For some reason the iPhone 3G will not connect to this wireless router. There has been talk that this is fixed in the latest firmware but as of writing this it is not fixed in the latest AU/NZ firmware (1.00.23). I found a temporary solution for the problem though. If you limit your router to 802.11B [...]

Tv3 reported on this the other night, but I can’t find a link to the video clip. Apparently from July 1st, 2008 postcodes must be used when sending bulk mail to receive discounts. This is to force bulk mailers to move over to the new system which can be read easier by NZ Post. According to [...]

I’ve just started a new blog about antioxidants and good health. You can find it here: Antioxidant Smart

Recently dnsstuff.com started charging for all their services and have doubled their prices. I know they’re a business, but this move will force people away from their site onto other services. So I’ve been looking for an alternative to dnsstuff.com for a while and came across this: http://dnssy.com/ It seems to have similar reports and is good [...]

As a few people have pointed out in the comments there was an error in the initial release of the V2 postcode database, the suburb data had been lost along the way. I’ve fixed the problem and updated the bzip2 and gzip files. I’ve also removed the mssql version as it never worked anyway. I’m not [...]

I’ve just set up a lens on Squidoo.com about Verizon Wireless It’s still a work in progress, but there’s some interesting information there.

I’m just trying out a new method to optimize vBulletin’s front end scripts and CSS. It’s still a work in progress but these are the results I have seen on my test site (www.wirelessforums.org) Without GZIP Base VB (v3.6.8) vbulletin_global.js - 43.8KB vbulletin_menu.js - 17.8KB vbulletin_read_marker.js - 6.7KB vbulletin_md5.js - 9.6KB JS total - 77.9KB css - 5.7KB Using minify vbulletin_global.js - 23KB vbulletin_menu.js - 10.4KB vbulletin_read_marker.js [...]

I’ve done a bit of work on the database, added a bit of information and corrected mistakes. Thanks to Owen and others for help with the data. If you find this data useful, please donate. What’s new in V2 More accurate Added GPS co-ordinates Added PO Boxes and Private Bags Added Rural postcodes Removed regions (as some datasources labeled a city/town as one [...]

I realized today that vBulletin’s Javascript was just too bulky and didn’t really need to be, especially when you have no plans to customize it yourself. So I grabbed all the packages of 3.6.x and minimized all the Javascript. In most cases the Javascript files are 50% of the original, which saves bandwidth and speeds [...]

I’m always getting grief from my managers about not testing in IE6, which is hard when IE7 is installed on all machines these days. I recently found a little install tool which allows you to run multiple versions of IE on the same machine. It doesn’t fully install IE, just the dll’s and uses dll [...]