Core 2 Duo chips are everywhere these days, winning the speed crown from AMD, available in desktop PCs, iMacs, PC based notebooks and perhaps by next week, in Apple’s ever versatile MacBooks and MacBookPros.
A new printing technology has taken on colour inkjets and laser printers in Japan over the past 18 months, with over 200,000 units sold. Called a GelSprinter, it is available in the UK and has launched in Australia today, and is an interesting alternative with cool features all its own.
FUJIFILM’s new SLR-style FinePix S6500fd camera incorporates proprietary Face Detection Technology, ultra-high ISO 3200 sensitivity, sixth generation Super CCD and a Fujinon 28-300mm zoom lens.
Flash drives keep on getting bigger and bigger. In the early days, we dealt with 8mb, 16mb, 32mb and larger versions, until we got to 512mb, 1Gb, 2Gb and larger. Now a 32Gb model has finally landed, but what an amazingly expensive price!
Sites like Digg.com, which let users choose the most popular news stories, have exploded onto the scene amidst a mass of Web 2.0 and social media hysteria. With nearly 350 Digg-style sites on just about any news topic you can imagine, including sites in other languages, the user-ranked and user-generated content revolution won’t be going away any time soon.
There’s no question that, today, Macs are much more secure than Windows based PCs. This is thanks to a more secure operating system, but it has also been because of a smaller user base that presented a smaller target for malware and virus writers. However the smaller user base argument is not necessarily the case today, thanks to the rise and rise of the iPod and the iMac.
The MSNBC website has a fascinating story on how scientists are using wood fibre to make plastic stronger.
Popular Mechanics magazine has a fascinating article on a car that could travel at 100 miles per gallon, using today’s technology… and it doesn’t involve magic carburetors or engines that run on water. Click on this link or the picture below to read the original article (over four pages, with the image on page 2 of how the car would be constructed available as a link to a downloadable PDF file. You’ll find that link on the first page).
A web designer of 10 years has put together an interesting website on the process he takes to create a new site from scratch.
FUJIFILM’s new FinePix Z3 is designed to be a stylish, ultra-compact digital camera that appeals to the fashion-conscious.
Key features: 3.1 MP, 3x optical zoom, ERP $399
The new Creative ZEN Vision W portable video, photo and MP3 player features a high resolution, 4.3-inch, 16:9 format, colour widescreen TFT display for viewing up to 240 hours of video, tens of thousands of photos, and it can carry up to 15,000 songs.
After several beta and release candidate versions, the final version of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) has been released and is now available for download, although the first bug has already been reported.
Wired reporter Kevin Poulsen’s coding skills have led to the arrest of sexual deviant Andrew Lubrano.
Lubrano’s MySpace profile
While Nokia are releasing the fantastic looking 5 megapixel N95 super smart cameraphone in Q1 2007, Samsung have just released their first 10 megapixel cameraphone exclusively for the South Korean market. Is it a phone with a camera, or a camera with a phone?
While the small batch of Apple iPods infected with a Windows virus pose no threats to iMacs or the iPods themselves, the fact they were infected at all is a big worry. Now, the potential for virus and malware writers to start targeting Mac OS X in a bigger way cannot be ignored, and should be a massive wake-up call to Apple and its users: owning a Mac does not mean you’re invulnerable.
With two brand new versions of Windows by November 1, the end of the Windows world as we know it is already here.
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