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Clean up your Keyboard

Do you eat at or around your computer? If so your computer keyboard is probably full of all sorts of muck and will be due for a good clean out. For starters, turn your computer off, unplug the keyboard and turn it unside down giving it a gentle tap…you may be surprised to see exactly how much dust, crumbs, hair[Read More…]

The Mobile Phone Celebrates 30 years in Australia

In just 3 decades the humble mobile phone has come a long way… Coverage – in August 1981 the mobile network was limited to greater Melbourne (the service launched in Sydney in December 1981, Brisbane in 1983 and reached all Australian capital cities by 1985) – and today the Telstra mobile network covers 2.1 million square kilometers and reaches more[Read More…]

Nintendo 3DS Price Drop

When Nintendo launched the 3DS earlier this year, plenty of keen gamers forked out $350 a piece to be the first to own a 3D portable system that doesn’t require special 3D eyewear. If that was a little on the pricy side for you at the time, the good news is that from this Thursday the suggested retail price on[Read More…]

iiNet launches BoB2

The idea is simple enough. Create a ‘box’ that integrates Internet and phone services into one package and which also goes beyond what you might expect to find in the average ADSL broadband modem. The good news is (for those who don’t have the attention span to keep reading) iiNet has definitely done their homework and come up with a[Read More…]

Editing Video with Final Cut Pro x

When comes to video editing for Mac, for many home users users the low budget iMovie program may prove sufficient, but it doesn’t cost much more to move up to a professional set of video editing tools. In the latest version of Final Cut Pro, the traditional video layout has been replaced by a new magnetic trackless timeline, which simply[Read More…]