Apple introduces new music options: iTunes Pass
February 26, 2009
Aside from the famous iTunes music shop, we now hear that Apple is experimenting with something new called iTunes Pass. This new app will allow you to buy a pass for a certain group or artist that you like and after you’ll get everything that artist releases for a given time period.
For example Apple is starting with Depeche Mode. Buy a pass for $19 and you’ll get the band’s new single right now, Read more
World of Warcraft player wins an Oscar
February 25, 2009
A few nights ago it was the Academy Awards where lots of actors, directors, writers and producers got thier deserved awards— as was a World of Warcraft player.
Steve Preeg is a well known Hollywood visual effects artist responsible for films like Lord of the Rings and I, Robot. When not working, Read more
Find out where you are using your Gmail account
February 11, 2009
We all love Gmail, and because of that they keep releasing new features that are not only useful but also fun.
It’s the case of Location in Signature option that appends your current location (determined by your public IP address) to your email adress.
Also if you’ve got Gears with location awareness installed, your results will be even more accurate.
via: gmailblog.blogspot
Google’s new service: PowerMeter
February 10, 2009
Google just launched a free web service called PowerMeter (in beta of course) that has the ability to let users track the energy consumption wherever they are (home or bussines) if there is a way to upload the data.
It is not entirely up to Google for this thing to work, they are counting on others to build devices to feed data into Read more
Internet Explorer 8 release candidate out now
January 27, 2009
After six months of beta, Internet Explorer 8 release candidate is now available.
I can’t say if this is a happy moment because I’m kinda used to my Chrome and Mozilla browsers. But let’s see what Microsoft did with IE 8 this time. The ‘compatibility mode’ is now automatic - switching whenever the IE8 engine can’t render a page properly, rather than having to be triggered on demand. Read more
AMD’s Phenom II reaches 6.5GHz: a new record in 3DMark is set
January 26, 2009
A team of crazy hardcore speed freaks overclocked one of AMD’s latest Phenom II X4 chips using liquid nitrogen and liquid helium creating an environment of -232 degrees Celsius.
Once the silicon was appropriately chilled, they proceeded to push the clock speed to an insane 6.5GHz, that delivered an absurd score of 45,474 in 3DMark05. Read more
The dawn of the hard drive: Google’s Gdrive arriving in 2009
January 20, 2009
Google’s most anticipated product Google Drive, or Gdrive will ultimately become the most powerful internet tool (some say).
Gdrive is an online storage where Google servers have the capacity to hold the entire contents of your hard drive. Not only that but it will it will do cool tricks - like booting your computer from online drive to load the Google operating system. Basically it’s desktop Read more
Vatican goes YouTube
January 19, 2009
Brothers and Sisters ! No need for long trips to the Vatican, because now the guys running the place are planning a personal channel on the video sharing site YouTube where the Catholics, the faithful,the curious, the sinners and all YouTube maniacs will be able to see Pope Benedict and other special Church events.
A news conference attended by Vatican officials and Henrique de Castro (managing director of media solutions for Google - YouTube owners), will be held Read more
New Facebook iPhone app out now
January 19, 2009
Since the summer of 2008 when the Facebook app was launched, and later in September 2.0 came next, there were a few changes or minor updates made to it and still the app had lots of issues.
Now 2.1 is out and its creators stated that this new version has made significant improvements on previous Read more
Blockbuster and Sonic Solutions: a new streaming movie service
January 14, 2009
Renting VHS or DVD’s is all just part of past. The future looks like streaming movie rental services.
For many this might be good and nice but there are companies out there like Blockbuster that are not too happy to support online rentals because they might hurt their retail rental and sales business. Read more
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