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ABS Stats Updates Population Data, Adds iPhone 5 Support

iOS: The Australian Bureau of Statistics has updated its iOS ABS Stats app, adding more recent population data and support for the larger-screened iPhone 5. It’s a handy way to quickly access key statistics; we hope an Android version emerges eventually. [ABS Stats]

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Ask LH: Should I Change ISP When I Move House?

Dear Lifehacker, I’m moving house in a few months: do I need to get a new Internet plan or can I continue using my current one? Is there anything I should know about NBN in my area? Thanks, Moving Connection

Security

Don’t Use Hopelessly Vague Security Questions

Password reset questions may seem like a necessary evil if you’re building any kind of system which requires users to log in. However, the process becomes utterly pointless if you make the questions so vague as to be too hard to remember.

Productivity

Amazon App Store Is Live For Australia

As promised last month, Amazon has finally launched its App Store in Australia. What does that mean for you? An additional source of discounted Android apps, including a daily free app. (Today it’s Fruit Ninja; not too many points for originality there.)

Cloud

Azure Adding Data Centres In China, Japan

We know that Australia will get an Azure data centre at some point next year. That’s not the only expansion happening. Japan will also get a pair of data centres around the same time, and China is getting in even earlier, with trials for its two new centres beginning in June.

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ATO: Email Tax Scams Have Tripled In A Year

In the whole of 2012, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) received 26,000 reports of scam emails related to tax. In the first quarter of this year, the number was 11,000 — three times as many as this time last year.

Deployment

Use LinkedIn To Plan Enterprise Tech Rollouts

The most obvious application for LinkedIn is for hunting down new jobs or finding out what your old boss is up to, but it does have other possibilities. One apparent emerging trend: using LinkedIn to research whether new enterprise technology is actually reliable.

Deployment

Why I Kept Checking Work Email On Holidays

I recently enjoyed a week off work. Popular advice suggests that on such occasions you should set an appropriate out-of-office message, ignore your email and completely disconnect from work concerns. But that’s not what I did. Every morning I took time to go through my email (and go through my RSS feeds). This is why.

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The Lonely Island Explains Semicolon Usage

Mind Your Language exists to offer narky advice on accurate language usage, but we’re more than happy to let others do the work. This new song from legendary comedy musicians The Lonely Island (featuring Solange) offers a reminder in humorous form on the correct use of the semicolon.

Deployment

Windows 8 Users Don’t Run Windows 8 Apps

Windows 8 apps are radically different in design and approach to their Windows predecessors, but Windows 8 can also run older apps. New usage figures suggest that most people running Windows 8 are taking full advantage of that, with more than half of them rarely running Windows 8-specific apps.

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