Now optimized for iPhone
Posted on 10 April 2009 | No Comments
Good news for iPhone users!
When you browse the State of Flux from your iPhone or iPod Touch, you will now be served a version of the site that has been optimized just for you! The content remains the same, but the look has changed.
If you prefer to browse with the usual look and feel, simply scroll down and use the slider to switch the theme on or off.
The mobile theme should also work nicely with other mobile touch devices such as the BlackBerry Storm or those running Android, but I haven’t been able to test them.
Introduction to Expat Life
Posted on 9 April 2009 | 2 Comments
On 1 January 2009, my beloved wife and I left our home country of Australia and moved to the state of New Jersey in the United States of America for a few years.
Life since becoming an expatriate has had both frustrating times and truly exciting times. I’ve decided [...] Continue Reading…
5 Absolutely Necessary WordPress plugins
Posted on 8 April 2009 | No Comments
It seems like there are plugins to do almost everything except make coffee for the WordPress user these days.
Like people, some are right out in the front, visible to all of your visitors every time they log in; while others run quietly and unobtrusively in the background just making [...] Continue Reading…
Digital Home Entertainment, part 2
Posted on 7 April 2009 | 1 Comment
This is part 2 of a 2 part series. In part 1, I looked at ways to watch the movies, music and television shows stored on our computer on a standard television screen.
More and more people are now storing music, movies and television shows in digital format and watching [...] Continue Reading…
Digital Home Entertainment, part 1
Posted on 3 April 2009 | 1 Comment
More and more people are now storing music, movies and television shows in digital format and watching them directly on their television screens.
The main benefits of this are
Convenience. It’s much easier to turn on the television and scan through a list of titles than standing in front of a [...] Continue Reading…
Vista could be outlawed in Texas
Posted on 1 April 2009 | 1 Comment
A lot of people have openly criticized Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system, but a Senator in Texas has taken it to a whole new level.
According to the San Antonio Express News, Senator Juan Hinojosa has attached a rider to the bill approving the State’s budget that will require government [...] Continue Reading…
Further proof of new iPhone hardware?
Posted on 1 April 2009 | No Comments
A lot has happened since AT&T confirmed they would be selling contract-free iPhones, including…
In the United Kingdom, O2 started giving them away to customers willing to sign a 24 month contract instead of the usual 18 months.
In the United States, Apple has also started selling the iPhone in their [...] Continue Reading…
MacHeist bundle version 3 has been released
Posted on 25 March 2009 | No Comments
The people at MacHeist have just released the third edition of their famous software bundle for Mac users.
This year’s bundle features a core lineup of a dozen award winning and popular apps, games and utilities that represent the cream of the crop from the Mac development community. Whether [...] Continue Reading…
Can Open Source benefit from the current economic climate?
Posted on 24 March 2009 | 1 Comment
The CEO of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst, is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at the Open Source Business Conference this week.
At a pre-conference activity last night he encouraged the various open source vendors to make the most of the current economic climate and get out there and start [...] Continue Reading…
iiNet pulls further away from Great Wall of Australia
Posted on 23 March 2009 | No Comments
Australia’s third largest Internet Service Provider, iiNet, has issued a press release confirming that they have dropped out of the Federal Government’s internet filter trial.
Managing Director Michael Malone, who has been stating throughout the entire process that they only agreed to participate in the trial to demonstrate just how [...] Continue Reading…
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