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The Constellation Program: Mankind Will Make That Giant Leap...Again 2008-06-15 22:56:42 NASA once again has its sights on the moon, and is planning to set up a moon base by the year 2020 as pointed out in one of our previous posts about the Crew Mobility Chassis. However this post is to introduce you to some of the modules that will allow us to get to the moon, Mars and beyond. As you may or may not already know NASA is retiring the space shuttle in 2010 after construction on the Int Read more:Again
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How to completely and permanently erase the data on your hard disk drive 2008-06-06 14:10:30 So wanting to sell your computer, or just a spy needing to get rid of that confidential secret mission file but know that simply deleting the file isn't good enough. Within minutes your supposedly deleted personal data could be recovered including bank details, phone numbers, photos, and anything else you stored or used on that hard drive
. There is one simple answer to permanently erase your sensi Read more:completely
Australia to get iPhone verrry soon... 2008-06-05 22:13:46 Image Courtesy of AppleGood news for all the folks down under, it will be out and available for purchase by the end of June or sooner, current rumors put the 2nd generation iPhone
at a June 29th release date, the same date that the new official Sydney Apple Store is speculated to be open which is the first official store in the southern Read more:Australia
Ricky Martins, livin' la vida loca and getting into the MicroSD business 2008-06-05 22:06:12 So you thought you'd seen it all, well we weren't expecting this one. I first noticed this when scouring through the products debuting at Computex Taipei 2008. Ricky
Martin has joined forces with Kingston and is producing "The microSD Ricky Martin Live Card" and usb reader combination. The 1 GB card will feature 2 sound tracks "Somos la Semilla" and "Tu Recuerdo", it will also contain concer Read more:Martins
Have your friends heard of Archos? 2008-06-05 22:01:38 Archos
605 - Image courtesy of ArchosWith all this hype of iPods and iPhones there is an unsung hero dwindling in the wind, that hero, 'Archos'. I can honestly say that none of the people I know have heard about a litt
Man tries to catch peeping tom, gets a peeping alien instead 2008-06-05 21:59:58 Elaborate hoax or proof that aliens are bout to invade, ala, 'War of The Worlds', you be the judge. Either way last Friday a Colorado man by the name of Jeff Peckman held a much anticipated press conference at Tivoli Student Union on the Auraria campus Denver. He showed a nearly 2 minute video shot with an infrared camera of a close encounter outside a mans window by the name of Stan Romanek aroun Read more:tries
Use old trust worthy maps instead of GPS say police 2008-06-05 21:59:14
Due to some people taking the word of there GPS
devices over pure common sense, Police in Victoria, Australia are asking people to use maps instead of using there GPS units because of increased incident's of people getting lost or stranded. Senior Sergeant Doug Incoll was quoted to say ”Incidents like these use a lot of police resources and other agencies to find and rescue motorists who are st Read more:trust
Sydney Apple Store - Opening in one month 2008-06-05 21:49:52 I took a little trip down to Sydney
CBD today and did some investigating on the site of the new Apple
Sydney store. While I couldn't get inside even though I tried, I was able to have a chat with one of the construction workers working on the new store while he was on break. He was able to confirm that it would be about a month before construction completes as of today and he would still be Read more:Store
Microsoft XP lives to fight another day - In 'Low Cost' PC's 2008-06-05 20:55:00 Well with relief I don't have to run out to the store before June 30 and buy a copy of XP since I lost my old one. At Computex 2008 on Tuesday Microsoft
announced that it will be extending its XP Operating system line for 'low cost' PC's until 2010, the same deadline as previously stated for low-cost laptops. Rob Young, a senior director with Microsoft's OEM group did confirm that XP licenses for Read more:fight
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Lenovo x300 vs. Macbook Air 2008-06-05 18:34:55 Marketing is key to anything these days, your product doesn't need to be best, you just need to be shouting louder. Well in the case of Apple and its MacBook Air it's shouting a lot louder, while the humble Lenovo
X300 which is the whole package sits quietly. Anyway this ad parody to that MacBook Air commercial we've all seen where its so thin it slides out of the envelop has been floating around
