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Are you still in a Broadband Blackspot??
May 30th, 2011
If you’re in a Broadband Blackspot, make sure you place your order before close of play tomorrow! We will still be taking orders after tomorrow, but Tuesday 31st May is the last day that we can ensure your order will be processed and installed in time to be eligible for the subsidy.
To find out more, please call the Adam team on (08) 8423 405 or visit http://www.adam.com.au/products/wimax/ezychoice_wimax.php
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May 9th, 2011
How to Subscribe to a Website ( RSS )
May 3rd, 2011
RSS feeds provide any user with a way of easily reading and finding their favorite websites and blogs, allowing them with updates they can read can be opened from any computer at any time.
Here’s how you do it
- Open a free account with any one of a number of RSS readers, such as Google Reader. These tools, once you’ve created them, will store your favorite websites and blogs and constantly update them for you. They also help you to organize yours feeds by tags, titles or categories.
- Begin to organise your Google reader. Google will prompt you by asking what categories you are interested in, and by suggesting websites you might like. This is helpful to anyone who wants to see what else is available. There are many blogs and websites, that Google might suggest to you as a feed in your particular area of interest.
- You can also subscribe to a website by looking for the orange RSS feed button ( see below ) now available on most websites and blogs. Simply click on that button and you will be provided with the chance to subscribe to the feed. The link will most likely take you to a choice of readers, and many — including iGoogle and Google Reader — are listed. Once you choose, you will receive that site’s feed and all its updates.
- Remember to go in to Google Reader often and use it as a place to do your reading. Many people who sign up for feeds make their RSS page the first thing that opens when they sign on to the Internet.
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10 Ways to Find Blogs You’ll Love
April 20th, 2011
Every now and then, we all get stumped when looking for a good online read.
Whether your feeds need a refresh, you’re delving into a new topic, or you’re just new to this whole “blog reading” thing, we’ve got you covered. There are dozens of services on the web dedicated to helping you get the most out of the universe of regularly updated blogs, and many of them are focused on helping you find the most high quality content as well as the content most relevant to you.
As an added bonus for the aesthetes out there, some of them are also an absolute pleasure to consume from a design perspective.
Here are ten tools we like to use to get out of a blog reading rut. In the comments, do share your tips and tricks with us and other Mashable readers.
Blog Directories
First, take a look at these encyclopedic catalogs of blogs. You’ll be able to browse or search by topic, so you’ll find the content and bloggers you’re looking for.
1. Alltop
Alltop is the granddaddy of all blog discovery tools. The site, which was cofounded in 2008 by Silicon Valley person of interest Guy Kawasaki, is known for its tight, topic-based groupings of the creme de la creme of blogs and a handful of other informative sites.
Best of all, you can customize the service with features collectively known as MyAlltop. These features allow you to save blogs (or feeds) you like to a home dashboard, effectively making Alltop a great discovery engineand a functional and well-organized feed reader for low-volume feeds.
2. Technorati
This site is one of the older and larger blog directories on the web. What we like about Technorati’s blog directory is that you can search by keyword for specific posts on a topic or by entire blogs devoted to that topic, which makes the site a great tool for both discovering experts and drilling down on specifics.
3. Blog Catalog
This visually appealing catalog o’ blogs is a modern take on the concept of discovery and curation. The site itself is gorgeous, and it regularly features truly fascinating and esoteric blogs you might never have looked at otherwise. The onsite search leaves something to be desired, but try browsing blogs by topic or plugging into the active BC community instead.
Topic-Based Browsing
If you’d like to get automatically generated feeds from blogs (and the occasional news site) around the web, we’ve got a few recommendations for you. These tools will give you a chance to pick your favorite topics then lean back for a hands-off, enjoyable discovery experience.
4. Guzzle.it
Guzzle.it allows you to create and customize a personal dashboard based on topics you care about. You’ll get some news from mainstream websites, but the service also culls posts from thought-provoking and highly relevant blogs. You can choose to display topics visually, textually, or both — and convenient tooltips allow you to get the gist of a post quickly.
5. YourVersion
YourVersion allows you to see great blog posts (and other content, such as tweets and videos) on your own interests — you can also choose to see blog-only content. The company that makes the web app has also rolled out a nice suite of mobile apps, including offerings for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The app also comes with a nifty browser extension that makes saving (and organizing) bookmarks as simple as a single click.
Social Discovery
Sometimes our friends (some of whom have the same interests and reading habits as we do) will stumble upon a great new blog before we do ourselves. For those cases, it’s good to have a way to stay abreast of the things our friends are reading and sharing online. Twitter and Facebook are great but noisy. Here are a few tools to help you get the best blogs and posts shared by all your friends in a few quick clicks. (If you’re an iPad user, we also highly recommend checking out Flipboard.)
