Australian Technology
When the sun sets in North America, that means it is time for Australia to take centre-stage and talk about development with an Antipodean view.
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Hands on with HTC's Windows Phone 8X
There's a lot to explore in Windows Phone, and the integrated UI across multiple Windows platforms, the familiar tools, and SkyDrive are hard to beat.
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Ease of Access on Windows RT
Tony McSherry gives a run through of the applications that come with Windows RT for ease of use.
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What applications are available on Windows RT?
Tony McSherry looks at the desktop applications available on the Windows RT Surface tablet.
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Inventor of the web rounds out LCA schedule
Sir Tim Berners-Lee will keynote the 2013 edition of linux.conf.au.
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Are your holiday rosters and tools ready?
Just because you are not at work, doesn't mean that hardware or hackers respect your timesheet.
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Shim delivered to allow small Linux distros to boot
Small distributions receive booting option that avoids Microsoft's US$99 signing fee.
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Quit serving text with images already
In 2012, we shouldn't have much need to serve up what appears as text on a web page with an image.
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Ryde your way to disaster-recovery success
The City of Ryde's disaster-recovery tests showed that comprehensive documentation is essential, covering everything from software licence keys and hardware DIP switch settings to staff contact lists and the contents of backup tapes.
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Starting life with the Surface
Tony McSherry goes through his first week of using a Microsoft Surface.
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Australia free from filter threat
The Australian government has canned the idea of a mandatory internet filtering scheme.
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FreeBSD takes another step toward GPL escape
The Apple-backed Clang compiler is now the default compiler in FreeBSD.
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Aussie event watch: November 2012
JSConf Australia and OpenAustralia Hackfest are due to happen this month, with OSDC and RubyConf Australia appearing in the coming months.
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The Windows 8 upgrade experience
Tony McSherry details his experience of upgrading one of his Windows 7 PCs to Windows 8.
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Microsoft lowers Windows Phone dev access fee to $8
The Windows Phone 8 SDK has finally released, and the Dev Center fee has been lowered from US$100 to US$8
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Lack of DNS redundancy takes down award-winning system
No matter how much cloud is used, if DNS is your single point of failure, you're going to have a bad time.
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Use BrowserID for email address validation
If handling email address verification sounds like too much hard work, then BrowserID could be the registration solution that you are after.
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Windows 8: land of the timed deletion
One of the "features" of Windows 8's set-up process is the timed removal of old Windows installs after a month of usage.
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Linux.conf.au 2012: planes, sounds and freedom
For security researcher, software hacker and activist Jacob Appelbaum, the equation is clear. Anyone working on surveillance or censorship technology is part of a serious global problem.
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0x10c: the new way to assemble hype
Often when a new game is announced, the reader will make a mental note to check back at a later date. Rarely does that reader head off and start building usable components before a single game build has seen the light of day.
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All bets off as Flex put out to pasture
Adobe's Flex framework is to be guided via an open-source governance model, with Flex's current roadmap to be replaced by the as-yet-unformed governance committee.
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All the good money is in government websites
Being able to charge millions of dollars for a new government website - it's good work if you can get it.
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A bad week for launches
You'd be wrong to expect that internet giants Yahoo and Spotify would be able to launch new services without incident.
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Abandon Mac App Store to maintain UX
On 1 March 2012, Apple will require all apps in its App Store to be sandboxed; should you remove your app to maintain its experience?
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A look at Linux Mint Debian Edition
If you are more of the Debian persuasion, there's still a Linux Mint distribution for you.
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A lesson on piracy, distribution, or marketing?
Independent software companies have a hard task of getting their wares in front of an audience; has a pair of brothers cracked that nut?
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Adding SQLite to a sortable ListView
Having a sortable ListView in an Android app is one thing, but its not really useful unless it is persistent across activity instances — and that's where SQLite comes in.
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Beware stricter Manifest checking in Android ICS
Find out why your application is working fine in Gingerbread and on the Ice Cream Sandwich virtual machine, but why you cannot run it on an ICS physical device.