OK, big stuff first!

DigitalLife 2006 – the largest consumer technology, gaming & entertainment event of the year – will be taking place October 12 – 15, 2006 at the Javits Center, New York.

So people, gear up and get ready for DigitalLife 2006.

For more information, go to DigitalLife website.

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P.S. Get the FREE tickets to this year’s event (regular price is $15) by posting a reply to this post. I’ll email you the “SOURCE CODE” where you can print out your own tickets.

PC World has list out 100 of the best products of the year (most fo them are free tools and services), and the below list is the summary of that. For a complete list (including short info, picture, review, etc.) head on to PC World’s 100 Best Products of the Year.

Powerful computers, handy services, tiny utilities, mammoth HDTVs–our editors’ top picks include all these and a whole lot more.

– PC World

Here goes the list:

1. Intel Core Duo
2. AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core
3. Craigslist.org
4. Apple iPod Nano
5. Seagate 160GB Portable Hard Drive
6. Google Earth
7. Adobe Premiere Elements 2
8. Canon EOS 30D
9. YouTube.com
10. Apple Boot Camp
11. Adobe Photoshop Elements 4
12. Mozilla Firefox 1.5
13. Engadget.com
14. Toshiba HD-A1
15. Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600
16. nVidia GeForce 7600 GT
17. Google
18. Sonos ZonePlayer 80
19. RedOctane’s Guitar Hero
20. Yamaha RX-V4600
21. Pioneer BDR-101A
22. Adobe Photoshop CS2
23. Citrix GoToMyPC 5
24. Dealnews.com
25. Palm GPS Navigator
26. MioNet
27. Ubuntu
28. Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5
29. Canon Pixma MP950
30. Yahoo Mail (Beta)
31. TiVo
32. Avvenu
33. Blogger
34. Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1
35. Apple Mac Mini
36. Apple iPod
37. Lenovo ThinkPad X60s
38. SideStep.com
39. Windows Live Local
40. Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi
41. Alienware Aurora 7500
42. NEC MultiSync LCD 2180WG-LED
43. Apple iTunes
44. Olympus Evolt E-330
45. Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro
46. Creative Zen Vision:M
47. Google Desktop
48. Opera 9 (Beta)
49. Mitsubishi XD460U
50. Vonage
51. StumbleUpon
52. NoScript 1.1.4
53. Webroot Spy Sweeper 4.5
54. Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
55. Western Digital Raptor X
56. Yahoo Maps (Beta)
57. Intuit Quicken Premier 2006
58. ATI Radeon X1900 XTX
59. Javacool EULAlyzer Personal 1.1
60. Eizo FlexScan S2410W
61. Kosmix.com
62. T-Mobile SDA
63. Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe
64. Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP
65. Meebo (alpha)
66. Corel Painter IX.5
67. Samsung LN-S3251D
68. Cerulean Studios Trillian 3.1
69. Rhapsody
70. In2M Mvelopes Personal 3
71. Canon Pixma IP6600D
72. EMC Retrospect Professional 7.5
73. Yahoo Music Engine 1.1
74. Network Magic
75. Z-Wave
76. BitDefender 9 Standard
77. Sage Software Simply Accounting Basic 13
78. Flickr
79. Nero 7 Ultra Edition
80. Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8
81. Kodak EasyShare Gallery
82. EvDO
83. LaCie d2 Hard Drive Serial ATA
84. HP Md5880n
85. Qnext 2
86. Salling Clicker 3
87. Epson Perfection V700
88. Mindjet MindManager Pro 6
89. Microsoft Xbox 360
90. iRiver Clix
91. Fujifilm FinePix E900
92. nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX
93. Del.icio.us
94. Serious Magic Ovation
95. WordPress
96. Amazon A9 Toolbar
97. ThinkFree Office Online
98. Greasemonkey
99. NewsGator FeedDemon 2
100. Sysinternals Rootkit Revealer 1.7

This is the MOST powerful Power Mac ever been custom build to the limit! This is a dream system for every Power Mac user, but hey, with a price tag of A$ 29,025.45 or US$22,000, would it be a dream come true?

Check out this page.

