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Wednesday 16 September

Fashion your Firefox and screen ads with AdBlockPlus

New Asus Color E-Reader Folds Like a Book

Play the Monopoly Online Game

Website of the week: The Game Crafter

Your game published with board, pawns, dice, cards, and dice.

Wednesday 2 September 2009

Touchable Hologram Becomes Reality

Make, Craft and Print

NZ First 1,000 ebooks

Website of the week: Caughtya.org, an accessibility-space stealing hall of shame.

Wednesday 5 August 2009

The Maker's Schedule, the Manager's Schedule.

Bacteria make computers look like pocket calculators.

Albany Senior High School powered by Open Source.

Website of the week: pocketsmith.com

Wednesday 22 July 2009

Onlive and Gakai bring gaming to the Cloud.

Digital Cinema may be a game changer for indie film.

Tags and the Semantic Web.

Website of the week: eday.org.nz

Drop off your e-waste on Saturday 12th September for New Zealand's E-Day.

Wednesday 8 July 2009

Sims 3 Piracy Was Like a Large Scale Demo Says Electronic Arts Boss.

When I'm dead, how will my loved ones break my encrypted password?

Mobile phone giants to make European one-size-fits-all charger from 2010.

Nowhere to Run to, Baby: Moms' Social/Mobile Web Use Up by 400.

Website of the week: makeit.digitalnz.org

Make It Digital is a place for Kiwis who are interested in making content digital.

Wednesday 24 June 2009

Opera Unite turns any computer into both a client and a server.

The new Firefox 3.5 browser has some useful new features.

Crowdfund your Creativity at the Big Idea.

Website of the week: Posterous.com for easy multimedia blogging via email or phone.

Wednesday 10 June 2009

TED's Open Translation Project brings subtitles in 40+ languages to the talks at TED.com.

Cloud computing is on the rise for governments, business & not for profits worldwide.

The Pirate Party Wins 7.1% of Swedish vote and enters two members into the European Parliament.

Robots forming human like societies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Website of the Week: YellowsandBlues reports the latest in green initiatives.

Wednesday 27 May 2009

Kiwis Win Full Code Press 2009.

G2009: There's no deal between the NZ Government & Microsoft.

XMediaLab Auckland on Twitter through the Big Idea.

Website of the week: joobili.com.

"You say when, we say where..." Select your travel dates and then click on a button that says 'inspire me' to find local events worldwide.

Wednesday 13 May 2009

The Wolfram Alpha 'computational knowledge engine' launches this month.

Scientists, NASA & Google back a Singularity University.

Google Rents Goats to Replace Lawnmowers.

Librivox for free audio books from the public domain.

Website of the week is: Bird Song Radio.

Wednesday 29 April 2009

An interview with Thad Starner, Wearable PC Pioneer.

Twitter through Mind Control.

Spreadtweet looks like a spreadsheet.

Inventor turns cardboard boxes into eco-friendly oven.

Website of the week:

wehaventlaidanyoneoff.com.

Wednesday 15 April 2009

Dustin Hoffman calls for real sci-fi in movies.

Nine words you might think came from science but which are really from science fiction

.

Shoot-'em-up video games may be good for eyesight.

Estonia's Bank of Happiness: trading good deeds.

Site of the week: The Big Idea, the home of New Zealand's creative community.

Wednesday 1 April 2009

Send Me Home brings a Bruce Sterling idea of spimes to life where objects and their stories are tracked through tags.

Four Spanish students send a $150 camera-operated weather balloon into the stratosphere.

Watch on Twitter and April Fools day on the web to check strange stories online today.

The Twitchhiker returns home to the UK after reaching Stewart Island. Calls New Zealand "the world in HD".

Website of the week is www.digitalnz.org - helping your remix Kiwi culture.

Wednesday 18 March 2009

With a philosophy of the The Social Graph and The Stream, the new Facebook Design Takes on Twitter.

Creative Commons is a new system designed to allow creatives to clearly show their intentions with some rights reserved not all right reserved. Kiwis can visit Creative Commons Aotearoa from Te Whâinga Aronui, The Council for the Humanities.

Innovation from the design of the One Laptop Per Child Project has created the Zopa, the social lending website in the UK  that cuts out banks, lent a record £2.5m in February. The Independent reports that "in January 2009, new lenders were up by more than 700 per cent and the amount of money lent rose 109 per cent. " Keep an eye out on the Nexx blog for developments from Nexx, the Kiwi Social Lending service.

Site of the week: http://legaltorrents.com

Legal torrents is a totally legitimate resource for creative commons licensed music, games, tv, animation, e-books, sounds, samples & loops for creatives to remix & mashup etc. Used by big names such as Barack Obama, Make Magazine, and TED talks to distribute their content as widely and cheaply as possible.

Wednesday 4 March 2009

Wired magazine reports that doodling during meetings may help memory and re-call.

An Australian study shows that using Powerpoint makes it more difficult for people to take in
information.

Fascinating research using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) that creates savant like & creative periods in otherwise "Neuro-Typical brains".

The seven industries most likely to change through social media are Law firms, Healthcare, Action Sports, Real Estate, Tourism /Travel/Hospitality, Colleges & Education, and the Auto industry.

Waikato University engineering student Steven Kane has designed an advertising device in just 10 weeks that is triggered by people walking past and generates a recorded promotion.

Website of the week: www.howtostuff.co.nz which gives great tips and how to make things from tech solutions to wholemeal scones, and removing Fanta from a carpet.

Wednesday 24 December 2008

How Sci-fi authors predict the future of technology.

Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits as a British Music Rights survey shows 80% of active P2P downloaders want a legal P2P system.

Meanwhile the indie music scene is producing some innovative New Music
Ideas.

Game of the year at the Mohawk Media studios is World of Goo.

Website of the week:

Helen loves io9.com for daily sci-fi, comics & nerd friendly news, and Chelfyn is big fan of reddit.com, especially bacon.reddit.com.

Wednesday 10 December 2008

Body swapping research and the future of working via telepresence.

The Freelancer's Toolkit has positive advice for starting out in a recession and tools for managing time.

Lifehacker highlights 10 obscure but excellent search tricks for Google.

Website of the week is Username Check.

Wednesday 25 November 2008

Printing custom made bones using Computer Tomography.

Study shows Brits 'would rather have the Internet than cars'.

reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitise books and stop email and comments spam.

Website of the week: NZ All Top - stories from a number of New Zealand news sites and blogs.

Wednesday 12 November 2008

Business methods patent thrown out by US Court.

You Tube launches moron detector.

How Obama's Internet Campaign Changed Politics.

35+ Sites Made for Web Savvy Families from Mashable.Best.

Wednesday 1 October

Untangle is a free Open Source Network Gateway with the best open source projects integrated and made easier for spam blocking, web filtering, remote access and more.

Flowgram for interactive audio presentations to embed into your site.

Datapresser for automated blog posting to Wordpress.

Profilactic allows you to aggregate a Lifestream from over 190 social networking sites.

Wednesday 21 May 2008

Flock integrates all your digital media feeds, tweets,

and social networks into one integrated browser space.

Tools to Thief Proof Your Laptop

UK Band Uses Free CCTV Footage to make Music Video

Site of the week is HireThings.co.nz

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