Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Fix
Grind Your Own Meat For Safe(r) Burgers
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | You might have seen, or heard about, a front-page New York Times story about ground beef, one that definitely raises a few health and safety questions about your standard burger. One solution then, is to grind your own beef. More »
Money
4:00PM Angus Kidman | The rise in official interest rates from the Reserve Bank might be enough to give some aspiring home buyers pause. But is buying a house such an essential element of modern Australian financial planning anyway? More »
Does Buying A House Make Sense?
4:00PM Angus Kidman | The rise in official interest rates from the Reserve Bank might be enough to give some aspiring home buyers pause. But is buying a house such an essential element of modern Australian financial planning anyway? More »
Organise
2:30PM Angus Kidman | Site forums are useful for asking and finding answers to specific problems, but the fact that the same query appears multiple times isn’t always evident. In its latest tweak to search results, Google is grouping together forum posts on similar topics from the same site. More »
Google Bundling Forum Posts In Search Results
2:30PM Angus Kidman | Site forums are useful for asking and finding answers to specific problems, but the fact that the same query appears multiple times isn’t always evident. In its latest tweak to search results, Google is grouping together forum posts on similar topics from the same site. More »
Money
12:45PM Angus Kidman | eBay dropping listing fees for sub-dollar auctions is pretty common, but today the site has a more unusual offer: no insertion fees for any auctions placed before 8pm. Might be useful if you’re wanting to sell a pricier item with less up-front risk.[eBay via OzBargain]
eBay Offering Zero Insertion Fees
12:45PM Angus Kidman | eBay dropping listing fees for sub-dollar auctions is pretty common, but today the site has a more unusual offer: no insertion fees for any auctions placed before 8pm. Might be useful if you’re wanting to sell a pricier item with less up-front risk.[eBay via OzBargain]
Communicate
11:30AM Angus Kidman | Telstra’s Next G is already the clear champion when it comes to 3G broadband coverage, so when 100 new communities get added to its footprint, it’s safe to assume they’re fairly out-of-the-way. More »
Next G Expands To Some Seriously Obscure Places
11:30AM Angus Kidman | Telstra’s Next G is already the clear champion when it comes to 3G broadband coverage, so when 100 new communities get added to its footprint, it’s safe to assume they’re fairly out-of-the-way. More »
Money
10:00AM Angus Kidman | Turns out those rules requiring advertisers to disclose every component of a price really have some teeth. Last week, the ACCC busted three travel agents for not fully publicising the total price of various deals. More »
Component Pricing Rules Being Enforced
10:00AM Angus Kidman | Turns out those rules requiring advertisers to disclose every component of a price really have some teeth. Last week, the ACCC busted three travel agents for not fully publicising the total price of various deals. More »
Design
PhotoFilmStrip Creates Ken Burn-Style Video From Images
9:00AM Adam Pash | Windows/Linux: Free, open-source application PhotoFilmStrip creates video from photographs quickly and easily, complete with effects, a soundtrack and smooth zoom in/out effects (commonly referred to as the Ken Burns effect). More »
Fix
8:30AM Angus Kidman | While I suspect most Lifehacker readers long ago abandoned Hotmail for Gmail or other alternatives, lots of us probably still have an ageing Hotmail account lying around used for Windows Live services or IM. So the news that up to 100,000 passwords for Hotmail accounts have been exposed should be a cue to change the password on that account. More »
Hotmail Phishing Attack Exposes Thousands Of Passwords
8:30AM Angus Kidman | While I suspect most Lifehacker readers long ago abandoned Hotmail for Gmail or other alternatives, lots of us probably still have an ageing Hotmail account lying around used for Windows Live services or IM. So the news that up to 100,000 passwords for Hotmail accounts have been exposed should be a cue to change the password on that account. More »
Fix
How Can I Fix My Disappearing Bookmarks Toolbar?
8:00AM Dustin Luck | Dear Lifehacker: I use Firefox and have my bookmarks toolbar on the same “line” as the back/forward buttons and Awesomebar to save space. However, my bookmarks always collapse into a drop-down list. How can I stop this from happening? Signed, Bookmarks Go Bye-bye More »
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