Linkage

TiVo on your mobile.

To watch the World Cup in ASCII enter: telnet ascii-wm.net 2006 in to the command line shell.

Alan Partridge The Movie (2007)

Movie expected 2007!. He's even got his own my space account.

Boing Boing: Man lives on monkey chow for less than $1 per meal

Boing Boing: Man lives on monkey chow for less than $1 per meal

Wired News: A Sixth Sense for a Wired World

Wired News: A Sixth Sense for a Wired World: "What if, seconds before your laptop began stalling, you could feel the hard drive spin up under the load? Or you could tell if an electrical cord was live before you touched it? For the few people who have rare earth magnets implanted in their fingers, these are among the reported effects -- a finger that feels electromagnetic fields along with the normal sense of touch." Gross, but cool. via BoingBoing.

Stuff On My Cat

Stuff On My Cat. It's like pictures of cats with like, stuff on them.

Spore - Best game in the world ever?

Spore is a new game like: Populus, Sim City, Civilisation, ECO (the old Atari ST game), all rolled into one freakin' awesome game. It's due out Q4 2006.

It starts with you creating your own life form at a microscopic level, and it evolving into a creature you control (like ECO), then you control a tribe of your creatures (like Populus), then you build a city (like Sim City), then you conquer other peoples (like Civ), and then you travel space setting up other planets and civilisations...

There's a long (35minute) walk through of every single mode in the game on Google video here from 2005 - it's definitely worth watching. For more recent videos see the links on the right to see how the graphics and interface have improved.

Is it a Mac or a light sabre?

Court rejects Apple bid to bust blogs - Engadget

Court rejects Apple bid to bust blogs - Engadget: "a California appeals court decided against Apple today in the company's bid to force bloggers to turn over sources who leaked information about the Apple product codenamed 'Asteroid' way in 2004 (remember that?). This follows an earlier ruling where the trial judge sided with Apple, after which the EFF intervened and appealed the case. Apple had argued that the websites in question, PowerPage and Apple Insider, were not entitled to the same rights as traditional journalists -- and even if they were, they still didn't have the right to protect sources who leaked trade secrets. But the appeals court roundly rejected both notions as contrary to California's reporter's shield law and the state Constitution, effectively stating that it wasn't Apple's place to decide what constitutes 'legitimate journalism,' and that Apple could have investigated the leak of trade secrets themselves without drawing the websites into the mix."

favourite comment about the above: "Apple now think that they're so special that we're all dying for leaked info.. Sorry to say but Apple is soooo insignificant in the PC market it's not even funny and the whole ipod craze will be a short-lived fad as mobile phones start having Gigs of memory.

They should be happy that we even bother."

Not related to the article above, but related in that it's apple related: Steve Jobs says: "Buy a new ipod every year" link.

PC World test the new black MacBook - pictured above - the comments are funny. Someone points out: (paraphrased) Why should we have to pay a premium for a black coloured laptop that looks just like a PC laptop?

Google coming to a Dell near you...

BBC News - Google have outbid Microsoft in order to win a deal to put the Google software and homepage on Dell computers... apparently the deal could have cost google billions of dollars. Good news for anyone who buys Dell, in my opinion, Google is the lesser of two evils when it comes to software and homepages. I'd much rather see a google page instead of MSNs site. Both Dell and Google can make money out of the deal - most likely through google ads - apparently this made firefox a load of money when people used the firefox google homepage search.

Happy Friday Everybody!

"There was a moment, as George Bush watched Tony Blair fielding questions on Iraq, when the president's eyes actually seemed to be shining with affection and respect. Of course, it may have been a trick of the harsh television lights." awww...

Windows Vista? Is it pants? How pants?

"Windows Vista Starter - Because of the unprecedented pirating of Microsoft Windows, this low priced version offers a legal alternative to using unauthorized copies. It will be severely limited, for example only allowing a user to launch at most, three applications with a user interface at once, will not accept incoming network connections, and physical memory is limited to 256 MB." From here.

Double-U-Tee-efff? In the words of Ali G: What the Chuff is that? (in reference to a wildebeast) Okay, I can accept that someone may only wish to use a couple of programs, say Email, Internet and Word maybe, although that would be majorly annoying, "sorry you can't open your mp3 playing software, because you already have too many programs open", but limiting phsical memory to 256mb? are they [microsoft] the most retarded company in the world? do they wish to make every computer in the world into the slowest thing ever?

