The Dark Knight is about to create records and break records of the Titanic by being the highest revenue generating Movie so far. But it is not limited to Cinemas. Rumors are that people have seen XBox 360 for sale sporting Batman logos in the front and center. If that doesn’t rock you, hear this. Microsoft has also showed off a “limited edition”of Dark Knight XBox 360 in an exhibition in Taiwan. However all of you avid gamers won’t be able to have their hands on this Limited Edition of XBox 360 but chances are that Microsoft will change their mind and put these kinds of consoles in mass production.

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So unfortunately for all my loyal reader(s) there will not be any updates for the next three weeks, I attempted to get a couple of fill ins but they wanted paying, and you guys really do not make me enough money!

In the mean time, read my past posts, dig and stumble me, comment on what you love and comment on what you loathe!

Au Revoir!

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While it is interesting to see Sky pick up this service it may be too little too late, with only one major record label supporting it many users may be upset that they cannot find all the songs they want!

On the plus side thought the tracks sony release wil be 100% DRM fre, meaning you can swap and change the MP3s between your devices without any worries of incompatability.

There is no news as of yet as to how much this will cost, how many songs you will get or even if they will be downloadable straight onto your set top box, watch this space for more information!

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This iPhone 3G utility is showing incredible power, as you can create lists, swipe off notes you have finished with and send htem on to others who need the information, in the future I would not be surprised if this is modified to allow for voice commands as well!

This is however one of my top iPhone software applications, its usability and usefulness have made this tiny little applicaion indespensible to me on a day to day basis!

Of all the tools so far Jott is by far the best iPhone application, for both work and personal life have allowed me to quickly say what I need to do rather than type in and organise, a nifty little prioritisation feature makes sure that I never forget the things most important and I am hoping soon they will insert calendar functionality!

But of course the best thing about this piece of iPhone 3G software is that its 100% Free to download!

You can get the Jott Dictaphone tool for the iPhone 3G Here for Free!

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The Xbox 360 is set to have its price dropped in America to $299 (A saving of $50) making one of the leading consoles just that little bit cheaper. You can now get the xbox 360 for less than a mobile phone after Microsoft cut the Xbox 360 price.

This seems like one more nail in the coffin for the Playstation 3 which has struggled repeatedly to gain a footing after its overpriced release with few games. It seems Microsoft has learnt from its defeat against Sony’s Playstation 2 several years ago.

In the meantime however Microsoft have everything to gain as the latest Price cut before the E3 Game conference this year is set to rapidly increase the rate of sale of XBox 360s now they are so much cheaper.

The XBox 360 Price Cut is expected to happen within the next two weeks.

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The PS3’s recent success was marred last month by the XBox 360s online game rankings and controller profile system, allowing its users to maintain a romaing profile of their controller options, game stats and friends lists.

With the PlayStation 3’s firmware upgrade however it does look as if things may be set to change, with a huge array of upgrades, the full list or which is impressive

* Friend category
* View, send, receive messages via your Playstation 3
* Manage downloads
* Set the vibration feature of the PS3 controller
* Sign in to PlayStation Network
* Register friends
* Manage Bluetooth devices
* Terminate the game
* Music category
* Use the system BGM
* Work the system BGM operation panel
* Settings category
* Assign PS3 controllers
* View profiles
* Game category
* Set audio devices
* Use the voice changer

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Unfortuantely the wattage is only 25 watts, but on the plus side this may bring in some streamlined energy efficient laptops that will allow true office free working, with internet and word applications while still giving a full 14 hours battery life.

This is great news for me as it actually means I will be able to go and work down by the river for more than a short 45 minute stint before my laptops battery gives out!

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By making the printer inkless they have ensured that it is Robust, small enough to fit in your pocket and has fantastic quality even while on the move.

The other great thing about the Pogo Pocket Printer is its Cellphone compatability, it can print directly from your cell phone via Bluetooth or USB, making it the ultimate mobile portable printer.

