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Avoid speed cameras with Speedwarnings
via Lifehacker Australia by (author unknown) on June 23, 2008
... socially questionable optionof fuel price updates for cheap service stations in Mebourne, thoughat 55 cents a message you'd want to be getting a big discount to makethe subscription worthwhile. Speedwarnings currently covers Victoriaonly. If your GPS supports it, another alternative for general roadinformation (including traffic levels and unexpected accidents) isthe SUNA Traffic Channel.
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See the best short films at Tropfest this weekend
via Lifehacker Australia by (author unknown) on February 14, 2008
If you're looking for something free and fun to do this weekend, look no further than the 16th annual Tropfest short film festival, which is happening on Sunday night.Tropfest is happening in all our capital cities barring Darwin, and some regional areas too - so check the site for screening details for your area. You can get more information on the Tropfest near you at their website - be...
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YouTube turns 3, still hasn't sucked up all the world's time or bandwidth
via Lifehacker Australia by (author unknown) on February 14, 2008
YouTube has become such a ubiquitous part of the internet it's hard to believe that it's three years old today. Happy birthday you big timewasting sucker of bandwidth. (Whatever did we do for procrastination fodder in the days pre-YouTube?).Oh, and especially thanks for Project Awesomesocks, my favourite piece of fan-created video awesomeness ever, which mashes up Firefly/Serenity and the...
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Manage your mobile phone contacts and SMS online with Bloove
via Lifehacker Australia by (author unknown) on February 14, 2008
Bloove is an online mobile phone management application which supports newer Nokia and Sony Ericsson Symbian and J2ME phones (full list here). The app lets you use your web browser to edit address book contacts, speed dial settings, messages and logs - and even send SMS and initiate calls. It's aiming to be simpler to use than the management software which comes with your phone, and at first...
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Tips and tricks for using the Melbourne public transport system
via Lifehacker Australia by (author unknown) on February 23, 2008
... you validate a 10x2 hour ticket twice in the same day it lasts until 3amthe following day - effectively it becomes a daily ticket. This makes the 10 x 2 ticket better value than buying the similarly priced 5 x daily tickets.*If you have a weekly or monthly ticket that is _just_ zone 1 or 2, on a weekend it will be both - great value if you're travelling across town to the footie on the we...
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Keep websites from hijacking your Firefox browser preferences
via Lifehacker Australia by (author unknown) on February 25, 2008
Dan Warne writes he's found a solution to the annoying tendency some websites (especially bank sites) have of forcing open 'naked' windows stripped of your preferences. For example bank websites often pop up small and unresizable windows without your toolbars on them.He points to a solution at MozillaZine, which explains how to prevent websites from disabling new window features. 1....
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Recover Lost Wi-Fi Passwords with WirelessKeyView
via Lifehacker Australia by (author unknown) on March 11, 2008
Windows only: Freeware application WirelessKeyView recovers the wireless network keys saved to your computer by the Windows Wireless Zero Configuration service of XP or the WLAN AutoConfig service in Vista. As with any password-finding tool, this can be put to use both for the powers of good or evil, but we trust you'll stick to good—say when you're doing tech support on your...
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Quickly Run a Few Numbers with Calq
via Lifehacker Australia by (author unknown) on March 18, 2008
Windows/Mac only: Freeware system tray application Calq adds an on-demand calculator to your computer. Once installed, you can pull up Calq at any time through a quick keyboard shortcut, run your calculation, then hide it just as easily. The simple, one-dimensional Calq is freeware, Windows and Mac OS X only. Since this little app obviously retreads territory that's already available in...
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The Quick DIY Stud Finder
via Lifehacker Australia by (author unknown) on March 19, 2008
The video above details how to quickly throw together your own DIY stud finder on the cheap with nothing but a magnet and string. In essence, you're just using the magnet to find nails in the wall, which would indicate there's a stud there. The narrator seems a little confused about the purpose of the stud finder (he appears to suggest you don't want to drive nails into the stud),...
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Avoid These 8 Worst Foods in America
via Lifehacker Australia by (author unknown) on March 19, 2008
The New York Times reviews a book called Eat This, Not That!, a nutrition guide full of images of foods you shouldn't eat and their healthier substitutes. The book also has a section highlighting 20 of the country's worst foods, and the article republishes eight of them, categorised with names like "worst fast food meal" and "worst drink". The "winners"?Worst Fast Food Meal:...
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