Toy Sale

scotty on 07/07/2005 at 12:22 pm, filed under General

UPDATE: If you are looking for Kmart’s (and Big W’s) Toy Sale from 6 July to 19 July, check this entry. Tim wrote: HUGE toy sale at Kmart (for two weeks from today) – including all sorts of soft toys, and a variety of PS2/xbox/PC games. by the way, i just saw their catalogue, havn’t [...]

$699 PC + Printer

scotty on 06/07/2005 at 9:33 pm, filed under Computer

Saw this on the front page of Target Catalogue this week: Mercury PC $699, includes keyboard, speakers and Lexmark Z513 printer. Celeron 2.xxGhz* 256Mb RAM 40Gb Hard Disk 56k Modem 17″ CRT monitor Combo drive (burn CD watch DVD) Windows XP Home Edition 64Mb integrated graphics * Can’t read the exact spec on the heavily [...]

90 days short term deposit

scotty on 05/07/2005 at 5:59 pm, filed under Banking

Last night I was trying to transfer some money from my INGDirect on-line banking account, and noticed their 5.65% p.a. 90 days term deposit. That’s 0.25% above the regular INGDirect Savings Maximiser. Not bad. Later on Vivian asked about it, and we went back to their website and cannot find the same deal from their [...]

Apple Cart

scotty on 03/07/2005 at 11:10 pm, filed under Uncategorized

Get Mac (applecart.com.au) seems to be a cheap place to buy a Mac in Australia. On its front-page it guaranteed 6% off Apple’s recommended retail price, and up to 15% off selected software and iPod accessories. For example, Product Get Mac Apple Store 12″ iBook 1.2Ghz $1,503.06 $1,599.00 15″ PowerBook 1.67Ghz $3,430.06 $3,649.00 20″ iMac [...]

Price comparison of .au domains

scotty on 03/07/2005 at 10:00 pm, filed under General

WhatsInAName.com.au – Price Comparison of auDA Accredited Registrars. It lists all the .au registrars, their prices, and highlight the ones that are the cheapest. I used to use NameScout for my .au domains, but just realised that this Canadian company is no longer the cheapest to offer .au domains. As of today (3 July 2005), [...]