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The Microsoft Australia Press Shop is currently having a MASIVE sale with 50% OFF ALL BOOKS before the end of financial year (June 30th). To claim you discount for this incredible deal simply use the checkout code EOFYS10 and the discount will automatically be applied to your cart.

If you do live in Australia remember that even after this great deal is over the Microsoft Press Shop will always price match any book you can buy from Amazon (with conversion and shipping) with their Amazon Price Match Promise. I have always found their service to be excellent and the delivery has always been within two days as their warehouse is based locally in Sydney.

If you are having trouble what title you are after then I highly recommend the Configuring Windows 7 Self-Paced Training Kit for MCTS Exam 70-680 by fellow Australia MVP Orin Thomas & Ian McLean. Even if you are not planning to do the exam that this book is written for it is still a great guide for anyone who wants to brush up on what is new in Windows 7.

The other great think I love about MS Press books is they come with a PDF version which you can now copy to your iPad or iPhone and read in iBook’s which recently enabled native PDF support (see below).

Telstra have released the cost of their iPad data plans and they are the cheapest of any mobile data plans that Telstra has to offer with the starting plan of 1gb at only $20, 3gb at $30 and 6gb for $60. The other good news is that these are all pre pay plans so there is no lock in contracts. But making the plans pre-pay only is likely a requirement from Apple due to the 3G top up purchase interface on the device.

The lower prices may be as a result of the micro-sim that is required for the iPad making them essentially exclusive plans for the device.

It is yet to be seen if the other Australian wireless carriers will have similar plans or even if any of them will have an plan similar to AT&T’s Unlimited Data plan in the USA.

Sources

Telstra BigPond: Wireless Broadband – Plans an Offers

Telstra: 3G and Next G Browsing Packs

news.com.au: Telstra unveils data plans for iPad

lifehacker.com.au: Telstra Unveils iPad Data Plans

Gizmodo have just posted a video of Windows 7 running on the iPad… Don’t get to excited as it appears that it is just using VNC,Citrix or Remote Desktop to remotely connect to another computer. Still its nice to see how something like Windows 7 would run on a device like this.

  Video: Windows 7 on the iPad – Windows 7 ipad – Gizmodo

Source: FoxTrot Discovers One Comic That Just Won’t Work On the iPad – ipad – Gizmodo