I knew that the Northern Territory was filled with interesting Outback dangers: crocodiles, extreme heat, wallet-nipping Next G charges. But I didn’t realise my health was in the hands of flocks of sentinel chickens.
I headed to Kuranda today figuring that a relatively isolated rainforest community of only 650-odd people would stretch the patience of any self-respecting mobile broadband network. Instead, I found better service than you can get in Cairns.
My recent roundup of the many and varied trials of 3G broadband software established pretty clearly that every piece of client software I’ve tried has major issues, but didn’t cover one crucial player in the market: Optus.
NOTE: This guide has been superseded. Click here for the most recent version. There’s something really stupid about paying $80 for a flight and then paying another $80 for a taxi when you land. Lifehacker rounds up the public transport options from Australia’s capital city airports.
Even obsessive travellers get downtime. Having spent the weekend near Coffs Harbour, helping my mother out with the odd domestic task, there’s not terribly much to report on the travel learnings front, apart from the obvious: having access to a washing machine and some sunshine makes life much easier.
You have to love it when a plan comes together. Having had the undignified experience of being forced to part with my beloved blue bag on the flight from Devonport, I was determined to avoid the same fate when I next boarded a DHC-8 with skimpy luggage limits.
I’ve been in Sydney this week for CEBIT and associated press events, which means I’ve been running into a lot of my fellow writers. And wherever I go, the first question is nearly always the same: “Where’s the bag?” As far as the Hand Luggage Only project goes, it seems my trusty blue carry-on case is of more interest than anything else.
Day 12 of Hand Luggage Only saw me back in Sydney for the CEBIT IT conference/geekfest. But while that’s less of a challenge in geographic or airport terms, it did give me a chance to test one hitherto-neglected feature of my recent notebook purchase: the battery life.
After a flood of entries, the judging is over, and three lucky Lifehacker readers will each receive an iTunes card purchased directly, and in a single day, from one of the three Apple Stores that were open for business last Thursday. Read on to find out who won — and why their suggestions for five essential iTunes purchases stood out.
I’d be lost during the Hand Luggage Only project without 3G broadband, but life would still go much more smoothly if the people writing the driver software actually had a clue how to write a decent product.
