A Canadian university has announced it is limiting wi-fi on campus due to “health and security” fears.
The president of Lakehead University, Fred Gilbert, recently took the decision to use wired internet connections rather than wi-fi as he believes health risks associated with the technology are yet to be entirely disproved.
Gilbert reportedly said while he remains [...]

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A free-to-air television watchdog has prevented a commercial involving a prominent South Australian scientist from being screened, sparking claims of political interference.
The advertisement for the Solar Shop in Adelaide featured Dr Tim Flannery.
In the ad he described climate change as “the greatest threat facing humanity” - a statement which was rejected by the Commercials Advice [...]

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Mac OS X is a secure operating system in that it’s multi-user and has limits on what some user accounts can do. If an account is setup as a basic user, that user can only hurt himself, not the whole system or other users. However, in the interest of being “friendly” to new users, Apple [...]

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Get your domain the moment you see it available or you might regret the decision to wait for another day. Dismaldonkey learned it hard way when he saw the domain available and then few days later went to register it. Much to his disappointment, he realised the domain has been snatched, just two days ago. [...]

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Photo Drop is a Mac OS X utility written by Aram Kudurshian that allows you to create small, customized droplets that turn the tedious task of modifying a folder of images into a simple drag-and-drop operation. Using photo Drop, you can create a droplet in a seconds that can resize an image to new dimensions, [...]

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I had an idea to make a list of most popular OS X applications, one per category. But then I ran into trouble deciding on which one to list as in most cases there are quite a few ‘best’ applications. Someone might like one, someone else another and I could be using a different one [...]

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