Whats next in tech feedback - 2008-06-04 20:27:17 We are interested in any tech questions you might have so your better informed for that next tech purchase (A lot of salesman have no clue what they are talking about and will say anything especially in the technology industry) or are just plain curious, submit anything you'd like, for example, whats the best graphics card out for a home desktop?, What the heck do 'cores' mean in computers?, What
Toshibas down but not out! 2008-06-04 00:18:30 Just after Toshibas HD-DVD format was served a crushing defeat by the Blu-ray standard early march, it is getting ready to go it another round apparently according to media reports out of Japan. They are preparing a new DVD player/technology that will, "offer video quality comparable to that produced by Blu-ray and HD-DVD discs". The new dvd player will of course be backwards compatible with stand
Apple Store Mania In Sydney Australia 2008-06-18 20:42:45 We made a trip down to Sydney
CBD tonight to take some snaps of the Apple
faithful and check out the scene the night before the grand opening of the Sydney Apple Store
, the first in the southern hemisphere. The store looks amazing now that the covers are off. We were there a couple weeks back and heres what it looked like then for those that are interested. One woman we sp Read more:Australia
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OLED Soon To Replace LCD Technology 2008-06-20 01:18:57 So what is OLED? OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode. What it is, is a LED display made up of a film of organic carbon-based compounds and that is where the real advantage comes into play. These organic compounds serve as a source of light for the display, thus ther Read more:Technology
What Is The Large Hadron Collider 2008-07-07 06:20:16
Update: Lhcountdown has updated there clocks, we apparently are now a little over 31 days till activation, however I wouldn't be suprised if it gets delayed yet again on that date.The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is about to be turned on in a little over 31 days now, and we will soon find out whether or not it will open up a black hole an swallow our beloved Earth along with a large chunk
Apple Releases iPhone 3G Guided Tour Video 2008-07-06 21:43:01 For all of those interested the official iPhone
3G guided tour video has been published on Apple
s website here. The video is around 30 minutes long so be prepared. Enjoy!The pricing plans from AT&T have also been announced today which will probably be the benchmark for the rest of the world. So from 8 am on July 11th you will be able to get you hands on the iPhone 3G for $199 (8GB ) and $299 (
AVG 8.0 Is Really A Malicious Program That Floods The Internet 2008-07-06 21:35:03 Whirlpool Australias largest technology forum recently was posting up prominent orange banners on there home page warning people of AVGs LinkScanner Bots and its actions as a Malicious
program to website owners and hosts, causing heavy loads on servers, a quote from Whirlpool is as follows."As a website that is featured heavily in many Google Australia
search results, Whirlpool (Australia's larges Read more:Floods
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Google Ordered To Hand Over Private YouTube Information 2008-07-06 20:58:08 Google has been given a court order in a copyright infringement case against YouTube
to hand over details to Viacom of every single video clip uploaded to the site, along with viewers’
YouTube usernames and IP addresses. Claiming that copyrighted-material is constantly posted and watched on the platform. Well duh? This case started last March and its just being settled now, I guess both parties Read more:Google
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Meet Dragon Skin, The Ultimate Body Armour 2008-07-05 20:45:33 There has been a lot of controversy over this issue the past couple of years, and the issue at hand is a revolutionary new type of body armour named 'Dragon
Skin'. Dragon Skin was hoped by many to replace the current 'Interceptor' body armour worn by the US army. But has since been banned without formal testing. Even the creator of the Interceptor body armour as shown in the second video says that Read more:Ultimate
Introducing The Dynamic Tower - Where Every Floor Rotates 2008-07-05 20:44:02 Below Is what you will see adorning the skyline of Dubai and Moscow by the end of 2010. Meet the DynamicTower
Skyscraper the first skyscraper design of revolutionary Italian architect David Fisher. The Dynamic Tower(or Space Needle on a thousand different types of steroids) is 80 stories high and is self-powered by use of solar cell Read more:Floor
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NASAs New Spacecraft Scheduled For Test Flight In 2009 2008-07-05 11:43:34 NASAs Constellation Program which is its mission to set up a base on the moon by the year 2020 and the subsequent development of modules that will achieve this, Is replacing the ageing space shuttle by 2010 with the 2 new mo Read more:Flight
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