6. Paper.li
Paper.li makes a web-based newspaper from the most popular links shared across your network of Twitter and Facebook friends. If your friends are sharing blog links, they’ll pop up here, allowing you to discover fresh voices and new feeds. Paper.li also breaks down shared blog posts by topic, such as technology and the arts.
7. PostPost
PostPost is a Facebook-specific aggregator that delivers all the interesting blog posts and other content that your friends have liked or that the Pages you like have posted. It’s billed as “what your friends think you should read,” and it has a highly enjoyable interface, to boot. To see links only (as opposed to videos and images), just click the “Links” tab at the top of the page.
8. Utopic
This app connects with Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to get a smattering of content from around the web. It focuses on the most popular topics from your network of friends. In all likelihood, the links will include quite a few blog posts. You can see trending posts by day, week, month or even the most popular posts from the past 12 hours.
Topics are fairly customizable, and the site’s visual design is busy and gives the user a lot to see and explore.
Blog Search
Finally, there’s good, old-fashioned blog search. Using tools like the ones below might yield topic-specific posts rather than feeds centering around your topic of choice. Nevertheless, blog search isn’t a bad place to start (or finish) your quest to find new reading material and new resources.
9. Best of the Web Blog Search
Best of the Web is a fairly old-school outfit (established in 1994), but it delivers a no-nonsense roster of sites and blogs on a wide variety of topics. Blogs that pop up in search results are designated by a green bullseye logo and green text, so you’ll know when you’re looking at a fresh feed versus a static site. Plus, you won’t get individual posts here — just blogs on the topic you’re searching for.
10. Google Blogs Search
There is little doubt that Google holds something of a monopoly in web search. Its blog search is vast and can be quite useful. Posts are also almost guaranteed to be fresh, and you can see when each post was published before clicking through.
However, some mainstream news sites are also being indexed as “blogs” at the moment. For this and other reasons, Google Advanced Blog Search might be best for deeper dives into highly specific and esoteric post topics.
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Register today for fetchtv
April 12th, 2011
Adam Internet together with fetchtv will soon offer customers the exciting new TV entertainment experience. With launch expected in the coming months, we urge you to register your interest to be among the first to enjoy the best that your TV has to offer.
What is fetchtv?
Customers will experience standard and high definition content delivered to their TV using Adam broadband connection. Fetchtv provides access to all free to air digital channels available in the local area area, plus a selection of movies, on demand channels, audio channels and more.*
Fetchtv lets you pause, rewind and record live TV and with so much choice you can even record two channels while you watch a third! With space to record over 500+ hours of content and an easy to use menu interface you won’t miss a thing!
Now if all of that hasn’t grabbed your attention – fetchtv also offers online applications such as Facebook®, twitter® and Wikipedia® along with a range of classic games like Sudoku and Texas Hold’em all available through your TV.
With all of these benefits who wouldn’t want to sign up? Head tohttps://members.adam.com.au/fetchtv/fetchtv.php to register today.
*Access to fetchtv content is subject to minimum requirement including line quality, connection type and speed. For more information refer www.adam.com.au/fetchtv.
Introducing Google +1 for searches
March 31st, 2011
Recommendations when you want them
The +1 button is shorthand for “this is pretty cool” or “you should check this out.”
Click +1 to publicly give something your stamp of approval. Your +1′s can help friends, contacts, and others on the web find the best stuff when they search.
See +1′s
Sometimes it’s easier to find exactly what you’re looking for when someone you know already found it. Get recommendations for the things that interest you, right when you want them, in your search results.
The next time you’re trying to remember that bed and breakfast your buddy was raving about, or find a great charity to support, a +1 could help you out. Just make sure you’re signed in to your Google Account.
Show +1′s
In order to +1 things, you first need a public Google profile. This helps people see who recommended that tasty recipe or great campsite. When you create a profile, it’s visible to anyone and connections with your email address can easily find it.
Your +1’s are stored in a new tab on your Google profile. You can show your +1’s tab to the world, or keep it private and just use it to personally manage the ever-expanding record of things you love around the web.
Learn more about the +1 button and personalization on sites across the web.
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Why use the new Google Chrome 10?
March 24th, 2011
The web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on your computer. You spend much of your time online inside a browser: When you search, chat, email, shop, bank, read the news and watch videos online, you often do all this using a browser.
Speed
Chrome is designed to be fast in every possible way: It’s quick to start up from your desktop, loads web pages in a snap and runs complex web applications fast. Learn more about Chrome and speed.
Simplicity
Chrome’s browser window is streamlined, clean and simple.
