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Oprah’s Australian Adventure & Townsville Crocodiles #59 12/09/2010

Oprah’s Australian Adventure & Townsville Crocodiles #59 This episode looks at Oprah's Australian Adventure down under and briefly mentions the scary week it's been for the Townsville Crocodiles. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/1415492

The Social Network Movie & Hover Plane #58 10/03/2010

The Social Network Movie & Hover Plane #58 This episode checks out hte Social Network movie and spans as far as looking at the new 'Beta' version of Internet Explorer 9. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/1196284

Patches and Yachts #56 09/06/2010

Patches and Yachts #56 The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has blamed a "critical security change" for issues with its nationwide payment network yesterday. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/1112845

Business Procedures & NQ Rockawards #56 08/16/2010

Business Procedures & NQ Rockawards #56 This year the annual event was held at the Venue located in Townsville’s CBD. It drew hundreds of youth from around the region who wanted to see thier bands entertain. All the bands and solo artists that performed were judged out of a total of 100 points. The Chief judge Andrew Brown said the event continued to rat out emerging bands in the Townsville region. “The standard of bands keeps getting higher and higher,” he said. Townsville is now seeing more concerts and music events thanks to events such as ... /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/1054616

Mac Office 2010 & Free Wi-Fi Melbourne #55 08/04/2010

Mac Office 2010 & Free Wi-Fi Melbourne #55 REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. said Monday it will start selling the next version of its Office programs for Apple Inc.'s Macintosh computers at the end of October 2010. Microsoft has said they will give free updates to software users who buy the old version of office for mac (2008) between August and November. Now is the time to grab the cheaper deals and get two versions for the price of one. The new Mac version will include the ribbon strip much the same as Office on Windows Computers. There will be ... /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/1021480

Are you a Torrentor & Bogus Review Websites #54 07/25/2010

Are you a Torrentor & Bogus Review Websites #54 The last 24 hours Australian's have been glued to their TV sets watching a political debate with Tony Abbot and Julia Gillard then switching over to the season final of Masterchef. Thankfully, Tony did inform Australian's prior to the debate that we were not going to be seeing his Speedos. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/1003844

Sucrogen Townsville 400 & Indigo Telco #53 07/10/2010

Sucrogen Townsville 400 & Indigo Telco #53 Townsville 400 -- V8 Supercar a mad weekend of fun and entertainment. INXS performing live at the Sucrogen Townsville 400 on the 10 of July 2010. The first day of racing saw the two-time defending champion Jamie Whincup who has claimed pole position for the Townsville V8 Supercars round's opening race on Saturday. At the bottom of this article is a Youtube video featuring Saturday's highlights. Team Vodafone's Jamie Whincup followed on from where he left of in qualifying, taking victory in race one of the Sucrogen Townsville 400. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/982915

Mining Tax Deal – Australian PM Julia Gillard #52 07/01/2010

Mining Tax Deal – Australian PM Julia Gillard #52 All up I think that the address given by Julia Gillard may have a new campaign slogan in in somewhere, "Moving forward together." The PM said this half a dozen times in the first few sentences. Moving forward together. So here is the way I see that the Mining Tax is. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/957944

Hi-Tech Police Cars & Vegas Casinos #51 06/28/2010

Hi-Tech Police Cars & Vegas Casinos #51 Unregistered drivers and car thieves are being hunted down by hi-tech police cars fitted with 360-degree cameras. The technology is currently being rolled out in NSW and is under trial in South Australia. Fairfield police officers have used the technology to track down 6750 stolen cars since December. The highway patrol cars have also detected 2500 unregistered drivers, 1100 uninsured vehicles and 240 unlicensed drivers. The NSW Government allocated $6 million in this year's Budget to roll-out the technology in 95 police vehicles over the next two years. Eight of ... /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/928653

