The Boating Mecca of the Southern Seas: Victoria
With Melbourne boasting the spectacular Port Phillip Bay, the reputed boating mecca of the southern seas, Victoria is definitely a place you want to be sailing to. There’s plenty to do and see, both on land and on water, and the best thing is that you’ll never be too far from your boat. We have picked out several notable marinas with facilities to make your docking more practical and pleasurable, and their own boatyard, or the...
Melbourne’s Ice Lounge: The Coolest Place to Chill Out this New Year
Be part of the cool crowd at Melbourne’s Chill on Ice Lounge. Experience sub-zero temperatures as you quench your thirst with sublime cocktails in a bar made entirely of ice. It’s a winter wonderland of ice sculptures and cool music, and at minus 10 degrees it’s definitely the coolest place in Melbourne! Feel the freeze of the fan forced blizzard as you enter the Ice Lounge – the coolest bar in Melbourne. Be surrounded by more than...
True coffee at Melbourne Central with Plantation
Welcome the Caffeine King to Melbourne Central. Another installment of the empire behind St Ali….is this Sensory Lab outpost. This time he’s headed upstairs to Melbourne Central’s new level two Dining Hall, opening specialty coffee outlet Plantation. While coffee connoisseurs can expect a new experimental coffee encounter, others will relish this convenient pre-work or mid-shop high-class coffee stop. You’ll arrive at an eight-metre...
360Q: Waterside Eatery Adds a Modern Touch to Historic Queencliff
There are plenty of ways to approach Queencliff’s gleaning 360Q: by ferry, car, foot or – yes, please – by luxury sea-liner. The two-storey restaurant and bar sits at the tip of the promenade at the stunning one-year-old Queenscliff Harbour and offers a fresh, modern alternative to the seaside village’s renowned Victorian hotels. Architect Robert Conti’s design is clean and simple, with natural wood, limestone, copper and plenty of...
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The Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge: A new look for Samsung and a new wallet
We were expecting a major reboot of the Galaxy S line, and that’s what Samsung gave us Sunday Night at Mobile World Congress in the form of the S6 and S6 Edge. The two new phones represent a major and stunning redesign of the Samsung line, but the changes weren’t just cosmetic. The biggest new […]
My thoughts on the iPhone 6 Plus, five months later
I lead a mobile sedentary lifestyle. I’m not someone who travels a lot or needs to visit multiple sites during a workday. I like, as George Carlin once said, to bring all my stuff with me. This has created its own challenges. Keeping multiple devices in sync can be frustrating, so I try to make one […]
For retailers the buy-or-build cloud decision looms large
If you need proof that cloud deployment stories can touch off religious disputes, my recent report about @Walmartlabs deploying 100K cores of OpenStack to run the retail giant’s e-commerce operations is Exhibit A. This is, by any measure, a massive private cloud, and some readers were incredulous that [company]Walmart[/company] would go this route instead of plying public cloud services. […]
When drones and virtual reality come together in an out-of-body experience
Raphael Pirker, the entrepreneur behind Team BlackSheep, asked me if I saw the birds. Tilting my head up at the foggy skies above the hills of Moraga, California, I couldn’t see them — my view didn’t change, no matter which way I turned my head. I had forgotten that my eyes were not my own […]
Chromebook sales still on the rise
The latest figures from NPD, by way of BetaNews, show that Google Chromebooks are continuing to sell well in the U.S. The research firm estimates that in 2014 Chromebooks accounted for 14 percent of all laptop sales for both the commercial and retail channels; up 85 percent from 2013. The former market accounted for the […]
