While surfing the interw3b this morning I came across this very cool new Symbian S60 application. Once installed it allows your phone to act as a WiFi hotspot sharing it's GPRS/3G data connection via WiFi.
Now you might think this is nothing special but if you have an iPod Touch, PDA or laptop that has WiFi built it it allows you to connect to the internet when you're not within range of a WiFi network. WiFi is also significantly faster than Bluetooth for data transfers so if you're somebody who connects their laptop to their phone via Bluetooth there could be significant speed increases moving to WiFi.
This software is only very new and currently lacks any security which means your WiFi connection is wide open for anybody to leach but certainly shows a lot of potential!
www.joikuspot.com
Instant Viewer with Microsoft Presenter 8000 Mouse !
Everyone likes the Apple Mac’s Expose feature and wondered why Vista didn’t bring it on along with Windows Flip 3D 
Well, today I found a function with my Microsoft Notebook Presenter 8000 Mouse that there is a function called Instant Viewer that does the same thing and you can bind any one of the mouse buttons to it (Thanks to David 
)! It works great and looks great! Wonder why this isn’t present by default in Windows Vista 
Here is a screenshot,
(Click for full view)
Are Microsoft going Yahoo and stuff
Yahoo has been having a few problems the last few weeks have to lay of 1000+ people.
Now Microsoft is saying, here is $44.6billion us for Yahoo. Will it happen? Quite a few people have been predicting that Microsoft was going to buy them back in 2006.
They are a good match, I wish them well and hope they can both learn from each other. Like everyone.
Could this mean a change back for Xtra from Yahoo back to Microsoft. I don't think so mate.
I have had a thing with Yahoo, ever since they broke flickr. I use to be able to generate Slideshows based or a group of TAGS ie user+tag1+tag2 It was great for working with alot of data, But they changed it to just one tag. meh useless
http://news.google.co.nz/news?q=microsoft+buying+yahoo
TechCrunch had a great repot on the numbers.
Oh I was impressed with a few threads on Geekzone this week, ok sometimes my mental illness become very noticeable and have have to sit back and remove my feet from my gob. But the read profecional jurno's entering into a debate was a thrill and then to cap it off for being there, in the public, Malcolm Dick, Co-founder of CallPlus talking. Wow, I think I had a bit of a reality shift on that one. For Mal to come into a public like was strangely cool. Great PR for the opening to the Slingshot/CallPlus Geekzone forum. Nice One Stu
Dual booting Vista and Windows Server 2008??
I have Vista Business in one of my machines and thought of dual booting with Windows Server 2008. And the end result? - Excellent! I installed Windows Server on top of Vista and after installation of Windows Server 2008, the boot menu was shown with options to boot into Vista or Server 2008
Cool
The end of domain tasting?
One week ago there was a rumour in the blogosphere that Google would no longer allow domain names less than five days old to be monetised using Google Adsense for Domains. Just a few days later ICANN announced that they are reviewing a proposal to c... (more in the full post)
Throwing a Paper Plane
From the 'really annoying game that I can't stop playing department' we have the Amnesia throw the Paper Plane game
Getting it past the ceiling fan (without getting shredded) and out through the window is the biggest challenge.
My record so far is 61.796m for a global rank of 45,888. I have certainly contributed to the 213 million planes thrown so far!
Microsoft to hold Vista SP1 release for six weeks
Users won't get a crack at it until mid-March at the earliest, says Microsoft
Happy Birthday Windows Vista!
It's actually yesterday, but nobody seemed to have actually celebrated the one year anniversary of Microsoft's latest OS.
"It's been a year already?"
Yep.
How were your thoughts on Vista over this past year? What do you want to make happen on Vista over the next year? What about the 'Wow' that they said that would start?
Your opinions everyone!
For late viewers, here are some of the marketing I still got in my drawer:
I love this one. Especially the view.
APPLE NEWS ROUND-UP FOR 6 FEBRUARY
Apple Inc
Microsoft's unsolicited $45 billion bid for Yahoo announced last Friday sparked off speculation the company might receive a rival bid from a media company like News Corp or Apple. CNNMoney has reported that News Corp. is not considering a bid for Internet giant Yahoo, said CEO Rupert Murdoch during an earnings call with analysts Monday. As usual nothing from Apple... Although itwire has a very interesting article on the whole matter stating that Microsoft will miss out on one of the best parts of Yahoo! “Yahoo-Japan has a market capitalisation close that of Yahoo! inc, makes similar but growing profits and will remain a publicly traded company on the Tokyo stock exchange, only 33 percent owned by Microsoft if the proposed acquisition goes through.”
Mac Hardware
Are new Macbook Pros on there way?? MacRumours.com seems to think so saying “Last week, we'd heard an unconfirmed report that three new MacBook Pro models had appeared in Best Buy's inventory tracking system. Some inventory screenshots (1, 2) we received today appear to confirm this earlier report, showing off the upcoming $1999 price point MacBook Pro (name cut off in image).”
OS X & Software
Apple continues it round of Leopard builds - just 4 days after build 9C27 was seeded comes 9C30 which is reported to have fixed some issues with Time Machine and AFP X Client
The sydney morning herald has an interesting article on Linus Torvald’s (the father of Linux) thoughts on Apples OS X Leopard he had this to say... "I don't think they're equally flawed - I think Leopard is a much better system," he said. "(But) OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary." but he would say that as really he was just going on about how wonderful Linux is.
iPods, iTunes & Apple TV
Apple has released a 32GB version of the ipod touch retailing at $499 US ($100 more than the 16GB version & $200 more than the 8GB version). Aside from the memory bump it looks like no other features have been added.
iPhone
Apple has released a 16GB version of the iPhone retailing at $499 US ($100 more than the 8GB version). Aside from the memory bump it looks like no other features have been added.
The latest market data from analyst firm Canalys puts the iPhone market share of the US Smartphone market at 28% - ahead now of all microsoft mobile devices combined - hows that for a wipping ;-)
Finding Chuck Norris
I just got this on an e-mail, worth trying:
1. Open Google
2. Type "find chuck norris"
3.Click on "I'm feeling lucky"
Enjoy...
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