Whilst AusCam is not in the business of letting you know you can buy, say a pair of woolly jim-jams online, we do feel it is our place - nay our duty - to let you know when interesting things do crop up. For our friends in the country especially, you'll be pleased to know that Big W has gone online with over 4000 items you can purchase via credit card, or importantly, PayPal.

So yes, even techie stuff such as plasma TVs, mobile phones or Blu-ray players, batteries, iPods and even JVC, Samsung and Panasonic camcorders are all there waiting.

Delivery costs range from $4.98 to $9.28.

See www.bigw.com.au for more info.

By David Hague

David is the owner and publisher of AusCam Online. He has a background in media dating back to 1979 when he first got involved with photojournalism in motorsport, and went from there into technology via a 5 year stint with Tandy Computers. Following that, he ran a software distribution company on the Gold Coast and was one of the first to recognise the potential of Microsoft Windows.

Moving back to WA, David wrote scripts for Computer Television for video training for the just released Windows and Office 95 among others, and was then lured to Sydney to create web sites for the newly commercial Internet in 1995, building hundreds of sites under contract to OzEmail including Coates Hire, Hertz Queensland, John Williamson, the NSW Board of Studies and many, many more.

He went back into full time journalism as the Managing Editor for Channel 7's 'Gadget Guy', Peter Blasina's publications VideoCamera and Pixelmag, before starting Australasian Camcorder magazine when these publications were shelved. He lives at Sydney's Avalon Beaches nearly on the ocean front with dog Budweiser and in his spare time is a nut for motor sport, road safety, fishing, science fiction - especially Dr Who - and technology.

David can be contacted via david@auscamonline.com