And Windows Vista Beta 2 Sucks - I'm thinking that we need a pants rating like for example, seriously sucky, worst thing ever, would be a pants rating of 10, and a pants rating of 1 would be "this product is somewhat pants". 5 would be "this product is pure pants".

We're having a baby!

Here they are pictured with a digital camera. Click to make bigger. Baby name suggestions welcomed.

New MacBook

Available in black or white. Seems to replace the ibook. Link. 13" widescreen, dual core. From $1099/£749 (roughly more than double a basic (single core) Dell Inspiron 1300 from £349).

Apple Clones are Back

Dodgy ones made out of Pentium 4s and an Intel version of OS X. With fresh fun names: PowerPC G6 Macintosh and Apple G6 Macintosh-Clone Computer.

Guy Kewney interview

Oh wow. This is just the best tv. ever. The BBC interviewed someone who they thought was Guy Kewney, only it was "Guy Goma", a Business Studies graduate, in reception because he was applying for a high level IT job with the BBC - when a studio manager mistook him for the expert. He answers all the questions - he assumed the whole thing was some kind of initiation prank.
Anyway, head over to the bbc website and you can watch the video in realplayer or wmp.

wanted: sheep

Aparently the best thing for keeping grass short would be sheep. link.
Quote: It currently costs about £2,000 and takes up to 180 hours to cut the grass at the tidal barrage on the River Ouse.
By my powers of deduction the people that cut the grass are paid over ten pounds an hour before tax. I expect the farmer will not be paid so well for supplying sheep.

Skype is great skype is fab. It lets you talk to your mates on the internet for free. You can do video calls too if you've got a webcam. joshwa 429 is my username if you wanna look me up.

this post sponsored by youtube.

cool beatbox dude. avi file, right click, save target as, or alternatively watch it on you tube. really pleasing to watch with all the facial expressions. and have you seen the pokemon music video (10 million views) - it's very funny. did you know youtube spend about $1 million a month on bandwidth? great video showing the evolution of dance - features mc hammer, and big butts :)

random links disease

voices. carol vorderman is bad. mac dude gets enough donations, and buys his mac - it only took him 2 days less than a month!

Another independant Computer Manufacturer Dies

Silicon Graphics have filed for bankruptcy. I guess it's because people can do graphics on Windows / Linux generic boxes these days.

Pentax *ist DL Digital SLR Review

Matthew Waller has written a review of the Pentax *ist DL Digital SLR at DigiCamReview - the 6 megapixel digital SLR is one of the cheapest available, available for around £400 with kit lens. The Pentax is one of the smallest digital SLRs available, and has some of the smallest lenses available, including a pancake 40mm (~61mm equivalent) lens. With Digital SLRs available for around £400 - can you see yourself buying one in the near future? Or does the price, and size put you off?

Seti at Home Enhanced! What? Where? When? Why?

Official Details. What? - Key facts: Takes more processing power, ie work takes longer to do, as it is processing more data. "Credit" is calcuated differently based on "actual number of floating point operations done". Optimised versions will be available as it's all open source, BUT they aren't available yet. When? - the data / program will be dished out automatically. Why? - the eternal search for nothingness in space continues...

Where? - Post sponsored by: Waller Seti Effort (official stats), Onestupid Seti page, Joshwaller.co.uk Seti Benchmarks.

Acorn Computers to be reborn as laptop maker - Engadget

Acorn Computers to be reborn as laptop maker - Engadget - Four laptops from 12" to 17". Probably just rebadged, as per nearly every other laptop in the world, but cool name for Acorn fans.

Apple MacBook Pro Bad

Apple put too much thermal paste on, and now want to sue websites who provide evidence - whats worrying are the official instructions actually state to use a whole tube of thermal paste per cpu! Apple have faulty batteries as well. So there. ;)

Sell your old phone for money... (plus more thrifty-ness)

Martin's Money Tips tells you how to sell your old mobile phone for maximum profit.

Need an old/cheap/free computer? Build your own out of wood.

