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Australians will be one of the first to receive the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software as a subscription service. According to Mark Cokes, marketing manager A/NZ at Adobe, the service enables businesses that may not have the budget to purchase the entire suite to utilise Adobe software on a subscription basis. He commented that [...]

Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene believes that Australia have that something extra which separates champions from the others.Australia won the World Cup for a record third successive time when they completed a 53-run victory on Duckworth-Lewis method against Sri Lanka in virtual darkness at the Kensington Oval in Barbados on Saturday."I think they always keep improving. A lot of teams have competed really well against Australia in the past, but maybe when they come to a big tournament they seem to have that little bit of extra," said Jayawardene."They have different ways of going about things. They went unbeaten when it was difficult to remain unbeaten in the tournament because of different conditions and opposition, but they played really good cricket."Australia are unbeaten in their

50,000 Aussies visit Fiji - Fiji Times Online:Friday, April 25, 2008More than 50,000 Australians visited Fiji in the first three months of the year, says the Fiji Visitors Bureau.This set an all-time record with an increase of about 38 per cent compared to the same period in 2007.The total Australian arrivals figure was 50,587, compared to 36,745 for the same period in 2007 and 40,988 for the same period in 2006, an increase on that year of 24 per cent.FVB regional director Paresh Pant attributed the increase in arrivals figures to close working relationships with travel wholesalers, including for example Qantas Holidays, talpacific Holidays, Flight Centers and Fiji Specialist Holidays, Rosie Holidays, Coral Sun, Blue Holidays, Harvey's Choice, Creative Holidays and airlines Air Pacific, Q

The Australian edition of Zoo Weekly have launched a competition (open to both males and females) to win an all expenses paid divorce. You even get a nice tv and a ps3 to get you through the ordeal. If your an aussie, click here to try your luck.

Last year, 204,473 Australians visited Bali, up from 137,000 in 2006. Only the Japanese outstrip us in their enthusiasm for the beautiful island.If that kind of growth continues, then 2008 will beat the 2004 record of 267,500.But while Australian tourists have confidence in Bali, our Government does not and this is causing angst among a group of Australians involved in the tourism industry there.

ANDREW Symonds fetched $1.47 million in the IPL bidding frenzy, but his commitment to Australian cricket means he will sacrifice almost $1 million of that as our elite cricketers prepare for a two-week cameo in the Indian Twenty20 extravaganza.Test stars Symonds, Brett Lee, Ricky Ponting, Michael Hussey and Matthew Hayden will surrender $2.46 million collectively by agreeing to play only bit parts in the IPL before embarking on the West Indies tour.Symonds's anticipated 14-day stint in the IPL will earn him $490,000. His failure to see out the six-week tournament will cost him $980,000 in lost earnings.Retired Test keeper Adam Gilchrist will be Australia's highest earner at $765,000, while Victorian slugger David Hussey will pocket his auction price of $740,000 if he completes the tourname

Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones loved working in Australia so much that she said that she’d be thrilled to work with Aussies once again.The Welsh beauty confessed her love for Aussies while she was in Sydney to promote her new film, ’Death Defying Acts’, in which she worked with Australian director Gillian Armstrong.In the film, the 38-year-old actress stars with local actor Guy Pearce.The Academy Award winning mother of two said that she worked well with Aussies and the country felt like home to her."I think there is a great camaraderie with us Aussies and Brits. I felt very much at home. The funny thing is when Scott Hicks or Gillian Armstrong for that matter question (her character’s) accent, it’s like, ’What do you know?’," news.com.au quoted her, as telling the reporters.Th

Team ‘Indiabulls’ has done it! It has shown the world who the real “obnoxious little weeds” are and how they are to be weeded out. The Indians have faced the worst type of MAO instigated behaviour for months and have emerged victorious. Harbhajan Singh has had the last laugh! In an earlier post, Team Indiabulls beyond 20K, I had written that Greg Chappell was the best coach that Australia ever had. He did perhaps more for the Australian team as the Indian coach than the great Buchanan did for them as their coach. Chappell’s systematic destruction of Team India had ensured not only its hasty exit from the World Cup but also eliminated any possibility of an India-Australia clash in the tournament, which the Australians may well have lost as subsequent clashes show! Team In

this time india gave a huge challenge to aussies.india made 300 runs in the sydney ODI.eventhough they lost the match they came closer to aussie score.sachin went early so as shewag and yuvi but gautam made a solid 100 his third .Till now india won only two matches one with aussies and one with srilanka.

