App of the Week | Issue 26

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 6th October 2013

In the haze of information overload that is study week, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by all the shit you’re meant to know. Sometimes, putting it into order in a way that makes sense to you can help to soothe the hysteria. Time to make your Year 9 English teacher proud and create some sweet Read more...

Behind the Meme

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 6th October 2013

Remember your horrible high school class photograph? Or the embarrassing childhood picture that your Mum posted to her Facebook? (Thanks, Mum.) What happens when the Internet gets hold of those photos and, based on that one photograph, assigns you a personality? Do you roll with it? Exploit it? Or Read more...

Web Trick of the Week: The Wadsworth Constant

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 29th September 2013

The Wadsworth Constant: Noun. An axiom stating that the first 30 per cent of any video can be skipped because it contains no worthwhile or interesting information. Popularised by Reddit user Wadsworth in 2011. (knowyourmeme.com) It’s true though, isn’t it? Pretty much any how-to video Read more...

Checking in on Yahoo!

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 29th September 2013

It has been a year since overachieving, Silicon Valley poster-girl Marissa Mayer (formerly of Google) took over as CEO of Yahoo! There has been a lot of buzz about Yahoo! recently, what with Mayer’s acquisition of several start-ups, the re-vamp of Flickr, and a logo change. I decided it was time to Read more...

App of the Week | Issue 24

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013

With semester two’s end now in sight, some of you might be thinking about your entrance into the working world. It’s going to be a little tough. Someone is going to expect you to be reasonably dressed and coherent by 9am, and to labour for eight hours toward vague and mystifying goals. You may have Read more...

Turning the Self Into a Statistic

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013

“I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined, but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish.” – Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin, noted Renaissance Man of the American Enlightenment, was a well-known advocate of self-improvement. He famously kept Read more...

App of the Week | Issue 23

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013

Next time you have to give a presentation for a class, skip the PowerPoint and give Prezi a go. Prezi is a presentation tool that allows you to scribble all over a canvas, rather than organising your ideas into traditional slides. Imagine a mind-map with fancy transition effects, embedded Read more...

Internet Art

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013

Art both expresses and reflects the society in which it was produced. In an Internet-obsessed society it hardly comes as a surprise, then, that Internet art is thriving. Net art is hard to pin down and categorise, because it is as diverse as the Internet itself. Just like Internet pornography, Read more...

Wiki of the Week

Posted 1:51pm Sunday 8th September 2013

In researching this piece I came across a wiki as deliciously pitiful as Conservapedia, if not more so. The Internet Movie Firearms Database (imfdb.org) is why GCSB watch-lists may be justified after all (just kidding, they aren’t). This careful, meticulous cataloguing of weapons of personal Read more...

App of the Week | Issue 21

Posted 3:48pm Sunday 1st September 2013

The QWERTY keyboard as we know it has been around since 1873. A lot of shit has happened since then. Women got the vote, man went to the moon, computers were invented and became smaller and smaller, and twerking became an amusing pastime. But despite many changes in device shape, size, and manner of Read more...