Bandwidth - how to understand it.

It's been a long time coming - but here's the first of a long list of best analogies I use to explain fundamental technology principles to the technophobes among us. First off in the list: Bandwidth

The more bandwidth you have, the more information you can push from point A to point B. Bandwidth determines how fast you download a movie, how easily you can stream Netflix, how fast Facebook loads on your phone or how quickly you can send and receive photo's. Bandwidth is a giant, fundamental part of everybody's life in this day and age - and despite how much people like to think they don't need to know about 'this techy stuff' - it will benefit you exponentially to realise how and what bandwidth is. Here's how it works.

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Cryptocurrency - What it is, and why you should care

About a month ago I wrote a post called 'Bitcoin going Banana's'. At the time, I pointed out I had made $10AUD turn into $150AUD with Ethereum - an alternative, but superior cryptocurrency (or 'Altcoin'). Earlier today I posted on facebook that the same $10AUD Ethereum is now $280AUD and not 12 hours later that same $10AUD is now worth $315AUD.

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The Future of Today

Internet of Things. Clouds. Apple ID's. Google ID's. Dropbox Accounts. Sync. Servers. Augmented Reality. Large Data. Artificial Intelligence. Automation. 

What does it all mean? How can anybody not born into this technology possibly hope to keep up? It's a tough gig, being born in post-war industrial age. Right before your very eyes you've suddenly witnessed the dawn, growth, evolution and now normalcy of the digital age. And it's only just beginning. 

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Mix Einstein and Steve Jobs and what do you get?

Elon Musk operates on a different plane to the rest of us.

It's not that he's ridiculously intelligent. It's that he is so far beyond ridiculously intelligent that he struggles, publicly, to talk in a language that mere mortals can understand.
It's not that he's unfathomably gifted. It's that he possesses the most extraordinary combination of humanistic characteristics that is so improbable that a man of this distinction lives in solidarity once every few dozen generations.
It's not that he's introduced new theories similar to the likes of Einstein, Galileo and other historic icons of brilliance. It's that he has done that, and is now subtlety moving humanity forward hundreds of years in mere months - on several frontiers.

And he's only 45.

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Apple in 2022 - the Death of Telco

The iPhone 8 (or iPhone Edition, depending on the pundit you believe in) has received more hype already than the previous three generations of iPhones, combined.

And it's still six months away. Say what you want about Apple, their ability to market is still second to none. More than that, it proves that Apple still have an ability to excite. A intuitive tact for intriguing millennials and, indeed, the world into pondering the question: "How are Apple going to blow my mind this time?".

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Samsung Reborn - Hands on with the S8

The Galaxy S8 is an Android Saviour

It's 4pm in the heart of a bustling Brisbane City. I'm waiting at a cross sign on my weary way home from work, longing for nothing but a beer and a nap, thanking god I had the rest of the evening off to shut myself away and sleep. Just then my phone buzzes, and I read a clandestine-like message from an acquaintance I've come to know. "Are you in the city?".

Fifteen minutes and three mysterious texts later I followed my instructions and was ushered into a dark corner of a quasi-deserted cafe down the end of an alleyway, like an unsuspecting victim in a bad James Bond film. And then I saw it...

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The Big One: Apple, Android or Microsoft?

Let's do this. Apple, Google or Microsoft.

Ah, yes. The war of the new-old ages. Apple vs Google. Apple vs Microsoft. Microsoft vs Google vs Apple. Apple is evil, premium and expensive (but oh-so-sexy). Google represents affordability, customisability and diversity (but oh-so-technical). Microsoft is dated, industrial and "businessy" (PC? Eugh... boring).

These are the general trends representing the opinions I hear every day en masse. If time in retail around technology has taught me anything, it's that most people are quick to judge and slow to forgive. Naturally the tech-savvy among us occasionally venture into an archaic dwelling called a 'store' in order to preview the latest in tech that they've already researched thoroughly, eager to confirm their own general bias and proudly exhibit their masterful knowledge and superiority over the first courageous salesperson to approach them with an offer of assistance, before shaking their head in disgust at the 'outrageous price' of the super-computer they're seeking to stick in their pocket as they leave to purchase said supercomputer off ebay or Kogan.

If you're one of those people, this article is not for you.

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Now about that NBN

Let's get a little less macro and a little more in-depth about one of my favorite topics: NBN.

Queue the exasperated groans from those who know me. This is going to be a much less 'objective' and well written post, and more of a rant. Now an ongoing theme of my blog, you may notice, is that whilst I don't blame the general public for not paying attention - I bet they'd be pretty angry if they did. I'll get to that at the end. It's been a while since I've paid due attention to NBN - despite being involved in it each and every day for my job. Amidst the turmoil of the world at large right now and the frenetic pace of technology globally, it is easy to stop paying attention to what is, without doubt, one of the largest mistakes of modern infrastructure.

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