So if you’re on the hunt for a new phone then it’s likely these two have caught your eye, The Samsung Galaxy S2 and the iPhone 4. Both are honestly fantastic phones. I’ve an iPhone 4 myself and a friend of mine currently has the Samsung Galaxy s2 I’ve had a bit of a play around on. What can I say, I’m extremely impressed by both! Each of the two phones has a heap of pros and cons to it, but mostly pros! Each also suits different types of people and different interests, so let’s have a look at the list of reasons each is good and why it betters its competitor..

The Samsung Galaxy S2

• OLED screen: Much brighter and more vivid in comparison to the iPhone 4′s LCD screen. This is a massive advantage in a lot of situations.
• Much faster data speeds: Higher theoretical max data transfer speeds over cell networks. This means it’s about 6x faster than the iPhone 4. Yes, SIX TIMES faster!
• A heap more standby time: Less frequent charging is required and it has about 2 and a half times more standby time. Yes, no more getting caught outside with 20% battery.
• Higher Res movies: Shoots 1080p video, as a pose to the iPhones 720p. 1080p is extremely high quality and is fantastic for all sorts of video projects.
• More RAM (memory): There is 1024mb of RAM on the Galaxy, and 512mb on the iPhone 4. Do the math and you’ll realise how much better that is.
• Much higher resolution Camera: 8MP vs 5MP. 3 MP higher.
• Newer Bluetooth support: 3.0 vs 2.1
• Talk time: 18.3 hours talk time versus the iPhones 14 hours flat. Yes 18 hours of straight talking. Most people don’t even use that in a month on their mobile. Unless you’re 14 and female of course.
• Much faster processor: 50% faster. This means things are all going to load quicker and work faster. Very nice benefit.
• Lighter: 21 grams lighter. This won’t really make a difference at all for most people, but it’s still a 1up on the iPhone.
• Thinner: 1mm thinner than the iPhone 4. Same as above. Not many people are going to care about this, unless you have tight pockets. Still however, worth mentioning.

The iPhone 4

• More internal Storage: 64 GB vs 32 GB, that’s double the space. The iPhone 4 can hold all your music, apps, pictures and media with no stress at all.
• Much higher PPI screen: 329PPI vs 218PPI: Meaning text and images are a heap more crisper in quality.
• Much higher screen resolution: 960X640 vs 800×480. That’s 60% higher resolution.
• More apps available: The apple app store is absolutely huge. It contains about 30% more apps than the Android store. That’s around 200,000 more. Yes! TWO-HUNDRED THOUSAND more apps.

As you can see both of the phones are absolutely fantastic. I’ve heard from a lot of people that the Samsung Galaxy S2 is ten times better than the iPhone 4, but you need to consider you’re no longer with Apple. Meaning no more connecting to iTunes, no more apple app store or any other cool features apple provide you with.

Either way, both phones are fantastic.

- Jonathan

Ever been on skype to someone and all you can see is a blurry outline of them with it only moving every 3 seconds? Does your webcam lag like no tomorrow and make you look more like a bunch of pixels than a person? Warcom is here to give you the tips to ensure your webcam works far better than it currently is. There’s nothing more annoying than having your webcam look like trash. The image is bad and you can’t skype with someone. You’d be better taking a photo of yourself every 5 seconds and emailing them one by one, that’d probably be faster than a slow webcam. Here’s some tips to avoid your webcam giving you such nightmares..

Invest in a good webcam

Firstly, if your webcam cost you about $2, then of course it’s going to be complete rubbish. Try spend a decent amount of money on your webcam to ensure it’s got good quality pictures. Sure it might not be the best, and I’m not saying to spend hundreds of dollars on one, I’m just saying to make sure it’s at least decent.

Don’t use your monitor as a light source

Make sure you have a few lights turned on or that you’re sitting in sunlight. If your webcam is using your monitors light only then of course the image quality is going to be horrible, and slow. Natural light is awesome for webcams and can give you a massive improvement.

Make sure you try to soften the light

If you don’t have sunlight and are just using normal lights around your house, try soften them somehow. Whether it be putting something on them or whatever you please, if you can get the light softer it’ll be more effective.

Get rid of reflection

ESPECIALLY if you’re wearing glasses, you want to try to get rid of any reflection in the camera’s view. Try to turn down the brightness of your screen so it’s just visibly comfortable rather than extremely bright.

Clean your background and make it simple

Rather than sitting i na crowded room full of junk, objects and people. Try to sit against a single colour wall, or somewhere that there are less things going on. This lets your camera relax a little and not work as hard to pick up every little detail around you, this will also help you get better image quality as well as speed. Have a look at our range of webcams, some of the most high quality webcams won’t need you to do most of these steps, but you have a mediocre webcam or a semi decent one, doing all this is going to really help make those skype or msn video calls far more enjoyable and relaxing. Just make sure you invest in a decent webcam, don’t spend hundreds of dollars, but at least make sure it’s bearable.

