Last Week’s 10 Biggest Posts

You wanted: Amazon Australia questions, Couch Potato To Wonder Woman Month Three, the best Samsung Galaxy S8 plan. Kick off your Monday by checking out the ten most popular posts from last week.

1. 6 Million Australians Are About To Get A Rude Shock When They Find Out The NBN Is Compulsory
   A survey has found more than one in three Australians have no plans to switch to the NBN or don’t actually know what it is, apparently unaware that once the new network arrives their existing telephone and internet connections will be switched off.
2. Woolworths Has A Cracker Of A Samsung Galaxy S8 Deal
   We’ve already looked at the best Samsung Galaxy S8 plans from each Australian telco. Now, Woolies has pulled a rabbit out of its hat with a new plan boasting 12GB of data for $92 a month. If you require more than 10GB of data, this is the best deal we’ve seen from any telco so far. Read on for the details.
3. JB Hi-Fi Just Received The Mother Lode Of Nintendo Mini NES Consoles
   Christmas 2016 will forever be remembered as the year people went legit bananas for a retro NES console. The thing was a piece of plastic that only played 30 games from the 8-bit era – but nostalgia is a powerful thing. So powerful, that demand completely eclipsed supply, leading to crashed websites, exhausted stock and thousands of empty-handed customers.
4. Amazon Shopping In Australia: Our Six Burning Questions
   It is now certain that Amazon will be setting up operations in Australia. According to a company insider, the shopping giant will be opening the doors to their local presence in late 2018. But there’s still much we don’t know. Here are six burning questions that Amazon needs to answer.
5. The Best Tech And Game Deals From Big W’s Massive Ebay Sale
   Big W’s eBay store is having a big clearance sale across all categories; including televisions, cameras, video games, consoles, tablets, home appliances, smartphones and Lego. To save you the trouble of sifting through hundreds of products spread across multiple pages, we’ve assembled the cream of the crop right here.
6. How To Pack On Muscle And Lose Fat With Minimal Effort
   Like most guys of a certain vintage, I have mixed feelings about my body. Staying lean and not surrendering to the siren’s call of the dreaded ‘Dadbod’ is a key concern. But then so is building and maintaining enough muscle so that I can keep up with the young bucks on the soccer field or in the gym.
7. Why I’m Giving Up On The iPad Pro
   Over the last few months, I’ve been using a 12.9-inch iPad Pro as my main mobile computer. Although I have Mac and Windows desktops at the two “fixed” locations i work from, I’ve been using the larger iPad Pro with a Smart Keyboard as my traveller. And, for the most part, it has worked really well. But a couple of limitations have really started to get to me recently.
8. Couch Potato To Wonder Woman: Month Three
   I was once a couch potato. Then I got off the couch, changed my lifestyle and – oh wait, what’s that? Just the sound of life strapping me in for basically an entire month of the most ridiculous rollercoaster ride ever.
9. Why Your Passport Is One Of Four Colours
   My passport is navy blue. My family members’ passports from other countries are a deep forest green, maroon or navy blue also. Thinking about it now, I don’t think I’ve ever seen, say, a hot pink passport. It turns out there’s a good reason for that, but it isn’t what you think.
10. The Countries That Are Most Dangerous For Tourists
    The world can be a dangerous place, especially for careless travellers. Though the US State Department focuses on alerting American tourists of the risks, its warnings can also provide Australians with additional information when deciding upon a holiday destination. However, those warnings don’t always paint a clear picture. Turns out, the countries issued the most travel warnings aren’t always the most dangerous.