I love watching these two operating systems compared. Many comments on FG have people arguing wildly to support their OS of choice, but there are some more indepth comparisons out there, and some people need to do their homework.
For Mac OS X users, however, Windows Vista Beta 1 engenders a sense of déjà vu. Isn’t [...]

Apple is going to show a new product soon, and they are really working hard to get a good amount of hype going. I am pretty sure an iPod Video is finally coming, as many people have been waiting for one since before the iPod even had a colour screen.
Apple is preparing a major announcement [...]

Apple has announced their solution for getting a larger chunk of the computer spectrum by offering 30 day no risk test drives. I don’t know if this is such a great idea, but maybe it will get them some good sales. I know that I don’t generally have too many problems with a computer the [...]

Even more iTunes phone details, if you can believe it: a source involved with making the commercials for the new handset has confirmed for us that it will only hold 100 songs because Apple is worried about cannibalizing iPod shuffle sales. Our source also says that these first iTunes phone ads will be “music-based spots [...]

Cingular will be announcing plans next week to offer the Motorola iTunes phone to its customers.
The long-awaited Motorola iTunes phone is expected to be unveiled at a promotional event in San Francisco next Wednesday, according to industry analysts.
Ovum, the UK-based telecommunications consultancy, said Cingular, which until recently was the exclusive distributor in the US of [...]

Finally the Nintendo Revolution and its controller will be revealed, on September 16th at the Tokyo Game Show Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, will make the keynote speech that will unveil the controller for the Nintendo Revolution. He will also showcase the hardware by playing several games, including Mario 128.
Will it be worth the wait? Will [...]

Microsoft has released Beta 1 of WinFS, and has created a blog to track its development and features. Seems like they have the big names behind WinFS writing what is going on under the hood of Microsoft’s new file system.
Our Beta 1 release is a preview of WinFS, Microsoft’s platform that allows developers and users [...]

To celebrate their 10th anniversary, Opera is giving away the ad-free version of their browser for free. The download page at Download.com states the following:
For one day only, you can get an ad-free version of Opera. Simply e-mail registerme@opera.com to obtain a registration code. This offer is valid from 12 a.m. Tuesday, August 30 to [...]

Apple is planning a special event on September 7 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to announce a new music-related product.
The invitation to those who will be in attendance said “1000 songs in your pocket changed everything. Here we go again”. The first part of that phrase was used for the announcement of the [...]

Well, even before most consumers have Blu-ray readers in their computers, Pioneer has created their BRD-101A Blu-ray burner.
One of the strange things about the burner is that it cannot read or write normal CD’s or DVD-RAM. It will do both + and – R/RW DVD’s, so atleast it will have one generation backwards compatibility. It [...]

For the American readers out there, here is a cool interface for finding cell phones, kudos to lifehacker for the link.
Cellphone Finder
Finding a cell phone that meets all of your needs can be a real pain. Make it easier with the Cell Phone Finder. Input your zip code and it will show you all of [...]

I think this is an interesting invention. Sharp has come up with a laptop that needs a USB key to boot up.
his is both a great and probably a very annoying idea, as I have lost a few USB keys in my life. The idea of course is to secure the data on a [...]

While I was doing a Google search for a Japanese name translator I came across this site. While it looked pretty average at first I later ran across an interesting article in which he explains that the Japanese have been using the symbols for ages and that in fact they all have meanings (all except [...]

Open up a copy of google talk on all computers with which you wish to conference. After one copy is opened make a new shortcut for google talk but at the end of it add /nomutex. If you installed it to the default folder then your shortcut should read “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex. [...]

With all the interest in movies based on video games, it looks like there is a Splinter Cell movie in the works.
DreamWorks is close to acquiring the film rights to Tom Clancy’s videogame Splinter Cell, with Daniel Pyne (The Manchurian Candidate) attached to write the script, says Variety.
The studio would take the project over from [...]

With Google Talk being all the craze right now, some people hating it, and others loving it, I figured that I would post a list of tips and tricks for those curious about the extra “features” Google implimented and has not said much about.
Wumpus Game – First noted by a GoogleRumors commentor, if you add [...]