Some University of Auckland students have recently created a short documentary about copyright called © Kiwiright which has been fairly popular in NZ internet circles. The documentary includes interviews with geek-about-town Juha and CFF founder Bronwyn, but in addition to this it also features a whole lot of Disney characters and a reasonably identifying commercial [...]
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The DVR Battle – TiVO vs MySky
November 9th, 2009
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This isn’t a review – I don’t have a TiVo and I haven’t used one. This is my assessment of TiVo (and the other predominant DVR system available in NZ, MySky HDi).
When TiVo was announced I was fairly dubious – without access to Sky’s channels it seemed hard to see a product like TiVo really [...]
The Smacking Debate
August 2nd, 2009
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There is currently a referendum in progress in New Zealand, it is in relation to a fairly recent law change that modified the Crimes Act with regard to smacking, basically. The referendum question posed is “Should a smack, as part of good parental correction, be a criminal offense in New Zealand” which myself and many [...]
48HOURS Finals Clip
May 26th, 2009
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Fractured Radius, as the 2008 Auckland winner, created a special video to play at the 48HOURS Auckland finals. It is our guide to the competition’s trophy – The Apee
Fractured Radius’ Guide To The Apee on Vimeo.
Sky TV and content filtering
January 19th, 2009
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I have been a Sky subscriber a few times, most recently for the last few years. We recently even upgraded to their MySky HDi PVR service.
There’s one thing that has annoyed me frequently in the past and continues to do so – that is content filtering. I have made it a point to disable all [...]
