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IMPORTANT: Urgent Geekzone changes
As a moderator here, who is also an application developer, I sit on the Design and Usability for Members Board for Geekzone. It's within this role that I announce an emergency change that will affect...
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Toll road disaster - time for a new provider.
Yesterday's NZ Herald outlines how 1,000 email addresses have been leaked by the NZTA - the data is motorist's personal email addresses who have had their credit cards fail when paying for...
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ISP Snap lays down the gauntlet
We love data. Like a fat kid at your local KFC, we'll eat as much as we can, for as little dollars as we can get away with. Vodafone lead the charge in July last year with doubling their data...
View ArticleCombating the social mob mentality
For anyone involved in dealing with consumers (as opposed to business-to-business), there's the age old idiom which reads: For every bad experience a customer has, they will tell ten other people about...
View ArticleBlind helper app wins Microsoft Imagine Cup
I was lucky enough to attend the Microsoft Imagine Cup last night on behalf of Geekzone (with fellow moderator Stu Taylor, BigHammer, later joined by Paul Spain the NZ Tech Podcast-er), held at the...
View ArticleNZ Music Month - Tim Walker
UPDATE: Tim won best international artist at last night's Musicoz Awards in Sydney. Congrats Tim! Since 2000, May has been New Zealand Music Month. While nearly all of the music played on the...
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New Garden Shop
For the last four years, my Dad has been running his own garden shop, Just Add Worms (twitter: @justaddworms). Originally starting off as a blog about all things green and organic (which has been one...
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Hungry?
As well as ordering around the troops here at 3Bit, I own a cafe in Mt Eden called Tuihana Cafe, which is run by my better half Leslie. I've been wanting to do a blog post about the cafe for some time...
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User accessibility, and keeping the bad guys out
As a developer, all the systems we create have end-users. There is a delicate balance between make sure a user is who they say they are, and stopping unauthorised access. Make it too easy and their...
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Save $600pa on your home phone and internet
Short version: Swap to VoIP and naked DSL. Below is my example on how to reduce your home phone and internet bill by $50/month. Your mileage will vary.I've been meaning to take a look at my parent's...
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Excel is not a customer database
With surprising frequency I'm meeting with businesses who are using an Excel spreadsheet (or spreadsheets) as their primary store for customer info. It's not until I point out some big flaws with...
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Game Masters Media Preview
I'm currently in Melbourne about to head across to the Game Masters Media Preview. I'll be tweeting and posting pics as much as I can from my twitter account if you want to follow along (@nate), or...
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Sorry MySky. I have TiVo now
Today marks me having a TiVo, and not having MySky, for about a month.As someone who grew up with Sky, not having it was very strange at first. I've had a MySky since they first came out, and I...
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Game Masters Exhibition
Three weeks ago I said I would blog about this the next day (epic nate fail). I've been away on holiday so apologies for my tardiness. I was flown over to Melbourne courtesy of Alienware, for their...
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Clever tech and social media
I spoke at Gather earlier this month about some of the technology and social media we run at Tuihana Cafe. I've since had a few requests for copies of the slides which I've uploaded to Slideshare. The...
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Own thy domain
Domain names are the street addresses of the internet. From google.com, to nzherald.co.nz to geekzone.co.nz, most of us will easily identify our favourite sites by the address we type in the bar at...
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Extending Xero through their API
Xero is fantastic accounting software. Through their API (Application Programming Interface) they allow third parties to integrate into their main accounting engine. This allows developers to create...
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Sony’s 84” 4K behemoth TV
On Thursday, Geekzone moderator Stu (BighammerNZ) and I were invited to Sony's headquarters in Ponsonby, Auckland as part of their "Sony Open House" promotion. It was a launch to show off the new...
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Review: Blackbox C20 noise cancelling earphones
I spent all of last week in New York for meetings - before flying out I attended the Sony launch, and after hearing about "must have" noise cancelling headphones for long haul flights, I decided to...
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My Little Geek
The best way to summarise this book is from their website: My Little Geek is an ABC book all about geekdom I came across this book a few months back off a suggestion on Twitter (it's written by a...
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