Twitter down again?

It’s ok - we have a backup. Get yourself an IRC client like MIRC or the ChatZilla extension/add-on for Firefox or PocketIRC for Windows Mobile and head over to the #twitter channel on the freenode server.
If you’re an IRC n00b (ie you didn’t start using the Internets till after 1997) then you simply need to:
/server […]

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Ban cluster bombs

Austcare is collecting names for a petition to put to our Minister for Foreign Affairs, The Hon Stephen Smith MP, to ban the production and use of cluster bombs/munitions around the world. Cluster bombs have been used by at least 30 countries killing and injuring thousands of civilians.
Join the petition

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Move over Reuters, Twitter is here

Like a lot of people on Twitter, I found out about yesterday’s earthquake in England a good 10 minutes before the first preliminary reports appeared on main news sites like BBC - I went to the main news sites to get more information about the quake, but even once they did finally get something up […]

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Twitter SMS is back!

It’s probably been back for a while - but this time simply turning your Notifications off then back on will not re-enable it.
You have to actually delete your phone number from your Twitter Settings page then add it back in (don’t forgot to replace the leading zero with your country code … ie “+61″ for […]

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YourTV (now TVFIX) goes mobile!

I don’t know when either the name change or the beta release of the mobile site happened but I use YourTV fairly regularly so I think I would have noticed if it was more than a week ago … but considering that just a week ago I was complaining that viewing the YourTV homepage or […]

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