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I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!
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I recently had the need to connect to the Internet on my laptop, but really didn't want to load the whole Nokia PC Suite on to it. I don't have an issue with it, in fact, of all the mobile phone companion software I've used, it's the best of the lot (compared to the LG one... shudders...
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My mate Matt recently bought one of the new HTC TyTN II phones from 3 (aka the HTC Kaiser), and has been raving on about how awesome it is - he's never had a Windows Mobile phone before. Meanwhile, I'm beginning to pick up on all the annoying bits in it and it's driving me up the wall - which...
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From Herald Sun, 27/08/2007. Apple fanboys must be fuming lol. There'll probably be a big corrections notice tomorrow, or the 'your say' part will be inundated with apple fanboy crap. Or maybe the Herald Sun editor couldn't care less... but in a time when newspaper readership is decreasing...
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Recognising the significance of RIAs, Sun is fighting Silverlight and Flash with JavaFX , announced at its JavaOne conference. Details seem a bit scarce at the moment, and there doesn't seem to be any demos going around yet. It'll be cross platform, and will use a variation of the Java language, the...
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Engadget's managed to get their hands on the new Samsung F700 , you know, the iPhone-like phone but with a QWERTY keyboard and 3.5G. They've also managed to get their hands on the new glofiish (or E-TEN if you know them by their previous name) X800 , which is packed with everything you could possibly...
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When you look at a print or video ad when you're out and about, what do you do if it's interesting? If its interesting enough, you'll try and commit it to memory so you can check it out when you get home on the net. But what are the chances of that happening? close to zero first time round probably....
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Man sues Microsoft over porn browsing history . The poor guy gets busted by the FBI, who recover data from his hard drive despite him having IE set to delete his history every 5 days, and is now suing Microsoft for 259,000 because it wasn't actually deleted. Here's a quick computer lesson people - unless...
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Apple and Google working on projects together . Oooh, guess Apple needed something to keep the iPhone hype up. But seriously, two big, innovative, secretive, market-leading companies working together could prove to be a very powerful alliance, and bad news for their competitors, namely Yahoo! and Microsoft...
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A company called Zi Corp has an application called Qix [via WindowsForDevices ] that puts a new twist on navigating a Windows Mobile phone . If you've used an HTC or O2 Windows Mobile smartphone/pocket pc phone, or some of the newer Symbian-based phones, you'd know that it has a T9 multi-match search...
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Stumbled across OpenMoko today, via Engadget , and it's very, very impressive , especially for an open-source project. It's essentially an open-source attempt at creating a next-gen mobile software stack that rivals the best out there. The basis is a touchscreen device, with a couple of buttons for turning...