Articles Archive for November 2009
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Sky TV in the UK have said that they will be offering 3D Premier League Football matches by “Mid 2010″. The 3D football matches will be achieved using two HD cameras to record wide shot angles. Then for close ups, normally 2D cameras will be used.
If your already a Sky HD user, then your nearly there in terms of kit. The Sky box and satellite dish won’t be changing. The only problem is, that big new 1080p HD TV you just bought will have to be updated yet again! 3D TV’s require …
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Interested in trying out the new Google search interface? It won’t be available to the public until next year but you can know try it out for yourself and get a sneak preview of it before it’s officially released. It also appears that Google are trying out this new search interface on random users.
The new interface is cleaner and more colorful than the current version and gives the user more options, with a permanent sidebar. Very like Bings…… Maybe Google are concerned about Bing taking some of it’s market share and an …
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Many of our readers may have heard Google’s latest online method of communication, Google Wave. Currently it is only available for people who are invited to use it, much like what Google did with Gmail. Well I have 8 invites available to give out to whoever I wish. Well im giving you all the chance to Win one of these invites.
All you have to do is comment on our blog posts and I’ll randomly select a comment and the user will win a free invite to Google Wave! It’s as …
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Users of Mininova may have noticed today that it’s suddenly taken a crash course diet. Every single illegal torrent in its index has been removed, so basically nearly every single torrent. All that its users are left with now is content put up by the artists themselves and linux distros!
It seems the anti-piracy groups are starting to get their ways recently, with the closure of Pirate Bay and now Mininova feeling their wrath. It wasn’t just a change of heart by Mininova.org, in a recent ruling in the Dutch court, …
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Yes that’s right, Tesco in the UK are going to have the iPhone available for sale before Christmas. Tesco mobile, which uses the O2 network has announced that it will be the latest carrier to have the iPhone. They will have both the 3G and 3GS models and more importantly they will be available before Christmas, which beats Vodafone to the mark, who aren’t getting it until next January. What’s more they will be available on Contract and Pay As You Go.
The good news for consumers, in the UK at least is …
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We here so much about how bad smoking is for you and others around you, well now we have solid evidence. Mac users who smoke may want to check if their Macbook is around next time they light up. It turns out, smoking is affecting your Macbooks health.
The Consumerist blog has been contacted by two different Apple owners who have apparently had their Applecare warranties voided and repairs refused because they were smokers. Apparently they were told by Apple that the computers had signs of smoke damage and could not be repaired …
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iPhone users who have jailbroken their phones are now at risk to the first malicious worm for the iPhone. This new worm appears to only be affecting online bankers in the Netherlands for the moment, it was discovered by security
company F-Secure
It is specifically targeting people in the Netherlands who are using their iPhones for internet banking with Dutch online bank ING. It redirects the bank’s customers to a lookalike site with a log-in screen.
This isn’t like the worm that appeared a couple of weeks ago in Australia which simply changed …
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As we had anticipated, Microsoft have released a public Beta preview of the new Microsoft Office 2010 edition. You can download your own copy from Microsoft’s website here.
Microsoft have published a list of what’s new in this latest edition of Microsoft Office. But what stands out the most is the new social networking feature which allows you to bring in contacts from Windows Live and other social networking sites. For the moment though Linked In is the only that supports it. But a development kit is available for others to …
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Today Google gave a preview of their new Chrome Operating System for the first time. Google say they are about a yearaway from releasing the final product to the consumer.
At first glance it seems very like the Google Chrome browser which is to be expected with a few extra features in it.
You can see a demonstration video of it here:
If your looking for more information on the event and the OS itself, have a look at Cnet’s post here
Let us know what your first impressions of Googles new OS are …
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It appears the rumors that were floating around that Google would be unveiling a demo of it’s new Chrome OS this weekhave been true. It now appears Google are ready to unveil it’s new OS which they have done a very good job of keeping quite.
The Chrome OS is expected to launch sometime next year and is aimed at the netbook market firstly. The OS is to be based on a light weight browser and was announced in July.
Well tomorrow, Thursday we shall find out more, official invitations said that demos …

