Friday, November 28, 2008
Organise
4:30PM Angus Kidman | When you’re not busy overloading on Christmas shopping and chilling out, spend some quality time with your PC and try out these tips from the past week:
Make yourself an iPhone dock out of cardboard (or jailbreak your new 2.2 firmware if you don’t feel like messing with cardboard)
Annoyed by Google’s new SearchWiki buttons? Get rid of them!
Tweak your system and pretend you’re running Windows 7
Check out some web sites to help sort the pre-Christmas finances
Curl up and read a free ebook
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Five Things To Do This Weekend
4:30PM Angus Kidman | When you’re not busy overloading on Christmas shopping and chilling out, spend some quality time with your PC and try out these tips from the past week:
Make yourself an iPhone dock out of cardboard (or jailbreak your new 2.2 firmware if you don’t feel like messing with cardboard)
Annoyed by Google’s new SearchWiki buttons? Get rid of them!
Tweak your system and pretend you’re running Windows 7
Check out some web sites to help sort the pre-Christmas finances
Curl up and read a free ebook
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Fix
Run Quake 3 On Your Nokia Phone
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Decoder details how you can go about installing classing first-person shooter Quake 3 Arena on your Nokia phone (supported models include the N82, the E80 and 8Gb versions of the N95). The installation process sounds fiddly, and the lack of sufficient input mechanisms on the phones themselves means you need to use a Bluetooth keyboard to actually play, but the post still sums it up pretty well: “Who would have thought that a game that I shelled out hundreds of dollars for a graphics card to run it on back in the day, would be ported to a mobile phone with full multiplayer, keyboard and mouse support?” Play Quake 3 Arena on Nokia N95 8GB, N82 & E90 [Decoder] More »
Communicate
1:30PM Angus Kidman | Concerned about the proposal to impose clean feed Internet on all Australians? Activist group GetUp has launched a ‘Save The Net’ campaign to help citizens protest against the plan, including an email petition and a useful factsheet on why the plan is so deeply, deeply flawed. More »
GetUp Launches Campaign Against Clean Feed
1:30PM Angus Kidman | Concerned about the proposal to impose clean feed Internet on all Australians? Activist group GetUp has launched a ‘Save The Net’ campaign to help citizens protest against the plan, including an email petition and a useful factsheet on why the plan is so deeply, deeply flawed. More »
Organise
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Danny Gorog at APC has picked out ten of the best Australian-developed applications for iPhone owners. There’s a useful emphasis on local information, with applications for travel information, weather and postcodes. We’d have thought there could have been a shout-out for perennial favourite Remember The Milk, but regardless there’s lots of stuff here you’ll want to be adding to your iPhone.
Ten apps for Aussie iPhone users [APC]
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Best iPhone Apps For Australians
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Danny Gorog at APC has picked out ten of the best Australian-developed applications for iPhone owners. There’s a useful emphasis on local information, with applications for travel information, weather and postcodes. We’d have thought there could have been a shout-out for perennial favourite Remember The Milk, but regardless there’s lots of stuff here you’ll want to be adding to your iPhone.
Ten apps for Aussie iPhone users [APC]
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Fix
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Round speaker enclosures look great but often cost a fortune. Hacker Roberto got the same effect for much less money by taking a set of IKEA Blanda Matt bowls and gluing them together to build the enclosure — a trick you could replicate with any reasonably constructed salad bowl. For another take on DIY speakers, check out how to make speakers from paper cups and earbuds.
HiFi Wigwam [via IKEA Hacker]
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DIY IKEA Salad Bowl Speaker Enclosures
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Round speaker enclosures look great but often cost a fortune. Hacker Roberto got the same effect for much less money by taking a set of IKEA Blanda Matt bowls and gluing them together to build the enclosure — a trick you could replicate with any reasonably constructed salad bowl. For another take on DIY speakers, check out how to make speakers from paper cups and earbuds.
HiFi Wigwam [via IKEA Hacker]
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Money
7:49AM Angus Kidman | Apple’s Black Friday sale predictably offers the biggest discounts on the most expensive items: $161 off a 13-inch MacBook. The entertainment options has some OK but not astonishing deals ($11 off the iPod Nano, $21 off the iPod Classic, iPod Touch or iPod TV), though there’s some bigger savings on speakers. Use the spare cash to buy your annoying cousin an iTunes voucher.
Apple Store AU
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What’s Cheap In The Apple Store Sale
7:49AM Angus Kidman | Apple’s Black Friday sale predictably offers the biggest discounts on the most expensive items: $161 off a 13-inch MacBook. The entertainment options has some OK but not astonishing deals ($11 off the iPod Nano, $21 off the iPod Classic, iPod Touch or iPod TV), though there’s some bigger savings on speakers. Use the spare cash to buy your annoying cousin an iTunes voucher.
Apple Store AU
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