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Smartphone App launched by Dan Murphy’s Australia

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If you like a glass of wine or beer or spirit, getting your favourite beer or wine has just become easier with the new DAN MURPHY’S SMARTPHONE APP. Dan Murphy’s has just launched their new application for smartphone that makes it easier for you to browse what’s available in their store on your smartphone and even place an order

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I downloaded the Dan Murphy’s smartphone app this weekend and was quite surprised with the professional looking and functional app that they have produced. The app screen makes it easy to browse and search the store for wines, beers and other alcohol and the weekly deals etc. are conveniently placed just in reach of a quick tap on the screen.

Dan Murphy’s gets social with smartphone launch

 

Right now they are offering the special smartphone application launch deals… so go grab it. When i checked on my phone there was the “ Yellowglen Vintage Perle”  white wine award winner for $89.40 for a case of 6 bottles with delivery. That brings the price down to $14.90 for a bottle for this classic vintage wine (definitely a good deal to get delivered to your home).

The Dan Murphy’s app main screen is as below (in pic)

dan murphys New mobile app

If you tap on the left bottle icon , you get taken to the screen with weekly deals/offers, search , store finder and  your account. Its advisable to  create a account if you get alcohol regularly from  Dan murphy’s. You can shop for alcohol right from this app and either get it delivered ( if available – mostly on six or 12 packs )  or pick it up from store. The bottom right shopping cart button on the screen shows what alcohol you have already checked in or bought via the smartphone app

The Dan Murphy’s story in short

In 1952 a bright young man, Daniel Francis Murphy was working in a liquor store owned and run by his father Timothy Murphy. Dan looked around one day and decided that he could run the shop better than his father and requested to take the reins and the rest is history.  Today  he has about 140 stores all around Australia and it is part of the Woolworths chain.

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App download screen in Google play

According to wikipedia

“Dan Murphy’s is an Australian liquor supermarket chain owned by Woolworths Limited, which also owns BWS, another liquor chain with smaller stores. Dan Murphy’s competes principally with 1st Choice Liquor Superstore”

I tried out a special feature on the Dan Murphy’s  app, this app has got label recognition technology built in to the app. If you just click a photo ( via camera icon/button in app- see pic below) of  a label of the bottle in your bar or fridge and if the item is stocked at Dan Murphy’s, the app will come back with the current price of the bottle and also provide  information and reviews on the drink ( pretty neat huh).

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Img from:http://australianchinwag.blogspot.com.au/

This new app from Dan Murphy’s could possibly do wonders for many undiscovered small brands or relatively unknown wineries, by bringing them  into focus and increasing their audience  by putting them on  show to the world.

With an increasing number of smartphone users now using their devices to research products or services on-line, apps like this one are becoming the norm for tech-savvy shoppers. The Dan Murphy’s App is free to download onto your android and apple devices.

Customers can download the Dan Murphy’s App for free on their iPhone or Android device by searching for “Dan Murphy’s” in the App Store.

For more information on the Dan Murphy’s App and to view an instructional video, please visit:www.danmurphys.com.au/guides/app-content.

So go give this app a whirl , say cheers to me  and my blog “Digital GROG” and let me know your views on the app

When woo rank chuck a Hissy fit on my blog

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That’s Right “woorank” was not happy with error on my site and a whole 12 of them to fix too. You can check  my blog digital grog report  too ,  woo rank successfully passed me on 24 factors , then told me i had room to improve on 4 ( reminding me of my strict little  school teacher

Check my Website Seo tool

the woorank ranking teacher dont miss class

 

And then told me i failed miserably with woorank chiding me for having 12 errors in my blog  and not having any friends on Facebook and twitter etc  . HOW RUDE. I have a separate twitter account @undermarrest and plenty of friends  on that account . I even have a pinterest account Woo-rank .

 

Here i what woorank had to say about my blog in a snapshot

the digital frog report

 

I have 289 pages indexed by Google and they tell me its not enough , geez they are a hard taskmaster

This rank was mazing

963061th most visited website in the World

and so i forgave woo rank for its previous miss-demeanours.

Tho  it  recorded my social behaviour as a bit weak  ( check pic below)

digital grog social rank

 

If i am not mistaken Woo rank has a free trial program  you can check it out here.I don’t have a membership but if their free service is so good, definitely their paid service has got to be of value.  If you do check it out let me know your opinion

The smart-one that charges you gadgets

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Gadgetaustralia.com was lucky enough to trail the “new portable charging device” produced by Smartone.

gadget australia webite with samrter charger

Charge all your devices with back up battery

The little gadget know as “smartercharger” may be something you may browse past when looking at mobile accessories but after having one of these in just a few days the little pocket rocket can really make an impact; proving very useful and a great little lifesaver is certain situations.

Smartone is an all Australian company based in Adelaide, South Australia.

the smarter charger from australia

The smartcharger is a small USB based fuel source for multiple modern day devices. The smartcharger is only 90mm x 20mm and can be very versatile in its use as well as easily and discretely stored in your luggage, handbag or a great tool to keep in your car.

The smartcharger is easily charged via a USB port, this can be on your home/work pc/laptop or even via a 5v “USB wall charger” or even in your car.

The smart little device can hold a full charge for approximately 100 days.

Specifications

Output

5V/1000mA (Max)

Input

5V/600mA

Capacity

2600mAh

Size

90*20mm

Working Temperature

Charging Time

3 Hours

Weight

68 grams

Cell Type

Li-Polymer Battery

First of all when looking at the product its definitely well built, and for the price retailing at $29.95AU it’s a fair investment of your hard earned dollars.

Img from http://eftm.com.au

We trailed the white version of the product and it looks and feel quite classy, the product is also available in a total of seven different colours, so it’s really take your pick.

