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While the stones are usually roped off from up close viewing still loom large because of their cultural impact, the area around them is beautiful. The Heritage org. has brought up …

Tab styling across the board is terrible. I'm struggling to read inactive tab labels in Terminal. I've used and loved macs for decades. This is the first time (maybe the second, if…

Your point about not tackling the hardest challenges is well made. However the benefit of needing to appeal to the political Centre (a factor of compulsory voting) is that Australi…

It’s not, though. It might be uneven in different markets, but they’ve been working very hard at improving the content and UX and in a number of markets it’s a viable and very stro…

This and music control are the uniques cases where Siri Just Works for me. “Add toothpaste to my shopping list” no fluff no nonsense replies, just “I added that to the shopping lis…

‘For real’ is definitely an Australian-ism (pretty old fashioned, usually inflected up as an incredulous question ‘fa REAL?’, but I’ve not really heard ‘For real life’. Could be a …

Very much dependent on the country. Where they have rolled out their “new” maps based on their own mapping (and not licensing a mix of others like TomTom), they are much much bette…

They did not use an OS from Blackberry / RIM. Vertu emerged from Nokia when they were at their peak - Frank Nuovo was the key designer there, and it was one of his projects. From m…

Australia has a generally highly-regarded and affordable health care system (public and private).

They were installed as useful & beautiful features in the Qantas First Class lounge at Sydney International Airport, and are much loved: https://theluxurytraveller.com/2019/03/revi…

While both AppleCard and AppleID were involved in the story, the situation wasn’t exactly that. Apple issued this statement in response: “We apologize for any confusion or inconven…

*Vietnam not landlocked; but in the middle of a very populous region

The ability to limit spread by controlling your border has been a factor, and that’s certainly easier for island nations. But it’s not the only factor: well-managed healthcare syst…

Australia. After a (relatively) small second wave spike in one of the states (Victoria) which is now under control, there are very few cases of community transmission. It’s the res…

Australian here: It’s not a given that the other hotel residents are going to get sick. The quarantine residents are bussed in directly from customs / border control and isolated t…

It’s bad. I’ve lived in Sydney 21 years and there’s been nothing like this before. We were on the harbour this summer afternoon staring directly at the sun at 5pm - it was a barely…

my experience with Slack technical folk (on some tricky auth bugs and other issues we've hit over the years) has been excellent. They're fast, knowledgeable, never pass the buck, a…

Sounds a bit like what Apple are doing with the Siri face on watchOS. It surfaces what it believes are relevant tiles/cards in a timeline based on your interests, appointments, int…

OneDrive and OneDrive for Business (which is really the Sharepoint thing) really has turned out to be good. We’ve been using it for about 3 years now in our small business which is…

Microsoft blog: “The new iCloud for Windows app introduces a new iCloud Drive experience for Windows 10 users powered by the same Windows technology that also powers OneDrive’s Fil…