2009 April | Big Trousers, Web, Design, Photography and new media.

Easy Time Machine Setup with the Netgear ReadyNAS

Posted on 16. Apr, 2009 by Philip in Apple, Big Trousers News, Hardware, Software

In a recent firmware upgrade for all Netgear ReadyNAS units a simple interface for configuring for network Time Machine backup under Mac OS X 10.5 has been revealed. Untill now only a complex 15 step solution was available for this unit.
Many had opted for the Apple Time Capsule solution for network backups.

This is great news for those with plenty of room on their ReadyNAS and a small number of Macs to backup.

To use the system simply reboot your ReadyNAS and it will have the firmware upgrade done with a page available with set up instructions.

Louie Prez goes live

Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Web design

New site with photography by Phil and web by Big Trousers.

Ray Pereira, Leo Dale and Doug DeVries take the passion and poetry of Brazilian guitar, add a whole truckload of percussion from West Africa and throw in some cool grooves from French heist movies. The music is composed, yet improvised. It may sound like Jazz to you, but then again!

It’s got a hell of a groove and it sure sounds sweet.

Features downloadable music sales and video all as content managed backend.
Get online and take a squizz, louieprez.com

100 Megabit Broadband for Australia

Posted on 07. Apr, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Web design

Prime Minister Rudd today announced a 43 Billion Dollar investment in a new broadband network for Australia. Due to economic conditions and the lack of private sector involvement, the Australian government is to become the major shareholder in a new company charged with the job of building a new broadband infrastructure.

This is great news for small business as most struggle with outmoded, expensive and unreliable internet connection in the current forms widely available. As businesses move to provide online services and conect with customers and suppliers through these services as a way of streamlining their business practice a reliable connection at high speed is becoming essential. Content managed web sites alone cause small business in rural areas extreme problems.

Also with private homes also benefiting from increased access to high speed broadband, the ability for business to allow customer access to media, services and general web content will be greatly improved.

Business will also find more capacity to allow employees to work from locations remote to the central office arrangement thus giving greater work flexibility. An improved environmental outcome is also a possible upside to high speed access.

Unlike the Opposition leader who thinks data connection is about wireless laptops accessing the internet, I believe data via optic fibre to houses and businesses is the way of the future. As devices in the home become data connected a local wireless network connected to a fibre modem will make more sense. Stationary devices like display screens for film and television, bedside radios with internet radio, weather, and daylight savings time server services are all do-able. Imaging your washing machine connecting to a service agent to ask for repairs, on it’s own. What if your car could “talk” to service computers online everytime it was parked in tha garage? The internet is about to become means of communication for all our technology and a hardwired network is the place to start that revolution.