March, 2007
Apple iRack
March 30, 2007
Apple seem to be leaders in design with most people playing catch-up these days, now they are launching a series of new products including the iRack!
Check out the video below at which they are unveiled – comedy with a message!
Continue reading »Upscaling DVD Players
March 29, 2007
After buying my first High Definition TV (in the form of the very good Samsung LE32R74BDX) a few weeks back and have started enjoying the improved pictures that High Definition (HD) provides in the form of Xbox 360
I’m currently holding off on buying Sky HD due to the costs involved for a somewhat limited number of channels that are currently available, plus I’m finding I’m watching less actual TV these days, so the value for money of this ‘home entertainment investment’ really isn’t there for me. However, if the price of the Sky boxes fall further and/or the additional subscription costs dropped, I could be tempted though! 
Xbox 360 Elite!
March 28, 2007
Following my post on a possible new Xbox 360 model – it was only speculation at the time, it could have turned out to be a big hoax for April Fools, but Microsoft have now officially unveilled it and rather nice it looks too!
Channel 10 have a very interesting interview with Albert Penello from Microsoft who answers some important questions that were being asked all over the Internet about the Xbox 360 Elite. For instance:
- The console and accessories are black in colour,
- A 120GB hard disk,
- It has a HDMI connection port, an included HDMI cable,
- A standard DVD drive (no built-in Hi-Def drive),
- It won’t be a limited edition model.
Heroes or Zeroes?
March 27, 2007
I’ve just recently started watching a new TV show called ‘Heroes‘, which I’d describe as being a cross between Lost and X-Men. It’s a show about normal people developing super powers such as telepathy, seeing the future, healing and being able to fly and what they do with them. What would you do if you had super-powers? Would you save the world? Or use them to your own advantage?
I recommend you take a look at Heroes and give it a few episodes, there’s some great moments in just the early episodes!
Continue reading »Sluggish Firefox
March 27, 2007
One of the best things about Firefox in my opinion is all the different “extensions” you can install into it to add additional functionality. However, over the past month or so I’ve been experiencing a very frustrating time using Firefox – the whole program seemed to be running on a general go-slow.
I’d have problems with just simple things like typing something and then waiting a few seconds for it to catch up with me. Add into that, regular freezing and very slow scrolling through my tabs, it’s really been annoying the hell out of me.
I’d reduced some of the large number of extensions I had installed, but to no avail. I’d been looking at potential background processes which could be sucking up resources and choosing to un-install some, however this didn’t resolve matters neither.
Continue reading »Flash Earth World Map
March 26, 2007
Do you want a flash world map? Well there’s quite a few different mapping tools now available on the Internet including Google Maps, Microsoft’s Live Search etc.
However, I’ve found that these different tools can be using vastly different aerial images. For instance, the area I live in, on Google Maps (and Earth) is a very low resolution image where you cannot even make out where towns are, let alone your own house! Whereas using a flash world map such as Flash Earth, you can quickly switch between the different mapping engines to see which has the best quality images for you – in my case it was Live Search and I can get detailed images of my house and local area.
Continue reading »Lost Island Maps!
March 26, 2007
Do you want to see a Lost island map? If you’re one of the many of us who are still hooked by the Lost TV show that charts the adventure of the survivors of lost Oceanic Flight 815 – then a bunch of lost island maps relating to the island itself and the incidents which have occurred may be of interest to you!
Continue reading »Commodore Gaming PC
March 24, 2007
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the the forthcoming return of Commodore computers, since then the new Commodore-branded PCs were recently unveiled, so I thought I’d best do a follow-up piece.
The new PCs will certainly look different from the old Commodore computers, with the cases having various optional high quality customisable artwork or ’skins’, however the good old C= logo remains intact on them. Examples of this artwork can be seen at Kotaku.
Continue reading »IPTV – TV On The Internet Is Coming!
March 23, 2007
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is one way of having TV on Internet. The TV programming is delivered over broadband to your computer or TV. This could normally be done using a separate box connected to your TV for instance, however later this year there will be another option – high definition TV on Internet is streamed through your cheap Xbox 360!
There’s a couple of very informative videos over at GameDrift and Gizmodo that help to demonstrate the power of this IPTV system.
Distributed Computing Software Downloads
March 22, 2007
Folding@home is a distributed computing software system that means you can put your idle computer to good use by means of distributed computing project which is similar to one of the first projects of this type; SETI@home. Distributed computing software uses the spare computing cycles of your home computer by sending it a small chunk of work to process, which alone isn’t a great amount, but when thousands of other computers are also contributing to a project in this manner, all that combined processing power equals a huge supercomputer which can process highly complex data.
In this case, distributed computing software centres around simulating the folding of proteins in the human brain – which when they fold incorrectly cause diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes. Folding@home hopes to help in the medical research of finding cures to these diseases and you can help this research by downloading and running the Folding@home software.
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