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Samsung Galaxy S, no question.

My boomer folks are 62 and still use their 5 bedrooms twice a year when the family gets together. They're only just now looking into 4wds, caravans and PPOR subdivision options. Rather than a seachange they want to move citywards to something smaller and closer to facilities, but find it hard...

I voted in Willunga in a lovely little country town hall, market stalls over the road, great community vibe, but surprisingly, no sausage sizzle. Now I feel gypped :)

Have you sounded her out about what she really wants? My girl raved about Tiffany's but she didn't want so much money spent on a ring especially considering the insane "wedding tax". I got the ring elsewhere and a couple years later I took her to Tiffany's for an anniversary present. Have...

I had a dreadful experience with Amex! I cancelled the card at a branch and for good measure informed them via their call centre as well. They continued to charge annual fees plus interest on a non-existent card, ignored further calls and hounded me with statements for four more years until I...

You're right jrc! ATO says "tax loss (when) allowable deductions (...) is greater than the total of your assessable income and your net exempt income" . Figures aren't good, assuming 2 years out of the workforce: Year 1 Salary $10k FTB $11k (FTA/B/bonus) Less: share of net loss...

Turns out that because its an IP and not a PPOR, to convert from joint tenants to single ownership I would be up for stamp duty on 50% of the council rates capital value. Have also done some investigation on the ATO site and I gather that if we left the joint tenancy in place, my wife would be...

Thanks Gools, much appreciated. Getting in touch with them now.

Hi all, My wife and I purchased a IP in Dec 09. Both the property and loan are in joint names, which by default would be a 50/50 split. Cue happy surprise! (guess we celebrated too much..) So in Sep 2010 she'll stop working. She probably will get some Family Tax Benefit income. The IP...

I went around Australia with family for seven months, we took off in a Commodore wagon and a little Jayco poptop. By the time we'd reached the Top End they'd turned into an old Land Cruiser and a 24 foot double axle van! Those little camper trailers are great for a weekend down the river, but...

Beware the second hand Hyundai Terracan! Their engines seem to cark it after about 4 years and it's extremely difficult to find a replacement engine in Australia.

Used A1 Advance several times, he comes at short notice, really tears the house apart and will give you lots of negotiating fodder. If you're not there in person with him however you'll want to stump up the extra $50 to type up the report as his handwriting is woeful.

Trouble with Notes is that there's many versions each of which is an equally horrible mess, and each of which can have its interface customised by the company into a completely unpredictable but still horrible mess. That said, under my Notes 6.5.4: File | Preferences | User Preferences... |...

Since it's the family's first time, I agree that a couple of days in Singapore would be a safe, easy, clean, English-speaking introduction to SE Asia, and there's plenty of sights packed into Chinatown, Clarke Quay, etc. I found KL quite a smoky, crowded city that's best for shopping only, I...

Don't stress too much about identical domain names. Grab the .com.au one that you really want. If you have the right google juice, your customers will find you. Google now gives you the best hits for your location, so the URL means very little these days. Even if you want a .com later, it...

Bittorrent can be quite a lossy protocol. It's not unusual for every 1GB of files to end up being a download of 1.5-2.5GB of data. On top of that if you are with an ISP that counts uploads towards your quota you can easily blow this figure out far more. As others have said you can avoid...

I'm deaf and this is a huge issue for me. Real Estate Agents as a breed seem inordinately reluctant to use email. This drives me nuts! Unfortunately it's a simple economic proposition. I consider it in terms of the 80/20 rule - they can spend 20% of their time interacting with 80% of people...

NZ is a strange beast. Be careful applying Australian thinking there. Stayed with ex-pat friends in Hamilton, to me it seemed like a reasonable area, nice wide leafy streets, houses in good condition, close to main roads and facilities. House is nice, well presented, polished floors, new...

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At 10yo I made fair pocketmoney doing data entry. The farmers would scribble down their cows' milk production and I'd punch in endless pages of figures into dbase III+. The local computing guru would then produce all the reports to help them track their output. Rather boring work but...