Chrome also includes features that are designed for efficiency and ease of use. For example, you can search and navigate from the same box and arrange tabs however you wish – quickly and easily.
Security
Chrome is designed to keep you safer and more secure on the web, with built-in malware and phishing protection, auto-updates to make sure that the browser is up to date with the latest security updates and more. Learn more about Chrome’s security features.
And more features
Chrome has many useful features built in, including extensions, translation in the browser, themes and more. Learn more about Chrome’s newest and most loved features
What is a browser?
A web browser is the application that you use to view websites. Watch a 1-minute video to learn more.
Read about the technology
Look under the hood and learn more about browsers and the web:
An illustrated guide, by Christoph Niemann & the Chrome team
The Chrome comic book, by Scott McCloud
Google Chrome in Action
Take a look at interactive web experiments for Google Chrome, created by JavaScript designers and programmers from around the world.
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157 of the Most Useful Websites on the Internet
March 19th, 2011
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Google Chrome 8 Review
January 4th, 2011
Google Chrome 8 is not only stable to use, but comes with a full range of competitive features. It lacks some of the fine-tuning customisations in Firefox, but overall, users browsing with Chrome will find it a pleasant, fast and standards-compliant experience.
- Good: Fast and stable • Detachable tabs • Excels at account syncing • Auto-updating and translation well executed features
- Bad: Some controls hidden away under a Tools submenu • Interface customisation options limited • Extension features not as robust as some other browsers
Now into its second year, Google Chrome has begun to mature from a lightweight and fast-browsing alternative into an innovative browser on the precipice of a potential browsing revolution, with the pending ChromeOS. The browser that people can use today, Chrome 8, offers highly competitive features including synchronisation, autofill and it maintains Google’s reputation for building one of the fastest browsers available.
Chrome 8 represents a major milestone for the browser, but those who are familiar with seeing dramatic changes in major-point updates will be disappointed. New features include the sandboxing of Chrome’s PDF reader, which means that if the PDF you’re viewing crashes, it won’t take down the entire browser. Experimental options, such as side tabs, remoting, disabling outdated plug-ins and a “tab overview” mode for Macs, have been given a slight refresh by changing the name of about:labs to about:flags.
Please note that there are at least four versions of Chrome available at the moment, and this review only addresses the “stable” branch, intended for general use. Chrome beta, dev and Canary are progressively less stable versions of the browser which are aimed at developers.
Installation
Chrome’s installation process is simple and straightforward. If you download from Google’s website, it will ask you if you’d like to anonymously submit usage statistics to the company. This can be toggled even after the browser’s installed by going to the “Wrench” preferences menu, choosing Options, then Under the Hood and unchecking Help Make Chrome Better. Depending on your processor, the installation process should take less than two minutes.
Interface
Google’s Chrome interface hasn’t changed much since its surprise debut in September 2008. Tabs are still on top, the location bar — which Google likes to call the “Omnibar” — dominates the minimalist design and the browser has few visible control buttons besides Back, Forward and a combined Stop/Reload button. Although some may not like the tabs on top, we find it to be aesthetically preferable because it leaves more room below for the website we’re looking at.
One change has been to remove the secondary Page options button and combine it with the preferences Wrench to create space for extension icons to the right of the location bar. As it currently looks, it could be better organised. Some controls, such as page zoom, are readily available. Others, such as the extension manager, are hidden away under a Tools submenu.
Chrome’s extensions are fairly limited in how they can alter the browser’s interface. Unlike Firefox, which gives add-on makers a lot of leeway to change the browser’s look, Chrome mandates that extensions appear only as icons to the right of the location bar. The benefit maintains a uniform look in the browser, but it definitely limits how much the browser can be customised. Versions 6 and 7 of Chrome don’t support sidebars either, although other Chromium-based browsers (such as Flock 3) do offer the feature.
Even with its limitations, the interface design has remained a contemporary exemplar of how to minimise the browser’s screen footprint while remaining easy to use and versatile.
Features and support
Chrome 8′s features are accessible from the Preferences menu and the browser offers a complete range of modern browsing conveniences. The basics are well-represented, including tabbed browsing, new window creation and a private browsing mode that Google calls “Incognito,” which disables cookies tracking, history recording, extension support and other browsing breadcrumbs.
Chrome is based on WebKit, the same open-source engine that powers Apple Safari, Google’s Android mobile platform and several other desktop and mobile web-browsing tools. Chrome runs on a different JavaScript engine than its WebKit cousins, however, and there are also other changes.
