Monthly Archives: August 2009

Facebook to Launch ‘Facebook Lite’ Service

August 12, 2009
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Facebook to Launch ‘Facebook Lite’ Service

Facebook is clearly looking to expand the boundaries of their services. Just a few days ago they acquired Friendfeed, and now it has been reported that they have begun testing a new service of theirs- Facebook Lite. As the name suggests, it is a stripped down version of full Facebook- a faster, simpler version....

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Facebook purchase social media giant Friendfeed

August 11, 2009
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Facebook purchase social media giant Friendfeed

Facebook have shocked the world by acquiring feed aggregators Friendfeed and also hiring the social networking sites four founders to important positions inside the newly purchased company. The four founders of Friendfeed were ex-google staff Paul Buchheit, Sanjeev Singh, Jim Norris and Bret Taylor. Most notably, Buchheit was the mastermind behind creating gmail, launching...

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Opera tips and tricks that will make you change browsers!

August 10, 2009
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Opera tips and tricks that will make you change browsers!

Opera is a browser which people do not really pay much attention to since it only became an open source suite just four years ago, whilst rival browsers such as IE and Firefox were battling against each other for the number one spot. However, the pioneer of web browsing still caters for over 25...

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Water-Cooling. Is it worth it?

August 7, 2009
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Water-Cooling. Is it worth it?

In this article I aim to see if water cooling is worth the extra money over air cooling. With components getting hotter and hotter we have seen air coolers get really big, to big in fact, just look at Coolermaster’s V10 cooler, but because of this people are looking to water-cooling more and more...

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Songbird left iTunes in the lurch?

August 6, 2009
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Songbird left iTunes in the lurch?

An Open-source player version of iTunes has been reigning over the web at present and it’s the new eye candy of music players.  Great reviews for the new program are flooding technology sites.  Will this new Songbird really outreign the famous Apple app? Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and...

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How to Tweak Windows 7 with Tweaknow

August 5, 2009
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How to Tweak Windows 7 with Tweaknow

Hello and welcome to another article. Today I’ll be showing you how to tweak Windows vista and Windows 7 using TweakNow WinSecret so you can get the most out of your Windows. Windows as of late seem to be focusing on safety but the tools they have implemented to do this cripple the OS,...

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Prototype of Apple Tablet to be released in November

August 4, 2009
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Prototype of Apple Tablet to be released in November

According to anonymous reports from a well respected analyst, the Apple tablet prototype is to be unveiled for beta use in less than 3 months! In addition to revealing this intriguing news, he/she has in fact held the 10-inch screen multimedia computer. The experienced analyst also went on to say that Apple are going...

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The Future of Graphics Cards

August 3, 2009
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The Future of Graphics Cards

With the next series of graphics cards just around the corner there is a lot of speculation on what specifications they have and how good they will be. In this article I aim to fill you in on the specifications of both sides and what is right from wrong. First to release their cards...

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