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WowWee, one of the industries leading office toy brands has today released the new FlyTech Bladestar, one of a range of indoors helicopter flying devices.  These are not just any indoor flying toy though, these have an autopilot mode which will set the Bladestar flying around your house by itself, scaring family members witless. Ontop of that it also has battle mode, thats right with infrared beams you can actually fight these babies mid air with other Bladestar owners giving you some fairly immense dogfights in a large… Continue Reading»

There have been rumours of a high definition version of YouTube being released for some time now, many predicted it was rumour, but today a hack has been announced for HD Youtube.

So how do you hack you tube to get HD quality video?

Simply add ‘&fmt=22′ to the end of the URL.

Doing this on any video uploaded in High Definition will provide you with a fully compliant HD Youtube Video!

Of course the HD version of youtube can take much longer to load teh same clip, when we tested it the loading time was near 15 minutes longer ona 1 minute long… Continue Reading»

Windows 7 is the next generation of Windows after windows Vista.  There is not much currently known about wWindows 7 at this version in time appart from that seen from some vague screenshots and that it has been changed from Vienna to Windows 7 to signify ‘Simplicity’.

Persoanlyl I think XP is simple enough, and that any attempts to make windows simpler will result in complete loss of fnuctionality.

But never mind that, lets take a closer look at the upcoming Windows 7

Firstly Windows 7 is a new Operating systme… Continue Reading»

Virtual worlds are nothing new, from world of warcraft to second life our virtual online escapes vary from the fantasy to the social.

Now however Metaversum have begun to trial the virtual reality Twinity, a bridge between the real and the virtual by allowing you to visit real world locations walk the streets of the cities and see some of the worlds most famous landmarks.

It is true that this will never replace the real experience of visiting a city, but I can see a billion uses of Metaversum’s Twinity.  Finding hotels you would like to visit, checking out monument locations, seeing… Continue Reading»

From Geekywood

Today Adobe announced the upcoming launch of Photoshop CS4, and more importantly a major new landmark feature which is set to revolutionise the graphic designer world.

Unlike all previous versions of Photoshop CS4 is capable of utilizing your graphic card’s power, rapidly speeding up the speed at which Photoshop can zoom, manage and manipulate high end graphics on your PC.

This move is set to be a large blow to Apple users who were previously one of the few people able to access GPU compatible graphics design packages, at the cost of limited… Continue Reading»

There are thousands of products out there claiming to be the worlds smallest, greatet or quickest. I usually discount this as the usual tosh you end up reading on advertisements, the FIT’s claim to be the Worlds smallest PC running Windows XP however seems to hold some merit.

The Fit-PC an an astounding 10cm wide by 11cm long and only 3gm deep. In this box you have everything you need, from wireless capability to USB comptability, all running on the latest version of Windows XP. This does actually eem… Continue Reading»

To all my loal reader (s) I would like to apologise for the recent downtime on this site, it seems Servage are not as Digg-Proof as I currently thought as I found a warning and a site suspended email in my inbox when I returned from work a couple of days ago.

Yes it seems I was hit by the Digg Effect -  Although in this case at the instigation of Slashdot.

It seems my Article on Google Chrome was quite popular.

In the matter of 10 minutes my site was hit by 30,000 unique visitors and suspended by servage, after that in… Continue Reading»