Fancy yourself as a TV drama creator (rather than, say, a novelist)? MTV’s ONE80PROJECT will offer the winner the chance to produce a one-hour drama with a budget of $180,000. Entry is open until January 14, and you need to create a 180 second pilot; hit the site for more details. [ONE80PROJECT]
A standard piece of advice for writers is: write what you know. When you’ve only got a month to write a novel, that truism has a corollary: use everything that happens to you.
How can you combine working as a software product manager, university lecturer and author and not go completely insane? Lifehacker sat down with Doug Winnie, Adobe’s product manager for Adobe Flash Catalyst, Flash Platform Workflow and WorkflowLab, at the recent MAX conference in Los Angeles to find out how he organises his life and how he manages the process of writing a book.
iiNet is offering free calls to a bunch of mental health and crisis support services — including Beyond Blue, Crisis Care, Kids Helpline, Lifeline, Mensline Australia, the Samaritans, SANE Helpline and Suicide Callback Service — for customers using its telephone products. That’s a simple but great idea we’d like to see other VOIP providers and telcos emulate.
It seemed like good news when Australian Android developers were finally allowed to sell apps through the Android Market last month. However, it turns out that there’s a nasty twist in the tale: Google hasn’t set up any facilities to let developers link their bank accounts to the payment system, meaning they can’t access any revenue from their creations.
If you’re used to working closely with a partner, it’s easy to forget how complexity in working relationships grows when the size of your group grows. Next time it seems like a co-worker just isn’t getting it, consider this piece of research.
Qantas’ dramatic emergency landing of QF32 in Singapore, and subsequent decision to halt all its A380 flights while it investigates the cause, has dominated news headlines worldwide. The investigation could potentially take months, so how will it impact travellers?
We all know solid-state drives take a bit of care, so if you want to keep track of how your SSD is faring health-wise, free utility SSDLife will let you know.
