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Check it, EHX Overdrive for Rock Band 2

by adminMay 29, 2009
EHX Overdrive for Rock Band 2

There’s totally moments in Rock Band where you think, damn I’m a good guitarist, and damn me I need an overdrive pedal. Well I’m sorry, you’re probably not a good guitarist…..but there’s now an overdrive pedal so we can definitely keep that illusion working for you.
Mad Catz have just announced the new Electro Harmonix [...]

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HP Australia launches Vivienne Tam Special Edition

by adminFebruary 27, 2009

Created in collaboration with world-renowned fashion designer Vivienne Tam, and sold exclusively through selected Myer stores, the HP special edition notebook is nicknamed the “digital clutch” and offers women a trendy, mobile and sophisticated miniature notebook that they can take anywhere. … Light enough for your handbag weighing only 1.12kg 2 USB ports for connectivity on the go Superior sound quality with Altec Lansing speakers 3-cell Lithium Polymer Battery Pricing and availability: The HP Vivienne Tam Special Edition Notebook PC is available at selected Myer stores in early March for an RRP of $899, including GST. vivienne_tam-back.jpg

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HP DreamColor LP2480zx - product review

by adminJanuary 12, 2009

The 1st thing that you notice when you unpack the HP monitor is the size of it, everything these days has to be bigger and bigger, but I had a good feeeling about this one. … So I set it up, turned the power on and the 1st message you get is a friendly reminder to let the HP warmup for 30minutes to achieve the best results, how good is that!

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Got an iPhone?

by adminJanuary 7, 2009

Got an iPhone, sick of the boring backgrounds that come as standard? The good folks at Smashing Magazine will have put together a list of their favourites called 100 Really Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers Here’s a couple of my favourites; r3.jpg lost.jpg  r5.jpg bur.jpg listen.png hello.jpg

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Dell releases $600 Inspiron 15

by adminJanuary 6, 2009

dell-inspiron-15.jpgDell has just announced the release of the new Inspiron 15 range, expected to be available for sale later this month at around $600 USD. Spec wise it’s pretty decent for such an inexpensive laptop; 15.6-inch widescreen panel Intel’s Core 2 Duo up to 4GB of RAM up to 320GB of hard drive space an optional Blu-ray drive integrated webcam optional Bluetooth optional facial recognition software

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New Kodak Zx1, coming soon

by adminJanuary 5, 2009

With the Consumer Electronics Show starting in a couple of days time I guess we can expect to see a load of press releases coming through. This morning we received the below presser from Kodak, introducing their new Zx1 Digital Video Camera.

The Zx1 actually looks pretty cool, nice and simple to use. Hope the video quality is decent out of it as well. Anyway, check out the full press release below.

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Apple’s Black Friday deals

by adminNovember 28, 2008

I’m not sure exactly what I was expecting from Apple, but I can’t help feel a little disappointed after I woke up this morning and saw the ‘one day only sale’ prices up on Apple Australia. … If only the prices / savings were better I might have been able to convince the wife to let me buy a new MacBook with 4gb RAM, or maybe even an Apple TV coz I’ve been jonesing about one of those for a while now.

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Canon Australia confirmed the date for the 5D mkII release!

by adminNovember 25, 2008

You’ll have to excuse the extraordinarily long title of this article as I’ve just heard from my Canon Australia contact that the Canon EOS 5DmkII will be on sale in Australia at the end of the week!

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LG Renoir Camera? Phone?

by adminNovember 24, 2008

And well we pretty well see a new phone every week these days, and while none has grabbed as much attention since the iPhone, I must admit I’m pretty damn impressed with this new addition to LG’s mobile phone line up. Here’s a bit more info; The LG Renoir, boasts top of the range camera capabilities, the latest multimedia features and at just 14 mm thick, it’s one of the slimmest 8 megapixel camera phone on the market.

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Canon 5DmkII out really soon!

by adminNovember 23, 2008

Just saw a bunch of photos on Engadget showing the Canon 5DmkII on sale in China, fingers crossed it will be hitting the streets of Australia pretty soon. I might have to email the people I know at Canon Australia tomorrow and see what I can find out!

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Toshiba G450 phone

by adminNovember 20, 2008

toshiba.jpg The new Toshiba G450 is an interesting design, feature wise it’s ‘ok’ with a phone (durr), a modem, and an mp3, (no camera….wtf), but it’s definitely the design that catches the eye. It comes in some cool colours and has a couple of standard accessories, but at this stage it looks to be available in Europe only.

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Apple 24″ Cinema Displays

by adminNovember 20, 2008

10-14-08-led-24-cinema-_4.jpg The new 24″ LED Cinema Displays from Apple are now on sale in the Apple Australia web store. … You’ll need a new MacBook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air to run it because of the new ‘mini DisplayPort’ but hey if you have one it would be pretty hard to resist, even at $1,499.00.

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