Archive for November, 2006
Sick of spam? 9 out of 10 emails ARE spam!
Thursday, November 30th, 2006There’s more spam than ever before flooding into our inboxes thanks to criminals who are sending out junk emails by the millions.
Vista - the OS upgrade we had to have
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006No Toshiba standalone HD DVD players for Christmas
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006Toshiba have unfortunately delayed their first standalone HD DVD player in the Australian market. The HD-E1 model will now arrive in January 2007 instead.
Aussie online games store lets you burn games to DVD
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006But there’s a catch! 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.
Chinese prefer fake tech to the real thing
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006It’s a really funny and strange 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.
Xbox 360 has initial problems with TV, movie downloads
Monday, November 27th, 2006If you’re in the US, have an Xbox 360 and have tried downloading TV shows and movies from Microsoft’s Xbox Live video download service, you may have been experiencing problems. Extremely high numbers of downloads from the Xbox Live video download service over the past few of days has caused the slow download speeds and video download issues US customers have been experiencing, reports Microsoft, with a fix in the works and engineers working around the clock.
Porn sites blocked by Canadian ISPs
Monday, November 27th, 200630 products you can’t buy that were great
Monday, November 27th, 2006PC World magazine has an excellent article on 30 great products that we could all once buy, but are no longer on sale.
Fancy a meal of not-so-yummy cottonseed?
Monday, November 27th, 2006The cotton industry has come up with a new reason to grow the very water hungry cotton plant: they’ve managed to remove the toxin from cottonseeds to make them edible. And this is progress?
Apple might ring in the new year with 2 iPhones
Sunday, November 26th, 2006The rumours are flying thick and fast that Apple is set to introduce two new iPhones at the US Macworld expo in early January, and it’s threatening to change the world of mobile phones and music as we know it.
The perfect car for towing anything
Sunday, November 26th, 2006Want a car that can tow anything? The Volkswagen Touareg sounds perfect, especially after it towed a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet. But what a pity we’re still only towing planes, instead of flying cars!
FM Transmitters OK for use in UK from Dec. 8
Saturday, November 25th, 2006Feel the need for speed with quantum computing
Saturday, November 25th, 2006Quantum computers are finally getting some big breakthrough advancements that owning your own quantum computer do create and work on amazing projects sometime in your lifetime that will cause you to look at today’s most powerful machines and reminisce
Xbox 360 gets TV and movie downloads at last
Friday, November 24th, 2006Should the TV networks be quaking in their boots? What about BitTorrent and p2p users?
Pando lets you send big attachments through email
Friday, November 24th, 2006Sick of not being able to send big emails to friends, family and colleagues? Finally, a new web service lets you send email attachments of up to 1Gb in size. It’s simple and it’s free!
New Palm Treo coming week before Christmas
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006Are you a fan of the Palm Treo? A great new model is about to land on Australian shores, and has just gone on sale in the US. It’s one of the best messaging mobiles we’ve seen and is a strong challenger to the Blackberry and competing devices.
One laptop per child project starts
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006Remember this project? Created by Nicholas Negroponte from MIT Labs, and supported by the UN, some governments and companies such as News Corporation and Google, the first 10 laptops have rolled off the production line at a cost of about US $150 each, not the US $100 price point originally envisaged.
Second Life ‘virtual world’ attacked
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006Grey goo has infected the virtual world, with golden rings visible that once touched, start replicating. Second Life had to be shut down and cleansed of the problem before users could get access again.
Toshiba launches ‘Class 4′ 8Gb SDHC memory card
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006Got a new digital device such as a digital camera, mp3 player, laptop computer or other device that can take the new SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) memory card standard?




