Author: Raj Deut
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The top 5 “must-play” indie games PAX Aus 2024
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This year’s PAX Rising offering was Australia’s largest ever with over 100 titles to sample and enjoy. Some of them like the PlayStation featured “Fishbowl” you may have heard of before, whilst many are unknowns, being showcased for the first time. It was almost impossible to play them all, but I certainly did my best…
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Ergolux Electric Standing Desk Review
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Rocketing towards 40 the realities of my age have begun to manifest in spectacular fashion. In particular my back has decided it’s no longer what it used to be and a standing desk was suggested as a remedy by one of my many health practitioners. There’s standing desks and then there’s standing desks though. I…
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Can my employer legally monitor my computer in Australia? — Workplace surveillance in Australia
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Recently I found myself in the unusual situation where a work colleague wanted to install a piece of software on my computer that monitored in some way. Asked to do so by the higher ups, the only information they could offer was that it would monitor both the computer’s network traffic and its files and…
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10 reasons why mirrorless cameras beat smartphones every time
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Smartphones have put a camera into the hands of millions of people. While they’ve made photography more accessible, they can’t compete with dedicated cameras – especially when it comes to shooting in less-than-ideal conditions. In the battle of the mirrorless camera vs. the smartphone, the team at Ted’s Cameras says the camera wins every time. These are…
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Nebia Spa Shower review – An Australian perspective on the shower “disruptor”
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Disrupting the shower industry is hardly a phrase I thought I’d be opening a review with. Showers or bathroom technology in general for that matter are, let’s say, not the most innovative of areas. With that said one particular product made headlines a few years ago promising to revolutionise showering as we know it, as…
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The end of “endgame” & gaming as a relationship
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When Massive Entertainment’s managing director David Polfeldt started with the company fifteen years ago, the gaming world was a different place. For a start, the now four-hundred plus strong Swedish studio was comprised of just fourteen people. Their premier title at the time, Ground Control, belonged to the all but forgotten genre of Real Time…