It’s been around 5 years in the making but we’re finally giving this website a facelift. Yes I know many of you love the current look and feel but we wanted to simplify and “globalize” our logo (currently “mrgadget.com.au”) for future gadget creations as well as improve the blog interactive functionality. You’ll see our gadget store also follow suit with among other augmentations, include an increase in width and new style applied throughout.

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When you’re passionate about something, milestones seem to come faster and unexpectedly. Last week we achieved another milestone here at MRGADGET.COM.AU – we published our 2,000 gadget post!
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Dear Readers and Valued Customers,

We would like to wish you a wonderful Christmas and would like to thank you for all your support in 2010!

Without you we would not have been able to beat last year’s traffic and sales records.

We hope to continue to bring you the latest gadget news, reviews and of course…gadgets!

Merry Merry Christmas!

Our office will be open for trading again on the 10th of January 2011.

In the mean time keep the site bookmarked or follow me on Twitter to keep up with our adventures in Las Vegas CES 2011!

Kind regards,

Mr.Gadget Team

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It’s November and I can’t believe it’s only next month till Christmas!

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Great news! Earlier this week, the business side of MRGADGET.COM.AU reached 40,000 customers! I would like to thank all our customers for their business and for referring us to their friends and family. Without your support, we would not be where we are today.  I am still surprised by how far we’ve come – from operating out of my cramped living room almost seven years ago to now using a warehouse and developing our own gadget brand. The experience has been both challenging and amazing!

If you have any suggestions how we can improve our business further please send your feedback to support at mrgadget dot com dot au and we’ll definitely take a look.

I would also like to personally thank the team at MRGADGET.COM.AU for their belief in the company and their tireless efforts!

Onward to 50,000 and beyond.

Over the last couple of days we have experienced email and website issues that were the result of a software upgrade on our managed dedicated server which is hosted at Hightekhosting. After personally receiving over 10,000 error emails amongst other strange website happenings within the span of 3 hours, the issue was fixed. Emails are now once again flowing and being answered as fast as possible. Thank you to Hightekhosting for resolving this as fast as possible!

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A good friend of mine on Twitter (@Cheth) shared this video link this morning and I thought I’d do the same. This creative video by Patrick Jean shows how the world just may look if our favorite video games characters took over.

Who and what better to represent the pixelated world than the infamous cantankerous Donkey Kong throwing down barrels from the Empire State Building (see above).

Fantastic video and I hope to see more from Patrick (http://www.onemoreproduction.com)

YouTube – Patrick Jean – Pixels.

I’ve just upgraded to an Apple 13″ MacBookPro and so far loving it! This is my venture back into Mac OS world after being majorly disappointed with the performance of the  17″ Apple PowerBook G4 that first hit Australia in 2004. My decision to go Mac recently, was set in concrete by several hair-pulling-out “Blue Screen Of Death” experiences. Didn’t help that most of these happened just when I was about to publish a lengthy blog post

Sure it’s been a tad tedious having to setup and configure everything just the way I like as well as getting used to the different keyboard layout of Mac machines, but I’m really digging Mac OS   (I’ll talk more about this in a later post).

One of the first things that I did was install Firefox. While Safari has improved substantially over the last couple of years in terms of speed and functionality it doesn’t have the extendability and support that Firefox has particularly through Add-ons. For those who don’t know, Add-ons are extensions that you can add to your Firefox browser to give you more functionality. They can range from news readers to games.

6 WebMaster Must-Have Add-on for Firefox

A lot of people ask me what Add-ons I use for Firefox since I’m such an FF advocate. The ones I present below will particularly help those who have websites or blogs and want to not only monitor its performance but also allow you to share your content rapidly.

1. Alexa Sparky : Displays Alexa website ranking. For those those who don’t know what this is jump to Alexa’s Website.

2. SearchStatus : Displays Google Page Rank for websites that you browse. You can read about Google Page Rank here.

3. Shareaholic : Once installed you can submit your website to a multitude of social bookmarking sites by simply right clicking

4. StumbleUpon Toolbar : Speaking of social bookmarking sites, one of the most famous is StumbleUpon. Quickly access all StumbleUpon’s main features with this.

5. Web Developer : If you’re a website designer or developer this add-on will help you quickly identify various elements of websites. Especially handy when customising CSS

6. NoFollow: Incoming and outgoing links are very important to website owners. This site gives you information if website, particularly a blog will reciprocate a link to your website after you’ve left a comment.

There are a couple of other ones that I use out of personal preference, not really having to do anything with web work like ForecastFox and FoxClocks that help me keep track of weather and international timezones. You can get a whole stack more of Firefox Addons here.

What Firefox Add-ons Do You Use?

I’d be interested in hearing what any other web developers / designers use with Firefox, especially to make the work of creating, maintaining and promoting their websites.

Hope this post helps some out there.

It was a tough choice but February’s winner of the coveted Mr.Gadget Most Valuable Commentator goes to….”Palah”.

Palah, provided consistent stream of comments on gadget posts throughout the month of Feb – some of which were even funny

Well done and enjoy your new Altec Lansing Orbit-M speakers.

We’re giving away a prize every month for the Most Valuable Commentator, so start giving your opinion on our posts today!

Life just got a lot easier for Vodafone Australia prepaid users. Mobile prepaid recharge is now possible directly online through PayPal, as long as you have an account with the online payment portal. If you’re only just registering a new PayPal account, you have to verify it first to be able to use it with the Vodafone live! mobile content portal.

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