Australian Posts
Money
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Scams hitting Internet banking are pretty common (and quite easy to recognise), but online criminals will have a go at any potential source of income. The latest target? Self-managed superannuation funds. More »
Fraudsters Hitting Self-Managed Super Funds
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Scams hitting Internet banking are pretty common (and quite easy to recognise), but online criminals will have a go at any potential source of income. The latest target? Self-managed superannuation funds. More » 
Communicate
1:30PM Angus Kidman | If you want a particular phone model (or colour) that hasn’t been released in Australia, then buying it as a “grey market” import can seem like an appealing way to solve the problem. But as well as not getting any local warranty support, you might run into trouble when it comes to making 000 emergency calls. More »
Grey Market Phones Might Be A 000 Risk
1:30PM Angus Kidman | If you want a particular phone model (or colour) that hasn’t been released in Australia, then buying it as a “grey market” import can seem like an appealing way to solve the problem. But as well as not getting any local warranty support, you might run into trouble when it comes to making 000 emergency calls. More »
Work
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Having a sensible backup strategy is vitally important, but so is knowing how to restore your backup if things go wrong. Microsoft’s storage blog runs down how to make that happen in Windows 7. More »
Restoring From Your Windows 7 Backup
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Having a sensible backup strategy is vitally important, but so is knowing how to restore your backup if things go wrong. Microsoft’s storage blog runs down how to make that happen in Windows 7. More »
Organise
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Google Maps has already made one upgrade to its real estate search since introducing it in July, and now there’s another why-didn’t-they-do-that before? option: searching for property by adding the words “real estate” to a map search. More »
Google Real Estate Adds Obvious Search Option
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Google Maps has already made one upgrade to its real estate search since introducing it in July, and now there’s another why-didn’t-they-do-that before? option: searching for property by adding the words “real estate” to a map search. More »
Work
9:00AM Angus Kidman | If you want a no-brainer TV recording device, you’ve got two choices right now in Australia: the Foxtel iQ or the TiVo. Now Telstra is throwing its hat into the ring with the planned release of its own device, branded the T-Box. More »
Will Telstra’s T-Box Change The DVR Market?
9:00AM Angus Kidman | If you want a no-brainer TV recording device, you’ve got two choices right now in Australia: the Foxtel iQ or the TiVo. Now Telstra is throwing its hat into the ring with the planned release of its own device, branded the T-Box. More »
Communicate
4:30PM Angus Kidman | A perennial theme around Lifehacker in recent weeks has been the fact that TV networks are a bit clueless about the modern world. Turns out the cluelessness runs pretty deep. More »
Shock Horror! TV Network Using Digital Technology
4:30PM Angus Kidman | A perennial theme around Lifehacker in recent weeks has been the fact that TV networks are a bit clueless about the modern world. Turns out the cluelessness runs pretty deep. More »
Work
3:00PM Angus Kidman | There’s nothing we like better than a good mash-up (here’s a couple of random examples). But when it comes to services that integrate data from multiple locations and draw their own conclusions, it’s always best to apply a little healthy cynicism. More »
You Can’t Always Trust Mash-Up Data
3:00PM Angus Kidman | There’s nothing we like better than a good mash-up (here’s a couple of random examples). But when it comes to services that integrate data from multiple locations and draw their own conclusions, it’s always best to apply a little healthy cynicism. More »
Money
1:00PM Angus Kidman | The average growth in pay for a typical Aussie worker over the past year is under 3%. That makes careful financial planning essential, but there should be light at the end of the tunnel if you’re patient. More »
Why A 3% Pay Rise Isn’t All Bad News
1:00PM Angus Kidman | The average growth in pay for a typical Aussie worker over the past year is under 3%. That makes careful financial planning essential, but there should be light at the end of the tunnel if you’re patient. More »
Money
10:52AM Angus Kidman | Small but useful bit of news from the Coles Online Twitter feed: the supermarket is shrinking its delivery window from four hours to three without charging extra for the privilege. Given that online delivery often equates to “time poor”, that’s a handy change. (Coles also offers to-your-bench delivery.) [Coles]
Coles Shrinks Online Delivery Windows
10:52AM Angus Kidman | Small but useful bit of news from the Coles Online Twitter feed: the supermarket is shrinking its delivery window from four hours to three without charging extra for the privilege. Given that online delivery often equates to “time poor”, that’s a handy change. (Coles also offers to-your-bench delivery.) [Coles]
Work
9:00AM Angus Kidman | There’s still plenty of time to enter our contest for one of two free passes to the SME Technology Summit on December 1, or to take advantage of the discount entry offer for Lifehacker readers. See the original post for all the details.
Get Creative With Twitter For Your SME Tech Summit Pass
9:00AM Angus Kidman | There’s still plenty of time to enter our contest for one of two free passes to the SME Technology Summit on December 1, or to take advantage of the discount entry offer for Lifehacker readers. See the original post for all the details. 