Shane Beales - Living Genius

A chap I know, Shane Beales, is a flipping musical genius. You can sign up to "Project 52" for £20, and you'll get 52 songs, 1 per week. Each one is a flipping gem! Rather than buying some pap for £15, and enjoying 1 out of the 15 tracks, why not spend £20 and enjoy all the tracks? (even if you don't enjoy most of the tracks, with 52 tracks, you've got a VERY good chance of finding 15-20 tracks you absolutely love!). There are 2 free songs to give you an idea of his music style...

MacBook Pro is "Bitchin"

"In regards to the recent 17-inch MacBook Pro's release, Jobs let everyone know, "Everyone wants a MacBook Pro because they are so bitchin’." Thanks for that, Steve. Jobs also mentioned the possible demise of the CRT in their lineup, due to environmental concerns and their general lack of bitchin-ness."

Quote from Engadget, Steve Jobs at MacWorld. Also in these articles Steve Jobs says Media Center Apple should be soon.

Atari UK promotion...

When I first read this, I thought it was talking about an Atari branded laptop... unfortunately it's just a Rockdirect laptop with some Dungeons and Dragons graphics on it, used to promote Atari's new computer game... perhaps one day Atari will produce Atari branded hardware again...?

New ultra efficient car...

157mpg deisel engine car pictures on the site - super aerodynamic.

Intel Core Duo (2.16ghz overclocked to 3.4ghz) beats overclocked P4 at 7.2ghz link.

Waller Seti Effort Stats

With lovely pie charts, graphs, and figures. Link. Team's world rank is no. 780 - pretty impressive!

2 seater mini

mini with only 2 seats. Wonderful.

Apple - MacBook Pro 17"

Apple - MacBook Pro 17" Released Only £1999.

map of the internet!

funny pic: here.. would be fun to see how other people see the internet.

150 Mac Minis and a Tour Round Microsoft Mac Division

They have 150 Mac Minis, and use KVMs, and Apple Remote Desktop to remote control them, using Apple's 30" screen, they can monitor 50 Mac Mini's at a time. (Pictured). For testing purposes they keep every single Apple Mac revision every released. This tour shows you heaps of pictures of it and it's a great read! (hmmm blogger image uploading doesn't seem to work with opera...)

Other Tech related stuff: Earth Day today - how to recycle your computer, and another link - how to recycle your computer. New Linux PC only costs $146 (AMD 400 mhz/800mhz Godson 2C processor, a 40-gigabyte hard drive, and 256 MB of RAM and running a Linux variant called the Thinix OS.). Rumour that next major Mac OS X will let you run Windows Apps natively in OS X. Intel Core Duo tested, results say It's the best CPU ever!.

Windows Updates Gone Wrong - You may have noticed loads of Windows updates recently, apparently they are bad... they are to do with Internet Explorer, and can break it's ability to work with add-ons, such as videos in windows etc - in my case, IE will crash after watching a video. Well, you can undo the damage Windows updates have done, with this patch here.

intel iMac - a bit like a laptop

Unsurprisingly (but possibly worth knowing), an intel-apple that can run windows software runs windows (application) software at about the speed of an intel-laptop by dell or similar. see here (Macworld.com). Note how these aren't game tests, also note that the laptop is better than the desktop.
Now see here for some game tests. Looks like the graphics card in the iMac is pretty good too, beating nVidia GeForce 6600 in Far Cry. whatever that means.

On a slightly related topic.. assuming you were waiting for Photoshop to be re-released for Mac OS X on intel, wouldn't it make sense for many people to make the switch and go to using the windows pc version full time.. The last copy of Photoshop we have comes with an either OS installer CD, so would work fine on the PC.

The Smudge of Ashen Fluff: Sia - Breathe Me video

The Smudge of Ashen Fluff: Sia - Breathe Me video - "an amazing clip created with 2,500 Polaroids, proverbially making this video worth 2,500,000 words."

