I’ve reported over at APC about how eBay is being asked to help the Australian Taxation Office in identifying high-volume sellers who aren’t declaring their income. While most people are unlikely to fall into that category, the rules applying to tax and eBay can be a bit confusing. Here’s our quick guide to what you need to consider.
Kick off your Lifehacker Monday by making sure you didn’t miss any of the biggest posts from last week:
Finding The Best 3G Mobile Broadband Deal“Mobile broadband services — using 3G spectrum to deliver the Internet to your PC or notebook — are getting more popular, with almost a million Australians already using them. Whether you want to use them at home, in a hotel room or even in a train, there’s a wide range of plans to choose from, and recent price changes from Optus, Telstra, 3 and Vodafone have further muddied the waters.” Make A Steady Background Income From Selling Stock Work“Freelancer Collis Ta’eed makes about $US200 each month from work he mostly did years ago and hasn’t touched.” Norton User Account Control Makes UAC Less Annoying (Windows Vista)“Free utility Norton User Account Control replaces Vista’s default UAC with a more user-friendly and more secure UAC.” Telstra Automates Big Pond Support Line“Telstra is about to shift most of its BigPond support centre to the Philippines, and is adding a interactive voice recognition (IVR) troubleshooting system you have to navigate before reaching a real person.” New MacBooks Stronger, Drop Mouse Buttons, Add Multi-Touch“Apple’s MacBook event has just come to an end, leaving Apple enthusiasts with a handful of–surprise!–new MacBooks.” Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 Now Available For Download, First Look (All platforms)“Mozilla has just pushed out Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 to their servers, marking the first major step toward the official 3.1 release.” List Your Car For Sale Free At CARbarter“If you need to sell your car in a hurry and don’t want to spend a fortune on advertising, a free listing at CARbarter might be just the ticket.” Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta Portable Edition Released (Windows)“Give the new Firefox 3.1 beta a test drive without compromising your stable 3.0 installation with the portable version.” Kitchen Essentials You Need (And Don’t)“Food writers at the L.A. Times deflate the hype on popular kitchen items and recommend the stuff you really do need.” TubeMaster Plus Grabs Video Or Audio From Nearly Any Site (Windows)“Free streaming media capture tool TubeMaster is a great all-in-one solution for grabbing and converting audio and video from nearly any web site that can stream it to you.” Foxmarks Updates, Adds Password Syncing (Firefox)“Popular bookmark-syncing Firefox extension Foxmarks has expanded to support password syncing between your browsers.” TaskExplorer Is Attractive, Powerful Task Manager (Windows)“Free application MKN TaskExplorer is a Windows Task Manager replacement packed with options, system information, and pretty graphs.”Designer Vijay (of two-faced Mac-like Windows desktop fame) jailbroke his iPhone and loaded it up with apps. The five-screen setup (with custom wallpaper) was so impressive, we had to show it off here. Vijay says he jailbroke the iPhone 2.1 software using QuickPwn, and runs down his favourite apps:
Having trouble keeping your cat off the kitchen counter or away from your plants? You’ve really just got two options: You can either accept the fact that your cat’s going to get up there because you can’t watch her all the time, or you could build a motion-sensing security-camera booby trap that scares the crap out of your cat whenever she jumps up there. Most of us would settle with the former option, but an inventive fellow named Brian decided that option two was the way he’d rather go, and the result is the Blender Defender. When triggered, Blender Defender switches on a blender, flashes a strobe, and terrifies cats. While you may never get around to building your own Blender Defender, it is nice to see someone using previously mentioned tools like ffmpeg, X10 automation, and a dash of Perl to make something interesting. Be sure to click through to see the poor cat suffer the wrath of the Blender Defender. Blender Defender [via Make]
Whether you’ve been sent a simple ZIP archive, you need to create and share your own compressed files, or you’re staring down the barrel of some obscure archive format you’ve never seen before, having the right file compression application in your corner is a must. Read on for a closer look at the five best file compression tools.
According to MSN Health, the key to keeping the right rhythm while you’re performing CPR is humming the Bee Gees classic, Stayin’ Alive. Should be easy enough to remember. Thanks Brad! Photo by skyfaller.
