Friday, March 5, 2010
Work
Latest Google Chrome Dev Release Crashing On Offline Gmail
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Reader tipsters saw it, this editor confirmed it, and Google even mentioned it in their blog post, at the very end: the latest release of their Chrome browser often crashes when loading Gmail with Offline enabled. More »
Money
4:00PM Angus Kidman | Cleaning out the family bookshelves and want to support a worthy cause? During February and March, Officeworks is setting up shelves in its stores where you can donate unwanted kids books, which will be used to help establish libraries in disadvantaged communities. More »
Donate Share-A-Book Titles At Officeworks
4:00PM Angus Kidman | Cleaning out the family bookshelves and want to support a worthy cause? During February and March, Officeworks is setting up shelves in its stores where you can donate unwanted kids books, which will be used to help establish libraries in disadvantaged communities. More »
Communicate
2:00PM Angus Kidman | If you want to extend your protest against mandatory ISP filtering and you live in Melbourne, there’s a protest event planned outside the State Library this Saturday between 12pm and 3pm. While the proposal has proved generally unpopular, making your presence felt certainly couldn’t hurt. [Facebook event page via Gizmodo]
Melbourne Internet Filtering Protest This Saturday
2:00PM Angus Kidman | If you want to extend your protest against mandatory ISP filtering and you live in Melbourne, there’s a protest event planned outside the State Library this Saturday between 12pm and 3pm. While the proposal has proved generally unpopular, making your presence felt certainly couldn’t hurt. [Facebook event page via Gizmodo]
Money
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Lifehacker reader Alix drew our attention to a double helping of iTunes discounts running at the moment. Woolworths is offering 20% off all cards between now and Sunday, while Big W will sell you a pair of $30 cards for $50 until March 10. The latter’s a less impressive saving, obviously, but you’ve got a bit longer to take advantage of it. Thanks Alix! [Big W]
iTunes Savings At Big W And Woolworths
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Lifehacker reader Alix drew our attention to a double helping of iTunes discounts running at the moment. Woolworths is offering 20% off all cards between now and Sunday, while Big W will sell you a pair of $30 cards for $50 until March 10. The latter’s a less impressive saving, obviously, but you’ve got a bit longer to take advantage of it. Thanks Alix! [Big W]
Work
Rapportive Replaces Gmail Ads With Contact Info, Is Very Cool
11:30AM Adam Pash | Firefox/Chrome: Sure it’s nice and all that we get Gmail for free, but those ads to the right of open messages aren’t really all that helpful. Free browser add-on Rapportive replaces Gmail ads with contact info about the sender. More »
Communicate
10:00AM Angus Kidman |
Back in January, we encouraged readers to take part in the annual broadband survey conducted by legendary broadband community Whirlpool. The full results (based on 23,683 responses) have now been published: here’s ten of the most notable findings about the state of broadband in Australia. More »
10 Key Results From The Whirlpool Broadband Survey
10:00AM Angus Kidman |
Back in January, we encouraged readers to take part in the annual broadband survey conducted by legendary broadband community Whirlpool. The full results (based on 23,683 responses) have now been published: here’s ten of the most notable findings about the state of broadband in Australia. More »
Work
Paper Rater Analyses And Improves Your Writing
10:00AM Lisa Hoover | If you like to write but lack confidence in your skills, Paper Rater is a a free, web-based service that analyses your writing and offers feedback on your grammar, spelling and more. More »
Communicate
Google Wave Adds Email Notifications
9:00AM Adam Pash | Google just turned on email notifications in Wave. That’s great news if you’ve gotten your hands on an invite but haven’t kept up with the going-ons inside — easy to do when you’re not in the habit of visiting the site. More »
Communicate
8:30AM Angus Kidman | Computers unwittingly infected with malware and chained together into botnets are a major source of spam and other annoyances. But should ISPs start blocking machines that have been roped into botnets? More »
Aussie ISPs May Block Infected PCs
8:30AM Angus Kidman | Computers unwittingly infected with malware and chained together into botnets are a major source of spam and other annoyances. But should ISPs start blocking machines that have been roped into botnets? More »
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