The Great Giant Creme Egg Petition Petition

The Great Giant Creme Egg Petition Petition

Lenovo Droping IBM Faster Than Expected

You know how Lenovo (big Chinese PC manufacturer) went and bought IBM's PC division - well they've been releasing new IBM branded and Lenovo branded laptops for a while now... and foolishly they are going to drop the IBM name from there products... How stupid can you get? IBMs are well known to produce good laptops year after year after year, in fact, if you buy an old laptop, then a very good choice, is an old IBM laptop... getting rid of the IBM thinkpad series will give Lenovo less brand recognition than companies like Acer and ASUS, (Acer and ASUS produce decent OEM (no-name) style laptops that are generally reliable, as they tend to manufacture stuff for everybody else, including Apple). So when the IBM Thinkpad brand is gone, who will be left with a good name in the laptop market? Toshiba and Dell from the looks of things...

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Help me become a switcher!

I love the name of this blog: Make me switch. This guy wants to get a mac, but he's broke, therefore he figures that the 1 billion people on the internet must have enough spare change to give him enough money to buy a mac. Why oh why didn't I think of this? Oh yeah, I forgot, I am happy in my PC world. I like the bare faced cheek of this guy and can see him being successful (assuming paypal don't steal his money).

weird picture

weird picture (worksafe!) here. I hadn't seen this one before.

America to attack Iran?

New York Times Article suggesting that America are likely to use Nuclear weapons in order to disable Iran's nuclear power, and other military, and chemical targets.

Gospel of Judas?

Apparently it's surfaced after 1,700 years. Quite interesting stuff.

"For that reason, the discoveries have proved deeply troubling for many believers. The Gospel of Judas portrays Judas Iscariot not as a betrayer of Jesus, but as his most favored disciple and willing collaborator."

Deeply troubling? I don't think it really matters how Jesus was betrayed, Judas was chosen with God knowing that Judas would betry Him - because Jesus needed someone to betray Him, whether Judas was asked to or not, how does it matter?

"At least one scholar said the new manuscript does not contain anything dramatic that would change or undermine traditional understanding of the Bible."

If anything, these historic documents simply add more proof and evidence of Jesus' existance - just like historic books treat historic records of Ceasar as fact.

Comment from Digg: "There is no claim that this work was actually written by Judas. That is part of the point the theologians are making, namely, that this and other gnostic works show that early Christianity and its precepts were debated even as early as 200 AD. That doesn't mean that the events that are recorded actually occurred."

Apple - Boot Camp

Apple - Boot Camp - Apple now let you install Windows on Intel Macs.

30years of Apple, Pursuit Force

Engadget have put up a list of the good, bad and ugly from Apple over the last 30 years. Good read.

And if you're into car games, then this looks very cool! Pursuit Force. It's like a modern day Chase HQ.

Gone Digital Yet?

What digital camera do you own? If you don't have one, then check this out: 4mp, 3x optical zoom £36. If you have one but want to upgrade to a brand new, latest model, then have a look at these: £109 white, £99 silver (exc vat + post) - Sanyo 6mp, 3x optical zoom, 3" screen - Sanyo make digicams for 3 of the top brand manufacturers!

Konica Panoramic Cameras (at Lomography 3.0)

.Lomography 3.0~ / _ Konica Minolta photographic are no more, as of tomorrow / today (31st). There are some GREAT deals on their digital cameras, the Dimage Z5 (5mp, 12x optical zoom, proper anti-shake CCD, 2" screen, £199 or less!), the Z6 (6mp version around £206*), the Dynax/Maxxum 5D DSLR with proper anti-shake CCD, etc. Plus, these COOL, retro panorama disposable cameras have appeared on Lomography.com. Pretty cheap too, for serious panoramic photos :) Go back to film! :D

* more megapixels isn't always better than less megapixels! (aparently the Z6 is worse than the Z5)

Best of Digg

Solving Sudoku with SQL
Autistic or Just a Geek, take the test
33mhz Powerbook running as a webserver
42 really is the answer
freak accident, lake loses 3.5 billion gallons of water in 3 hrs
Camera + GPS + Google Maps

OMNIZERO.2 trounces at Robo-One - Engadget

OMNIZERO.2 trounces at Robo-One - Engadget - proper fighting robots. Video as well! (direct link to video of fighting robots here)

Digital Camera for Sale

Anyone know anyone wanting to buy a digital camera? £120 for a Casio Z120. Let me know!

london uses photo text messaging to beat grafitti, junk, burnt cars etc.

apple (beatles music label) sue Apple computer company for the third time.

