http://www.webitz.net/ Webitz en Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:21:00 GMT Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:21:00 GMT info@webitz.net info@webitz.net http://www.webitz.net/wings-not-quite-clipped/ When it comes to service we tend to remember the times we've had cause to complain about something far more than the times we've been well-treated. So by way of... http://www.webitz.net/wings-not-quite-clipped/#comments http://www.webitz.net/wings-not-quite-clipped/ Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:21:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/apple-publishing-textbooks/2/ Apple has plans to change the way textbooks are sold - forever. Like everything else Apple has done, however, it's all going to be done Apple's way, and stuff everyone... http://www.webitz.net/apple-publishing-textbooks/2/#comments http://www.webitz.net/apple-publishing-textbooks/2/ Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:37:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/kindle-improvement/ We've just been overseas for the first time in some years. We wanted to put a couple of documents on our Kindle, so that we had a backup of these... http://www.webitz.net/kindle-improvement/#comments http://www.webitz.net/kindle-improvement/ Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:30:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/high-costs/ A new report from the New Zealand Commerce Commission says that fixed-line and mobile phone service pricing is higher in New Zealand compared with the rest of the OECD, although... http://www.webitz.net/high-costs/#comments http://www.webitz.net/high-costs/ Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:21:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/some-google-dodos/ One thing about Google, if a product doesn't work, they get rid of it and try something else. In the digital world this is easy as, of course, and the... http://www.webitz.net/some-google-dodos/#comments http://www.webitz.net/some-google-dodos/ Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:32:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/cloudy/ A concern everyone who has any amount of data on a computer is how best to back it up. The old hardware models are fine, but have some issues. For... http://www.webitz.net/cloudy/#comments http://www.webitz.net/cloudy/ Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:37:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/google-verbatim/ Recently Google eliminated the operator from its search tools. Well, that wasn't exactly an operator I'd ever used, I must say, but that's just me. I find that either a... http://www.webitz.net/google-verbatim/#comments http://www.webitz.net/google-verbatim/ Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:44:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/what-customer-service-isand-isnt/ About a month and a half ago I closed my Orcon account and joined up with Vodafone, who were offering a better deal on broadband allowances. As a result, Orcon... http://www.webitz.net/what-customer-service-isand-isnt/#comments http://www.webitz.net/what-customer-service-isand-isnt/ Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:35:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/woosh-wins/ It's plain New Zealanders aren't happy, in general, with their ISPs. 43% of New Zealanders don't think their ISP deliver on promised data speed. A survey by Canstar Blue came... http://www.webitz.net/woosh-wins/#comments http://www.webitz.net/woosh-wins/ Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:44:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/where-the-webitz-stuff-has-been-going/ Though I haven't been writing on here much about the Web and my invovlement in it, I have been writing some posts on my main blog, Mike Crowl's Random Notes... http://www.webitz.net/where-the-webitz-stuff-has-been-going/#comments http://www.webitz.net/where-the-webitz-stuff-has-been-going/ Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:21:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/catching-up-a-little/ This blog has had the bum's rush over the last couple of months, not because there hasn't been good material out there to write about but because my time has... http://www.webitz.net/catching-up-a-little/#comments http://www.webitz.net/catching-up-a-little/ Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:12:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/retweeting/ I've just been reading Dan Zarella's Zarella's Hierarchy of Contagiousness on Kindle, after getting it for free via Seth Godin's promo a couple of days ago. (In fact, it's still... http://www.webitz.net/retweeting/#comments http://www.webitz.net/retweeting/ Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:17:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/ripping/2/ One of the frustrations of watching a You Tube video is that you usually can't copy it to your hard drive or mobile or other device. I've tried various programmes... http://www.webitz.net/ripping/2/#comments http://www.webitz.net/ripping/2/ Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:17:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/apple-the-dictator-strikes-again/ A report is just in from Martin Taylor, which begins as follows: I went to update the Kobo app on my iPad this morning but stopped when I saw what... http://www.webitz.net/apple-the-dictator-strikes-again/#comments http://www.webitz.net/apple-the-dictator-strikes-again/ Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:45:00 GMT http://www.webitz.net/google-images-to-go/ In the last post I mentioned Google's new Instant Pages. They've also brought out a feature called Google Image Search. Go to images.google.com and test drive the photos of the... http://www.webitz.net/google-images-to-go/#comments http://www.webitz.net/google-images-to-go/ Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:09:00 GMT