tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72366857581637979252009-02-21T08:29:29.252ZJonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236685758163797925.post-54079103960036364432008-09-02T21:45:00.008+01:002008-09-03T01:01:42.667+01:00

I have just installed Google Chrome, and must say, that first impressions (after a minor bug on install) are that it looks good. Neat, very tidy, very minimalist, easy on the eye, and renders pages nicely. See screenshot.My first problem is simply that I had to close Firefox to install it, and now cannot open Firefox. This is very annoying. Even after clearing the cache, running CCleaner to be

Jonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236685758163797925.post-12894679152358399312008-09-02T21:03:00.004+01:002008-09-02T21:31:31.465+01:00

Google has today announced that it has been developing, and is about to release, an internet browser. It goes by the name of Google Chrome, and will be rivalling Internet Explorer and Firefox. Much of what Google does is about the web, if not all, so it is only logical that it is producing its own browser. Google have said that the browser will be highly configurable by each user.What We Think

Jonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236685758163797925.post-81501014294689573182008-03-03T20:08:00.000Z2008-03-03T20:22:40.008Z

While we are on the subject of search engines, it is worth briefly reviewing another. Gigablast.com has been around for a while, but has recently undergone a makeover, and has a new "beta" version, which is what we are looking at here.One feature of Gigablast Beta are "Gigabits". On doing a search, results are shown at the top of the page with a value against them. Gigabits are like page rank, in

Jonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236685758163797925.post-4881609977499525192008-03-02T22:51:00.001Z2008-09-03T07:04:31.105+01:00

Dogpile Web Search has been around for a while, and rather than use its own search engine algorithm, it pulls search results from Google, Yahoo, MSN Live, Ask and other sources. It also shows results that come up as adverts (e.g. Adwords) on Google results. So a search for "Motley Health" showed:The Motley FoolCompare financial products with the award winning personal finance siteSponsored by:

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I have fond memories of AskJeeves.com from the days when Ask was something special, and seemed to work differently to other search engines. It seems that it has had another makeover recently, and taken on a more sleek look, but with more advertising and often unhelpful links to other "related" search phrases. I may be a little cynical, but these related search phrases seem to be for companies

Jonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236685758163797925.post-83752909047402104952008-03-02T22:31:00.001Z2008-09-02T17:17:14.218+01:00

Just stumbled across what appears to be a new search engine, called Winzy. However, the results so far seem a little odd, with gambling ads popping up (not literally) on pages for searches which are unrelated to gambling. But I will keep an eye on this, as it may prove to be a new, and valuable, search tool....

Jonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236685758163797925.post-40180744786994448222007-12-22T19:35:00.000Z2007-12-22T19:43:20.050Z

Chips are getting smaller, thanks to hardware experts working in collaboration. IBM, Toshiba, AMD, Samsung, Chartered, Infineon and Freescale have formed the alliance to cut development costs."Chips built using the 32-nm process can have more than one billion transistors on them. The group's chips could be used in everything from memory, computers, graphics cards, set-top boxes to games consoles

Jonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236685758163797925.post-84895751053911244172007-02-06T22:48:00.000Z2007-02-06T22:54:05.334Z

Ford has launched the Edge - a hybrid car capable of running on a combination of compressed hydrogen and a battery pack that plugs in to an electric socket.This follows the launch of General Motors' Chevrolet Volt concept car, which was the first mass market prototype designed to operate purely using an electric motor. However, currently the immense cost of developing these cars means that mass

Jonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236685758163797925.post-89646571153902359352007-02-06T22:47:00.000Z2007-02-06T22:48:19.970Z

"Riding the world's first purpose-built hydrogen-powered motorbike may be environmentally friendly - and fun - but where does it leave its more traditional petrol-driven cousin?"Intelligent-Energy, a Leicestershire based company, have produced a hydrogen powered motorcycle. The bike can reach a speed of 50mph and can travel 100 miles on one tank of fuel.However, although the bike is green when

Jonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236685758163797925.post-89270406200697954362007-02-04T22:16:00.000Z2007-02-04T22:21:26.638Z

Petroleum giant BP announced Thursday that it's setting up an institute with the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Illinois dedicated to creating renewable energy. BP is from Europe, where governments and citizens more actively pursue green policies, it has been one of the more aggressive oil companies when it comes to embracing alternative fuels.Source: CNET News

Jonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236685758163797925.post-83872227319217522092007-02-04T22:03:00.000Z2007-02-07T07:16:05.127Z

Biofuel is any fuel that is derived from biomass — recently living organisms or their metabolic byproducts, such as manure from cows. It is a renewable energy source, unlike other natural resources such as petroleum, coal, and nuclear fuels. One definition of biofuel is any fuel with an 80% minimum content by volume of materials derived from living organisms harvested within the ten years

Jonnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236685758163797925.post-32594085160838861422007-02-04T21:27:00.000Z2007-02-04T22:22:45.100Z

Europe's biggest telecoms groups are aiming to create a mobile phone search engine that could challenge Yahoo! and Google, the US giants.Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia and one American network, Cingular, are among the companies that will come together for secret, high-level talks at the mobile industry's biggest annual trade show in

Jonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236685758163797925.post-34021010637916269002007-02-04T21:20:00.000Z2007-02-04T22:23:36.276Z

Videotron Ltd. is planning in 2007 to roll out a new high-speed internet service at least four times faster than current offerings. The Montreal-based telecommunications provider said on Thursday that it is testing a service that would let its customers achieve internet speeds as high as 100 megabits per second (Mbps).Source: CBCNews

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Windows Vista has finally been released and is likely to be the dominant operating system used in pc's around the world over the next decade. It is predicted that 100 million computers will be running Vista within a year, however many pc's do not meet the required specifications to run the new operating system. Microsoft recommends PCs have at least 512Mb of RAM, an 800Mhz processor and 15Gb of

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"The next milestone in the relentless pursuit of smaller, higher performance microchips has been unveiled. Chip-maker Intel has announced that it will start producing processors using transistors with features just 45 nanometres (billionth of a metre) wide."Intel have developed a smaller more powerful microchip. Codenamed Penryn, the new breed of microchops will have more than four hundred

Jonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236685758163797925.post-43837809075464392202007-02-03T18:49:00.001Z2007-02-03T18:49:39.941Z

Hybrid cars have been getting a lot of buzz the last three or four years, and now with the soaring cost of oil and gasoline, hybrids are expected to get hotter than ever. Here are some Questions and Answers about hybrids.1. What is a hybrid car?A vehicle is a hybrid when it combines two or more sources of power. Hybrid cars almost always have a gasoline engine and an auxiliary electric motor

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The 2007 Lexus GS 450h is the world's first hybrid luxury sedan and the first full hybrid vehicle with a front engine and rear wheel drive.'Once again, we've applied our formula of no compromise engineering - this time to a luxury sport sedan which proves to us that hybrid power trains can work superbly in virtually any application,' said Lexus Vice President of Marketing Mark Templin. 'It's very

Jonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236685758163797925.post-61595420215327435162007-02-03T18:44:00.000Z2007-02-03T18:46:21.689Z

How long do you think DVDs have around? 20 years? 10 years? Actually, they have only been around for about seven years, but it seems like they have been around much longer. Many of us can hardly remember life before DVDs. That can be attributed to how rapidly we can become acclimated to some innovations in electronics technology. I believe there are other electronics technologies, either just

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