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]
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.
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]
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]
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
Linux.conf.au in Hobart is less than two months away, so it’s good news that the conference wiki is now up and running. If Hobart locals could add information on dining, entertainment and public transport, offshore visitors like me would really appreciate it! Linux.conf.au Wiki
In troubled economic times, being organised with your finances is more crucial than ever — and there’s plenty of sites that can lend a helping hand. Here’s some Lifehacker favourites worth considering.
Mac OS X only: If you’ve been waiting patiently for the popular BitTorrent application, uTorrent, to find its way to your Mac, your wait is finally over: uTorrent for the Mac is officially available. We’ve been waiting for the Mac release for a while now, and leaks of the beta had already made their rounds on BitTorrent sites (how apropos), but the official release (Intel Macs only at the moment) of the most popular BitTorrent client is finally here. The download is still in beta, and the developers acknowledge that it “may contain serious bugs,” but it still looks and feels great.
A brief addendum to my recent list of things that should be fixed in the next Outlook: the error message above. While this appears to suggest that there’s no way of removing a buggy Outlook add-in short of hacking the registry, the actual solution is far simpler: run Outlook as Administrator and the message disappears. How hard would it be to display ‘You need Administrator privileges to change this setting’ instead? (OK, I know, it would remind everyone that being logged in as administrator is actually meaningless under Vista, but that would still be preferable. And I’ve now remembered the same message also appears elsewhere in Office, so it’s ripe for removal.)
Trying to keep track of what’s being said about you, your company or your favourite band on Twitter? TwiTip has a useful rundown on how to use Tweetbeep, an automatic notification service for Twitter references (and links to your domain), to keep track of the whispers. For my money, hourly alerts would probably be a bit risky, especially if you pick a dangerously broad term like ‘Google’.
Tweetbeep for Beginners: Get Custom Twitter Alerts in Your Email [TwiTip]
