Monthly Archives: December 2010

This weeks links (2010-12-27)

* The Best of 2010 Our Audiobook of the Year [Audible] The case of the missing audio books… This is really annoying me; (iOS 4.2.1 / iTunes 10.1.1.4) occurs on iPhone, iPod and iPad. iTunes still displays the storage space … Continue reading

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Music Monday #046 – Merry Christmas

“Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” Time for some music … The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale of New York Paul Kelly – How To Make Gravy (RocKwiz Christmas Special, 2007 ) Slade – Merry … Continue reading

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Apple, why the price difference?

This Christmas I have been shopping online for multiple items, a strong Australian dollar has meant that we have had some good purchasing power as most of the online stores are based on the US dollar. Not so with Apple … Continue reading

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This weeks links (2010-12-20)

“You better not, in a pear tree!” In Brief: * Google Perth and Adelaide’s ‘live’ traffic on Google Maps! (2010-Dec-20) [iTWire] * Year-End 2010 (201-Dec) [NPR] All week we’ll be talking about the best and worst ideas in music this … Continue reading

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Music Monday #045 – The Dresden Dolls

Continuing with the silly season change of pace; The Dresden Dolls The Dresden Dolls are an American musical duo from Boston, Massachusetts. Formed in 2000, the group consists of Amanda Palmer (vocals, piano, harmonica, ukulele) and Brian Viglione (drums, percussion, … Continue reading

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Patch Tuesday Wednesday (DEC-2010)

Welcome to another Patch Tuesday, this month we have seventeen (17) new security bulletins. Hi everyone. As part of our usual cycle of monthly security updates, today Microsoft is releasing 17 bulletins addressing 40 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Internet … Continue reading

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This weeks links (2010-12-13)

del.icio.us * Now Yahoo! Says Delicious Will Live On…Somewhere Else (2010-Dec-17) [Read Write Web] * What’s Next for Delicious? (2010-Dec-17) [delicious blog] * R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me (2010-Dec-16) [Read Write Web] R.I.P. Tom Walkinshaw The qualifying … Continue reading

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Music Monday #044 – Professor Elemental

As it is the silly season, a slight change of music style for the next month or so. This week we will visit the chap-hop annexe of the SteamPunk genre. So tally-ho chaps don’t dilly dally ’cause the following ditty … Continue reading

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Patch Tuesday, a Heads Up. (Dec-2010)

Next scheduled release: December 14th, 2010 The heads up for this month is; On Tuesday 14th December (US time; Wednesday 15th December AU time) Microsoft expect to release seventeen (2 critical, 14 important and 1 moderate) new security bulletins. 17 … Continue reading

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McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i and earlier DLL Side Load issue

Description [1] McAfee is aware of a publicly disclosed security issue that may affect VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) version 8.5i and prior. We are investigating the claims and will update this KB with additional details when they are available. We will … Continue reading

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