GoodBye iPhone, Hello Nokia N97

Well I think this might be the iPhone KILLER, in fact im going to hold off on the iPhone till this puppy reaches the shores next year. Meet the Nokia N97.

“The N97 packs a 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel (that’s a 16:9 aspect ratio) resistive touchscreen display with tactile feedback and QWERTY keyboard into this sliding communicator with an "always open" window to favorite internet or social networking sites. Nokia calls it the "world’s most advanced mobile computer." To back up the claim they’ve dropped in HSDPA, WiFi, and Bluetooth radios, A-GPS, a 3.5-mm headjack, 32GB of onboard memory with microSD expansion (for up to 48GB total capacity), and a battery capable of up to 1.5 days of continuous audio playback or 4.5-hours video. 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss glass and "DVD quality" video capture at 30fps, too.”

h/t http://www.engadget.com

VLC media player 0.9.2 IS OUT!

After more than two years of development and 100,000,000 VLC media player 0.8.6 downloads, the VideoLAN team is proud to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.2 – Grab your copy here.

Google Redesigned – Google/Gmail Skin For Firefox Browser

Heres a cool app for firefox users who live on the gmail and calendar. Its a really good skin that hacks the css and makes gmail and google other sites look marvelous. Click here to download the addon.

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Apples New Ipods & Software Line – Australian Prices

With so many news stories around I’d thought I would summarize the latest updates of apple regarding the new ipod range and software updates. If you would like to watch the apple ipod nano presentation video you can head over here.

Firstly, lets discuss the new ipods.

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Send Multiple Social Status Updates All at once!

Have  lots of networks with status’s that you wish you could update with a single click or a message send via your msn or gtalk? I’ve been waiting for digsby to add it to there feature list, but now we have another solution. Meet:

Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap. Click Here!

Ping supports facebook, myspace, twitter and another 30 websites so you can keep people updated on the move.

Flock + These Plugins = Best Browser Available

I’ve been testing and using flock for the past month now to see if it worth while sharing with my fantastic readers. Flock is pretty much a social browser that runs on the firefox 3 engine.

Step 1. Decide whether you want to stick flock on a USB drive and take it on the go. If you want portable edition click here. If you want the normal version click here.

Step 2. Choose and install your plugins below, I have collated some of the best and why they are good.

DownThemAll!

If you have ever done a big download and your net drops out, it can be frustrating to start it all over again. This download manager lets you pause and resume your downloads at will. It also features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time.

Flash Block

This little plugin blocks all flash ads, but dont worry, if viewing a flash object just click the icon and it will start loading like normal. Good for slower internet connections and saving bandwidth.

Adblock Plus

The Best ad blocker in the business, blocks all those annoying little ads plus those good looking girls you see in facebook ads. With this and flash block those nice looking women will never be a temptation again.

Plugins for the nerds:

Web Developer

Develop Websites? Then this plugin is for you, it creates a toolbar that helps edit css and find those little gritty changes you need to make. So many features it will take you yonks to fully work them out.

ChatZilla

Use IRC channels alot? Then this plugin is for you and means you dont need to run a seperate program.

If it turns out your not a fan of flock you can always use these plugins for your firefox3. Do you have any other plugins that you use? Let me know if i convert you to flock and how you find it.

Google’s Chrome identifies itself as Safara 525.13?

Just one little thing I noticed gazing at my statistics I noticed chrome is appearing to be safari but in version 525.13, some kind of a Google joke? click the thumbnail above to see…

and all those google blog subscribers that are coming from google blog spot… why not subscribe to this blog? Aren’t I as good as Google???? :(

Picasa 3.0 Beta Release

It seems google is currently on a big software rollout, chrome yesterday, picasa 3.0 today and googles phone android is not long away either.

So whats new in picasa 3.0? Why should you upgrade?

There’s a brand-new feature called "name tags" in Picasa Web Albums that helps you quickly label all the people in your photos, so you can organize and share your photos based on who’s in the picture. Name tags uses advanced technology to automatically group similar faces together. That way, you can quickly label all the people you care about in your photo collection. Once you’ve labeled your photos, it’s then a snap to do things like create a slideshow with every picture of you and your best friend, or easily share party photos with everybody who appears in that photo album.

They have completely overhauled things like photo collages and slideshows, giving you more creative freedom over composition and layout. Not to mention a brand-new movie maker that can blend photos, video, webcam capture, and music to create customized movies that you can easily share on YouTube.

Theres heaps of other features that i havent listed here, but for more information Click here and head over to googles photo blog.

Download Picasa 3.0 HERE

Chrome Is Now Available!

Chrome has now hit the streets so run over here (sorry, only xp and vista users at the moment) to grab a copy and let me know how you like it. This is googles new browser making its mark on the web as i posted about yesterday, for more information check it out on the google blog here.

Possibly The First Firefox Killer? Googles New Browser Hits The Streets

CHROME!

Chrome is googles new release,  new web browser, "Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated "sandbox", we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers."

The browser is set to be released in beta over the next 12 hours, will the internet die in the process from mass downloading? Maybe if enough people read this blog..?

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