Dear Friends,

Welcome to the 2nd issue of Faster magazine. We had a really good response from our first issue, thank you for your support and special thanks to all those readers who took the time to write to us.

First and foremost, we've just launched a new competition to give away some funky bags to you so make sure you enter to win, it's free so make sure you do it. Schweet bags Competition

We've been working really hard to bring you exciting new products. This month we'd like to introduce our newest addition to the Rushfaster family of bags you won't find on everyone else, "Manhattan Portage - New York". We've also recently updated our Mandarina Duck Isi luggage range and the new Booq Vyper sleeves for MacBook sizes have finally landed at Rushfaster. (See bleow for details)

Just a quick reminder, Father's Day in Australia is Sunday 3rd September. To kick things off we'd like to offer free shipping on all J Fold wallets. View our J Fold wallet range [click here]. Offer ends Monday 7th August 2006 and is only available by calling 1800 065 665.

We hope you enjoy the August issue of faster magazine. Have a nice day!

- Daniel, Joe & Jack at Rushfaster.

Do you like it when people give you bags? Well go to rushfaster.com.au/win and enter our Schweet Bag Competition and we might just do that. Up for grabs is a Boblbee Megalopolis backpack, an Oxio Laptop Bag and a new J Fold ZIP Wallet.

Boblbee backpacks are exceptionally versatile for outdoor activities, with the accessories you can even carry your snowboard or skis on it. It's the perfect bag to take to the snow this season. Oxio laptop bags are the funkiest laptop bags out of New York so we're going make sure you get the chance to own one of these! The J Fold Zip wallets are just coming into port now and will be available at Rushfaster in 2 weeks time - we'll also be giving one of these away!

Click Here To See Prizes & Enter. Good Luck!

One of Mandarina Duck's most popular ranges, Isi, has just arrived at Rushfaster. If you're travelling we have a range of Isi trolley cabin bags & toiletry bags in red, charcoal and blue. If you're just walking around the city and want to avoid an unsightly pocket buldge then you have to get yourself an Isi small shoulder bag, perfect for a guy's or girl's mobile life.

As with all Mandarina Duck bags the materials used are unique, the colours are stimulating and the designs are smart. Isi is a young, modern, fresh range for those who appreciate excellent design and quality. As with all Mandarina Duck ranges, stock is limited so get in while you can.

See the Mandarina Duck Isi range at Rushfaster

Are you daring?? Does the chance to shock people excite you?? God, if you don't get people talking when you wear these shoes you're doing something wrong. The new limited edition Pumas from Tokyo designer Yasuhiro Mihara has issues. The first Puma to have a leopard print? Trust the Japanese to come up with something as out there as this. Wear it with a pair of Tsubis or True Religions and go for a walk to cool down.

Go see it in person at any of the fine HYPE DC stores in Sydney or Melbourne.

Visit hypedc.com.au on the web.

I have a very out-dated mobile phone at the moment. The cheap replacement keypad is barely visible, the ringtone sounds like elevator music and the most advanced feature I have on it is SMS. Looking for a new mobile I'm finding that most of the phones out in the market are pretty similar. There was one that did get my attention so I thought I'd share it with you.

The Sony Ericsson M600i looks minimalistic in design but doesn't hold back in features. It is a 3G phone with email access, web browsing capability, movie player and most impressively, handwriting recognition! The downside is that it doesn't come with a built-in camera. I'll have to think about it.

sonyericsson.com

In our search for cool messenger bags we found Manhattan Portage. Did you know that Manhattan Portage was actually one of the first messenger bag brands in the world? Made in the USA since 1980, Manhattan Portage bags are of excellent quality. Their red label trademark (above) featuring the Manhattan city skyline is the tell-tale sign of the original messenger bag.

Manhattan Portage makes small shoulder bags, laptop bags and of course the original single strap messenger bags. Their designs are simplistic and their colours won't offend your outfit.

See the Manhattan Portage range at Rushfaster.

Attention Apple MacBook & MacBook Pro owners. We now have stock of the Vyper M2 & Vyper XL2 for the 15" & 17" MacBook Pros. These are the best laptop sleeves on the market. These are made of high density foam to protect your laptop from bumps and scratches. Everyone at Rushfaster uses one of these to protect their precious. Also available in sizes for PC laptops.

For 13" MacBook owners, the Vyper XS2 is coming 11th August. We've got a huge waiting list already so please phone us on 1800 065 665 to place a pre-order if you want one reserved (cannot be ordered online).

See the Booq Vyper Laptop Sleeves at Rushfaster.

Hot Dog what a cute tee! The moment we landed our eyes on this little store selling nice t-shirts we were immediately attracted to Hot Dog. Hot Dog is the first in Brandon Reese's CRITTERGUT series of tees.

This one's limited edition and at the time of writing there were only 167 of these puppies left.. actually 166 now that Daniel's placed his order. If you want they will even package it all fancy like and ship it out to you all dolled up.

Visit brandonreese.com and follow the links to shop.