- Jonathan

The Pros

• The look and feel of flash will be consistent across all platforms. Macromedia wrote flash for a bunch of browsers and platforms, so the program will always display itself the same no matter what browser you’re on.

Sony Vegas Pro 11 Review

So most people out there in the editing world have definitely heard of Sony Vegas Pro. Most people who use it would have been on Pro 9 and loving it. Well there’s news. Since the release of  version 10 (Ugh, yes we agree – What a let down) Sony has taken the time to improve on all the features we loved and hated from Vegas 9.0 in order to bring us Sony Vegas Pro 11, the new and far more improved version of the program. With everything from new presets to faster rendering times, everyone is sure to find something about the program they adore. Let’s have a quick look at what’s been improved in the program.

Faster Rendering

Vegas Pro 11′s rendering times are far superior to that of Sony Vegas 9.0, but why and how? Well what they’ve done is that they have actually given you the ability to connect the rendering force in the program to your graphics card inside your computer. This means that not only is the program working its hardest to render your footage in HD, but now it has the backup of your graphics card to help it out. The better the graphics card, the quicker and more efficient the rendering is going to be for you. This is a huge bonus on the old version of Vegas, where sometimes you had to wait up to 5 hours for something to render.

New presets

Anyone remember the text presets in Vegas 9.0 and 10.0? Yeah, rubbish. Now Sony has actually taken the time to make sure that they actually offer some decent content when releasing their program. There is a new feature to actually animate text as well. There are a good 20 odd text presets that give you awesome animations such as Action slow-mow, bouncing text and zooms. This is also accompanied by a heap of effect and transition presets you’re sure to love.

Search for what you want!

Much like Windows 7 does, you actually have the feature where you can start typing the name of the effect, transition or piece of media you want into a task bar and it will show up any alike options and the effect itself. This is fantastic for quickly finding effects and media to add to your project without scrolling through your content for minutes at a time trying to remember where that one awesome effect you loved was.

Codecs!

Finally Vegas has a heap more codecs it can work with, with the help of addons and the new version itself. Now you can actually use .AVI and .FLV’s without hassle. Thank god!

More powerful effects

Now you can actually create certain effects that resemble somewhat the ability of Adobe After effects. With now the power to create certain natural effects such as lightning and fire and awesome intros for your videos, it really is a treat!

The new version of Sony Vegas Pro offers you a huge upgrade. This software is to be enjoyed by anyone in the editing world. It offers an easy, fast, very effective and powerful path to take when creating your short films, youtube videos or any video production you please.

- Jonathan

This is great news for you as an existing customer and a new customer as you will be able to benefit from lighting fast Internode ADSL2+ broadband, deliveredown DSLAM network.

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Sincerely,
- Paul.

The pros and cons of Liquid Cooling for your PC

Anyone who owns a desktop has probably heard of liquid cooling to some point. Liquid cooling actually does use Liquid to cool the system down. Liquid cooling is essentially a radiator for the CPU inside of the computer. Just like a radiator for a car, a liquid cooling system circulates liquid through a heat sink. This heat sink is attached to the processor inside of the actual computer. Yes, the computer has water in it, weird huh? As the liquid passes through the heat sink, heat is transferred from the hot processor to the cooler liquid. The hot liquid then moves out to a radiator at the back of the case and transfers all of the heat to the air outside of the case, so that it doesn’t get hot inside. The cooled liquid then travels back through the system to the CPU and then the process repeats itself over and over again. So, what are the pro’s and cons of this process?

The Pros

• More stable overall temps (CPU); This means less jumping between temperatures depending on the demand put on the machine, and more stability.
• Lower overall temps (CPU); This means the more stable temperatures are also lower than the usual ones, meaning it’s more effective than a fan.
• Less noise to heat removal; The more heat the machine is removing, the less noise in comparison to what a fan would do.
• More efficient than air cooling; Yet again I’ll state it’s far more efficient than any job a fan does.
• Bragging rights; Do I need to say more?
• Can really improve the looks of your case; With no grills needed for fans, and the liquid tubes and compartments this opens up the opportunity for some serious modding!  If you’re keen on style then Liquid Cooling might be for you!

The Cons

• More expensive than air cooling; Yes, this’ll be a bit more demanding on coin. Not a whole lot but still substantial. If you’re serious about getting the best parts for your computer then you’ll have no problem with the money.
• More difficult installation; Especially since the risk of water damaging your machine is present. Definitely try get a professional or someone who knows what they’re doing to give this a go.
• Maintenance required to avoid corrosion/acidic build up; Much more constant maintenance is needed, and if you get a pro to do it then it could be heavy on your pockets.
• Potential risk of damage from undetected leaks; If even a slight bit of water escapes the tubes it can be catastrophic for your machine.
• Some water cooling kits cool no better than air; You really need to invest in a good water cooling kit as some aren’t that good and don’t do much better than a regular fan.
• May require case modding; If you’re looking to install it in your current computer then you may need to mod your case.

