OzBargain Web Slice for Internet Explorer 8

scotty on 17/12/2008 at 11:18 pm, filed under Computer

How many of you are actually Internet Explorer 8 users? You know. The one that has Beta 2 released 3 months ago, and is heading for gold release sometime early next year? I am. Well, during the day when I am at work which requires me to use Internet Explorer. And I know some of [...]

Freebie Idol Anyone?

scotty on 15/12/2008 at 11:44 pm, filed under Freebie

Alissa at Free Sample Direct is running a competition — Free Idole 2008, where you can write a poem or produce a video about freebies. Yes I know it’s a bit similar to our own birthday competition this year, but on a different theme (freebies rather than bargains). The deadline is by the end of [...]

Booko – Book Price Comparison for the Australians

scotty on 15/12/2008 at 11:30 pm, filed under Uncategorized

I have just discovered (actually, via this comment on OzBargain, thanks to kevst) this Australian book price search engine — Booko.com.au. This site was built with Ruby on Rails by Dan Milne in Melbourne to “scratch his itches”, according to the about page: This site was built to scratch an itch of mine. Where to [...]

Wishlist.com.au Coupon Saga and How It Costs Their Reputation

scotty on 03/12/2008 at 11:00 pm, filed under Uncategorized

While OzBargain grows, our members often picked up errors made on merchants’ website which usually translate to great bargains. OfficeWorks has a reputation of honouring their errors on their website. Not with Dell. And this week’s “oopsie” shop is — Wishlist.com.au. Wishlist.com.au has been established for almost 10 years, although I could not remember when [...]