Apple iPhone 4G & Telstra’s $11B NBN #50 06/22/2010

Apple iPhone 4G & Telstra’s $11B NBN #50 APPLE said overnight that it and its phone company partners took orders for more than 600,000 iPhone 4s in one day, the highest number it's ever seen, despite widespread problems getting orders through overwhelmed computer systems. The crush of orders sets the scene for long lines and potential chaos at stores when the phone is released in the US on June 24. Dallas-based AT&T said it received ten times as many pre-launch orders on the first day for the new iPhone model as it did for the previous model ... /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/913960

Townsville BUG & Two Teens from Google Street View #49 06/12/2010

Townsville BUG & Two Teens from Google Street View #49 Two British teenagers have been caught in Google Street View having one of their first pashes' in the street. "I couldn't believe it and when I went to show my mom, she didn't believe it herself until she saw it," Ms Moss, 17, told /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/897524

NYC Cabs & Sony Professional HDV Cameras #48 06/06/2010

NYC Cabs & Sony Professional HDV Cameras #48 APPLE'S secrecy about product launches is legendary. Mr Jobs is the keynote speaker at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco this week, an annual event at which the tech giant reveals its latest must-have devices. The engineer, Robert "Gray" Powell, lost a prototype of the next-generation iPhone while drinking at the Gourmet Haus Staudt near Apple headquarters earlier this year. According to Gizmodo, features of the new phone include a front-facing video camera for video conferencing and a better regular camera with a larger lens. It reportedly has ... /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/882815

Mach 6 Air Speed & Facebook Cop #47 05/30/2010

Mach 6 Air Speed & Facebook Cop #47 A UK scientists claims he's the first man in the world to catch a computer virus. The chip is programmed to open security doors to his lab and ensures only he is able to switch on and use his mobile phone. "Once the system is infected, anybody accessing the building with their passcard would be infected too," he told Sky News. The virus on his chip is benign. But a malicious computer code could give criminals access to a building. Heart pacemakers contain mini-computers that control the heartbeat and communicate ... /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/878090

Pac-Man 30 Years on & IE6 Milk #46 05/25/2010

Pac-Man 30 Years on & IE6 Milk #46 Pac-Man has sold 1000s of copies worldwide. Google allows the game to take over the world once again on the 22nd and 23rd of May 2010. Offices around the world had productivity levels decline by more than 50%. By simply replacing the, “I’m feeling Lucky,” button with, “Insert Coin.” Upon clicking the button you unlock Pac-Man Google Style. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/869605

Young Achiever Jessica Watson #45 05/14/2010

Young Achiever Jessica Watson #45 Everyone can achieve something great if you set your mind to it, like that of Jessica Watson or Lucille Rose. Jessica Watson the 16 year old who sailed around the world solo and Lucille Rose who runs a Photography business. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/855681

Dual-Core Netbooks & Windows Hotmail through the Ages #44 05/11/2010

Dual-Core Netbooks & Windows Hotmail through the Ages #44 Netbooks from Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Dell, and Toshiba are offered exclusively with single-core Atom processors, which provide good battery life but lack the performance of multicore chips. Though Asus has been offering a dual-core Netbook, this kind of design is rare because it shoehorns a more power-hungry Atom chip built for desktop PCs into a larger laptop-sized casing. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/835017

Unrated Smartphone Apps & Arabic Domain Names #43 05/10/2010

Unrated Smartphone Apps & Arabic Domain Names #43 /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/818992

No more NBN & Google goes Eco #42 05/04/2010

No more NBN & Google goes Eco #42 With the national broadband well under way the Liberal party of Australia is choosing if elected to withdraw funding from the National Broadband Network. If this is the case Tasmania could be the only state in Australia capable of supplying 100Mbps connections to homes and business'. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/804214

Townsville GTM was a huge Success #41 05/02/2010

Townsville GTM was a huge Success #41 The long awaited 2010 Groovin The Moo Music Festival was a huge hit among music lovers. With a crowd of 15, 000 turning up. The event has been running for 3 years. Public transport was uliised for the even with Townsville Sunbus putting on extra buses for the event. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/803747

