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ThinkUKnow, Australia's new internet safety initiative for children, has been officially launched and has a YouTube channel. ThinkUKnow is an Internet safety program delivering interactive training to parents, carers and teachers through primary and secondary schools across Australia using a network of accredited trainers. Created by the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre, ThinkUKnow Australia has been developed by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Microsoft Australia.
Nintendo's legal triumphs continue, with a ruling against a company selling r4 cards. The gadgets, known as R4 cards, are used to download pirated games on to handheld consoles and have been illegal in Australia since 2005. IT Solutions Pty Ltd - which trades as GadgetGear - was selling the cards online in Australia. The company will now have to pay Nintendo $620,000 in damages. GadgetGear has also agreed to stop importing the devices into Australia.
If you're using the Window7 Release Candidate, it will stop working soon. On March 1st, it will start shutting down every two hours. To avoid interruption, please reinstall a prior version of Windows or move to Windows 7. In either case, you'll need to do a custom (clean) install to replace the RC. As with any clean installation, you'll need to back up your data then reinstall your applications and restore the data.
I've seen a couple of episodes of the old "Connections" program by James Burke and really liked them, but never saw the rest. Well, good news, they're now free on YouTube. Good entertaining sciency stuff - if a little hammy nowadays. :)
If you're after a new domain name, sex.com will be up for sale again soon. The notice also states: “To be qualified to bid at the auction, bidders must appear at the auction with a certified bank check in the amount of $1,000,000.”
AusGamers are excited that the Nokia N900 Australian Release has been confirmed for april, with a press event on March 2nd. Australian pricing details have not yet been announced, but they'll be confirmed at the media event, so stay tuned for further details.
Futurelooks have some info on technology at the Winter Olympics. For instance, you know the gold, silver, and bronze medals being awarded to the winners? They took discarded circuit boards and collected the useful metals in them (gold, silver, and copper). The Royal Canadian Mint then recycled them into the highly treasured discs.
Overclockers.com ponder hard drive fragmentation. Defragmenting a HDD is one of those basics that we should all do and has been so since well, mechanical HDDs came into existence. However, is this just good housekeeping practice based on actual results, or is it just one of those myths about what to do with your computer to keep it running well?
Byteside have new Tech Show and Games Show episodes, with a focus on mobile computing and first-person shooters respectively.
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