered
While some might say computers are antisocial, there are many thriving communities on the internet. The New Zealand-based Blah.net online community site was launched only a few months ago and already is a busy little place with forums covering every topic imaginable. Blah is, according to site administrator/owner Scott, the place to voice yourself –
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Following quietly in the footsteps of Napster, peer-to-peer file-sharing network Audiogalaxy has been sunk. The popular Napster clone has agreed to filter songs that are the subject of copyright and pay an undisclosed sum of money after a court battle with the Recording Industry Association of America. While last week’s gagging of Audiogalaxy wasn’t as
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 together collections of these programs, known as freeware. Good starting points are No Nags, Freeware
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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 from a short note reading: “I just found this program, and, I don’t know why…but
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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 yet another a vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express in an attempt to execute
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