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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I’m sure if I ask everyone visiting Mr. Gadget if they do financial transactions online, I’ll get an overwhelming “yes” as an answer. I use PayPal to pay and receive payments both, and I got to be honest and tell you that all those horror stories about being hacked fray my nerves.

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Telstra subsidiary Sensis just got hitched with Google. First, Sensis kills off its search engine completely and would, from now on, integrate Google’s search engine for the web site. Thankfully, there will be no layoffs as a result from the integration, but it would slash costs on Sensis’ part.

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Australian company ExitReality launched an application that could render all web sites, not just ones especially designed for it, in 3D. If a page isn’t customized for the app, it’s shown as a street with pages as scrolling billboards and links as streetlamps or anything similar.

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Modern music shouldn’t be the only type of music freely available online nowadays. As someone who loves listening to classical music, Passionato would be able to fulfill my needs in that arena. Launched yesterday, the web site sells DRM-free classical music directly from its store.

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nike+

Hey, I hope you haven’t forgotten about the Nike+ Human Race 10K on August 31, 2008. If not, check our prior post about it, and maybe you can join participants in Melbourne where the event’s taking place. Speaking of Nike+, there are some alleged screenshots of its interface optimized for the Apple iPhone.

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streetview

Look, don’t blame me for already having spent hours using the Google StreetView for Australia which just went live yesterday. Come on, is there anything more amusing than digital stalking, er, I mean digital tourism?

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Have you ever been hacked? Lost huge amounts from your PayPal account before? Oh, not yet? Then lucky you. I know loads of people who got their sensitive information stolen from their computers before, and much more who lost their money from online payment merchants.

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