This is stunning, look at its specifications:

• 16GB 533 DDR2 ECC SDRAM – 8×2GB
• 2×500GB Serial ATA – 7200rpm
• 16x SuperDrive Double-Layer (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
• NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT 256MB SDRAM
• Apple Cinema HD Display (30″ flat panel) – AU
• Fibre Channel PCI Express Card (w/ SFP-SFP cable)
• Apple USB Modem
• AirPort Extreme + Bluetooth built-in
• Apple Wireless Keyboard & Mouse
• Mac OS X [default]
• One FireWire 800 port
• Two FireWire 400 ports

My 2 Cents

Frankly, I love it, even been a PC user, with this kind of specs, NO one says NO, if it is FOC (Free of Charge). But, if you ask me to forge US$22,000 just for this machine, I would rather buy car.

The first working prototype of the $100 Laptop is unveiled at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting. The machine is running Fedora Core 5.0.

See Flickr for more images, or for more information, visit OLPC homepage.

The World’s fastest internet will send Britannica to Shoreditch in 7 sec!

A British-designed internet system promises to break the “four-minute mile” of broadband technology by delivering the fastest web service on the planet to British households.

Residents in Shoreditch, East London, will become the first to test a new advance in broadband technology when they switch on a new set-top box that combines the functions of a television and computer.

Introduced this month, the system will allow 20,000 households to surf the web and download material at speeds up to 2,000 times faster than present services. Users will, for example, be able to download all 32,640 pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in less than seven seconds, managers of the government-funded project said.

Most commercially-available broadband connections operate at a speed of 2 megabits per second (2Mb/s), but the Shoreditch project can access internet images and content at a speed of up to 2 billions of bits per second (2Gb/s).

The key to the speed of the new system is a high-security “powerhouse” located in London’s Docklands. The Telehouse data centre houses 13,000 square metres (140,000 sq ft) of fibre-optic telecommunications and IT infrastructure required to power the most high-speed connections.

Nicknamed “CTU”, after the high-tech counter-terrorist headquarters in the American television series, 24, the Telehouse centre is said to be one of the most secure locations in Britain.

It is designed to provide back-up power for Britain’s vital network services in the event of a terrorist attack and its environmental sensors ensure that high-powered connections, such as the Shoreditch project, do not melt through excessive heat.

Residents will receive an infra-red wireless keyboard and remote control that will turn their television into a computer desktop-style environment. Microsoft, Homechoice and ITN are providing software and television channels for the project.

It found that computer users were addicted to a small number of “supersites” that we cannot live without, with banking, shopping, travel and news dominating web tastes.

Via: TimesOnline

PC World had put up a very interesting list of “The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time”. It was quite surprising to see various top tech products (in bold) in the list (but still millions of users still using it) and this is what PC World has to say:

At PC World, we spend most of our time talking about products that make your life easier or your work more productive. But it’s the lousy ones that linger in our memory long after their shrinkwrap has shriveled, and that make tech editors cry out, “What have I done to deserve this?”

The first entry in our Hall of Shame: The ISP that everyone loves to hate…

1. America Online (1989-2006)
2. RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999)
3. Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)
4. Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000)
5. Sony BMG Music CDs (2005)
6. Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994)
7. Microsoft Bob (1995)
8. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001)
9. Pressplay and Musicnet (2002)
10. dBASE IV (1988)
11. Priceline Groceries and Gas (2000)
12. PointCast (1996)
13. IBM PCjr. (1984)
14. Gateway 2000 10th Anniversary PC (1995)
15. Iomega Zip Drive (1998)
16. Comet Cursor (1997)
17. Apple Macintosh Portable (1989)
18. IBM Deskstar 75GXP (2000)
19. OQO Model 1 (2004)
20. CueCat (2000)
21. Eyetop Wearable DVD Player (2004)
22. Apple Pippin @World (1996)
23. Free PCs (1999)
24. DigiScents iSmell (2001)
25. Sharp RD3D Notebook (2004)

Read: PC World

Asus plans to develop a PC based on the concept of Green PC. With the help of some clever wireless connectivity and non-contact inductive power source, the computer is broken down into a series of interchangeable modules. It includes the machine’s hard drives, optical units, memory, processor, graphics engine, network interface.

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