SETI@Home in financial trouble!

Commercial support for SETI@Home has largely disappeared, and has largely run out of current funds. They need to raise $750,000 to keep running for another year. Without donations, the project will be forced to shut down.

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poooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh

pooh sticks real-world community game.

no way. that is frikkkin amazing.

norfolk news. mini.

Music Videos Scrambled Hackz

engadget - dude gets music videos, enters then all into a database, speaks into microphone, database finds the nearest match to what the guy said or sang, plays it back. cool video to watch featuring the legend MC Hammer.

portable urinal for long journeys

holds 1.25 gallons (gizmodo). i had this idea about 3 or more months ago, although my idea involved a container built into your pants that you could empty the next time you go to the loo. :)

Is it a cat? Is it a rat? Is it a kangaroo rat? You decide. After watching the video, it basically looks like the cat (and kittens) have adopted a small kangaroo rat.

Too much stuff?

"Unashamedly "disposable" cheap goods, you could argue, are turning us into traders rather than curators of our possessions. It is another victory for capitalism: we have internalised the unsentimental stock control of the modern retailer. Juliet Schor, an American economist and leading critic of the bargain boom, thinks this new form of ownership is less pleasurable than the old one. "The psychologically satisfying process of personalisation that occurs when products are acquired and retained, is truncated," she writes in a recent essay. "Attachment is briefer and there is the constant pain of divestiture [getting rid of things]." What individual possessions represent to us is, she says, "more externally driven" - by marketing and advertising - and "less under the control of the individual consumer"."

Interesting article over at BoingBoing. Original Guardian Article.

It makes you wonder where things are heading, if you can buy a brand new Dell laptop for £289 with DVDRW, etc (£336 for 15.4" widescreen), and a multi-region DVD player for £20, then what will happen to the second hand market, especially for cheap stuff like DVD players... (should I buy one with MPEG4/DIVX playback, or a free scart lead?)

Guinness Surger - Gizmodo

Guinness Surger - Gizmodo Watch the video here it's Very cool.

Laptop advice?

Dead laptop - please advise.

BMW 318 Traps Driver at 130mph on the A1

From Digg. BBC News article with link to radio interview. What to do if it happens to you. This comment explains the steering setup.

1998 BMW 318 Automatic - accellerator sticks, whilst on the A1, brakes burn out so car gets stuck at 130mph until he crashes into a roundabout. Walks away with a few scratches. Guy has spikey blonde hair.

Link

Cool three dimensional street artwork.

Where have you been - UK edition

Hey, did josh post something about countries he'd been to? Here's the England, Wales and Scotland edition. link

Apple officially declares the end of the iMac G5

"With immediate effect, the following product and it's relate configurations are "End of Life" (EOL) and no further orders can be taken," Apple explains. PowerMac G5 is still around - until they announce new Intel versions I guess...

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I really like this

This is a map of all the places I've visited:


create your own visited countries map
or vertaling Duits Nederlands

Link

VEOH started as a site to host home movies but now hosts free legal video downloads - old movies, music etc. Currently in Beta.

Link

GP2X is a mobile device designed for game console emulation.

Microsoft Origami - Whats the Point?

Microsoft have invented this "new" thing called Origami - it's like a Tablet PC only without the keyboard (Think Atari Stylus, 1991), and it's smaller. But not as small as an Apple Newton (1993).

What is Origami, here's what they look like, and here's another one with specs.

They feature a 7" screen, and to be honest, I don't really give a crap. I'm just posting this because it's technology related, it's something new, but really I don't see any point in them. The TabletPC wasn't especially successful, and was MORE useful than an "Origami", because it could be a normal laptop too with a keyboard, these new Origami things, would you buy one? I know that no, you wouldn't actually buy one, but would anyone buy one? They have GPRS available to them, so could be used as car-sat-nav systems BUT so can any cheap mobile phone with the right kit for MUCH cheaper.

It's like a product but without the reason. We all know why we have a toaster for example. Perhaps if you wanted to watch DVDs in your car on the 7" screen? Can you think of uses for the Origami that can't be done by something else, cheaper / better?

