Wednesday, December 24, 2008
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3:03PM Angus Kidman | Lifehacker Australia is heading off to enjoy the Christmas celebrations. There’ll be updates from the US intermittently (did someone say workaholic?), but no local posts until Monday December 29 (well, unless something really exciting happens and we can’t help ourselves). Enjoy your festive season and remember to put your wrapping paper in the recycling bin. More »
Merry Christmas From Lifehacker
3:03PM Angus Kidman | Lifehacker Australia is heading off to enjoy the Christmas celebrations. There’ll be updates from the US intermittently (did someone say workaholic?), but no local posts until Monday December 29 (well, unless something really exciting happens and we can’t help ourselves). Enjoy your festive season and remember to put your wrapping paper in the recycling bin. More »
Design
1:30PM Angus Kidman | A useful option for escaping endless Santa-themed shows on TV: iTunes has just expanded its range of for-sale TV programming in Australia, adding a bunch of US shows under various Foxtel channel brandings, including Fox 8, Arena, Movie Extra, Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Television. Family Guy sounds like the pick of the bunch here, but it’s good to have the new options (although, as Nick over at Gizmodo points out, there’s no Simpsons as yet).
iTunes [via MacTalk via Gizmodo]
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iTunes Expands Local TV Show Range
1:30PM Angus Kidman | A useful option for escaping endless Santa-themed shows on TV: iTunes has just expanded its range of for-sale TV programming in Australia, adding a bunch of US shows under various Foxtel channel brandings, including Fox 8, Arena, Movie Extra, Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Television. Family Guy sounds like the pick of the bunch here, but it’s good to have the new options (although, as Nick over at Gizmodo points out, there’s no Simpsons as yet).
iTunes [via MacTalk via Gizmodo]
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Travel
12:00PM Angus Kidman | If you’re looking for some online distractions for the kids in the run-up to the big day, then check out Airservices Australia’s Santa-tracking site, which includes the warning issued to all pilots to watch out for rogue sleighs.
Santa 08 At Airservices Australia
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Track Santa With Airservices Australia
12:00PM Angus Kidman | If you’re looking for some online distractions for the kids in the run-up to the big day, then check out Airservices Australia’s Santa-tracking site, which includes the warning issued to all pilots to watch out for rogue sleighs.
Santa 08 At Airservices Australia
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10:31AM Angus Kidman | If you’re a fan of news-sharing site Digg and also regularly use Twitter, then the launch of a bunch of specialised Twitter accounts tracking various Digg categories is bound to be good news. Lifehacker readers are likely to be particularly keen on @digg_technews, which tracks hot technology stories. There’s a full list of the new accounts at the Twitter blog.
Digg Has Dug Into Twitter [Twitter Blog]
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Digg Launches New Twitter Accounts
10:31AM Angus Kidman | If you’re a fan of news-sharing site Digg and also regularly use Twitter, then the launch of a bunch of specialised Twitter accounts tracking various Digg categories is bound to be good news. Lifehacker readers are likely to be particularly keen on @digg_technews, which tracks hot technology stories. There’s a full list of the new accounts at the Twitter blog.
Digg Has Dug Into Twitter [Twitter Blog]
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Money
9:05AM Angus Kidman | Once the Christmas turkey and prawns bloat passes, chances are you’re going to be feeling lazy and fancy a bit of take-out. Share Vouchers is a completely single-function site — it shares details of online coupons you can use to get discounts on pizzas from Domino’s — but that could be useful information if you want to save a few bucks. Discount codes often show up on other sites such as OzBargain and Whirlpool. If you’ve got another favourite for getting cheaper meals, share it in the comments.
Share Vouchers [via OzBargain]
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Share Vouchers Helps You Score Cheap Pizzas
9:05AM Angus Kidman | Once the Christmas turkey and prawns bloat passes, chances are you’re going to be feeling lazy and fancy a bit of take-out. Share Vouchers is a completely single-function site — it shares details of online coupons you can use to get discounts on pizzas from Domino’s — but that could be useful information if you want to save a few bucks. Discount codes often show up on other sites such as OzBargain and Whirlpool. If you’ve got another favourite for getting cheaper meals, share it in the comments.
Share Vouchers [via OzBargain]
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ReadWriteWeb’s Top 100 Products of 2008
6:01AM Gina Trapani | One of our favourite tech blogs, ReadWriteWeb, has been rocking out with best-of-2008 lists all month, and today they list their mega-list of the top 100 products of 2008, a solid list packed with good stuff. More »
Communicate
Download Free Computer-Generated Christmas MP3s
5:33AM Gina Trapani | Load up your iTunes playlist with some holiday cheer but save a few bucks in the process with almost 20 classic holiday recordings that are available as a free download from the Garritan music community. The Garritan Community Christmas album includes tunes from Oh Holy Night to Auld Lang Syne. Even more interesting is how they were recorded: A community of musicians from all over the world met on the Garritan community forum and agreed to submit their own recordings of holiday music, to be freely distributed. Each of these orchestral recordings were made not with large live orchestras in vast recording studios at huge expense, but rather were created by a single person working on their own desktop or laptop computer. What they have in common is the use of Garritan libraries representing software musical instruments based on samples of real instruments. Preview the tunes on-site before you download, then grab the entire album (with art) to add to your collection for free. Garritan Christmas Music Player [via Pogue's Posts] More »
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Mac-Like Vista Christmas Desktop
5:00AM Gina Trapani | Reader Tom0630 has decked the hall that is his Windows Vista desktop with a merry Mac-like look. Here’s the rundown of what he’s got going on: More »
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