McAfee Anti-Virus Svchost & Mobile Connectivity Everywhere #40 04/27/2010

McAfee Anti-Virus Svchost & Mobile Connectivity Everywhere #40 Thousands of PCs around the world have been paralysed by a security update that wrongly labeled part of Windows as a virus. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/797525

Ubuntu Linux 10.04 & Windows 7 Sales Figures #39 04/26/2010

Ubuntu Linux 10.04 & Windows 7 Sales Figures #39 On the 29th of April 2010 Ubuntu Linux will be released. It is due to be a huge success. Developers have made several changes to the GUI and have taken out and put in a whole heap of even cooler free opensource applications. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/791423

Facebook Revitalizing the Web & Starting a Computer Business #38 04/24/2010

Facebook Revitalizing the Web & Starting a Computer Business #38 Facebook seems to be coming up with imaginative ways to advertise on the web but even gathering statistics facebook is proving highly successful. Facebook has launched a feature which is known as, "The Like". It allows you to like facebook pages primarily. However not only has this meant that facebook pages now have a like button instead of add this page to my pages. "The Like" feature can also be embedded onto web pages. Similar to that of Google Adsense. It will be a section of Javascript or an iFrame. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/790988

Are you a Multi-Platformist? What about Lightpeak Technology #37 04/19/2010

Are you a Multi-Platformist? What about Lightpeak Technology #37 We seem to get a little sick of using the same types of technology all the time. I know I do. However I currently use same hardware often but with different Operating Systems. I believe in using technology for what it can do. Not just the brand name. I am perfectly fine with purchasing a Linux Computer. I know that Linux will work and no security flaws. Whereas I may be slightly more reluctant to place my trust into an iPad. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/761138

Where are we Heading? 04/13/2010

Where are we Heading? Well, as you can see we put in a fair bit of effort into our podcasts. Over the next few months we are looking around to find business' or up and coming stars who may need a little bit of assistance to get to the top. We are specifically after people that believe and are passionate in the industry or field they are in. We've lined up a few people who may suit this role. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/759583

Cyber Bullying & Intel’s Mind Power #36 04/11/2010

Cyber Bullying & Intel’s Mind Power #36 One in 10 Australian teenagers experience cyberbullying, involving nasty messages or photos posted online or sent on mobile phones, every few weeks, according to new research. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/759584

Apple iPad Released & Buying version 1.0 #35 04/05/2010

Apple iPad Released & Buying version 1.0 #35 What a big weekend it's been. Easter celebrations in Queensland, Australia. Not quite as big as America's launch of the Apple iPad. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/759585

Youtube Page Design & Web 2.0 #34 04/02/2010

Youtube Page Design & Web 2.0 #34 Well Youtube has just released a new website design. On all video pages there is a message displaying; "Welcome to the new video page! You can take a quick tour of the page's new features." I personally do not like the new page design at all. It is almost as if Youtube has allowed only 3 colours in their colour scheme. That of red, white and gray. It makes you think perhaps that is why Youtube was down for an hour last week. Due to a final test run of ... /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/759586

Apple Launches the iPad & Google Street View #33 04/02/2010

Apple Launches the iPad & Google Street View #33 Well the long awaited release of the Apple iPad is finally hear. Tomorrow the Apple product will be sold in America. Sorry Australia but no iPad yet. In Australia the iPad is set to be released in late April even later if you were wanting an iPad 3G. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/759587

Twitter Hacker and US Gov Questions Australia’s Proposed Internet Policy #32 03/29/2010

Twitter Hacker and US Gov Questions Australia’s Proposed Internet Policy #32 Join us for an audio or video podcast. A Frenchman was able to gain access to twitter administration accounts. Through gaining access to these accounts he was able to delete accounts or even view personal details about any twitter member. It is believed that his intent was to gain access to the private twitter account of Barack Obama [More Information]. /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/759588

Bendigo Bank Telco & Information Overload #31 03/27/2010

Bendigo Bank Telco & Information Overload #31 /episode/index/show/suburbanfm/id/759589

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