One year seems a lifetime in politics, Julia Gillard believes that the “education revolution” involves McDonalds and borrowing heaps of money.
“There are no advertisements. Once you go into it, there’s no reference to McDonald’s, there’s no branding, so I don’t see it as advertising at all. It’s simply stating that we’re providing it, which we are, and we’re very proud to do that,” she said.
McDonald’s Australia managing director Catriona Nobl.
The words “proudly brought to you by McDonalds” is not ok, this is like a convicted pedophile proudly bringing maths …

How slow are all levels of Australian government to catch up on the open source software alternative, once again the so called “wanna be” society is behind other nations. NSW wants to offer 197,000 secondary school students wireless-enabled netbooks that should run on open-source software. When these students discover the open source world they will expose themselves to endless possibilities of business innovation and competitiveness.
The risk a generation of youngsters growing up on a small dose of open source software, is like sentencing them to a Microsoft mortgaged life.

United they stand, gee took them long enough. Western Australian Food Industry Association of Western Australia Inc. has launched with the free open source joomla platform for its portal website . They join Dairy Australia, Refresh Group and many others to implement an open source content management system.
"formed to become the  peak body assisting the Western Australian industry to become more united in taking up the future challenges which it faces in a national and global market. The Association will help to shape a business environment that encourages …

Our new chinese* speaking Prime Minister in waiting is using the joomla* open source content management system platform for the kevin07 online election campaign.
So if you are impressed with the website and think it costs the equivalent of the Australian foreign debt ($450 billion and rising), then you will be surprised to learn the true value as it costs the equivalent of John Howards and Peter Costellos friendship, $0.00 or the federal government debt $0.00.
It is FREE, like a politicians broken promise or bitch about someone in parliament where you …

Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. I love it and highly recommend giving it go!
 

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Here are the features of Notepad++ as found on the website :
    Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
   
Supported languages :
C    C++    Java    C#    XML    HTML
PHP    CSS    makefile    ASCII art (.nfo)    doxygen    ini file
batch file    Javascript    ASP    VB/VBS    SQL    Objective-C
RC resource file    Pascal    Perl    Python    Lua    TeX
TCL    Assembler    Ruby    Lisp    Scheme    Properties
Diff    Smalltalk    Postscript    VHDL    Ada    Caml
AutoIt    KiXtart    Matlab    Verilog    Haskell    …

FastStone Image Viewer is one of the best free image viewers, it helps me to get organised and also cuts down the time it takes on some projects. I like the fact it is actually easy to use and easy on system resources, it has no database type feature like google’s picasa. But it is has better features.
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Background Reviews:
FastStone Image Viewer 3.2 is a Image Viewer product from faststone.org, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, viewer converter and editor with an easy-to-use interface …

FREE (FREEWARE) SOFTWARE, Free Tools, Scans and Downloads.
 
Comodo has developed a free Anti-Malware software, if it is anything like the firewall we can expect a superior product.
I use and currently recommend Comodo products, this firewall software company sure knows how to please and satisfy fussy computer users.
I like the ease of use and logical interface design that Comodo offers, they also rate on top in international security lab tests. My choice of Virus, Malware and firewall software is aligned to these benchmarks.
One has to balance system resource performance with prevention …