In a way, it all began at Sydney. Done in by atrocious umpiring, reeling from the three-Test ban handed out to Harbhajan Singh, Team India closed ranks.Perth - reputedly the world's fastest pitch - was supposed to be Australia's impregnable bastion, the battleground where India would be humiliated. Instead, the entire squad combined to script one of the most romantic tales in a sport replete with instances of the improbable - and posted one of India's finest victories ever.They say it's easier to steal gold from Fort Knox than to beat Australia in Perth. On Saturday, India not only stole a historic win under Aussie noses, but also rubbed them into the ground, beating the world champions by 72 runs in under four days at the WACA, the ‘home' of Australian cricket.This wasn't a mere sportin

Quick, what's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear Australia? Kangaroo.You can't bring a 'roo home to Chicago, but you can import local Aussie artwork. Here's an idea that will make you jump for joy--a self portrait shipped form down under on madeit.Subscribe to The Chicago Girl

Australia pizza just doesn’t do it for me. Too many toppings, flavorless, soggy crust, there is nothing memorable about it at all and it is starting to give cheap food a bad name here in Adelaide, at least among the foreigners. I mean, I come from Chicago, home of the stuffed pizza, and maker of several very decent cheap pizza pies. In all fairness, Adelaide has a lot of live up to. Thankfully, Adelaide has produced a pizza worthy of my seasoned palate. Farina is a brand spanking new bar and restaurant in Grenfell Square. I first tried Farina a few weeks back with peeps from my class, sampling various wines and exhausting their impressive looking pizza menu. They have Moscato D’Asti by the glass. They make a killer gourmet pizza. Thus, they have my heart. Read more! »

This is great THERE was a time when burglars in the United States could sue homeowners if they were shot in ambush. But now a growing number of states have made it legal to shoot to kill when somebody breaks into a house. So whats wrong with that? (more...)

AUSTRALIA moves onto "Murali alert" today after a seven-week ride on the hit-and-giggle merry-go-round in South Africa and India. Ricky Ponting's men arrive home desperate to prevent Muttiah Muralitharan from taking the nine scalps he needs to overtake Shane Warne's record for most Test wickets (708). "I think it is up to us as players and the batsmen, in particular, to make sure he gets a tough time," Ponting said. "It would be nice if he left without Warnie's record." Muralitharan, 35, has taken two wickets at 116 in two appearances for Sri Lanka in Australia, but Ponting believes the controversial spinner will be a greater threat this visit. "He might feel he needs to prove something to the Australian crowds," Ponting said. The composition of the first Test squad to face Sri Lanka from November 8 will be decided next week. Form in the Pura Cup and a three-day fixture between the tourists and a Cricket Australia Chairman's XI in Adelaide will be cl

A survey conducted recently by Sydney University involving 1,213 Australian respondents showed that half of them did not see Indonesia as an interesting country and that it would not become a close security partner of Australia within the next five to 10 years. The results of the survey published on Wednesday showed Indonesia ranked above North Korea but below China, the US, Japan and Britain. Only that the prospect of the two countries` partnership in the field of economy and a majority of respondents viewed Indonesia as the closes trade partners of Australia in the next five up to ten years. The survey which also involved Prof Murray Goot said that 76 percent of the respondents saw global warming as a problem which was more serious than Islamic fundamentalism.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com

This article almost took me by surprise when I first read the headline. Being an Australian I have been playing these games for a few months now and I had forgotten about the Americans(its usually the opposite way around eh?) What really grabbed my attention about this announcement is that it explains why SNK only released so few copies of these games in Australia. That is in order to prepare for the American release. If you’ve been following the blog for a while then you might remember that I had ordered NeoGeo Battle Coliseum through EzyGames. I placed the order 6 months since the game was released and EzyGames weren’t able to find any PAL copies of the game for me. So, in only 5 months the game was already discontinued. I don’t know much about SNK’s Australian distibution but these two games are already harder to find than the plentiful amounts of King of Fighters 2003 and Metal Slug games that are gracing bargain bins Australia wide. I guess this would be p

The good part is that while Europe is working hard in the web 2.0 space, the Aussies have taken the concept and have developed an incubator service much like the Americans have with Angel and VC funding of companies. The LLC in place, Internet Property development Group, has been funding groups and sites, with their first release this month. On that news we were really excited about it because the USA, Asia and Europe are working very hard on web 2.0, and coming up with some great stuff. In reading the PR flash below, we thought it would be way too cool. New Web 2.0 Internet Incubator, Internet Property Development Group LLC (IPDG), launches in Silicon Valley with backing from Australian listed company Photon LTD (ASX:PGA), with goal of launching new web 2.0 consumer innovations from around the world in to the US market. IPDG’s first product http://www.Wookah.com will launch in the USA on 1st of August at the Always On conference at Stanford University showcasing the new navig

