What New Rules Do You Need To Know For Your 2011 Tax Return?

Each year, there are new Australian taxation rules that can decrease (or occasionally increase) how much you owe the taxman when the financial year ends. Here are the big changes that may affect you in 2011 (and beyond).
What New Rules Do You Need To Know For Your 2011 Tax Return?

How to Test your Eyes at Home using the Computer

They say that you should get your eyes checked every two years but if haven’t had the chance to see a doctor all this time, you can test your vision on your computer as well.
How to Test your Eyes at Home using the Computer

How To Plan, Organize, and Map Out Your Home Network

Whether you’re setting up a new home network or overhauling the one you’ve got, planning and mapping out your devices and intended uses can save you a lot of headaches.
How To Plan, Organize, and Map Out Your Home Network

Automatically Restart Firefox When Memory Usage Exceeds A Limit

Firefox eats RAM, we all know it and accept it as one of those things we can overlook because the browser and its library of extensions is incredible enough in itself. RAM poaching tolerance is one thing but when it gets to a point where it starts to effect your browsing you have to do something about it. Memory Restart is a Firefox extension that monitors the memory usage by the browser, it lets you set a limit to the memory usage and tells you when the limit has been exceeded. You can restart the browser using the extension to bring memory usage back to normal.
Automatically Restart Firefox When Memory Usage Exceeds A Limit

Australian Government Asked Google For User Data 345 Times In Six Months

Google has been issuing transparency reports detailing government requests to have content removed for a while now. The latest instalment promises more detail, including when governments have asked for individual user data. For Australia, the number of removal requests has dropped, but there were 345 requests for individual user information between July and December 2010, and Google coughed up in around 280 cases.
Australian Government Asked Google For User Data 345 Times In Six Months

Make a Hidden Windows Dropbox Folder

Ever since the days of DOS, every directory has a special folder in it named “nul”. You can use this to create a folder that will sync in Linux but not in Windows. This is because the folder can exist on Linux but not on Windows.
Make a Hidden Windows Dropbox Folder

This Light Switch Texts You Pics Of The Guys Robbing Your House

You’ve just arrived home from the worst business trip ever (to Cleveland, no less) only to find your back door jimmied and your valuables gone. Had you installed this spy light switch, you could have… watched it all happen, live.
This Light Switch Texts You Pics Of The Guys Robbing Your House

Pin Any File to the Windows 7 Taskbar

Robert Jasiński writes in with a clever way to pin any file you want to the task bar. By default if you drag a text document to the taskbar it will pin it to the Notepad executable—the same thing happens with any other file that has an association with an executable. What if you want to pin that specific text file to the taskbar and not to the executable (or any other file for that matter)? Robert shares his method...
Pin Any File to the Windows 7 Taskbar

The Complete Guide To Managing Your Facebook Privacy

Keeping your Facebook info private seems to be getting harder and harder all the time, since Facebook keeps trying to make it public. To help you out, we’ve created a comprehensive guide to keeping your Facebook locked down and in your control.
The Complete Guide To Managing Your Facebook Privacy

Why Red Wine Is So Good For You

We’ve all grown up hearing that red wine is sooo good for us. Was it a lie parents told us so they could drink more? Nope, they were right. So what’s red wine’s little secret?
Why Red Wine Is So Good For You

Here’s Everything Your iPhone Home Button Can Do

Your iPhone’s home button has a whole bunch of uses that vary depending on your location and how many times you press it in succession. Here’s a look at (practically) all of them.
Here’s Everything Your iPhone Home Button Can Do

Do a Security Audit of your Dropbox Account

Something really scary happened at Dropbox yesterday that should worry anyone who have trusted their important files with the service. The Dropbox system was left wide open for about 5-6 hours yesterday and anyone could sign-in to your Dropbox account if all they knew were your email address. They could just type any random characters in the password box and the system would let them in. Scary!
Do a Security Audit of your Dropbox Account

How to Opt out of Facial Recognition on Facebook

Facebook recently enabled facial recognition technology, so when your friend uploads a new photo, Facebook recognises it as you and suggests to your friend to tag you in the photo. Don't want to be tagged automatically in others' photos in Facebook? Just follow these steps to learn how to opt out.
How to Opt out of Facial Recognition on Facebook

The world is full of fake sounds

The ATM machine doesn't actually go, "whhrrrrrrrrr." The satisfying "clunk" of a car door wouldn't happen without careful engineering. Humans Invent explains the stories behind these, and three other everyday sounds that aren't as real as we've been led to believe.
The world is full of fake sounds

Ask How-To Geek: Unmountable Boot Volumes, Opening Word Files in Works, and Removing Bootloaders

Looking at unmountable Windows volumes, opening Word files in Works, and removing a haywire bootloader.
Ask How-To Geek: Unmountable Boot Volumes, Opening Word Files in Works, and Removing Bootloaders

3 Options To Analyze Past Computer Usage

Operating systems and applications often save loads and loads of information, often without the user knowing about it. This can have privacy implications, considering that it may be possible to recover files, bookmarks or visited web pages easily.
3 Options To Analyze Past Computer Usage

Top of the Flops: 10 Tech Products Ahead of Their Time [VIDEOS]

It’s a sad truth: Not every great idea translates into commercial success. Some products launch “ahead of their time,” either because the tech can’t support the concept, or because the public isn’t ready to invest in such a radical idea. From an early interactive television to Nokia’s infamous N-Gage phone, we’ve taken a look at 10 such gadgets that the market just wasn’t ripe to receive, but the principles of which have since borne fruit for other brands.
Top of the Flops: 10 Tech Products Ahead of Their Time [VIDEOS]

The CSI effect: fact vs. fiction

Some key differences between forensic science on TV and forensic science in real life.
The CSI effect: fact vs. fiction

The Coffee Lover’s Guide To Tea

Coffee is great, but even die-hard coffee lovers might want to give tea a chance. The other beloved warm beverage, tea imparts to its drinkers some formidable health benefits, an extra boost of alertness without the same caffeine slump of coffee, and more variety. Here’s how to get started enjoying the best possible tea.
The Coffee Lover’s Guide To Tea

7 Ingenious Resumes That Will Make You Rethink Your CV

After clicking through the collection of resumes, were you inspired? What works for you in your industry? Do you already use any of the tactics employed in these resumes to promote yourself and your skills?
7 Ingenious Resumes That Will Make You Rethink Your CV