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Monthly Archives: December 2010
New Telstra Offer is Great to Watch
Telstra have just released the details of their new summer sale and it is impressive. 52 movie tickets for 52 weeks on both the HTC Mozart and LG Optimus 7Q plans until the 25th of January. The HTC Mozart is … Continue reading
WhistleOut Illustrated: Time-lapse
Here in the WhistleOut office we’d been thinking for a while it would be cool to have some sort of interior illustration on the wall that depicts what we’re on about as a company. Below are the steps we took … Continue reading
Posted in Broadband, Credit Cards, Home Loans, Mobile Phones, Pay TV, WhistleOut
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Word Lens: Translate with an iPhone
Just launched from Quest Visual is an iPhone app for translating text in images (think road signs etc) on the fly! How handy will this app be on a Europe holiday to decipher signs/menus/accommodation details on the go.
Google TV Gets Its First Update
Google’s newest big thing, Google TV, was subject to a bit of criticism after its release. Loudest among the objections was the observation that it felt like a beta, rather than a finished product and didn’t fully deliver on its … Continue reading
My Morning Pocket Computer Routine
Every morning on the bus I’m still amazed at how much stuff is packed into this little pocket computer – the iPhone 4 in this case. I seem to have created myself a little routine for each morning – strategically … Continue reading
Google Chrome, Tabs Rewarded
Some of us in the WhistleOut office are big fans of browser tabs – a feature available in most browsers nowadays, including Internet Explorer 7 and upwards. Note, if you are still on IE6, try your hardest to get off … Continue reading
Posted in Broadband
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Mortgage Exit Fee Ban – What it Means
There is way more to this ‘ban on mortgage exit fees’ story than meets the eye. We’re going to do some digging and cover this in full in a subsequent post where we’ll look at yields and profit in the … Continue reading
Posted in Home Loans
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Bank Ads That Don’t Suck
Bank advertisements are usually pretty awful, especially on TV. The most entertaining of the local batch in recent times has come from the Commonwealth Bank which peaked with the ‘shebang a bang‘ commercial (ok, I just chuckled again on re-watch when … Continue reading
Posted in Credit Cards, Home Loans
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Optus Launching IPTV. Yes? No.
Optus like to say ‘yes’, but they’re saying ‘no’ right now about IPTV in a response to story from the Australian that they might be close to launching an Internet TV offering to replace their now terminated Pay TV service. … Continue reading
Posted in Pay TV
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Credit Cards – The Theft of the Decade
Everyone with a credit card knows of (and fears) credit card fraud. This article from the New York Times features one of the most amazing credit card crimes ever told, with up to 180 million payment cards compromised from some … Continue reading
Posted in Credit Cards
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