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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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For the last few weeks I've been working on a project built with Adobe Flex on Adobe AIR . A quick rundown - Flex is Adobe's (well, Macromedia's really) solution to make building form-based apps in Flash (as opposed to animations) easier, and AIR is Adobe's way of expanding its influence...
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So the last blog post got me thinking - what if we could access files/resources on web apps as if they were local files? This would solve one of my major gripes with using web apps. Sure it's great that I can access and work on whatever it is, anywhere in the world, but when it comes to finding things...
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TV just isn't what it used to be. It isn't just an idiot box where we can flick it on, channel surf mindlessly, change the volume, and turn it off when we're done. Photo by aesterling on flickr It's not just about tuning in to some pre-programmed channel anymore - its about gaming (PS3...
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For the last year or so, my HTPC has been laying dormant, only occasionally waking up. As cool as it was, it wasn't really practical - the screen was too small watch anything, and I had no room to put a bigger screen in my room. Plus it was just too fiddly and slow to navigate through my content...
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One of the big IT buzzwords has been software as a service (SaaS). Combined with cloud computing, it has been positioned as a paradigm shift in the way the world interacts with IT. It has changed much of the business world, and is already making inroads into the consumer world. In fact, many companies...
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A while back I was brainstorming ideas for a project to keep me occupied during the break. I'm a big fan of brainstorming and mindmaps, so I opened up MindManager (great program by the way) and started stormin' away. Things were going well, and soon I had a few solid leads that I wanted to follow...
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I just had to fix a problem on a computer with Windows Live Messenger unexpectedly closing due to DEP violation, and guess what the problem was - Acer's eDataSecurity Management tool was doing something screwy with it. I gotta give them credit for providing a fix to the problem (problem and solution...
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A while ago, a mate and I were brainstorming ideas to link in his work out/fitness/health/sport fetish with the web, with the view to form something financially viable out of it. We saw lots of fitness community websites out there like traineo , gimme20 , peertrainer and sparkpeople , but they're...
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I've been sitting on this for a while, but never managed to get it polished enough, so I thought screw it, here it is. While pondering what I'm gonna do for the rest of my life (well at least the next few years anyway), I created a list of things I saw the world of tech focusing on for some direction...
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Just got off the phone with Lenovo's post-sales line to cancel a new laptop order, after a ridiculously long wait for delivery. What happened? Read on... Back in October, a mate of mine was looking at getting a new laptop, and I managed to convince him on a Lenovo X61 . It wasn't the utilitarian...