Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Fix
4:30PM Angus Kidman | Turns out there’s more than one way to organise your chickens with IKEA stuff. We showed you an option for a complete coop built from a bottle rack and bunk bed back in July, but for simplicity, this storage box-turned-nesting box is hard to beat. More »
DIY IKEA Chicken Nesting Box
4:30PM Angus Kidman | Turns out there’s more than one way to organise your chickens with IKEA stuff. We showed you an option for a complete coop built from a bottle rack and bunk bed back in July, but for simplicity, this storage box-turned-nesting box is hard to beat. More » 
Money
3:00PM Angus Kidman | For many young Australians, moving overseas to live and work is a key life experience. But just how do you budget to make it happen? More »
The Cost Of Moving Overseas
3:00PM Angus Kidman | For many young Australians, moving overseas to live and work is a key life experience. But just how do you budget to make it happen? More »
Communicate
1:00PM Angus Kidman | Shaping — lowering the speed of your Internet connection once you’ve exceeded your monthly download limits — is an annoying but seemingly permanent feature of the Australian communications landscape. Lifehacker 101 explains the issues surrounding shaping you need to consider before choosing your Internet service provider (ISP). More »
Internet Shaping For Beginners
1:00PM Angus Kidman | Shaping — lowering the speed of your Internet connection once you’ve exceeded your monthly download limits — is an annoying but seemingly permanent feature of the Australian communications landscape. Lifehacker 101 explains the issues surrounding shaping you need to consider before choosing your Internet service provider (ISP). More »
Communicate
11:00AM Angus Kidman | It might not be news to you that Australia is switching to digital television, but it’s something of a disgrace that community TV wasn’t allocated any digital spectrum when the plans were first announced back in 2001. Fortunately, that’s been fixed this week. More »
Community TV Gets Digital TV Spectrum Allocation
11:00AM Angus Kidman | It might not be news to you that Australia is switching to digital television, but it’s something of a disgrace that community TV wasn’t allocated any digital spectrum when the plans were first announced back in 2001. Fortunately, that’s been fixed this week. More »
Work
OmniDiskSweeper Helps You Easily Reclaim Disk Space
10:00AM Whitson Gordon | Mac only: We’ve all experienced full hard drives, but figuring out where all your hard drive space has gone is never easy. Freeware program OmniDiskSweeper easily shows you which files and folders are taking up space so you can free it up. More »
Fix
9:00AM Angus Kidman | A common bit of medical lore says that taking a daily aspirin is a useful way of reducing heart attack risk for the over-40s. However, a new study suggests that advice only makes sense if you already have a history of heart problems. More »
Daily Aspirin Only Helps If You Have Bad Heart History
9:00AM Angus Kidman | A common bit of medical lore says that taking a daily aspirin is a useful way of reducing heart attack risk for the over-40s. However, a new study suggests that advice only makes sense if you already have a history of heart problems. More »
Fix
Open A Bottle Of Wine With Your Shoe
9:00AM Adam Pash | Got a bottle of wine on hand but no corkscrew to get it open? You can argue all you want about whether or not the guy in this video really needs more wine, but you can’t argue with the results. More »
Work
Create An Awesome Command Line Calculator
8:00AM The How-To Geek | When you spend as much time at the terminal as I do, having a calculator at your fingertips can be a really useful feature, and the Command-Line Fu website tells us how to create one easily. More »
Work
His, Hers And The Media Centre: A Compact Home Office
7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Today’s featured office manages to pack in a lot of functionality into a rather small room. Check out how two workstations, a media centre and storage space all squeezed into a 3m x 3.7m room. More »
Communicate
