This week has been a hectic week at OzBargain where over 50 deals have been posted by its members. We are also getting 2,000+ visitors and 8,000+ page views a day, thanks to a ton of traffic from Google. It has also been a hectic week for me though as I have only managed to [...]

Scott’s History of Computer Monitors 1995 Bought my very first computer when I moved out home. Paid $300 for a 14″ KTX CRT, and thought it was a pretty good price. 1998 Spent $950 on a 19″ CTX CRT that did 1600×1200 @ 75Hz, after shopped around for a long time. It was heavy, and the screen was not [...]

Okay. The decision is, my not-so-regular weekly bargain reviews are now moved from Sunday to Thursday. Why Thurday? Because I was too tired on Sunday so I did not bother to… Wait, the real reason is, I am trying to line up my blog entries after our weekly competitions at OzBargain, so that new entries [...]

I am a Dell man. There are currently 4 Dells at home — two notebooks, one desktop and also my trusty Dell Axim v50 PDA (although only one notebook is out of my own pocket). I have been a happy Dell user since 1999 and rarely have any issue with those made-in-Malaysia grey/black boxes. But many [...]

I know these “online bargain retailers” all send out their newsletters during the wee hours of the morning, when everyone else is deep in sleep. I know sending the newsletter to subscribers can be automated, so they do not necessarily need to be up to dispatch them. However they do need to be awake to [...]

CarAdvice: Fuel Shopper Dockets Under Fire. The ironic part of the system is that many motorists tend to spend more than they have to get the fuel-saving docket, and then travel past their local petrol station to fill up at a station which honours their docket. This usually results in more money being spent for [...]

One of the most frustrating thing about bargain hunting is, the real deal only comes AFTER you made the purchase. You bought an item at a price that you believe is pretty good. Two days later, there comes further discount. D’oh. That is how I feel at the moment. Last week I wrote about buying [...]

It is that time of the month again — Catch A Thon #8 is coming to Daily Deals today! For those who are not familiar with Daily Deals’ Catch A Thon, it is the day of the month where many cheap 1-day items from Catch of the Day get sold again, all at the same [...]

Best deals that have been posted on OzBargain this week. Free Dishwasher Tablet Community voting works in mysterious ways. ozpete posted this deal on 6 free Moring Fresh dishwash tab, and got voted to the most popular deal this week, although he admitted that it is not as good as his previous deal. Anyway. Fill up [...]

You know. Sometimes !@#$ happens to websites which causes them to go offline. Some websites are hosted on crappy oversold servers that go down a few times a day, and some are hosted on geographically isolated clusters that guarantee availability. Achieving the four nine’s — 99.99% availability — can be very costly, so the [...]

My wife’s 4.5 years old iBook G3 died two weeks ago. Well, probably not like the flaming iBook, but it will not boot from the hard disk, and booting from the installation CD only results kernel panic with memory-related error messages. Sounds like it is time for a new computer! That iBook was actually [...]

It has been a while — no posting for almost 2 weeks! We went away to the Gold Coast for holidays and visiting family for a week, and then I was slacking away for another… Anyway. Let’s see what great bargains have been posted this week. 2 months ago I blogged about RaboBank’s latest financial [...]