AUSTRALIA'S cricketers may soon be able to go into a virtual reality studio during a Test match and "shadow bat" against the bowlers they are about to face in the middle. Cameras will be set up to capture, as near as possible, a batsman's-eye view of the opposition bowlers, and relay the feed to a studio near the Australia dressing room. Players padded up and waiting to bat will be able to rehearse their innings using images gathered from the middle, and projected, life-size, back into the pavilion. If the system works, it will mean that a player like Mike Hussey can go out to face Muttiah Muralitharan having already got his eye in against him in real time, with the ability to replay deliveries he found difficult. He could, for instance, use the cameras to polish his technique against Murali's deadly "doosra", the apparent off spinner that turns the other way. "A batsman could pick up the cues in Murali's bowling action on that particular day so they know when it'

Paul Ross believes that wealthy Australian Rules clubs will be looking for Irish talent to get around the AFL's restrictive draft and salary cap. And says that the only thing that stopped them before was the relationship between the AFL and the GAA. With the International Rules series in doubt, he believes this leaves the door open for clubs to target young Irish talent.Already moves have been made on the likes of Carlow midfielder Brendan Murphy.

AUSTRALIA may play in a Twenty20 series for a winner-takes-all prize of US$20 million ($23 million). The event is the brainchild of Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, who is also hoping to include Sri Lanka, India and South Africa in the week-long tournament proposed for next June. The four countries would contest a knockout event, with the winner facing the Stanford Super Stars, an all-West Indies XI comprising the best players from the inter-island, Stanford Twenty20 tournament, due to be staged in Antigua early next year. Stanford has dubbed the series "Twenty20 for 20 million", but it is subject to approval from the West Indies Cricket Board, the International Cricket Council and broadcast network ESPN, which has an agreement with the ICC. Stanford made the announcement in Antigua, but concedes there are "issues to deal with", adding: "Working with the WICB has not been the most harmonious of relationships. There are some minor issues with the ICC.&#

Xzibit checked in with fans on his blog at Myspace on Friday (June 29) after performing at the Metro in Melbourne. "WHAT CAN I SAY ABOUT THE SHOW TONIGHT!!!!!!! It's easy to say the crowd was hype, but it was better than that," the rapper said. "You

Moores replaced Duncan Fletcher after the World Cup New head coach Peter Moores has been a key reason for Matt Prior's blistering form in an England shirt, according to the wicketkeeper-batsman. Prior, who played under Moores when he was at Sussex, says the coach has injected new life into the England set-up and helped the international debutant settle into his role as both stumpsman and a lower-order big-hitter. And the 25-year-old South African-born player, who has a Test average of over 64 from his four matches so far, says he is looking forward to joining up with the one-day team ahead of the three-game series against West Indies. "It will be different," Prior said. "It is a clean slate, we have new faces in the squad and it is a very exciting time. "It is fantastic to have Mooresy there. He knows my game well from when he was my coach at Sussex and, on top of that, he is a fantastic coach, a fantastic motivator and he is able to get the best out of people.&

A LATE try to winger Lachie Turner spared Australia A’s blushes as it salvaged a 14-14 draw in its final Pacific Nations Cup match against Fiji in Suva. Australia A, who finished second in the six team round robin tournament, was outscored two tries to one and trailed for much of the match. Winger Filimone Bolavucu scored both of Fiji’s tries, each of which came from long distance in broken play. Australia A trailed 7-3 at half-time and struggled in the heat, making numerous more…

AUSTRALIA’S Rachel Hetherington and Lindsey Wright shot 70s to finish four strokes off the first-round lead in the Wegmans LPGA tournament today (AEST), American Cristie Kerr shrugged off illness and inclement weather to post a six-under 66 for a one-shot lead. She started on the back nine, launched her round with three successive birdies and made another at 17 before dropping a shot at 18, her only bogey of the day. The 18th proved tricky for a number of players, as four of the top more…

AUSTRALIA’S Leah Hart and Sarah Kemp shot first-round 69s to be two shots off the first-round lead in the French Open at Anzin St Aubin overnight. England’s Rebecca Hudson leads with a 67, a shot better than compatriot Trish Johnson and Sweden’s Lotta Wahlin on the par-72 layout. AAP

AUSTRALIA bowed out of the International Rugby Board (IRB) world sevens series at Murrayfield overnight, crashing to a shock 17-12 Pool C defeat by emerging nation Kenya. Fiji is just one win away from successfully defending the title, after a clean sweep of its pool matches. Should Waisale Serevi’s men win the quarter-final with Wales here tonight (AEST), it will be guaranteed the 12 points needed to retain the trophy, regardless of other results. Host Scotland also performed more…

KEVIN Pietersen believes England needs to adopt a more "Australian" approach if it is to become the world's No.1 cricket nation. "Australia have a team made of greats, but they want to be greater," he told the BBC overnight. "That's the mentality I wish a lot of our players had, a want to be greater every single day." Pietersen is an injury doubt for Thursday's first Test with West Indies at Lord's. The 26-year-old's absence would be a major blow to England, particularly as the side is desperate to bounce back quickly from the 5-0 Ashes drubbing and another lacklustre World Cup campaign. Pietersen is desperate to play and put into practice some of the lessons he learned during the (northern) winter campaigns in Australia and the Caribbean.  "I haven't turned into an absolute geek who doesn't like doing fun things and crazy things," he said. "But you have to go and do your hard work to perform on the field. "The Australians ar

