Kasmara Wongaling Beach

Kasmara located in Wongaling Beach, is Mission Beach’s latest private gated estate sitting on a slightly elevated beachfront position on prized Banfield Parade, and just a few footsteps to the tranquil waters of Wongaling Beach.

This fourteen lot real estate sub-division is unrivalled on a 3.6 acre beachfront location, sensitively designed to maximise the ocean views from twelve of the fourteen lots.

Currently under development and selling off the plan, these fully serviced Wongaling Beach real estate lots range in size from 600m2 to 1022m2 and are set around a substantial garden oasis, with a Balinese style pavilion overlooking the large ornamental lily pond. Extensive use of native vegetation throughout Kasmara will create a natural environment bringing an abundance of birds and butterflies.

Wongaling Beach real estate Building covenants are in place to create tropically designed homes that blend in with the surroundings and promote sustainable living. You can design your own, or Award Winning Architect Chris Van Dyke has a range of Concept Designs for Kasmara that you can choose from. (Get in quick, available free to the first seven buyers only.)

Adjacent to the new Woolworths Shopping Village (due for completion June 08) is the Wongaling Beach Shopping Centre and the Mission Beach Resort is located only a short walk away. Excellent restaurants are close by and two great golf courses are a short drive inland, or for those who prefer to fish or snorkel the Great Barrier Reef and nearby islands beckon. Others wishing to take in the magic of the rainforest can enjoy any number of surrounding walks, or right out front you can walk the length of Wongaling Beach, South Mission Beach or North Mission Beach.

If it’s the friendly relaxed lifestyle that brings you to Mission Beach, then don't miss out on this opportunity to live in your own private gated estate in Kasmara, Wongaling Beach at a very affordable price.

Contact Andersons Real Estate or visit the Kasmara Wongaling Beach website for more information.

Disabling User Account Control in Windows Vista

User Account Control in Windows Vista is responsible for all of those irritating pop-ups that ask you whether a program can have permission to continue. Now, I understand Microsoft wanting to decrease security breaches in their operating systems but sometimes this is downright irritating. So, to turn it off just follow these steps:

1. Go into Control Panel.
2. Select User Accounts.
3. Select the account that you want to change.
4. Click the Turn User Account Control on or off link.
5. Reboot your machine.

No more irritating questions about running a program that you've just double-clicked and know you want opening...

Ion e-Business run a web site design company in Mission Beach, Far North Queensland.

Internet Explorer 7 With Flash Slow on Windows Vista

I have recently been having some problems running Internet Explorer on Vista Ultimate. After a long drawn out process of disabling Add-Ons I found that it was a problem with Flash - that coupled with the occassional script errors I was getting gave it away! The thing that stopped me looking into it being a Flash problem straight away was that the same websites viewed on Firefox and Safari worked fine so don't let this fool you too.

Now, I thought that I had the latest version of Flash as I had downloaded Flash 9 a couple of weeks earlier but it seems that wasn't the case. There is a file that you need to run in order to get the version of Flash that works with Vista. It is at C:\Windows\System32\macromed\flash\FlashUtil9d.exe. Note that depending on your version of Flash the 9d may be 9b or 9e etc. Magically, after you run this file Flash will start working properly again.

Ion e-Business run a website design company in Mission Beach, far North Queensland.

Blencoe Falls

I had a drive from Mission Beach up to Blencoe Falls and camped out up there yesterday. Officially, the road from the coast is still closed according to the signs but there was nothing much in the way of obstacles. Sure the road is a bit bumpier than it used to be and there are a few washouts but they're only for the first 20km (out of 64km) so it's nothing to write home about. Anyway, there was nobody there but me (and unofficially, my dog) so it was perfect peace and quiet under the stars and to top it off there was more water going over the falls than I've seen up there before.

Croc Spotting

Went croc spotting down the Hull River yesterday with a mate from the Mission Beach Information Station. Had a great time and saw plenty of crocs including 2 that were at least 4 metres long. One of the fellas has had his front right leg bitten off as well so you know that he's pretty tough so when he went underwater let's just say we left in a hurry.

Mission Beach

A bit stuck with things to do when the wind is up like it is at the moment..? Call the Mission Beach Information Station and they will give you a list of things to keep you occupied.

August Fun

Well, it's that time of year - the holiday season. Got a load of mates coming to Mission Beach from Sydney and overseas to come and see why I've settled here. It's going to be tough for them to go back when they see what we get to wake up to every day with Dunk Island and the Great Barrier Reef just offshore.

Buying Real Estate in Mission Beach

Buying a property is always an emotional time so take the hassle out of it. Mission Beach real estate is a pretty cut-throat market (surprising really considering the size of the place) but I'm of the opinion that there's one set of agents that you can actually trust to give you an honest answer and that's <Andersons Real Estate.

Origin Bragging Rights...Again

Well it seems that we have the bragging rights over our New South Wales counterparts for another 12 months. I've already had several abusive phone calls from my mates down south but hey, my beer is cold, Queensland won and to top it off it's rainy and 3 degrees in Sydney.

Mission Beach rocks.

Andersons Real Estate

The new Andersons Real Estate website has gone live.

Ion e-Business have incorporated many advanced features into the website such as property finding using a Google Map to pinpoint the location of properties and using SMS as a means of contacting potential clients with regards to property alerts.

Check out the website and see what you think. Andersons Real Estate, the Mission Beach real estate specialists.