Best Website Creation Software

So you’ve launched your small business? Or maybe you are starting one. Perhaps you’re looking to make an anime website for everyone to watch their favourite animes, or maybe you’re looking to create a website in order to show people the best places to shop for hoodless jumpers, or fish.. Whatever floats your boat! The most important part is that you wan’t to know what you have to do in order to create that website you’ve thought up and perfected in your mind. Now the next step is to put it on the screen. There are a number of tools you can use, but probably a few that are more recommended than others. Keep reading and we’ll fill you in on some of the things you need to know and programs you may use before creating that dream website you want..

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 is a web authoring software for anyone who is in the business of editing or creating websites. Its price and easy to use interface and tools make it most useful to those who create websites regularly or work on several sites, not for casual web page development. In the Adobe Creative Suite this is the third version of Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver strengthens its already strong Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) abilities and PHP-based content managed websites.

Web Studio 5

Boasting a clean and easy-to-navigate interface, Web Studio is website creation software that was designed for the true beginner user. Although it may lack a few key features we sought after, the software’s rich feature set, template collection, and comprehensive help and support options all make Web Studio highly deserving of all the recognition it’s give as a website creation program.

WebEasy Professional 9

This program is one of the top products you can use for web creation. WebEasy Professional 9 is at the tip of the line when it comes to website creation tools and software and is sure to give you bang for your buck. Page layout and navigation is patterned after Microsoft Office applications such as Word and PowerPoint, which many of you are more than familiar with. This fantastic piece of software is the best website creation software because of its incredibly easy to use, accessible and perfected layout and because of the features and tools included with this website design software.

Online Development tools

If they’re free they aren’t worth it, but if you can pay online and purchase a website template, and domain then you have your website made! There’s a number of different layouts on the internet, infact thousands. Have a good look before you spend coin!

There are a number of options to create a website with, hopefully these helped you.

- Jonathan

For this month, we’re tripling our famous $25 Internode Cash Back rebate;  to the end of the month, so that’s a whopping $75 Internode Cash Back!

All you need to do to claim this $75 cash back rebate is mention this blog when claiming the rebate via our website.

• Only people who signup to Internode between: 01/05/2012 – 30/05/2012 are eligible.
• This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other discounts.
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Please give us a call on 1300 927 266 if you have any questions.

If for any reasons you are waiting on a rebate, or have any other questions surrounding rebates, please also feel free to give us a call!

- Paul

Formerly the Chief Operating Officer at Catchoftheday.com.au, Scoopon.com.au and Groceryrun.com.au, Mark was the key driver in the due diligence process which led to an $80 million investment in these companies by New York based Tiger Global, and James Packer in April 2011.

Here’s some background on the decision.

Over the last five years, we’ve accomplished a lot on our own and we’re proud of what we’ve been able to do without outside help. But we think we can do even better with the right kind of help. And we’re picky.

What we’ve been looking for is the wisdom of a very special entrepreneur who’s been through what we’re going through. Someone who sees things a little differently and makes us feel right at home. Someone with a long term outlook, not a build-to-flip mentality. We found a perfect match in Mark. Mark is our kinda guy.

It will be great learning from Mark as we build Warcom into a great company. We hope this boost of ambition, and Marks’s personal vote of confidence, will help us achieve our big plans.

Here we go!

Paul Warren.
Founder & CEO.

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On behalf of everyone here at Warcom, I would like to express our sincere and heart felt thank you to all the service men and women who served in Gallipoli in World War I on April 25, 1915.

If not for the bravery of all military personnel who participated in this campaign, Australia would not be the prosperous and truly luck country it is today.

Thank you.

… There is one thing, that has been bothering me about Anzac Day though – why do we have a public holiday?

My view on this is that of a very simplistic one.

The amazing men and women that fought in World War I, did so – so that our country could become what it is today.

• They would have wanted us to be prosperous.
• They would have wanted us to be stable / safe / protected.
• They certainly would not have wanted anyone in Australia be homeless. (This is a serious issue).
• They certainly would not have wanted anyone in Australia to go without proper medical treatment. (This is happening).
• And most of all – they would have wanted us to look after each other.

Now not to get overly political on this, but the five previous bullet points I have mentioned; coupled with the fact Australias economy, employment & growth is not exactly amazing at the moment has me intrigued.

Truth be told, and disregarding the mining industry; Australia is in a pretty woeful position at the moment.

• Interest rates are screwed – so consumers are not spending.
• We’re about to be hit with a carbon tax – this is going to be a disaster for Australia – this will lead to mass unemployment.
• Retail shops are seriously hurting – which will also lead to severe unemployment.
• And the monkeys running the country – they seriously have no idea.

As a small business owner and as a human being I’ll be working Wednesday.

My employees need their jobs, they need the roof’s over their heads,

nb: I certainly don’t want to anger, or outrage anyone with this blog topic, this is simply my point of view.