Impress The Computer

Including the right keywords in your CV could increase your chances of winning a job, writes Conrad Walters.

Books

Genius at Apple source iWOZ: Computer geek to cult icon Steve Wozniak with Gina Smith Headline Review, 343pp, $27.95

The Tables Have Turned At The Flower Drum

Three staff members are the new bosses, writes John Lethlean.

What's Your Favourite Computer Activity And What Do You Use It For?

James Adamson -Yr 5 Microsoft Word. To publish the lessons like English and HSIE (Human Society and Its Environment) in class.

The Magic Imp

What a difference an Imp can make. This year's Open Interstate Teams was won by just one Imp. The same result occurred in the 64-board final of the Computer-Bridge World Championships After a 20-board round-robin and 48-board semifinals, Jack (Hans Kuijf, Netherlands) faced Wbridge5 (Yves Costel, Fr

$30,000 Theft Sounds Alarm At Schools

Illawarra schools have been urged to increase security measures after $30,000 worth of computer equipment was stolen from Lake Heights Public School.

Beware The Dreaded Howard Virus

So your computer claims to have insufficient memory?

Play Takes Centre Stage In The Classroom

``Learning by design" could turn the tables on conventional teaching, writes Charisse Ede.

Affordable Alfa Has Attitude, Ability

Alfa's `Sudstitute' still begs to be driven hard and is right on the money. Bill McKinnon reports. I used to live in Leichhardt when Norton Street's cafes were the domain of elderly Italian gentlemen who sat at the tables all day and talked over the meanest short blacks this side of Milano. At w

Assessing Potential

MICHAEL and his wife assumed their daughter was pretty ``normal". After all, didn't every 18-month-old, sucking on a dummy, confidently work on the computer, he joked at the information night run by the CHIP (Children of High Intellectual Potential) Foundation.

Williams Massacre Has Its Rewards, But Hingis Would Have Done It Just For Fun

No longer a woman with an axe to grind, the world No1 has turned the tables on Venus and Serena.

Too Much Progress Does Not Compute

SITTING in a cafe the other day, I watched as a young guy moved around the tables, offering customers a free trial run on one of half a dozen laptop computers connected by some invisible thread (OK, it was a cell phone card thingy) to the internet. The friend I was with watched eagerly, hoping t

Hip-pocket

The following tables, prepared for Money & Investment by the Australian Society of CPAs, are a rough guide only but indicate some of the price variations we are likely to see from July 1 under the GST. "There is absolutely no doubt there will be price movements once the GST kicks in on

Kids At Sixes And Sevens

When uproarious laughter is heard from time to time from other tables of the event you are in, it is fair to assume the dealing computer has come up with at least one weird one in this set. East's 7-6 distribution was indeed the cause of the commotion on a deal from the world junior championships:

Reading Like There's No Tomorrow

ON 1 JANUARY 2000, there shall be a mighty crashing of computers, and fire and brimstone, yea, and a wailing and gnashing of teeth. And the veil of the temple shall be rent in twain. And there shall be a great thunder as millions of millennium books hit the remainder tables in bookshops throughout

3d Quits Outer Space For Your Living Room

New 3D technology reflects an old axiom, writes Jenny Sinclair - a picture is worth a thousand words. NEAR-infinite bandwidth and near-infinite processing power will add a new dimension to the way we "see" the Internet and our information, literally, if Computer Associates has its way.

From Here To Infinity

NEAR-INFINITE bandwidth and near-infinite processing power will add a new dimension to the way we ``see" the Internet and our information, literally, if Computer Associates has its way. Sandeep Divekar, in-house strategist for visualisation applications at CA, is looking forward to the day when

Backup Copy Puts You Back In Business

AN overriding concern for all computer users must be, What happens when something goes wrong? Computers are wonderful tools that enable people to do their work more efficiently and find things more quickly than they ever could on paper and they can be a dream to work with when all goes well. H

Turning The Tables On Oracle

MOST computer systems nowadays have at their core a database management system (DBMS). Over the last 15 years or so, the DBMS market has become the most keenly contested in the computer industry, because of the software's key position at the heart of the organisation's IT infrastructure. DBMS so