Mission Beach Information Station

The Mission Beach Information Station website is undergoing a transformation. Over the next few weeks keep your eyes on the site as we give it an updated look-and-feel, introduce new content on Dunk Island and Hinchinbrook Island and introduce several new elements that will make it easier for web surfers find accommodation and tours in Mission Beach.

Have All The Wallabies Been Run Over?

Have all of the wallabies in Mission Beach been run over? I haven't seen one for ages. All I've seen recently is comic feet sticking up in the air like clown's feet. I thought I saw some whan I was walking back from the pub the other night but turns out they were fence posts...I was quite drunk.

The Weather

Well, there's no two ways about it. The weather has been stinking. This may seem hard to fathom because I'm a pom but the rain during the wet I can handle because it's hot to go with it but I have to say that I'm bloody cold at the moment. A look at the thermometer tells me it's still 24 degrees C but I'm afraid I can't believe it. Lord only knows what I will be like if I ever leave Mission Beach and return to Engreyland but fingers crossed that's not going to be an issue for a long while. Now, I say I'm cold but I am in fact sitting here typing this in boardies and a T-shirt so I guess cold should be rephrased as 'not quite as warm as usual'.

Ahh, This Is The Life

Nothing much happened today...I sat on the beach, walked my dog, ate, and drank beer. But not in that order and with several repetitions of each 'action'. You seriously ought to think about buying real estate here but then if you did I wouldn't have the beach to myself...

More Than Just Web Design

At Ion e-Business we're more than just the experts in web design in Mission Beach. We can also help you improve the general I.T. in your business by recommending and purchasing new hardware, networking your machines, sharing peripherals in your office and generally helping you with office automation tasks.

We've just helped Mission Beach real estate specialists, Andersons Real Estate, incorporate new Windows Vista machines into their network and brought their Microsoft Office technologies up-to-date by introducing Microsoft Office 2007.

Open Source Infringes Microsoft Patents

Microsoft has given the most detailed description to date of the number of open-source computer programs it says infringe on its patents, but the company says it still prefers licensing deals with open-source developers, software distributors and users instead of legal action against them.

"There is no reason why any segment of the industry needs to be exempt from intellectual property rules," Horacio Gutierrez, a Microsoft vice president for intellectual property and licensing, said in an interview on Monday.

At the most basic level, open-source software is distributed free of charge to consumers or businesses to use on their computers, and to programmers to modify, build on, and distribute again - also for free.

While proprietary software companies like Microsoft make money by selling licences for programs, open-source companies give away the program and usually make money selling support services.

Open-source programs step on 235 Microsoft patents, the company said. Free Linux software violates 42 patents.

Graphical user interfaces, the way menus and windows look on the screen, breach 65. Email programs step on 15, and other programs touch 68 other patents, the company said. The patent figures were first reported by Fortune magazine.

Microsoft also said Open Office, an open-source program supported in part by Sun Microsystems, infringes on 45 patents. Sun declined to comment on the allegation.

Microsoft is the dominant maker of software that powers servers and desktop PCs, but the company views the free or low-cost Linux operating system alternatives "with a great deal of concern," said Al Gillen, an analyst at the technology research group IDC.

"It's one of the few operating systems that represents a viable threat that Microsoft has a great deal of difficulty containing," Gillen said, because the developers share their code.

"Microsoft can't drive a company out of business and make Linux go away," the analyst said.

Instead, Microsoft has struck a number of patent-licensing deals with companies that use open source code, most notably Novell last November.

In one aspect of the deal, Microsoft agreed to sell Novell's flavour of Linux, called Suse. It also agreed not to sue the customers who bought it, even though it claims the open-source software infringes on its patents.

"Microsoft could have chosen to litigate many years ago, but we have decided not to do that," Gutierrez said. Instead, in the interest of making sure programs that include open-source technology work well with Microsoft products and vice versa, the company will continue to pursue similar deals.

Courtesy of Sydney Morning Herald.

Contact Ion e-Business in Mission Beach for the latest web design technologies using Microsoft and open-source products.

Mission Beach Information Station

If you're ever in Mission Beach and you've got any questions about the area then visit the Mission Beach Information Station. The staff are really helpful and knowledgeable and can help you book Mission Beach accommodation, Mission Beach tours and transport.

They can also give you a hand if you're looking to purchase Whitsunday sailing packages and trips to Fraser Island. In fact, if you need to know anything about the east coast of Queensland then ask them, they'll probably know the answer.

Skydiving

Now, I've done a few tandem skydives in my time ranging from a murky one in Cambridge, UK to landing on the beach in Mission Beach and looking at the beautiful reef while I was serenely floating to the ground (obviously, that bit was after the 120 miles per hour freefall for 45 seconds!) but I've always wondered: 'why bother with the 10,000ft skydive'?

The reason I ask this is that if you're going to throw yourself out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft with a large handkerchief tied to your instructor's back and a lead holding you to him then go for the big one - the 14,000ft. Skydiving is scary enough anyway so get the benefit of 45 seconds of lung-emptying screaming and face wobbling.

Enjoy your next skydive!

Bingo

Bingo will recommence in the Rainforest Room at the Mission Beach Comfort Resort on Monday 14th May at 7:00pm and thence every Monday evening. The profits for May and June will go to Junior Soccer.

Bendigo Bank, Community Bank

Got questions about the innovative idea of getting a Bendigo Bank in Mission Beach, then we suggest you attend their next meeting: Wednesday 9 May from 5.30pm for a 6pm start at the Mission Beach Resort Rainforest Room. People from Tully & Babinda will be in attendance and happy to answer your questions. Meeting to conclude by 7.30pm.