The pocket printer works by heating special crystals found on the paper that comes with it, this gives pictures created by the pogo a fantastic non pixelized look that is prevailent in todays printed world.

The Pogo portable pocket printer will cost around $149 on release and uses a special stickybacked paper which will cost around $0.35 each, this is fairly cheap for on the move portable printing, but the pictures do only come out wallet sized!

The fact that the Pogo Pocket Printer can print fast pictures directly from your cell phone is a great idea, i cant see it taking long before colleagues begin to take advantage of this to pat you on the back leaving a picture or two stuck there!

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This week the Release of the Apple iPhone 2 3G was announced by Steve Jobs at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference.

The news was both sour and sweet, the sweet being 3G download speeds, GPS Tracking and Third Party applications, the sour however was very sour indeed.

Apples iPhone 2 can now only be bought on a 24 month contract, how many people keep one phone for that long? The worst part is may iPhone users will still be locked into an 18 Month contract they signed for a free iPhone.

The reasoning behind this is to keep a strangle hold of power on the distribution of the iPhone so the right people are making money out of it, and in the near future many people are forseeing a u-turn by apple similar to the removal of Apples DRM systems last year.

There are other little quirks that still have not been fixed, including thnigs such as Video capture capability, or even Multimedia messaging, something found in the most basic of phones for the last 5 years.

All in all there is a lot of disappointment in the air, though I do not doubt that apple will still shift a huge amount of these when the iPhone 2 is released on the 11th of July.

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Fans of the Apple iPhone went frantic this weekend as pictures were released showing the Apple iPhone 3G in all its slim lined Glory.

While specs have still not been confirmed for the Apple iPhone 3G they are set to be impressive. One of the major drawbacks of the original iPhone was its slow download speed from the iTunes service, this looks set to be fixed with the broadband speed downloading offered by 3G. the Apple iPhone has been a fantastic product and has excelled in bot the US and European markets. Seeing a new, sleeker faster version of the IPhone 3G is something we are all looking forward to! It is however expected that the new Apple iPhone will be fully WiFi Compatable

Of course as with many early release photos there is a high chance that these may be fake, several people have noticed that the lock button is missing on the red phone. THere is however some Contention over this though as it would be expected that the ‘red’ version would be released later, as part of the anti - AIDS campaign.

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It seems as if the future is here today as Telstra demonstrated a working Hologram displaying a person giving a speech from 460 miles away in Australia.

The life sized 3D image was projected onto the stage where CEO Hugh Bradlow interacted with the audience (who he could see via webcam feeds)

This has been one of the few real examples of hologram technology put into use for communcations, although it is still too expensive for any real business or personal use.

The hologram technology is a fantastic step forward, and proof that it can be done with todays tehnology. It seems that the star trek future is not quite as far away as previously expected.

The holographic future is something that has always seemed a far and distant future, idolised in sci fi series and films the likes of Minority Report. The ability to place a complete image of someone infront of an audience is an immense achievement, demonstrating the possibilities of the future, something only hampered by its current incompatability with mass production and the price hike that goes with that.

Either way it leaves the possibility that Hologram techinology, home videos and phones could see the light of day within my lifetime!

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The Flash SSD Series from Samsung is used in most recent notebooks today, since Solidstate Hard Drives are smaller, more resilient and reliable there is no surprise in this. The 256GB version of Samsungs Solid State hard Drives is Due to be Released at the end of 2008.

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Icetech, a leading Energy Technology Specialist have released the Solar i9005, a reliable hard wearing Portable Solar Charger. The Solar i9005 is not quite as portable as many would like, but measuring in at less than 6 inces long and around 3 inches wide you do not see many people complaining.

The charger comes with a massive array of attachments, not to mention USB charging capability. This means it is possible to charge anything that requires upto 9v of power, so its got your phone, MP3 Player, iPod or even many portable DVD players covered.

While most people wouldn’t use this it costs as little as $70, making it a great utensil for anyone on the move. I know when I am doing a two week road trip around Europe this year, one of these babies will be on the car dashboard all the way!

