Mark Gibbs - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Mark Gibbs

Article | 26/02/2011 Apple no longer thinks different

Remember when Apple thought different? They wanted us to see them as being like us, their customers. They wanted us to believe we had similar values, ...

Article | 25/02/2011 iPad meets IT - Three tools you need

Many of my friends hate Apple. They hate Apple's arrogance and the way the company manipulates the market. A great example of what they despise: Apple...

Article | 14/10/2010 Tomato for Linksys, making Wi-Fi better

Gad! I complained a few weeks ago about frequent DNS lookup errors on my AT&T DSL connection. I tried using Google's DNS servers instead of AT&T's and...

Article | 26/07/2010 Android and Apps

The more I use the HTC Incredible, the more I like it. And the thing that really makes the Incredible, er, incredible is its operating system, Android...

Article | 2/07/2010 Alex Android tablet / e-book reader

What would you get if you crossed Google's Android operating system with Wi-Fi, an e-ink display and a touch-sensitive color display? You'd get someth...

Article | 21/06/2010 WikiReader

Many people are dismissive of Wikipedia. For example, back in 2005, as quoted in the Ideas in Action blog, Robert McHenry, a former editor-in-chief of...

Article | 19/06/2010 Wikipedia in your pocket

Many people are dismissive of Wikipedia. For example, back in 2005, as quoted in the Ideas in Action blog, Robert McHenry, a former editor-in-chief of...

Article | 1/05/2010 Hello new iPhone, goodbye ethics

If you leave your cell phone on a restaurant table, do I have the right to examine it and publish the details of your life? Of course not. If I did su...

Article | 8/04/2010 Net neutrality suffers a blow

"Our primary goal was always to clear our name and reputation. We have always been focused on serving our customers and delivering the quality open-In...

Article | 19/02/2010 Vitamin D boosts your video surveillance

You've got cameras all over your facility. There are cameras in reception, the loading bay, the hallways, the data center; pretty much everywhere, and...

Article | 8/02/2010 Sex, lies and time-shifted YouTube videos

As if the whole John Edwards farce couldn't get any more ridiculous, now one of his ex-aides, Andrew Young, who also happens to be touting his tell-al...

Article | 24/11/2009 Google Chrome: Redefining end user computing

One of the most profound changes in how computing services are being delivered is the use of the Web as a frontend for just about everything. We have ...

Article | 3/07/2009 Ensuring you get pizza with sync tools

How often have you had to repeatedly copy files from one place to another either to create a backup or to synchronize two locations, and finally resor...

Article | 16/05/2009 Willful technological ignorance

"When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds" -- Will Rogers

Article | 11/05/2009 Cyberbullying? No, it's just bullying.

I really, really want to believe that our representatives in the government are smart and always try to make good decisions and behave rationally, but...