Customer’s negative experience with Dell

Interesting write up from earlier this year from a user who purchased a Dell laptop.

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Facebook Users Attacked by Trojan Virus

Facebook users be extra careful, emails are circulating that trick users into installing a trojan, which then attacks your Facebook profile and adds links to the trojan so all your friends can be infected too!

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Thinking of a new computer?

Then call us today and order, because the effect of the massive drop in the Australian Dollar is beginning to bite consumers wallets. We’ve seen price increases on some components just in the last week of 15%, and expect by the end of the year that everything will be around 40% more expensive than a month ago.

We have limited stock available at pre crash pricing, so if you are thinking of purchasing a new computer, now is definitely the time to do it!

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ABC iView

This is definitely worth checking out if you have a reasonable internet connection (1500 or better). http://www.abc.net.au/iview

ABC’s new iView service allows anyone to watch a host of ABC programming on demand. This is a great initiate and one that we hope will expand over the next few years, hopefully coming to platforms such as Windows Media Centre and Apple TV.

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Labor’s Censorship Plans unpopular

Kevin Rudd’s plans to implement Chinese style censorship of Australian internet access is drawing increasing criticisms from all segments of the community.

Technical experts are telling us that the plan could slow users web surfing by up to 30%, as well as fail to stop the vast majority of traffic intended to be blocked. Even the stuff that is blocked would be easily accessible with some simple knowledge of the internet.

Then there is the worry that our government will force a system on us that also filters normally secure HTTPS communications, such as when you login to your online banking. If that was to get through, then all ecommerce in Australia would stop overnight, as it would all instantly be insecure and too dangerous to risk using!

Here’s hoping sense prevails and this plan is scrapped before it goes any further.

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McDonalds announce free wifi

Great news for us iPhone users is that McDonalds is going to roll out free wifi access at pretty much all its restaurants. There is to be some filtering to protect the young ones, but all in all if I need to check my email the service McDonalds will offer should do the trick nicely.

Of course, I won’t be buying any of their food, but I could see myself grabbing a skinny latte for the privilege.

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2008 Shift Solutions Excellence in I.T. Winner

The Redbank Plains State High School awards evening was held last night, and our 2008 I.T. Award winner was announced. Congratulations to Vannasouk Phadilok for his outstanding achievement in taking out this years prize.

It was again fantastic to see the large numbers of students being awarded and celebrated, including last years I.T. Award Winner Adam Linsket picking up the Ron Rice Quiet Achiever Award.

Congratulations to all students!

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Gmail adds auto responder

Gmail users can now setup auto responders, which Gmail calls “canned responses”, to automatically reply to emails matching any filter the user can dream up. Looks like a worthwhile innovation, full details in the writeup on C-Net.

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Bigpond Wireless Liberty

Bigpond have announced that they are bringing “shaping” to their wireless internet offerings; Now they have a 5 Gig plan at $89.95 and 10 Gig at $129.95 per month, but there are no longer any fees if you go over those limits, just a slow down in speed.

This is good news for the many customers Telstra force to use this service because it refuses to expand it’s ADSL network to accommodate demand. Here’s hoping our government gets its finger out and gets moving on the national broadband network, which will, if done right, solve this anti competitive problem once and for all.

In the mean time, users suffering along with the Bigpond Wireless service should phone Bigpond immediately and ensure they are on one of these “liberty” plans. The cost of the previous plans for excess data can easily lead to hundreds or thousands of dollars in excess charges.

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Dodgy ISP charging for complaining.

I just got wind of a local Brisbane based ISP which had as part of its terms of service a fee for clients who were so aggrieved that they needed to take their complaint to the TIO.

crn.com.au has a writeup about it, the company and it’s director have been fined. I think a better punishment would have been to force the company to pay any costs incurred by its current clients to switch to a different provider, which seems like what the unhappy customers would want.

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