Monthly Archives: January 2010

Top Ten Thursday – Free iPhone games

In no particular order; Cube – Cube is a great little FPS (First Person Shooter) game. iBall3D Cannon Challenge Tap Tap Revenge Aurora Feint: The Beginning Topple reMovem Lite JellyCar Lux Touch – Lux is a game of strategy, risk, … Continue reading

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Patch Tuesday Wednesday (JAN-2010)

I was on holiday for this month’s Patch Tuesday *happy, happy, joy, joy!*, so here is a late recap on this month’s patching including the out of band patch issued later in the month. This month we have one (1) … Continue reading

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Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge [TED]

Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge Kiran Bir Sethi shows how her groundbreaking Riverside School in India teaches kids life’s most valuable lesson: “I can.” Watch her students take local issues into their own hands, lead other young … Continue reading

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This weeks links (2010-01-25)

Technology in the classroom (2010-Jan-19) [The Age] Forget the chalk dust, the dog eared textbooks, even the more modern DVD player. Today’s school students are downloading homework on iTunes, listening to lessons via podcasts, communicating with other students all over … Continue reading

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Music Monday #008 – Australia Day

For this MusicMonday I’ll throw in an early Australia Day celebration; Australia Day Australia Day (previously known as Anniversary Day, Foundation Day and ANA Day), and also referred to as Invasion Day by several groups within Australian society, is the … Continue reading

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Firefox 3.6

Super Speed [2] Fasten your seatbelt: Firefox now includes the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which gives the browser dramatically better performance than ever before. Firefox has always been fast, but this is the fastest Firefox ever (more than three times as … Continue reading

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Music Monday #007 – TISM

After a discussion at AJ2010 where we discovered that some of the Scouts had never heard of TISM (*shock!* *horror!*) the decision for this week’s artist was pretty clear, the youth need some education. TISM TISM (an acronym of This … Continue reading

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This weeks links (2010-01-18)

Where have you been? The reason that I have been quiet for a few weeks is that I have been off at AJ2010 in Cataract Park, Sydney, NSW. Here’s some links; * AJ2010 Jamboree Website * JNN Daily JNN Daily … Continue reading

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