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When computers fail, they really fail. They fail hard. Many hours of weekend time is taken up rebuilding, reformatting and redata-ing (?) the broken computer. Time is valuable!

Now I've had a personal experience of the sanity saving Windows Home Server automated backup. In the most recent week, I have...

You can add this to your blog too: Add Windows Live Messenger to your Blog

It is a simple matter of going to the above live.com (obviously, log in with your Live ID) and using the simple online form to configure your Messenger web widget.

The really, really cool thing is that you can have either a chat...

In a house with 3 Windows laptops, 2 Mac laptops, 1 Windows Desktop and a lone Debian file server; time absorbed in home administration was getting out of hand.

The lone Debian file server runs on an old PC desktop. Last year in a weak moment in between jobs I decided to reconnect with my Unix side and...

Gary Barber, the Man with no blog, is the celtic druid of the Australian Web Industry Association, previously known as Port 80.

Perth, being so remote from the rest of the known world, has a unique culture of involvement and inclusiveness; much to the chagrin of other Australian cities.

In this...

Cameron Reilly, replete with his own wikipedia entry, is Australia's premiere podcaster and Founder/CEO of The Podcast Network.

What you may not realise is that Cameron is a Napoleon Geek. So much so, that his podcast has tens of thousands of listeners and Cam has been named a Fellow of the International...

Virtualized, tatooed, 1970s and 1980s geeks abounded at Podcamp Perth.

Held on a Saturday, the famous Perth Port80 Posse hosted various luminaries, bloggers, famous podcasters and lowly corporate types in an free unconference of information (and beer) interchange.

Geek Stories? You betcha. Have a look....

As Larry mentions in his post, the latest beta of Windows Live Photo Gallery is out.

After installing it, the first feature I tried out is the new "upload to Flickr". I am a Flickr Pro user: the ability to see and comment on my friend's photos is like attending slide-show evenings from the...

Imagine: you are out having a pleasant dinner with your parents-in-law. One thing leads to another, and you start playing with your new toy: Windows Mobile 6.0 and my new Palm Treo 750.

Minutes before leaving the house, I had downloaded and installed the Windows Live client for Windows Mobile into my...

Web Directions South is a yearly conference held in Sydney. The core of Australia's web-construction community emerge from their twitter, blogs, HTML, CSS, Notepad+, Dreamweaver and Photoshop to talk shop.

I attended the first day of Web Directions, and captured a collection of Geek Stories from...

Ultimate geek Jeffa opens his Halo3 Limited Edition (that's the aluminium box version with nice hard cover manual)