Link to This Blog or GJ’s Computer Services Website

I am always on the lookout for other websites or blogs related to computer and Internet services. I would like to build a large list of relevant links to and from my Blog and Website.

If you are interested in linking to this blog http://geejay.wordpress.com or my website http://www.geejay.net please drop me a line here or to my email address geejay@geejay.net so that I can reciprocate.

Telstra Bigpond Versus Exetel ADSL Plans

 See the table below for price and inclusion differences between Telstra Bigpond and Exetel.

At every level from price savings to contract periods to what each ISP offers customers Exetel offers outstanding value.

I have been an ADSL, then a telephone/ADSL2+ customer of Exetel’s since the early days of Exetel’s existence. On top of the benefits referred to above I have found, as have customers of mine, that Exetel is a reliable ADSL Broadband service.

Category:	Exetel	Telstra Bigpond
ADSL Speed 1500/256 kbps
Download Amount:	1GB/4GB/12GB/24GB/36GB	400 MB/12GB/25GB
Monthly Cost:	$40/$45/$55/$65/$75	$39.95/$69.95/$99.95
Contract:	6 month contract	12 or 24 month contracts
Inclusions:	Static IP address; No Upload Charge; 48 Gigabytes included downloads between midnight and midday; 20 free email addresses – yourname@exemail.com.au; 20 free SMS per month with additional SMS charged at 5 cents each; Any excess download per month charged at $3 per GB.	One free email account with up to an additional 14 email accounts at $1 per account; Change plans up or down without penalty.
ADSL Speed ADSL2+
Download Amount:	8GB/12GB/24GB/36GB/48GB	600MB/12GB/25GB/60GB
Monthly Cost:	$40/$50/$60/$75/$95	$59.95/$89.95/$119.95/$149.95
Contract:	12 month contract	12 or 24 month contracts
Inclusions:	Static IP address; No Upload Charge; 48 Gigabytes included downloads between midnight and midday; 20 free email addresses – yourname@exemail.com.au; 20 free SMS per month with additional SMS charged at 5 cents each; Any excess download per month charged at $3 per GB.
Notes: Line Activation Charges and/or transfer charges may apply. Both Exetel and Telstra Bigpond allow Rapid Transfer. Plans may vary from the time of writing. GJ’s Computer Services is an Exetel Agent.

Sources: Telstra Bigpond & Exetel (as at 2 December 2007)

http://my.bigpond.com/internetplans/broadband/adsl/plansandoffers/default.jsp

http://www.exetel.com.au/a_plan_pricing_new.php#toggle1

http://www.exetel.com.au/a_plan_pricing_adsl2.php#toggle1

My new Favourite Web Browser

As so often happens on the Internet it is “out with the old and in with the new“.

Like most Internet users I have long used Internet Explorer (latest version IE7) from Microsoft to browse the Internet. Every so often an application comes along that is better than previous ones.

I came across Flock, version 1.0, which bills itself as the “Social Web Browser”. Thus far, I have found it quicker and more stable than IE, which is not so surprising considering it is based on the Mozilla Firefox Browser http://en.www.mozilla.com/en/firefox/, which has long been a popular and preferred contender to IE.

What I find attractive about Flock is that like many Internet users I have accounts with a number of websites, including WordPress (for my blogs), Photobucket and Flickr (for sharing photos), as well as Social Networking and Video sharing sites such as Facebook and YouTube. These can all be accessed via Flock’s ‘Accounts and Services‘ left Sidebar, providing a single location for many of your favourite websites, with all being able to be logged in simultaneously, making sharing and access so much easier than doing the same from IE.

It makes uploading photos, accessing your personalised RSS feeds, clipping images and text from web pages as well as editing your blog all the easier.

I highly commend this Internet Web browser. It is a free download of 10.3 megabytes from http://www.flock.com.

If you have a lot of favourites already in IE, Flock will prompt you to import these details.

Give it a go, and let me know if you agree with my assessment.

It would be great if in the future Flock in a new version would allow users to customise the ‘Accounts and Services’ sidebar.