From the funniest, most simple setup to the latest technology such as controlling someone’s Christmas display from the web, these are some of the best (and worst) Christmas light displays on the Internet. 

UPDATE: UK-based TECH.BLORGE contributor James Cornelius explains why he won’t be upgrading to Windows Vista.

After five years and several delays, Microsoft celebrated the launch of Windows Vista for business at an event in New York.  Companion products, Office 2007 and Exchange Server, were also launched at the event. Business customers can now purchase these products through Microsoft’s volume licensing program.

Imagine being able to create your own web page, without knowing any code, just by dragging and dropping images and text over a screen. This is what Virtual Mechanics had in mind when creating WebDwarf. 

Microsoft just doesn’t have the right kind of cool, does it? Sure, it can do video games, but when it comes to wearable devices, such as media players, Microsoft doesn’t have the same kind of street credibility, as say, um, Apple.

Google is shutting down its user-pays question-answer service Google Answers, where for as little as $2.50 a pop hand-picked researchers answer questions. Google will stop accepting new questions later this week, and will stop supplying answers to questions by the end of the year.

More users are finding something better to watch from the Internet instead of regular TV, according to a new BBC survey.

              
  YouTube has changed the way we watch video on the web

Since June 2006, the amount of spam has explored, with more spam clogging out inboxes that ever.

Have you ever wanted to go back to the past so you could play your old computer games? Maybe you lost the 720kb or 1.44mb disk; or maybe you threw it away because it was damaged from overuse or just plain sat around too long. Reclaim your old game at OldGames.nu: the ultimate abandonware place. 

Last week was very telling time for the video console industry in the US, with Nintendo making a concerted effort to make sure its new Wii video console made a big impact. And it did. But even as Nintendo congratulates itself on a job well done, Microsoft is already talking about price wars.

Windows Vista arrives tomorrow, and it isn’t just another upgrade to Windows. It’s the operating system upgrade we had to have.

Toshiba may have wanted lots of sales of their HD DVD player in Australia, but unfortunately they’ve had to delay their HD-E1 model until January 2007.

UPDATE: Users of both Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer are at risk of having their saved passwords stolen, according to security researcher Robert Chapin, president of Chaplin Information Services - though not everyone agrees that the browsers are at fault.

I’ve fixed many computers, each one with their own unique problem; seldom will I find a computer with a hardware issue or something that doesn’t pertain to the software on their machine. Many computer troubles are a result of the user being unaware of how to properly  maintain their system. 

The storage break-through that we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived – it’s called paper. And it has important implications for the world of secret agents and espionage.

In Australia you can now buy games from a local online store and burn them to CD or DVD legally – but instead of being able to do it at home, the store has to do it for you, and send you the burnt disc in the mail.

What a funny world we live in! Chinese manufacturers are copying the circuit boards and designs of products from Japan and Korea, and they’re doing it so fast that by the time the originals arrive in the marketplace, they’re seen as the fakes.