"Industry observers note that Microsoft appears to be breaking considerable pricing ground with Origami, but they note that it's still unclear what the specific use of Origami will be, or which, if any, existing devices it will replace. There is some thought that its initial incarnation might appeal primarily to gadget aficionados, rather than mainstream consumers." more blurb, background info, etc.

joshwaller.co.uk blog: Kit Kat Chunky Peanut Butter

have you tried: Kit Kat Chunky Peanut Butter

"Always good to see wallpaper scrapers being used where they belong… in the kitchen."

eggs bacon chips and beans. the blog, which became the book*, which became the bbc news article. * the book was also stacked right next to this book in one store.

Link

Biological imaging algorithm found to solve Sudoku puzzles.

All of them.

CD-WOW Offer?

Did the CD-WOW offer work for you Phil? I hasn't worked for me.

I drew this pig:
Click to view my test results

A Brief History of Handheld Video Games - Engadget

A Brief History of Handheld Video Games - Engadget Features the Atari Lynx. Sweet.

10 Ways Dick Cheney can Kill You

old now, but funny. background

YouTube - Real Life Simpsons Intro

YouTube - Real Life Simpsons Intro - This is cool.

Boing Boing: Long-lost Penn and Teller videogame for download

Boing Boing: Long-lost Penn and Teller videogame for download: "The most infamous part was 'Desert Bus,' a 'VeriSimulator' in which you drive a bus across the straight Nevada desert for eight hours in real-time. Then you drive it home. Also, I'd read the bus veers to the right, so you can't just leave the joypad propped up. The rumor was that if you won the game, you got one point."

Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview

Don't install IE7 Beta2 - it's rubbish. It doesn't even display (some) webpages properly. Tabbed browsing in it is crap, and it's just generally very crappy. IE6, Opera, Firefox, and Flock are way better. If you did / do install it, here's the uninstall instructions. You'll need them. Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview

Apple - Mac mini

Apple - Mac mini - now with added intel dual core or single core pentium m. The previous Mac Mini used the old G4 chip - which was crap compared to everything newer (G5, AMD, Intel etc) - so the upgrade is pretty significant, especially as the Pentium M based chips ABSOLUTELY ROCK. £449 for 1.5ghz Single Core / £599 for 1.66ghz Dual Core.

Episode Six The IT Crowd is downloadable

Boing Boing: Episode six of awesome sysadmin sitcom The IT Crowd is downloadable - various sources there. you can get it directly from channel4, and you may be able to get it here in the future. Bittorrent may be the quickest?

Link

If you would like free KFC (I'm a vegetarian but I still can't imagine why anyone would eat it) then you must decipher the hidden messages in their adverts.

google pages..

yeah. new. exciting. haven't tried it yet: Google Pages (beta)
Matt.

This is a trip, This is not music

If you remember the tune, then you might be interested to know that the original lyrics are from 1988. The version I know is from '92 - it's by Acen, Trip II to the Moon (pt 3)

science : next generation.

hey. was spending too much time online today. so on the bbc you'll see that ibm have managed to do the etching on the silicon to about 20nm.. well anyway 3x better than what we have now. i could say what that all means but as far as i understand it, just means faster processors, maybe more memory in the same space.. you know.. progress progress progress (ie; cheaper smaller mp3 players, better 3d and video for mobile phones..)
and also (separate topic).
they (sorry, the police/investigators at crime scenes) can figure out what your last name from your dna (so long as you have the last name of your father), and that will help them narrow down who done it.
So if your name's smith, this won't affect your life in the slightest.

Boing Boing: Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop

Boing Boing: Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop - very good well worth listening too. (not much to watch!)

blogger went wrong

blogger seems to have deleted a couple of posts from their database.

i spent a good while editing this post only to find that it reverted back to the way it was 8 months ago.

Adam added this post only to find it vanish the next day.

Whats really weird is that the web page is actually there on the blogspot server, but the edit posts database shows the old version (in my case) or no post at all (in adam's case). Very annoying none the less! And now that I've posted this, another post about the 5th episode of the IT Crowd being online now, has vanished!

Blogger Status has the details...

Spaced (Quotes)

Right, I frikkin love Spaced (box set series 1 and 2 used to be around £20), best comedy ever. There's some great quotes online at IMDB. There's been rumours that they may do a 3rd series - although I'm not so sure. Anyway, buy it! You can get it from Play (£18) if you're lucky. You may be able to find it on ebay as well.

