Schoolmates Farewell Susan

THE classmates of Susan Worrall formed a solemn guard of honour yesterday as her parents walked behind her hearse down a Sydney street - in mourning for one lost daughter and the other who is charged with her murder.

An Observatory In Every Computer As Virtual Telescope Turns To The Heavens

A free program launched recently will effectively turn every computer that downloads it into a mini-planetarium capable of displaying high-resolution images of millions of stars, planets and other celestial bodies.

Schools' Tool Speaks Volumes For Children's Literacy

MORE high schools are turning to the Premier's Reading Challenge as a tool to encourage adolescents to read.

Say Goodbye To 'business As Usual'

BUSINESSDAY is more, far more, than the section you are holding. It is a fully integrated journalism product that includes your computer and handheld devices.

The Dark Is Rising

One diversion too many gives Charles Wright an introduction to his computer's nether world.

Ancient Mariners Enjoyed Hawaiian Holidays

A STONE tool unearthed on a coral atoll near Tahiti has provided the first hard evidence for the extraordinary seafaring skills of ancient Pacific islanders.

It's The Italian Job As Hackers Use 'tool Kit' To Steal Codes

Cyber crime's latest wave is unparalleled in scale, reports Ed Pilkington.

How To Share Large Files

Email may be the most obvious way to move documents from one computer to another but the technology wasn't designed to cope with large files. As a rule of thumb you can't easily share files bigger than 10MB this way.

Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is Justice

Last Thursday, the NSW Minister for Police, David Campbell, acted without any sense of irony or respect for due process. His tool of character assassination was a Dorothy Dix question from a crony during question time in Parliament.

Ten Ways To Get Organised

Software developers have rediscovered organisational applications, but the most effective tools may not be the newest. Here are 10 ways to improve your time management:1) Microsoft Outlook - is probably already running on your computer, but do you use it effectively? Active Desktop Calendar (www.xemico.com/adc/infocenter/outlook.html) may help; displaying your task list on the desktop should make it much harder to ignore. 2) HiTask - (www.hitask.com) puts to-do lists, projects and calendars on ...

Operatic Voice Balances Ferocity

MUSIC REVIEW: TOOL Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Wednesday January 31

Once Upon A Crime

No doubt about it, this year will set a benchmark for computer crime. Just after we heard instant messaging services were hit by 41 attacks in December, more security issues surfaced in the first few weeks of this year - even the trusty old PDF document format was compromised (upgrade to Acrobat Reader 8.0 to be safe). Microsoft had to fix three "critical" software flaws, QuickTime and Google users were threatened, security software provider Symantec's corporate users were attacked .?.?. the list ...

Improve Your Sketchy Thoughts

Budding designers, or anyone, can have fun with this tool, writes Helen Bradley.

Soho

Pack up your troubles It would be accurate to describe Backpack (www.backpackit.com) as an organisational tool; accurate, but missing the point. The program, from 37 Signals, is a long way removed from conventional personal information managers (or PIMs).

Email Gets Pushy

For many businesses, email is becoming almost an essential tool. The trick is that you have to be in your office to attend to the messages - and for many business people, that's not always an option.

Tool For Classroom

FIRST there were blackboards, then whiteboards, and now Smartboards.

Technology For Art's Sake

John Young is wrestling with a question that has perplexed artists since the dawn of the computer age: does better technology improve art?

Is Anyone Listening?

They're still hammering the charts but metal band Tool despair of the future. Frontman Maynard Keenan tells Patrick Donovan why.

Click Go Weight-loss Shears For Our Computer Dieters

AUSTRALIA'S online weight-loss industry is booming, fuelled by time-poor, internet-savvy customers looking for diet advice at the click of a mouse button.

Needles In Haystacks

David Flynn shows how to use a search engine to keep tabs on your computer.