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The webcast from The Dog theatre went well last night and we will continue to improve our assembly of technical specifications for this type of event. The concept was for a lightweight portable and affordable two camera streaming solution. Video to follow soon of the recorded stream.

Well after about 8 hours solid we have the rebuild for Karen at Window Wonders. Her old OsCommerce application was retired after an attack of the Trojans and a new WordPress theme installed and modified for her purpose. We shot the whole shop content on a lightbox and uploaded the product images. Well done Karen. [...]

Whilst trying to fix a WordPress install, I found some errant code in the footer.php for site files installed by a client. After a bit of sluething I discovered that the Premium Woo Theme used had come from a filesharing site or had come in via bit torrent and had been altered to subject the [...]

Big Trousers is an authorised TPG dealer and offer account registration, support, installation and configuration for Mac and PC systems. We also offer an optional alternative hardware service that includes an on site installation using Linksys Cisco or Billion ADSL2+ modems and Apple wireless routers. Network cabling and Gigabit switches are also an option as [...]

Well it has been a year or so without a refresh, so this is it. We are aiming to show a more corporate layout for our content and make changes to content more frequently.

Due to MYOB’s current software licensing practices it is no longer possible to buy a new copy of MYOB Account Edge and upgrade your datafile unless you pay MYOB an extra $29 to remove the previous serial from your datafile. That is our current understanding at least, your experience may vary. To do this you [...]

We are currently experiencing a delay in upgrading the hardware of the web server. When all the bugs are ironed out we hope that an improvement to services will be evident but the change over has not gone as smoothly as we had hoped. Keep an eye on this page for up to date details. [...]

People from the Mexican village of Almoloya del Río have made what they hope is the world’s longest pair of trousers in an effort to boost the local textiles industry, which has been badly affected by the global recession. Forty-four people and almost two kilometres of fabric were needed to make the 60 metre long [...]

Bruce Keogh has been working hard for 3 months or more converting his entire site to the WordPress format. Benalla Online is a local news/directory that grew from a few pages in html to now an extensive database of local interest. This site is perhaps the most recent we have built that suits the WordPress [...]

After a few years on an old html site James at Sound Acoustics has embraced WordPress as a Content Management System for his business. Sound Acoustics designs, tests, maufactures and sells a range of acousctic foam panels for recording studios and home theatre rooms. This site has a Twitter Feed, Flickr link, and a shopping [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So after 5 days or so of ongoing sales spam the guys at Instinct have released a fix. Good to hear. Here is a full list of changes: More fixes to stop the spamming of purchase logs New dashboard widget Donations widget now refreshes the cart when on the checkout page Fixes to remove backslashes [...]