PS - If you're a fan of "The Peep Show", then checkout The Mitchell And Webb Situation, out on the 20th Feb, it's got the same guys from The Peep Show doing stuff before The Peep Show exsisted.

Switch from Firefox to Opera

So Firefox 1.5 - it's slow, uses lots of memory (currently 87mb), always trys to save stuff to your desktop*, crashes more than previous versions, and is using 45-71% of my CPU simply because I'm trying to download 4 things at the same time!

It's known to have memory leak problems, and people have even written articles on how to fix the problems. But I think I'd rather switch to opera for it's tabbed browsing goodness, it's nice download manager, and it's lovely "I remember where you were last time you used me" feature.

* yes I know you can get round this, but I don't like how it defaults to your desktop

Will Apple Adopt Windows?

Column from PC Magazine: Will Apple Adopt Windows? - Interesting speculation that could put Apple in direct competition with Dell (World's no.1 PC seller).

Free 3D game - Rumble Box

"Rumble Box is a fast paced 3D action beat-em-up with a unique premise: all of the characters are made of simple objects which stay around in the level even after the character is defeated. The objects pile up, changing the gameplay landscape and altering your combat tactics. This is the most fun I've had with a PC game in quite a while..." Apparently this games great, it's free, and it's a fairly small download (11.5mb), works for me :)

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14+ money saving computer user ideas

"Below are some money saving ideas focused on the internet and computing. All of these are ones we've tried ourselves or are in the process of trying. Some really good tips here, I just saved myself $30 per month." (working link)

Here's some more, from the comments on Digg.com:
"1. Build your own computer
2. Use freeware/open source software
3. Split the cost of the internet with your neighbors using wireless (And screw the cable company if this is against their TOS)"

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Awesome Good free Simcity clone

"LinCity-NG is a City Simulation Game. It is a polished and improved version of the classic LinCity game. We have created a new iso-3D graphics engine, with a completely redone and modern GUI. For windows, linux and in source." Windows people can download it here. (39mb)

read more | digg story - It seems good, but if you already own SimCity 2000 or SimCity 3000 why not just stick to them?

Best Thing in the World EVER!

Video of Quad-Bike / Transformer (Robots in disguise) Real life, working robotic transformer, that turns into a walking robot! This thing is FREEKIN AWESOME! (Sorry exclamation marks are justified this time!)

Atari At Death's Door (again)

"35% decline in sales, the CFO just resigned, the bank ended its credit, the stock plummeted. This looks like the end for Atari." (again - note this isn't really Atari, this is Infogrames, who bought Atari from Hasbro simply to use the name)

read more | digg story

Intel 64 bit Chips - Intel Shows Off Its Quad Core

Intel Core Duo is 64bit apparently and Intel gave the first glimpse of a quad-core chip coming next year! (link below)

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THE IT CROWD!

Episode Four Online! (argh! using exclamation marks is contageous!) I don't want to spoil the surprise but highlight this if you don't care too much: the smiley one out of the mighty boosh is in this episode / episode 4,.

Interesting Links from Digg and Boing Boing:

I so want one of these, check out this video of it in action.

Matrix based on Dark City?

"Antitrust Case Against Apple Approved!!!" - A new ruling has paved the way for an antitrust lawsuit against Apple. (too many exclamation marks again) Link: read more | digg story

this is rude but makes me laugh everytime the little dudes pixelated wang flicks the bread up!

Top 30 mistakes made by new Mac users

"So Macs are easier to use than PCs? Bouncing off a post from The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Dan Warne has summarised the top 30 mistakes made by new Mac users. Surprisingly, quite a number of the mistakes can be traced back to usability problems in Mac OS X itself."

Why do people think that Mac OS X is flawless?! Why is it so surprising that it's not perfect?

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Helicopter shots of Mexico City neighborhoods - stunning and unreal.

A former Mexico City helicopter pilot has posted a stunning gallery of his aerial photos of the city and environs. Some of these photo's are amazing! Found at Digg, the only problem I've spotted with digg headlines is excessive use of exclamation marks - this one had two, which is two too many.

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