The power adapter cord is quite versatile in its use; covering a range of new products including the latest apple attachment.

Within having the product just for a few days it really did come in handy and quite the saviour.

While being on the trip home from the office sitting on the train with my addiction to candy crush at max resolution and brightness and forgetting to charge up, smartcharger came to its first use.

The smart charger supported carry on use of the handset while continuing to give a steady charge to the device.

Overall the smartcharger does the job its designed to do while offering consumers great value for money.

Get your own smartcharger at www.smartcharger.com.au and visit www.gadgetaustralia.com for more gadget news  and releases

Talk is cheap – except in Australia

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New cost of living figures reveal the price of a pre-paid mobile phone is nearly 9 times more in Sydney than Los Angeles.

Whether it’s surfing the net, grabbing a bite out with friends after work or going to see the latest blockbuster movie, on average Australians are paying some of the highest prices in the world.

Comparison of a night out in AUSTRALIA Vs UK vsUS

Below is snapshot from the comparison website

The comparison  below is  for a night out  if  you are visiting   any of the cities London , Sydney or New york and the price of the beer, wine or cocktail

numbeo compariosn cost of living by budget direct us uk australia

Comparison tool link url : http://www.budgetdirect.com.au/costofliving/

The tool is quite handy and you can compare living costs, shopping  and getting around costs  in most major cities, though  the comparison is only focussed to a few  cities  and i would much rather have some more cities in the list  to get a better comparison figure (Comparison website  link below)

One of the differences that stood out was the cost of a pre-paid mobile phone tariff. Australians are paying on average nearly four times more for this than the US and nearly three times more than they are in the UK. When comparing the individual cities, LA costs $0.11 per minutes compared to Sydney, which is nearly 9 times more at $1.00 per minute.

It’s not only chatting on the phone that’s more expensive. Surfing the net costs considerably more in “Australia than the US and UK”. Regardless of what politicians future plans are for Australia’s NBN the data shows that Aussies are currently paying on average over 80% more than the UK and over 25% more than the US.

On a more positive note, the data shows Australians do have the highest median monthly disposable salary after tax.

The comparison guide uses data collected primarily from Numbeo, the world’s largest database of user-contributed data, which allows users to compare three cities across a number of key categories including their weekly shop, living and getting around.

To find out more about the data and make your own cost comparisons, please click here to try the tool yourself.

Freelancer Not so good after all

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They are mulling a release on  the stock market (freelancer.com) , and i was also thinking of participating  and buying some of their IPO  stock , but after I checked my email this week and saw that  i got charged $5.89 for nothing from freelancer.com, i  changed my mind. I’m no more buying any Shares in freelancer.com if it lists on  the stock market and just  started looking for alternatives for freelancer to get my freelancing  jobs done . Any company that has a sneaky tactic to charge you more and more fees, even while not providing a service can be termed bit off a rip off IMHO.

the rip off from my paypal account by freelancer

Not PayPal’s fault … just freelancer taking money outta my paypal

I had to  do a bit of further investigation to see why i was charged when i didn’t even use their service in the last month or so. I found out  after their last upgrade they  actually upgraded my account to the  Basic membership rather than the $0 fee account, which is wrong in my opinion , you just cant upgrade an existing  no fee account to basic account which automatically starts to charge your account regularly  for money when  you don’t even use that account. .

basic account versus free account at freelancer

If they were fair dinkum they would  automatically  change all the accounts to the $0  no fees account (rather than basic where users started getting charged suddenly)  and then whoever wanted to upgrade  could do so themselves.

 

i got ripped of by freelancer

 

Result:

I immediately  downgraded my freelancer account to $0 fees

 

why is freelancer charging me fees

and  cancelled freelancer authorisation to my paypal account  so that they cant force bill me anymore. I can see many people going forward  looking for alternatives  other than freelancer who are using these kinds of tactics that  lets down that trust of users and secondly also  increasing and  charging quite a hefty fee rapidly  for doing transactions with them. They are services out there that charge less than 40 % of what they charge and  I will be using them from now on.

I’m not telling that freelancer is not a good service , i have used them for my projects  but when they do this kind of stuff it lets down your trust  and you are forced to look elsewhere . Let me know if you have been a victim of the same predicament.

 

UPDATE : EVEN MORE disturbing

I got this email after downgrading … Even more P*** off now

You have successfully downgraded to a free membership. Your membership will remain active until Oct 21, 2013.

Do u use Wikipedia ! do a good deed – Donate

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Wikipedia needs your help !!

website of wikipedia

 

I  searched  for  a term in Wikipedia today and was surprised  to see a donation message pop up. Without a blink I transferred a small amount  to my favourite free website that I regularly use.

(Edit: Later on I found this)

donate to wikipedia button

One of the most used general information site that everybody uses for free needs help  to keep it alive  and why not , they serve billions off users for free , but they can’t do it forever.

I know i have used them  for information sourced for my blog  and article that i write, and so it was fair that i donate. I know most aussies  are fair dinkum and they will be a fair bit donating, so go to Wikipedia today  and when that pop up  comes up , do your bit and donate a couple of gold coins or  more if you can afford they are not asking for much

My donation  to wikipedia

how to donate to wikipedia or wikimedia website

You can go here  to this—>  official Wikimedia donation page  to donate

The message I recieved after donating

Thank you for your support. Read about why other donors around the world support Wikipedia and its sister projects, or find out if your company has a corporate matching gift program. Tell the world that you support Wikimedia: tweet it with hashtag #keepitfree!

 

Wikipedia is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Questions or comments?

Write to: donate(at)wikimedia.org   Learn more about local chapters and their projects