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Thanks to Guest Writers on my Road Less Travelled Blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my most popular articles or learn more about Neerav Bhatt. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!Readers of the Road Less Travelled Blog will have noticed several articles published in the last few months were written by […]

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Rockbox FREE MP3 iPod, Sansa etc upgrade: Games, Themes, More

This article reviews the FREE Rockbox software and explains how it hugely improves video MP3 players like: Apple iPod, iAudio X5, Sandisk Sansa and Toshiba Gigabeat with better audio playback quality, games, applications, plays more codecs (OGG, FLAC etc), themes, gapless playback and optional spoken interface.
These extra […]

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Find Out Time and Date In Another City Or Country

www.timeanddate.com is a great resource for finding out time and date related information for any major city or country around the world:

Whether you’re Checking the date and time for international business conference calls. For example it allows you to pick up to 4 cities on the planet and compare times for a web meeting or […]

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Why 4WD / SUVs are Terrible Family Cars

“Mothers have started to swarm in tightly organised groups of 200,000 or so toward the 4WD off-road car. Really and truly it’s hard to think of a more inappropriate selection of family cars.
I tell you people who have off road cars [in the city] are stupid and mad. They should be driven from the roads […]

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Web2Mail and Mail2Web Free Services Review

Web2Mail.com and Mail2Web.com are 2 great services which allow you to:

Subscribe to your favourite web pages, and receive email updates of the whole page - Web2Mail.com
Access your POP or IMAP email account to read and send emails via a webmail interface - Mail2Web.com

Web2Mail.com

I’ve been using Web2Mail for […]

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Ear Plugs: Vital for Backpacking Travel or Camping Holiday

The $1 spent on foam ear plugs during my recent backpacking trip from Adelaide to Darwin was definitely the best value for money investment I could have made to make sure my trip was enjoyable.
Several times I was in a youth hostel where other people in the same dorm room were:

Snoring loudly
Talking to each other […]

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Tokai 7 inch LCMDX-2227MUC Portable DVD DIVX Player Review

I recently bought the Tokai 7″ inch LCMDX-2227MUC Portable DVD & DIVX Player to use with my new Plane Quiet NC-7 Noise Cancelling Headphones to watch DVD’s and MPEG4/DIVX files while travelling to and from work in Sydney on the train.

Pre-Purchase Research

I first considering purchasing an […]

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Review - Planequiet NC-7 Noise Cancelling Headphones

I just purchased the Plane Quiet NC-7 Noise Cancelling Headphones from their US manufacturers Pro Travel Gear to wear while commuting to work on trains and buses. That way I could listen to music or watch my Tokai 7″ inch portable DVD/DIVX player in relative peace and quiet without having to turn up the volume […]

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Admin Notice from the Editor

Please note I am away on Holidays travelling in remote areas of Australia until mid-July 2007 so there won’t be any new articles on http://www.roadlesstravelled.com.au until then
I will not reply to emails between now and then. The same applies to blog comments.
When I return, expect to see some fantastic photos and reviews of places […]

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Fly Virgin Blue & Get 5% of Flight Cost Rebated

Whenever I book flights within Australia & NZ I always do it on Virgin Blue because I know how to get 5% of my flight cost* rebated as credit on my Virgin Mobile account and besides that Qantas is expensive with poor service and Jetstar is cheap and nasty with less legroom.
Everyone knows that Virgin […]

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Fly Carbon Neutral With Virgin Blue Carbon Credits

I recently booked 2 flights on Virgin Blue and was pleasantly surprised to see an option to Purchase Carbon Credits to offset the emissions made by that flight.
To give you an idea of the cost you can expect this is what I paid:
Flight from Sydney to Adelaide

Amount […]

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