New Zealand

Street View transforms our world.

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Google Street View transforms the way we see and move in the world.

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Know the law: NZ copyright changes may cut you off

In 2008 New Zealand’s Copyright law was changed. The changes take effect on 28 February 2009 and have important implications for community organisations, businesses and individuals. The law in question is the ‘Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 No 27, Public Act — New Zealand Legislation’. The specific section you need to know about is [...]

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New Zealand gardens no home for native birds

From time to time I grab photos of birds in or near our garden, such as the Eastern Rosella that visited briefly last week (The red Rosella). Some birds I’ve had no success with, such as the silvereyes and waxeyes, and the fantails, because they are small and very quick, but they are around. We [...]

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Soon I might not be a criminal when I use my iPod

Here in New Zealand our crazy law has made millions of Kiwis into criminals: we’re breaking the law if we buy a CD and copy the music to our iPods or AppleTV. Fortunately that’s soon to change — Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Bill passes third reading: Legislation that updates New Zealand’s copyright law to ensure [...]

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Kiwis like Internet relationships

In February 2008 Nielsen Online revealed that most New Zealand Internet users are generating web content. (Source: 02/26/2008 Consumer Generated Media: Evolution or Revolution?. ) We like photos, videos, music, blogs In plain English: we share photos, links and videos, through websites such as Flickr, YouTube, MySpace. We read and write blogs and wikis. We [...]

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For Kiwis: Ordering a book from iPhoto (in pictures)

While I was totally occupied with Webstock over the last couple of weeks Mac stuff happened. I still haven’t caught up with it all. Phil Roy though, of NZMac.com has created a tutorial showing the process for ordering a photo book, using iPhoto. Non-Kiwi readers will wonder what the fuss is, but the fact is [...]

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