Chrome’s tabs remain one of the best things about the browser. The tabs are detachable: “tabs” and “windows” are interchangeable here. Detached tabs can be dragged and dropped into the browser and tabs can be rearranged at any time by clicking, holding, dragging and releasing. Not only can tabs be isolated, but each tab actually exists in its own task process. This means that when one site crashes, the other tabs do not. Though memory leaks are a major concern in Chrome when you have dozens of tabs open, sluggish behaviour and other impediments weren’t noticeable until after there were more than 30 tabs open. That’s not an immutable number, though, and a computer’s hardware will alter browser performance.
Some of the basics in Chrome are handled extremely intuitively. In-page searching works smoothly. Using the Ctrl-F hot key or the menu option, searching for a word or phrase will open a text-entry box on the top right of the browser. It searches as you type, indicating the number of positives results and highlighting them on the page.
Account syncing is another area where Chrome excels. Using your Gmail account, Chrome will sync your themes, preferences, autofill entries, extensions and bookmarks. You can toggle each of those categories, too. It does not yet offer password syncing, although the password manager offers a smart show password option that keeps it visually separate from the site that it’s associated to.
Chrome also contains a lot of privacy-tweaking settings. In the Options menu, go to the Under the Hood tab. From here, you can toggle and customise most of the browser’s privacy and security settings. Cookies, image management, JavaScript, plug-ins, pop-ups, location information and notifications can be adjusted from the Content Settings button. This includes toggling specific plug-ins, such as the built-in Adobe Flash plug-in or the Chrome PDF reader (which is deactivated by default.)
Like Firefox, Chrome gives broad control over search engines and setting search customisations. Though this doesn’t sound like much, not all browsers allow you to set keyword shortcuts for searching and some even restrict which search engine you can set as your default. Chrome comes with three defaults to choose from: Google, Bing and Yahoo.
The Chrome extension manager, bookmark manager and download manager all open in new tabs. They allow you to search their contents and throw in some basic management options like deletion, but ,in general, none feels as robust as their counterparts in competing browsers. For example, URLs in the bookmark manager are only revealed when you mouse over a bookmark and you must click on one to get the URL to permanently appear. That’s an extra click that other browsers don’t require.
Two other low-profile but well-executed features in Chrome include auto-updating and translation. Chrome automatically updates when a new version comes out. This makes it harder to revert back to an older version, but it’s highly unlikely that you’ll want to downgrade this build of Chrome since this is the stable build and not the beta or developer’s version. The second feature, automatic translation of web pages, is available to other browsers as a Google add-on, but because it comes from Google, it’s baked directly into Chrome.
Chrome is also a leader in HTML5 implementation, which is uneven because of the continuing development of HMTL5 standards. This will become more important in the coming months and years, but for right now it doesn’t massively affect interaction with Web sites.
In the realm of security, besides allowing you to disable JavaScript, Chrome will autoblock websites that are known as unsafe or for promulgating phishing attacks and malware threats. This depends on Google’s ability to flag websites as risky, though, and so it’s recommended to use a network like the Web of Trust extension or a separate security program to block threats.
Performance
Based on the open-source WebKit engine and Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, Google Chrome debuted to much fanfare because of its rocketing rendering speeds. Two years down the line, that hasn’t changed and the stable version of Chrome remains one of the fastest stable browsers available. The less stable versions, with their more recent improvements and bug fixes, are even faster.
Google claims that Chrome 6′s JavaScript rendering is 10 times faster than when Chrome was first released in 2008. Historically, Chrome has been one of the fastest browsers available across multiple benchmarks and that’s not expected to change in version 8. Some are making unverified claims that Chrome 8 is two to three times as fast as Chrome 7. CNET benchmarks will be added here soon.
Conclusion
Where Chrome 5 was the first version of the browser that felt fully baked, Chrome 6 began to add serious features to that foundation while improving usability. Chrome 7 and 8 have felt more like minor-point updates. Still, it’s a ready-to-go browser that offers top-of-the-line speed, a clean, minimalist look and competitive features that justify its still-increasing market share. Chrome is a serious option for anybody who wants a browser that gets out of the way of browsing the Web.
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By Seth Rosenblatt from CNET Australia
Why Use Social Media for your Business?
December 13th, 2010
Social media is the new driving online force. What was once seen as an avenue purely for social interaction has now been embraced by the business community as a marketing opportunity. With its multitude of users from the young to the old, Facebook and Twitter have the ability to get your business found by people needing your services, because these sites allow for person-to-person networking. Building business online is all about when a potential customer types in keywords related to your business into a Google search, your business site will appear ahead of your competitors. An Adelaide SEO service such as HAPPY HOSTING is knowledgeable about building your business online buy making social media connections and our SEO Services will allow you the opportunity to see an increase in business revenue.
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