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S52c Highlights

* 9 Megapixel
* 3x optical zoom
* Image Stabilizer
* Can shoot video

According to dpreview.com, the S52 is equipped with the same exciting features as the S52c, but is intended for those who do not require internet connectivity. This allows for a slightly smaller body (93 mm wide) and is available in two colours: silver and plum black (depending on country of sale).

Both cameras offer convenient, user-friendly controls and an easy-to-follow set of on-screen menus for access to advanced functions.

Review at dpreview

Review at letsgodigital.org

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The sunglasses also allow you to enjoy your music via MP3 playback. Built-in earbuds provide super convenient listen capability and can be hooked out of the way when not in use.

$99.99 at ThinkGeek

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If your anything like me your Firefox browser would have been well cluttered with toolbars by now, i can’t help myself, Google and Stumble Upon toolbar is a must have for me.

makeuseof.com has written a timely article to help you and me de-clutter our favourite browser.

Excerpt:

I have a few toolbars and around ten extensions installed whose configurations and buttons seemed to have loaded up the interface with a lot of junk. Moreover, I don’t really use the default options and buttons presently in the Firefox window that much. So I wanted to hide them and make my browsing a better experience.

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We wanted to introduce you to our favorite candidates in the running for the ‘08 election: Mario and Luigi Giordano. They own a local pizza joint where everything’s homemade, just like in momma Italy. Face it. Almost all America’s problems can be solved with a generous application of mozzarella. And pepperoni. And especially mushrooms.

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The guys at ThinkGeek have come up with a rtaher cool gadget for all you frustrated drivers out there.I’m talking about the HornTones MP3 Automod that plays 256 megabytes of MP3s and comes with a USB slot so you can add new ones. The device can store up to ten different tones, so you can find one for every occasion.

$300 at Thinkgeek

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This is one gadget that is going to put a smile on those who wish to convert all those old negatives or slides into .tiff or .jpg format, the truth is Digital Cameras are aplenty these days but what about all that old negatives lying around in your house?.

Now with the Digital Film Scanner you can convert all your favourite old negatives and slides into digital images. This brilliant little piece of kit comes with holders for both negatives and slides, and at the press of the ‘Copy’ button will scan your historical (or possibly hysterical) images with its 5 MegaPixel SMOS sensor, and save them as either Tiff or Jpeg files on your PC. It comes complete with software for editing, cropping and re-sizing your images, and was designed for use by people who don’t really know what they’re doing, which is how we managed to figure it out. It’s an absolute joy to get all those old pictures from way back when and see them all afresh - at last you can turn the past into the present.

£89.99 at Iwoot

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Panasonic introduced a new addition to its award-winning TZ-family of LUMIX digital cameras, the DMC-TZ5 – packing a 28mm wide-angle, 10X optical zoom Leica DC lens in a compact design, ideal for the active user needing a versatile camera. By combining a 28mm wide-angle lens, which lets the user capture a wider-framed shot when compared to a traditional 35mm camera, with the TZ-Series 10x optical zoom – consumers are empowered to take expanded shots, both wide and far. Adding to these feature-rich digital cameras, Panasonic also expands its Intelligent Auto technologies with new Intelligent Exposure and Digital Red-eye Correction.

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ThinkGeek.com has something for you geeks out there this Valentine’s day, it’s an 8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirt.

Buy one of these glowing shirts for yourself, and gift one to your significant other (boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, fembot 2000…). During your normal activities two and a half pixelated hearts will light up on your shirt. Hey… you’re depressed and in need of a recharge. But get within hugging distance of your significant other wearing the matching shirt and suddenly the hearts on both of your shirts start to light up until you’re fully powered up. Go too far astray from the source of your affections and you’ll drop back down to two and a half hearts again. Got it?

$11.99 - $24.99 at ThinkGeek

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Slide, a 65-employee company founded by Max Levchin, 32, the Ukrainian-born co-founder of online payments company PayPal, is the creator of several of the most popular software programs running on Facebook and News Corp.’s MySpace.com. Its Facebook programs include Top Friends, FunWall, and SuperPoke.

