Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Fix
4:00PM Angus Kidman | Ikea’s $19.99 Lack coffee table is an iconic site in budget-minded households everywhere. If your Lack is starting to look a bit worn for the lounge room (like the two in my garage), it converts with surprising ease into a drafting table. More »
Turn That Old IKEA Lack Into A Drafting Table
4:00PM Angus Kidman | Ikea’s $19.99 Lack coffee table is an iconic site in budget-minded households everywhere. If your Lack is starting to look a bit worn for the lounge room (like the two in my garage), it converts with surprising ease into a drafting table. More » 
Money
2:30PM Angus Kidman | Optus subsidiary Boost Mobile is offering 5-cent texts to any network as part of a prepaid plan. That offer might be appealing to teenagers, but does it really make financial sense? More »
Are 5-Cent Texts The Best Deal?
2:30PM Angus Kidman | Optus subsidiary Boost Mobile is offering 5-cent texts to any network as part of a prepaid plan. That offer might be appealing to teenagers, but does it really make financial sense? More »
Work
1:00PM Angus Kidman | Reams of information shooting at us via searches, social networks and email often make it hard to tell whether information is accurate. Expat Aussie writer and intellectual Clive James offers a thought-provoking summary on BBC News on why scepticism remains a useful value on nearly every occasion. More »
Clive James On The Value Of Scepticism
1:00PM Angus Kidman | Reams of information shooting at us via searches, social networks and email often make it hard to tell whether information is accurate. Expat Aussie writer and intellectual Clive James offers a thought-provoking summary on BBC News on why scepticism remains a useful value on nearly every occasion. More »
Communicate
11:30AM Angus Kidman | The National Broadband Network is progressing slowly, but individual ISPs are still working to get higher-speed connections to our homes. Earlier this year, Internode started offering a 25MBps connection on selected new housing estates, and now iiNet has a similar deal going. More »
iiNet Starts Offering Fibre-To-The-Home On New Estate
11:30AM Angus Kidman | The National Broadband Network is progressing slowly, but individual ISPs are still working to get higher-speed connections to our homes. Earlier this year, Internode started offering a 25MBps connection on selected new housing estates, and now iiNet has a similar deal going. More »
Work
10:00AM Angus Kidman | If the details of Ubuntu 9.10 have you salivating to give it a whirl but you don’t fancy chewing up your download limit, don’t forget that Ubuntu does offer an option to get a CD shipped for free. More »
Get A Free Ubuntu 9.10 CD Through The Post
10:00AM Angus Kidman | If the details of Ubuntu 9.10 have you salivating to give it a whirl but you don’t fancy chewing up your download limit, don’t forget that Ubuntu does offer an option to get a CD shipped for free. More »
Work
Better Flickr 0.4.1 Now Available
9:59AM Gina Trapani | It took over a month (!), but Mozilla Add-ons has finally approved a long-delayed update to the Better Flickr Firefox extension. You can see more about what changed here; my favourite addition to this version is the Flic.kr Short URL script, which displays a short, Twitter-friendly URL on all Flickr photos for easy tweeting. (Forget Twitpic and those other photo-sharing services; Flickr is still where it’s at.) Download version 0.4.1 of Better Flickr at Mozilla Add-ons.
Work
Get Quicksilver Working In Snow Leopard
9:00AM Adam Pash | Quicksilver is easily one of our favourite tools ever, but since its future isn’t all that bright, die-hard users cross our fingers every time OS X updates. In Snow Leopard, Quicksilver stopped working for many users; here’s how to fix it. More »
Work
VistaSwitcher Updates, Adds Default Application-Specific Window-Switching Shortcut
9:00AM Adam Pash | Previously mentioned Alt+Tab replacement VistaSwitcher is one of the coolest new utilities we’ve featured in a while, and today it’s updated with out-of-the-box support for application-specific Alt+` window switching. More » Advertisement
Nokia 6710 Navigator: Travellers’ Best Friend
Cumbersome, difficult-to-fold, easy-to-crease maps are the bane of any traveller’s existence. But, that may not be the case for much longer, with the release of Nokia’s 6710 Navigator. More »
Communicate
8:30AM Angus Kidman | Telstra has upgraded its prepaid 3G broadband offer, with a new USB modem going on sale for $169 and a Christmas special offer of 1GB of free data. More »
Telstra Turbo Broadband Goes Prepaid
8:30AM Angus Kidman | Telstra has upgraded its prepaid 3G broadband offer, with a new USB modem going on sale for $169 and a Christmas special offer of 1GB of free data. More » 