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Lyoness coming to Australia

18 Mar

Lyoness Logo If you thought that Dubli was good, (which it is!), then Lyoness will blow your mind!

Dubli is already established in Australia. It works by getting the purchasers, discounts on internet purchases. Lyoness on the other hand, can generate discount on virtually any purchases. This includes buying petrol with your existing credit card, or groceries or pizza and paying cash.

But the best part is that if you join as a business partner and start introducing Lyoness to others, then you can get back 0.5% of whatever THEY spend! Currently joining is by invitation ONLY. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Dubli – it works!

18 Mar

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We have rediscovered how to shop on the web and get discount on discounted prices! Legally. Yes, really.

When you search for “Toasters” on Google and then click on Harvey Norman, that click costs Harvey Norman money, which Google charges. This is called “Pay Per Click”.

Shopping portals work similarly. Most well known would be Amazon. So if you go to Amazon and search on Sony Camcorder, you will be shown a collection of merchants, all of whom had paid Amazon a fee to be on their portal. Trouble is that many of the Amazon merchants, do not ship to Australia!

Now imagine a shopping portal, let’s call it a Shopping Mall, which

  1. Gives back to the shopper a percentage of the merchant’s fees, as “commission” or “kick-back”
  2. Shows merchants that are IN Australia
  3. Shows overseas merchants that have specified that they will ship to Australia (and prices in AU $)

Well, this is excatly the service now provided by Dubli.com!

How do I get started?

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Nikon D4 almost here (18 March 2012)

18 Mar

D4Nikon announced the Nikon D4, their new King of the DSLRs on 6 Jan, 2012. Ever since then, I have been waiting with expectations to see the new camera in the flesh. Earlier this month, I have decided to order one, and am told that my camera might arrive next week!

I wanted genuine Australian stock, as an item this dear and complex, is too risky to not have local warranty on.

However I have found a way to get discount on the discount! Only the select few know about this, but it is totally legal and it works.

Nikon D4
 
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To Avid Studio from Pinnacle HD Ultimate 14

12 Jun

I bought Pinnacle HD Ultimate v14,  just about a year ago.

Since then Avid had purchased Pinnacle, and have recently released v15 and also Avid Studio – which is a little dearer and much more professional. After much investigating I had decided to take the upgrade option at $129, which included about $2k worth of goodies! Read the rest of this entry »

 
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2011 Australian VW Nationals

23 May

The 2011 Volkswagen Australian Nationals were held at Fairfield Showground, NSW Australia. I attended, equipped with my Nikon camera and a swag of lenses, as this was a great photo opportunity.

As usual, I have loaded my photos on to my Photography Website, where you can see these and other pictures from my collection.

 
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True Story of Ian McCormack

19 Jan

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New Zealander, Ian McCormack was stung by the deadly Box Jellyfish five time on a night dive in Mauritius in 1994.

 
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Modern Nativity Story

26 Dec

This is amusing and not irreverent either.

 
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Realtek GIG Network Adaptor

21 Dec

Executive Summary
On my Asus P6T SE motherboard I had to set the GIG NIC Realtek adapter to Jumbo Frames= Enabled 9KB and the Load Offload parameters to Disabled, otherwise I would loose ALL lan connection, when I tried a backup to the NAS.
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DXO Licensing

05 Dec


Introduction: DXO is a photographic image processing program. It is used mainly by people who shoot “raw” format digital photos.

A while back I purchased a DXO license primarily for its perspective correction features. I use a Nikon D300 body and my main post-production software is Lightroom. DXO only gets loaded once in 6 months, but then it is quite useful.

Recently I saved up and added a Nikon D700 body to my kit bag. I then discovered that the DXO software that I had purchased does not allow me to process any images from my D700, unless I pay an extra $100 to DXO. This is in spite of no extra features and in fact not even higher pixel count – as the D700 has the same number of pixels as the D300, just that it is FX not DX.

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Apple TV v2

27 Nov

Yesterday (26 Nov, 2010) I went to the Apple Shop to buy an iPhone 4 and decided to also purchase the new Apple TV version 2. After all I was assured that I can return it within 14 days if I didn’t like it.

At AU$129 it is inexpensive enough for me to want to keep it, even if it does just ONE thing really well. Much of what has been written about this device is positive, so I was keen to make my own evaluation. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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