In an interview, Levchin declined to name the institutional investors. But sources close to the financing deal said the investors were Fidelity Investments and T Rowe Price.

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Apple’s latest offering is the their new laptop or simply called “MacBook Air”, Mimicking the 13-inch silhouette of the current MacBook line, it’s .76-inch thick at its thickest part. Apple calls it the “world’s thinnest notebook.”

Though the MacBook Air is not quite the thinnest laptop ever, it is among the thinnest ever seen (the Fujistu LifeBook Q2010 and the Toshiba Portege R500 both measure 0.8 inch thick, but neither tapers to 0.16 inch as the Air does).

The MacBook Air includes the usual iSight camera, an LED backlit display, an ambient light sensor, and a big touchpad that works with multitouch gestures, such as rotating a photo by twisting your fingers on the touchpad.

As for what’s inside this slim laptop, we’re looking at a 1.6GHz or 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, custom-made by Intel to fit into the slim chassis, 2GB of RAM, and a choice of either an 80GB standard 1.8-inch hard drive or a 64GB SSD drive (which really should be standard for something so forward-looking).
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The price? - $1,799

More on the MacBook Air:

Apple introduces MacBook Air

Hands on with the MacBook Air

“MacBook Air” or just Hot Air?

Into Thin (MacBook) Air

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Casio today announced its EXILIM EX-F1 - a six megapixel camera with 12x zoom and some very impressive burst shooting capabilities. Capturing up to 60 frames per second at full resolution and a staggering 1200 fps if you drop the image size to 336 x 96, this innovative camera will also shoot 1920 x 1080 Full HD movies at 60fps. Helping to ensure the moment isn’t missed is a buffer system which continually updates then saves the contents to card when the shutter is released. Illumination is taken care of by a conventional strobe which works at up to 7 fps and a cellphone-style LED for 10-60 fps. The EX-F1 will be available from March 2008 priced at $999.99.

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Web Development

Transmit for FTP. Transmit provides the best FTP client for the Mac. Transmit is available from Panic, and costs only $29.95.

Cyberduck is a free FTP solution. I’ve had troubles with Cyberduck when connecting to my (mt) grid server, but if you don’t feel the need to pay for Transmit, then Cyberduck is for you.

CSSEdit for CSS editing. CSSEdit provides a sleek interface for editing CSS files. You can even extract any CSS file from any website and preview what the website would look like with your custom CSS! CSSEdit is available from MacRabbit, and costs $29.95.

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It’s only $29.99 and you can purchase it at ThinkGeek.com.

This t-shirt however is not suitable for those who do want hassle in washing their laundry.

Product Features

* Glowing animated shirt dynamically displays the current wi-fi signal strength.
* Shows signal strength for 802.11b or 802.11g
* Black 100% Cotton T-Shirt
* Animated Decal is Removable (with hook and loop fasteners) for Easy Washing
* Battery Pack is Concealed in a Small Pocket Sewn Inside the Shirt
* Runs for hours off three AAA Batteries (not included)

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It can display any one of five different messages - smiling face, frowning face, “Thanks”, “Back Off” and “Idiot”. We will, of course, leave it up to you to decide which of these messages suits your particular situation - but we do think it’s nice to have a device that allows you to more clearly express yourself to other drivers.

Only $29.99

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If you own a laptop you;ll know that heat is a major concern expecially if your laptop is your primary piece of machine, but thanks to the Belkin Laptop Cooling Pad your laptop will now be much cooler.

An excerpt from the review:

The Laptop Cooling Pad uses a USB connection to power the unit, sacrificing a small portion of your computer’s battery life for the great convenience of not having to carry around an AC power cord. The power cable (which oddly enough does not match the rest of the Cooling Pad’s gray and white color scheme) has a DC 5V connector on one end and a USB connector on the other, and plugs into the back of the Cooling Pad.

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