How To Be A Bona Fide Hipster - Try To Be Different By Being The Same

Think hard. Is someone close to you at risk of being considered a hipster? An art student riding an old Malvern Star along Bourke Street while wearing skinny jeans, a khaki anorak and heavy-framed glasses with massive lenses could almost certainly be diagnosed as one. A guy who wears a $2 second-hand flannelette shirt while typing out plot points for a short film he describes as "edgy" on a $2000 laptop in a cafe on Abercrombie Street, is an open-and-shut case.

Google Ends Search For Email Access Anywhere

A friend of mine recently lamented having to carry his heavy laptop around because it was where all his email was stored. He's been caught out in the past when, despite being in an office full of internet-enabled PCs, the one email he needed wasn't accessible because he didn't have his trusty portable.