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Google Chrome is Googles second foray into the world of Internet browsing software.

Google Chrome itself was released yesterday and is available to download at http://www.google.com/chrome for free.

The best thing about Google Chrome is undoubtedly its new Back End, unlike nearly all other internet browsers Chrome has the unique feature of running each tab and window with its own process, this has several significant benefits.

• Memory Usage
• Browsing Speed
• Crash Protection (Not Recovery)
• Visual Management
• Security

Full movies have long been available to download from the Internet, tools such as rapidshare and torrent downloading have allowed people to share films across the internet with near complete anonymity and freedom.

Recently however things took a turn for the worse, long gone were the days when you could download free movies from the internet and instead you found cheap cinema copies, riddled with poor sound and viruses.  That of course was if you managed to get the right film.

Today I decided that… Continue Reading»

I have been upgrading my PHPBB 3.0 onto a few sites now and haev been using various themes for them all. For those that dont know PHPBB3 is the latest offering from from PHPBB one of the worlds most used forum management systems.

PHPBB3 is free to use and very customisable, which is why choosing your PHPBB3 theme is so difficult. There are thousands of PHPBB3 themes out there, some free and some that cost, so I decided to choose my favorite PHPBB3 Themes and put them here just to make things a little bit easier for my readers … Continue Reading»

Polaroid, the company who once brought us the famous instant camera, were hit hard by the coming of the digital era.  On July the 6th however they will fight back with a Pocket Sized Portable Inkless Printer called the PoGo.  A hot new gadget that can print via bluetooth or USB, making it compatible with the majority of cell phones on the market.

So how have they made a printer so small and work without ink?

Quite simply the pocket sized photo printer doesnt really print, it simply heats… Continue Reading»

Apple captured the hearts of many phone users last year with the release of the iPhone, but many felt that the phone was lacking.

This week Apple anounced the release of the iPhone 2 (or the iPhone 3G). The iPhone 2 does at first glance seem to answer many prayers of its followers, with much faster downloading of music, GPS tracking and faster innards. It will also quite surprisingly allow third party applications, allowing you to customise your iPhone 2!

The downsides slowly seem to be piling up though, in a… Continue Reading»

Windows Live Writer is a recent offering from Microsoft to challenge Bloggers dominance. While Windows Live Writer is fairly decent by itself what really makes live writer stand out is its ability to use Plugins. Plug ins are basically additions to a program that increase its functionality, and it is the plug-ins that make windows live writer unique and powerful in the blogging world.

Of course once you have found out that windows live writer plugins exist you have to decide which ones to have, well these… Continue Reading»

ems as if the future is here today as Telstra demonstrated a working Hologram displaying a person giving a speech from 460 miles away in Australia.

The life sized 3D image was projected onto the stage where CEO Hugh Bradlow interacted with the audience (who he could see via webcam feeds)

This has been one of the few real examples of hologram technology put into use for communcations, although it is still too expensive for any real business or personal use.

The hologram technology is a fantastic step forward, and proof that it can be done with todays tehnology. … Continue Reading»