One day after explaining the psychology of restaurant menus, the New York Times opens our minds’ eyes to online retailers’ manipulation of colours, price points and time distortion to get us buying — and how we can avoid such trickery.
Want a better shot at getting a lost digital camera back? If your finder has any heart at all, a multi-frame photo message will give both motivation and instructions. Check out Andrew McDonald’s smirk-inducing series as an example.
Qantas is oh-so-familiar territory for me, but everything is a bit different when you’re in Tasmania. The Four Airlines challenge concludes as I head back to Sydney.
There’s a weird seating coincidence and an overheated boarding, but Tiger delivers the goods. The Four Airlines challenge continues from Adelaide to Hobart.
At Lifehacker, we’re big fans of hunting down discount holidays, but it always pays to exercise a little caution. The festive season is also fertile ground for scammers to prey on your desire for a bargain, the ACCC warns.
Note to Virgin Blue: I don’t need a wheelchair, but I would like a towel. The Four Airlines challenge continues.
There’s been a lot of talk about malicious software on jailbroken iPhones lately, but if you haven’t been paying close attention, tech site Network World has a breakdown of the worms running wild and how to eradicate them from your device.
iView for the PS3 has had a generally favourable reaction since it soft-launched over the weekend, but the blocky nature of the picture and a generally un-PS3 like interface have attracted some criticism. However, it looks like they’ll be fixed in the near future.
Lifehackers’s Four Airlines In One Day project kicks off with a trip from Melbourne to Sydney on Jetstar. The flight is timely, but quite a lot else isn’t.