Buzz off mate: The Australians push BCCI chief Sharad Pawar Times News Network Mumbai: They are supposed to be aggressive, even rude, on the field. On Sunday, after winning their maiden Champions Trophy in Mumbai, Australia showed they are not exactly polite off it too. To begin with, as the closing ceremony drew to a close, Ricky Ponting waved his fingers at BCCI president Sharad Pawar, signalling him to come and hand over the winners' trophy. It may or may not have been in jest but Pawar had the decency to just laugh and ask Ponting to step forward instead to complete the formalities. But the story didn't end there. As the Aussies celebrated exuberantly, the stage was set for the victory photograph. However, even as the players were taking positions for the cameras, Damien Martyn tapped at Pawar - who happened to be standing there - and literally pushed him out of the stage. Pawar walked away quietly, not showing any hurt or anger. Click here for the complete article…

For those of you living in Australia, apparently fruit prices are going up. I know that bananas range in price from around $10.99 up to $14.99 but it looks like other fruits are set to follow. Blame it on the weather, frosts to be exact. Fruits including apricots, plums and pears are set to double in the coming months. If the trend in our weather continues, I wonder if the Federal Government will consider subsidising our farmers? Obviously, with rates of childhood obesity in Australia being one of the highest, we need to keep fruit and veg at a reasonable price for families to afford. tags technorati : Fruit banana Australia weather frosts

ENGLAND'S attempt to regain some confidence in last night's Twenty20 match could hardly have gone worse with Australia scoring a world-record 5/221 to win by 77 runs. Adam Gilchrist hit a dazzling 48 and captain Ricky Ponting smashed a brisk 47 before a sell-out crowd of 35,628. England limped to 9/144 from its 20 overs in reply. Tasmanian speedster Ben Hilfenhaus, 23, picked up 2/16 including the scalps of Ian Bell for 22 and Paul Collingwood for five in a fine international debut as veteran Glenn McGrath was rested. Fresh from last week's 5-0 Ashes demolition of England, Australia warmed up for the tri-series of one-dayers against England and New Zealand by hitting England's bowlers to all parts of the SCG, blasting 14 sixes. Australia's innings total beat the previous world record held by Ricky Ponting's side of 5/214 against New Zealand in Auckland in February, 2005. Gilchrist's 29-ball innings included five sixes and two fours while Ponting was equally devastating, s

The Australian cricket is often accused of being boorish, over aggressive and rude. For many cricket fans, the team gave a display of their behaviour on Sunday.At the presentation ceremony of the ICC Champions Series final, the team was allegedly rude to BCCI President Sharad Pawar, who was on the dais to present the trophy.Eager to hold the trophy and pose for the cameras with his team-mates, skipper Ricky Ponting was seen tapping Pawar on the shoulder as a gesture to leave the stage. Batsman Damien Martyn came up from behind and nudged Pawar away from the stage in his eagerness for the group photo. Some say Martyn pushed Pawar.World champions Australia defeated West Indies by eight wickets in the rain-hit final to claim their maiden Champions Trophy, the second most important one-day tournament in world cricket. PAWAR PLAY: Damien Martyn is seen pushing Pawar off the dias"It’s not a major issue. I was not insulted or embarrassed or pushed. The Australians were just excited about wi

The Herald Sun reports that coppers down under have developed a "smart" cop car. The Australian National Safety Agency, Victoria Police, Motorola, GM's Holden division and Monash University have created a prototype cruiser by combining a Batcave of crime-fighting equipment: facial and number plate recognition, infra-red scanners, front/rear cameras, an integrated on-board computer and a device "that attaches a sticky GPS transponder to a car being pursued." If a fleeing felon doesn't get out of the way during pursuit, RoboCopCar broadcasts a "direct local radio message warning of an approaching emergency vehicle." LAPD is working with Aussie coppers on the prototype; they're not saying if American modifications will include a coffee maker and donut dispenser.

The forthcoming introduction of GM's Pontiac G8 GXP and ST (Sport Truck to those of us who would prefer they just call it the El Camino) at the New York Auto Show has the Australian GM division Holden crowing its success. "The truth is that under the shadow of the Mitsubishi closure announcements, across the other side of the city, the GM Holden plant has been quietly exporting its head off and making great inroads with the development of new model cars to new markets around the world," says Holden Honcho Kevin Foley. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Australian Industry Minister Kim Carr joined the Aussie cheerleading, saying "GM Asia-Pacific actually out-performed the parent company in 2007, thanks in part to a strong showing from Holden." GM's plan