Navigadget.com has the 411 on a new ultra slim bluetooth GPS receiver.  It’s one of the thinniest bluetooth GPS receivers at 0.93cm’s.  The G66 model is 0.63cm!  It has low power consumption and has the ability to search satellites in 51 channels.  Pretty soon these things will be small enough to plant into our heads and be the size of a pin needle.  Well okay maybe im exagerating a bit(or am I?)

Although this technology(software) has been around for a while. It’s never suited the majority of gamers due to lack of compatibility and performance. If they can turn this around where Direct X games(most of games released for windows nowadays) can perform on par or at least slight performance loss than its windows counterpoint then I can see this technology taking off. Additionally the author will have to keep up with it regularily to keep compatibility up to snuff.

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Firefox 3 Beta 3 is/was one of the best beta’s to hit the internet community. Fast, robust, and stable. Mozilla releases Beta 4 with improvements mainly focused on memory optimization surpassing Firefox 2 and IE7 by far. This article goes in-depth to explain Firefox 3’s memory technology(s).

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For Windows and Mac OS X… This technology should of been around a long time ago but unfortunately the bandwidth years ago wasn’t up to par for this. Nowadays with higher upstream bandwidth from cable providers such as comcast, opt online, etc. and verizon’s FIOS, it makes this technology a much more feasible tool in everyday life. Unfortunately, I don’t think this will be free when it becomes available. Maybe they’ll follow Mozy’s business plan and provide 1 or 2GB free, more or unlimited for a fee per month.

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The blurb is below but I’ve been liking F3 Beta 3 and I can only imagine beta 4 will be that much sweeter. Definitely going to upgrade to it tonight!
Mozilla has officially released Firefox 3 beta 4, which includes new icons for Vista. Ars takes a first look at the new features and concludes that Firefox 3 is almost ready for widespread adoption.

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What if Microsoft completely rebuilt an operating system from the ground up?  Just hit the reset switch on the past 25 or so years of Windows in the making.  Completely redesign a new operating system from scratch.  This blog over at ZDNet talks about Microsoft’s Singularity project(or dream?). In a nutshell, Microsoft is stuck with the Windows line because everyone and their mother uses Windows. If they created a new OS from scratch imagine the revolt from consumers, small business owners, and corporations alike. But what if they do what Apple did with OSX, included an application such as bootcamp so the new operating system could still run the legacy operating system and applications. Virtualization Technology is maturing every quarter with newer and more efficient processors to handle these types of tasks. So why not?

An article over at Newsweek states that user-generated content, aka, Web 2.0 is looking grim. Industry experts and professionals on the rise again to take over content. The article fails to mention that a good portion of said “experts” can be biased towards certain company’s, brand name’s, and/or products. As there’s advertisement revenue and sponsorships at stake, professional content can lean towards a certain product over another. I believe in the philosophy: “Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see”. With that said, user generated content does serve its purpose and thats why theres comment sections for others to give their expertise or opinions on the same subject matter.

So as the Microsoft IE8 Beta 1 echo’s throughout the internet over and over, I decided to take the plunge. The installation seemed to have gone painless up until the setup needs to restart the computer to complete the installation. BUT I won’t let this keep me down even though the setup gave a little warning in the beginning that it may need to restart. After installation the initial webpage that pops up allows you to select from a multitude of “service providers”. Most notably, one I use often, is StumbleUpon. The layout looks pretty much the same. They added a button to the far right of the tabs that’s a blue square with the number 7 in it. This button allows IE8 Beta 1 to “emulate” IE7. I actually could not make a post to this blog with IE8 unfortunately as it silently complained about scripting errors. I had to result to Firefox for this post. *says out loud* It’s only a beta. Follow up to come.