Rovio – Remote Home Security Robot

Rovio can be the eyes and ears of your house whilst you’re out, whether you don’t trust your housemates, your cleaner or perhaps a babysitter. A Wi-Fi driven remote home security robot loaded with a webcam and camera so you can roam around your house from room to room from the other side of the globe using any device with web access.

The Rovio has a wide range of uses, from spying on your housemate or simply an extremely different way of chatting with anyone in your home whilst you’re away. It has three wheels for ease of travel. I guess it could be difficult to turn over after an unexpected crash and flip.

Google Chrome Operating System Demo – Will It Be Any Good?

Chances are that you are reading this on a Window’s machine, or that failing that either on a Mac or some species of Linux – it’s pretty much a three horse race, and a biased one at that. So obviously when Google decided to enter the operating system market with Google Chrome OS there’s always going to be some excitement especially when they promise to ‘revolutionise’ the way we use our computers.

Aiming to be more in sync with the way we use computers today (i.e. on the web) it focuses more on speed, security and simplicity which Google are hoping will help it to break into the O/S market – but what makes Google Chrome OS special, and will you be throwing your Windows away when it’s released? Let’s have a look!

Growing Importance Of Geographical Location On The Internet

Wordpress is one of the biggest blogging platforms on the planet with over 7.5 million bloggers using their hosted service. Recently, they rolled out geo-tagging, which allows you to label your blog and blog posts by location, with the promise of new features coming soon.

The ability to search by area as well as “showing the location of your commenters, the location of poll votes, a live map view of blog updates on WordPress.com, or an annual report showing you where your posts were written and where your comments came from” will gradually be implemented and highlight the growing importance of location in the digital age.

Windows Live Essentials Review: Family Safety

For those over-protective parents out there, the final Windows Live Essentials application I’m taking a look at is Family Safety. Personally, it looks like more hassle than it’s worth, especially considering that Windows 7 and Windows Vista both have Parental Controls built in that work very well! If you use the Parental Control’s in Vista or 7, you can already stop the kids from using certain applications, going on the computer at certain times and applying a web filter.

Mili iPhone Battery Power Pack Charger

With all that the iPhone is capable of, it’s insane to think that the battery won’t run down from time to time. Of course, with all those apps running, it probably won’t last as long as you’d like, quite often less than a day with moderate use, so that’s where the Mili iPhone Power Pack comes in very useful!

It offers up to 390 hours of standby time, over 30 hours of audio playback and 9 hours of video playback which will no doubt be very welcome, perhaps just what you need on a long journey. Not only does it pack this enormous amount of power, it fits in perfectly with the sleek and elegant design of the iPhone. It hugs tightly to the iPhone so as to barely increase the size and weight of the phone.

Windows Live Essentials Review: Toolbar

Internet toolbars… I’ve never liked them, and always associate them with two words: useless and malware. So what makes Live Toolbar different? Well, apart from integration with every other Live application, not a lot. For some reason, Microsoft felt compelled to give you another search box to go along with the one you already have in the top corner of IE, which is utterly pointless and tends to get in the way a bit.

Another gripe I have is the fact that you need Internet Explorer to use the damn thing, which puts me off straight away – I much prefer Firefox or even Safari to Internet Explorer, and unfortunately for Microsoft, a toolbar isn’t going to change that!