Aussie Matt

The Aussie Jewel of the Great Australian Dream

I Still call australia home

Download 9,000 Royalty Free Stock Photos

October 21st, 2008

These images are at least 700 - 900 pixels wide, good quality, and ready to use immediately.

These images include transparent PNG images.

You’ll need this program to join the zip files.

Below is a sample:
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High Res Desktop Wallpaper at Google

January 11th, 2008

Struggling to find high res desktop wallpaper? Struggle no more friends.

Go to Google images and do a search using the term “1920 1200″. Or use any combination that suits your desktop resolution.

Here’s a few examples;

High Res Desktop Wallpaper at Google

Pandora outside USA - and yes, it actually works.

November 7th, 2007

After stuffing around with various proxies and Firefox extensions ad nauseum, I recently discovered a great solution for Windows by CfDan. It involves a mashup of Tor and Pandora’s Box - and it works.

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The most bizzare animal on earth - with pics!!!

March 3rd, 2007

A rather curious characteristic of the bipedal life form, is their unwavering belief that they are special, and in some cases; the belief they can experience life after death.

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How your forum gets spammed, and the culprits responsible

January 14th, 2007

“Forum Poster allow you to post any message you want to over 40000 forum boards. Includes PHPBB, Invision, Vbulletin and more. Automatically registers a user with the username, e-mail and password. All made automatically. With just one click.” Clearly, this software enables anyone with half a clue to become an effective forum spammer.

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The Devilfinder Image Browser

December 21st, 2006

A better image search engine, view and download multiple images at once.

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Latest Microsoft Downloads

December 20th, 2006

Just like the title says.

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Royalty Free Images and Photos - Download Stock Photography for any website

December 19th, 2006

I’m giving away my photos and will be updating them every few days, bookmark it.

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Schapelle Corby: read her book ‘My Story’ - wrongful imprisonment or badluck?

November 28th, 2006

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With the question over her innocence or guilt remaining a controversial question, I have put to together an exhaustive list of resources in order to get a better understanding of the situation.

So what’s my verdict? I think the odds are that she is guilty. And before I run the risk of being labelled a redneck simpleton, let me explain…

The facts say she got caught red handed with drugs, which sucks for her, and her family. Some of Australia’s best sentiment and I dare say some pretty hot lawyers too have not been able to convince the Bali court otherwise. The facts simply don’t go in her favour. Note: I mean facts as in documented reports, I do understand that documents and reports are not always right.

So according to law, and according to the rules, Schapelle Corby is guilty as charged. That is the reality, and like it or not, that is what is happening right now.

Okay, i’ve talked abut the technicalities, but here’s how I feel about the matter;

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Are bookmarklets dead?

November 24th, 2006

With the rising popularity of Firefox and the 1000’s of useful extensions it may appear that Bookmarklets are indeed, dead.

Bookmarklets or Favlets, are our old friend who helped us through the years of Netscape 3/4/5 and Internet Explorer 3/4/5/6 and indeed 7. Today, Netscape is dismissed at large (thankfully), and Internet Explorer’s extensibility still remains paltry at best. But then there’s Firefox.
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