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Jetstar and the iPad as IFE

by Marty on June 25, 2010

Jetstar IFE

While interviewing a Jetstar Social Media employee last week, they let it slip that the airline would be launching iPads as an IFE alternative with avionics supplier BlueBox. We talked about it only briefly before I was sworn to secrecy. The conversation did, however, inspire my last post. Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Australia’s low [...]

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iPad as an IFE Alternative

June 25, 2010
ipad as ife

I’ve refrained from the iPad IFE debate for as long as I can. The question many people are asking at the moment is whether the iPad will replace existing integrated IFE (In-Flight Entertainment) systems as the entertainment platform of choice for cabin consumers. To me, it’s like suggesting iPods will put an end to in-car [...]

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Edit Hosts file in Windows 7

June 23, 2010
Windows 7

After just having (finally) upgraded to Windows 7, I’ve come across a number of issues that aren’t necessarily typical from a Windows machine. This is the first. I normally run a batch file to patch the hosts file on various machines. On Windows 7, it had no effect – despite the fact that I had [...]

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The Apple Experience

February 24, 2010
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Ok, so if you’ve read some of what I’ve written in the past, you’ll know I’m not actually pro-Apple. Let’s get that right out in front, so we can move on with what I want to say.  Because what I want to talk about is a recent Apple tech support query which was … downright [...]

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Lost in a world of IT Choice … Not.

February 24, 2010
Google Nexus One

I have a confession to make.  For some time now I’ve been indulging in an illicit, subversive, un-seemly behaviour – very much out of keeping with my persona and belief system as an IT hip type person (did I just use the word hip? Sorry, must be stress/guilt). I’ve been doing this despite having a [...]

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My take on Short URL Services – Protect Your Brand!

January 13, 2010

You would have be living under a rock if you weren’t familiar with services that truncate long URL’s into shorter, more manageable links. For those of you that don’t know what they are, they take a loooong URL and shorten them down to fewer characters so they can be more easily managed for dissemination or [...]

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RCA Airnergy charges devices via Wi-Fi

January 12, 2010

The RCA Airnergy is the kind of product you expect to be an elaborate April fool’s joke. The Airnergy is able to convert Wi-Fi signals into DC power sufficient enough to charge most gadgets – at this time using mobile phone batteries and handheld devices as an example. The company claims that the enclosure above [...]

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WebBasedCron.com

December 28, 2009

What is a Cron? Cron is driven by a crontab, a UNIX configuration file that specifies shell commands to run periodically on a given schedule. Derived from the word chronograph, a cronjob is a automated time based server function that will execute a script or command at predetermined time intervals. Have you ever needed to [...]

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BlueHost Sucks!

January 5, 2009

I’ve always avoided web hosting with providers in the United States. I’m not sure it’s because I’ve heard so many horrid stories, or because of an unpleasant experience in a camera shop on Hollywood Boulevard that haunts me to this day (who would have thought that buying a roll of film could leave a person [...]

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Are you an Office Caveman? Office 2007 Compatibility Pack

August 10, 2008

I once considered myself moderately computer literate… but I’ve become increasingly aware that I’m somewhat of a computer caveman. I’m getting more and more frustrated with getting sent (XML-based .docx file format) Office 2007 word documents that aren’t backwards compatible with my archaic caveman version of Word. I can only imagine the frustration that Office [...]

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