Virgin Mobile launches Surprise Gig Tour with Wolfmother, MGMT and others

To celebrate its Surprise Gig bonus data offer, Virgin Mobile has announced the Surprise Gig Tour - a series of free, last-minute music gigs around Australia to be announced via its Members' Lounge Facebook page.

Muslim Body Accuses Government Over Game

THE Australian Muslim community has accused the Federal Government and police of double standards over their treatment of a free online game in which the aim is to kill as many Muslims as possible.

Simple Yet Addictive

PEGGLE NIGHTS PCG Price $29.95 Rating 4 LOCK'S QUEST Nintendo DS G Price $69.95 Rating 3.5

Surviving The Long Haul

Thanks to technology, passing the time on a plane is no sweat. Roulla Yiacoumi grabs a boarding pass.

Give It Away

Trade old goods, view a human cross-section, play arcades and listen to soothing sounds, writes Seamus Byrne.

Peak Fitness

After a bit of soccer and skiing, Daniel Fallon thought it best to monitor his fitness at a virtual body site.

Home Guard

There is a free alternative to expensive anti-virus programs, writes Rose Vines.

Dictate Terms

An add-on program for Windows Clipboard enables you to retrieve what you want when you need it, writes Rose Vines. MemoClip 1.35 From: www.codesector.com/memoclip.asp Price: Free The Windows Clipboard is handy for copying information from one program to another, but it's limited to a sin

Punk's Free Radicals

American punk band The Offspring won't play the rock star game they'd rather stay in suburbia with their wives and kids, writes RANDY LEWIS. IT HAS been six years since the multimillion-selling Smash album catapulted Californian punk rockers The Offspring to stardom, but the band members have ye

Playing The Domain Name Game

Tell the world who you are. Nicole Manktelow sorts out your identity crises. "I'm sick of being a nobody on the Internet and I'm not going to take it any more!" This is the cry of someone who for too long has been either "user1006", or "/~susan", or some other impers

Treble Your Download Speed

Rose Vines finds a champion utility that lives up to its bold claims. Download Accelerator Plus 4 From: www.speedbit.com Price: Free How would you like to double, or perhaps triple, your download speed, free? Sounds almost too good to be true and, considering that most so-called "d

The Lodging Game

Q: I run a small IT business and would like to know if I can elect to lodge my Business Activity Statement electronically, even though I am not automatically required to lodge electronically. A: There are essentially three methods available to businesses. The first method is the paper method. Und

Eccentric Preacher Bows Out Of The Game

OF ALL the cult leaders who maintained the faith for Apple right through the bad times - which culminated in the rise and sudden fall of Gil Amelio (Gil who?) and the return of Steve Jobs - none stood taller than the passionate, charismatic and eccentric Guy Kawasaki. When all about him the

The Cheapskate's Guide To Online Gaming

Don't trade in that new game just because you've played out all the scenarios - network it. George Soropos has the details. Now that the Christmas tree has been put back under the house and your liver wheeled into the new year, it's time to take stock of your shattered bank balance and plan for s

Stocking Up On The Internet

They're Santa's annual blunders: the hot Nintendo game for your PlayStation, the puppy for your one-bedroom unit, the box of chocolates when losing weight is to be your New Year's resolution. For every present you truly want there's one that might end up at the pound, at the store return counter or

Even More Play For Die-hard Mission Fans

You may remember last week I reviewed a game called MechCommander, well for those of you who are die-hard fans already here is some info that you might like to play with. MicroProse have announced the availability of two free multiplayer maps which can be found for download at www.mechcommander.

Gates' Way To The World

Bill Gates is used to winning. But the outcome of this particular computer game is not quite as certain as the Microsoft mogul would like. JENNIFER HEWETT reports. AN INDIGNANT Bill Gates says it is like the United States Govern- ment forcing Coca-Cola to include three cans of Pepsi in eve

A Chip Off The Old Blocks

LEGO has announced a fantasy adventure game based on its famous building block systems for kids. Lego Island, for kids aged 6 to 12, is described as a world complete with exciting missions, white-knuckle races and more than 35 characters, such as the Infomaniac, bad guy the Brickster and Mama and

Pirates Of The High Cs

Download an album and turn your computer into a record store. There's no packaging, no retail mark-up - making it the biggest challenge to the Australian music industry since the introduction of the CD. David Higgins reports. BEFORE the letter arrived, and the Net began to close around him, Davi

There's No Such Thing As A Free Plug-in

FREE plug-ins that quietly extend the capabilities of your Web browser seemed a great idea when Netscape introduced them in with Navigator 2.0. A year or so on, programmers have created dozens, for everything from playing sounds (RealAudio, Toolvox, TrueSpeech) to multimedia presentations (Macrome