What are the best iPhone plans in Australia? | NEWS.com.au

With all the fuss of the Iphone launch behind us we can now have a look at the plans available on the market.
One of the most asked questions however is how can you get an unlocked Iphone in Australia?
The only answer still is by buying an Optus pre paid plan and use the options available to free yourself from the plan. Then you will be free to take advantage of the plans mentioned in the link below.
What are the best iPhone plans in Australia? | NEWS.com.au

As we find more info on Iphone plans in Australia we will mention them here.

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Phoenix Lander finds water on Mars – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Water on Mars, this is great news. There could be humans living on Mars in the next 100 years.
The Phoenix
lander has extended its mission to now look for evidence of life on Mars.

Phoenix Lander finds water on Mars – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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The New Flock Browser IS Here

The Flock browser is hybrid version based on the Firefox engine with a focus on media and online social networking.
If you have a Myspace, blog or even just a heap of photos flock can make browsing and managing them easy and a lot of fun.
Have a look at the new Flock today.

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New additions to the Internet Frontier Blog.

Inspired by the reader base and part of tuning the blog into something that will be active and useful has resulted in two new categories called about the house and Family friends.

Posts to the blog are periodical and now they will have more of a family flavour. A bit less dork and a little more talk.

Stay tuned for the onslaught of words.

Peter Brock Died Today

In a tragic accident Peter Brock was killed in a rally accident this afternoon. Peter Brock was an Australian icon in motor sport and was probably responsible for the sales of more Holden (and Ford) cars in Australia than any one person.

Australia is mourning the loss of it’s second high profile personality in a few days after the death of Steve Irwin off the coast of Queensland 2 days ago.

After growing up watching Peter Brock in many motor sports events and his mastery of the Bathurst Race at Mount Panorama in NSW I was moved into shock at the news of his death. Motorists in Melbourne were encouraged to drive with headlights on this afternoon as a mark of respect and many drivers opting to drive at 10kms slower to highlight his dedication to the .05 Drink driving campaign.

Peter Brock will be missed by many.

My wife and I feel a great priveledge to have experienced fast laps with Peter Brock and the Brock racing team including some frightening laps in the rain in the Holden Dealer Team V8 Supercar.

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minti Parenting Community

A great place to get and give advice an family and parenting issues. Frontier.minti.com

Poor Quality Cheap Goods.

This is more of a comment on the cheapness of goods these days and the poor quality of things out there. I purchased some shoes for my 4yo son a month ago and the bottom has come off one shoes already, I won a t shirt in a competition and the armpits have come apart (I should shower more often I suppose) I purchased a robo vacuum for $95 and now it won’t charge up after I returned it once and now it does not work at all. I bought a cheap wireless keyboard and mouse and it misses every second letter and the mouse does it’s own thing.

Got a cheap colour TV that turns itself off and on (maybe thats a feature?) and a cheap antenna for it thats picks up snow even in winter.

Perhaps we are better oof having 1 good quality instead of a whole lot of cheap crap that ends up rubbishing our planet…. time to think about the simple things in life I recon … oh but I love my computer and the Internet.

Downloading DVDS and Movies

Do you do it?

I have been exposed to a few and frankly, I think they do not compare to the real thing.

I suppose there are many people out there who are happy to grab these low quality cpoies and rips of original product but for me it takes away too much of the enjoyment factor of watching a movie.

These days you can set up your lounge room like a mini cinema with wide screen TV and 5.1 surround sound so why would you try and watch a pixalated stereo at best, version of a  movie especially if you want to keep it and view again at a later date.

I don’t own many DVD’s but the ones I do are premium quality and 5.1 surround and I enjoy them each time I watch them. My favourite would have to be Highlander. Whats  your thoughts on this and do tyou have a favourite movie you like to watch over and over.

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Test Posting

I am trying the new Windows live Writer Beta from Microsoft to post this blog entry.

It is reported to have a lot of features and will make blogging easier as you do not have to navigate to your blog to post entries. you can post them directly from your IE browser much the same as you can with Flock.

whats Flock?? 

 

I will tell you later.

02 Atom

Well I have had my Atom for a few months now so I can start to post feedback on it’s performance and value for money.

Value for money is good in my situation as the  o2 Atom is more than $1000 usually in Australia however I paid just over $300 as part of a deal to extend my mobile phone contract.

Opening the box is a pleasant experience and the box is very nice too and gets you off to a feel good journey into your latest toy. I did not wait ti charge the battery, I just plugged it in and started setting it up as most of these office type phones are designed so you can use them while they are charging to keep you productive.

Once I set up the PDA /phone I left it on charge until the battery was full and then I took it out on the road to test the features. I am not going to go into detail about all the bits and pieces in the phone however I will comment on my experiences as a user, not a reviewer.

Before I purchased the phone I had read and heard a lot of stories about the bug in the media player software and sure enough I got it to crash just as the reports indicated. There is a firmware upgrade availalbe at the o2 website but I really could not be bothered as the issue is intermittent and does not hinder the performance of the phone itself. The problem is easlily fixed by rebooting the phone and I reboot the phone before I record movies or take pictures to ensure there is plenty of memory to perform these intensive tasks. I was kind of happy I got the phone to crash as it runs on Windows Mobile operating system and it is essentially a small computer so crashing is part of the deal!!

The o2 Atom is a great phone and PDA. It is also a good mp3 player and great for watching tv programs or movies (despite the occaisional reboot) you have downloaded from podcasting sites or other sources.

2 months in I am happy with the unit and will talk about other features in more detail as I play with the features a little more. At the moment I chose it for work puposes and it performes the funcions required with the callender, phone, sincing with my pc, email and web browsing software doing what they are supposed to.

Thats all for now, go get you Atom today.

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