Posted in Technology on Aug 27th, 2007 No Comments »
The iPhone should be an ideal device for playing video games.
After all, it has a gloriously large touch-sensitive screen and sensors that can detect when it’s being tilted: a mash-up of the best features of Nintendo’s DS handheld and Wii home console.
But games for Apple’s iPhone are off to a slow start as the company [...]
Posted in Youtube on Aug 26th, 2007 No Comments »
A wonder of the modern world, and without question the greatest car Volkswagon will every build.
The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive street-legal full production car in the world with 1001 horsepower.
How would you define the most amazing production car in the world?
Here’s a great little clip of [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Aug 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Sony plans to sell a satellite navigation accessory from February that turns its handheld PSP games console into a navigation device, the company announced at the Leipzig Games Convention on Wednesday.
The PSP equipped with the global positioning (GPS) accessory will compete with dedicated navigation devices such as those made by TomTom and Garmin.
David Reeves, head [...]
Posted in Facebook, The Net on Aug 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Nearly half of US workers are blocked from accessing the popular social networking site Facebook on their work computers, according to a study conducted by information technology security and control firm Sophos.
In a poll of 600 workers, 43 per cent said their company was blocking access to Facebook, while an additional 7 per cent reported [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Aug 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Viacom’s MTV Networks said on Tuesday it struck a digital music partnership with online music service RealNetworks and Verizon to compete against Apple’s iTunes.
MTV Networks will contribute cash, a five-year note for $US230 million and other assets to the joint venture, according to a RealNetworks filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
MTV will merge [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Aug 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Donald Trump says he wants the train-wreck triumvirate of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears for the next edition of his show The Apprentice.
The real estate magnate tells the New York Post he’s already talking with Spears, has heard of Hilton’s interest and plans to contact Lohan soon as well, presumably following her rehab [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Aug 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Bernie Banton, the battler whose fight for justice forced corporate giant James Hardie to compensate thousands of asbestos victims, is now fighting for his life.
The foe this time is an asbestos-related cancer so virulent he once said he “wouldn’t wish it on a Hardies executive”.
“I feel like I have been kicked in the guts,”
the celebrated [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Aug 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I think this is a pretty safe statement to make don’t you?
After all, when was the last time your bank GAVE YOU something for free or did something to prove to you that you are a valued customer? My guess is I bet never!
The thing that irks me about banks is the fees. There is [...]
Posted in Photography on Aug 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Digital camera’s these days are so good that complete newbies like me equipped with a point-and-shooter camera can take great photos, and its all thanks to bigger zooms and more megapixels.
Most of the entry-level cameras I’ve seen lately tend to be around the 7 - 8 megapixel and there are also a few things you [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Aug 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Do you have basic skills in HTML and want to build a magnificent-looking website, but lack the flair of a gifted graphic artist? You can literally spend hours and hours designing a new site, but thats all about to change thanks to Website Templates.
What’s a website template some of you may be asking yourself?
In [...]
