Nicole Manktelow

An instant, elegant test to see if you are a left brain thinker or a right brain thinker
Forget naff multiple choice questions, this little animation on news.com.au’s Perth Now site is immediate, fascinating and doubtless driving lots of traffic as friends and colleagues share the link (thanks Nina!).
Look at the dancer first, then read the […]

“I don’t understand what all the fuss is about Macs, now that Microsoft owns Apple” - a friend who (after my laughing fit subsided) asked to remain nameless.

There’s no reason to have a land line these days, if all you want is a broadband connection, but unless you can get a ‘naked dsl’ product from your telco, a land line you must have.
Such was the dilemma facing Producer Pete who, after a blissful year and a half without a land line, […]

I just joined the ‘Ferris Bueller Appreciation Society’. No meetings, newsletters, fan fiction, or get-togethers with other 80s nerds. To ‘Save Ferris’ was as simple as a click.
In fact, joining almost any group on Facebook – no matter how seemingly obscure, narrow or specific - is usually just a click away.
I also joined the […]

I have to write a feature for Natski’s new mag on social networks and the digerati. I’ll be faking tech-elite status all the way and that’s part of the allure (writers and actors are the same people at heart).
However, I am somewhat of a procrastinator about social networking. Mainly because I know I already have […]

It’s hard to know what to write about first - the cute game that teaches five-year-olds computer programming concepts, a computer that turns into a telescope, the CAPTCHA login test that uses cats and dogs, more examples of remote collaboration surface computing, or a visual answering machine for the home.
After a day at Microsoft’s […]