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Entries from September 2008

I Want the Dell Inspiron 13 – but Not in Australia

September 9th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

I have been saving and planning on purchasing a new laptop. Laptops from Dell have always been high on my list of laptops and I had been interested in the Dell Vostro 1400 laptop, but Dell Australia changed the warranty options for their Vostro laptops (no CompleteCare past the first year), so I was instead [...]

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Tags: Laptops



Console and PC Game Skills Training

September 6th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

If you have ever had your but whipped by your 5-year old son, or some young punk online, you might want to have a look at Gamertrainer.com. Gametrainer.com provides training for anyone wanting to improve their gaming skills. They will work with anyone from first time “newbies”, to “professional” gamers. They provide training for these [...]

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Tags: Site News

Serving inhouse ads with Google Ad Manager

September 3rd, 2008 by nickv · 1 Comment

Introduction Last week Google released Ad Manager. We’ve been using Adspeed to host all of our inhouse ads on the reeftooutback.com website. Adspeed served us well for a while but I found the administrative interface poorly designed and very difficult to use. I’m a huge fan of intuitive user interfaces and Google provides that for [...]

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Tags: Applications · Site News · Tutorials / Training



Smultron vs Coda

September 1st, 2008 by nickv · 9 Comments

Web Workflow All web developers seem to have a slightly different workflow. Last week I set out on a journey to increase my web development productivity. I’m currently using OS X Leopard 10.5.4 on a iMac 2.1GHz G5. Coda ‘Coda‘, made by panic, is a ftp+text editor all in one. At first glance it appeared [...]

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Tags: Applications · Mac · Programming · Web Design