Last night Microsoft launched their new, “I’m a PC“, advert which is more a comeback from the Apple “Mac vs PC” adverts. It really dirves the point home compared to the recent “Seinfeld and Gates” adverts. It seems that PC users are not at all like what Apple would like us to believe. Some are even worthy of pinning up on your bedroom wall!

The one thing that I dont get about this new campaign is the slogan at the end of the ad where it says “Life without walls”. Well if you’ve got no walls then where are you gona put the Windows?

Some of you may have noticed our logo change today and some may have noticed some visual muck-ups, but today our friend over at Brinkhurst Design added our new logo to the site and made some modifications to the sites design. Our new logo adds a splash of colour to this rather dull grey design but over the coming months you will start to spot more and more changes to liven it up a little. Well, thats all from me on this ground breaking piece of news. Thanks again to Brinkhurst Design for the logo and keep your eyes peeled for my next review. I promise it is coming, honest. I’m just having too much fun blowing these Glubbles.

Yes thats right, another of my unconventional posts. This one is all about Me, Myself and Max. Max however is not a person, nor is Max an animal. Max is what I call my Maxtor Basics^TM External Desktop Hard Drive. Thats right. This post is all about my experience with my brand new external hard drive.

The Maxtor Basics^TM External Desktop Hard Drive that I purchased has apparently got 500GB, however, my Max has only 465GB. Now I was only looking for a cheap 120GB portable drive but Max cost about £50 less than what I was looking at so I made a small sacrifice of the porability for cost. For this reason and this reason only I will not complain or return my mate Max.

I have used Max as a media library with over 10GB of music, 20GB of films and 30GB of photos from my recent trip to Kenya. On top of all this I have the cheek to run OpenSolaris and Ubuntu from his memory. Myself however dont have the capcity to hold that amount of information.

Forgetting the size now Max comes with a USB 2.0 conection, Plug-n-Play style use, EU and UK plugs, (I’m sure in the US you will get a US plug,) a three year limited warrenty and a quick start guide. Intrested in the speed of this Hard Drive? Well Max is amazingly fast when it comes to data retrieval with his amazing ability to spin round at 7200 RPM.

Want to know how old Max is? Well all I can tell you is that Max is 20 years in the making. Me? Well, thats an entirely different story that I don’t think I want to go into.

Aright then… Me, I’m 16. That is all you need to know, but, I want to know what you think of the Maxtor Basics^TM External Desktop Hard Drive. Is it as reliable as Max with no problems to date? Does it have more or less space to store information that Max? Does yours actually have 500GB? We here at Technoish want to know, so post your experiences over in the Forums. Head to Discuss Driver Posts on Technoish then look for Me, Myself and Max – Experiences.

My next post I hear you ask? Well that would be telling but I will tell you this much. I have been blowing many Glubbles while writing it.

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Is it not the worst thing when you get back home after a long days work, only to find out that there is no milk left? Wish that you had a simple way to keep an easy way to keep track of your tasks with times, dates, places and a map? And to top it off you must be able to use the system on your mobile, with your social networks and off-line. Well I have just the tool for you.

Remember the milk is the Internet’s most powerful tool for managing your day. The biggest reason is that rtm is able to integrate with many of your other online services, as well as run on your BlackBerry, iPhone or iPod touch.

Not only is rtm able to integrate with you online services and your portable device but it allows you to add tasks via email and even your normal mobile phone!

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As most of us will know, Google has its own little world on-line with tons of cool tools like Google Groups,  Google Sites, Google Apps, etc… But, what a lot of people fail to realize is that Google World is not only a place in cyberspace but it is also a place in the real world. These photos taken of Google World are not fake but are 100% real.

Not only does google have its own slide it also has its own South Pole, Amazon Rain forest, Sleeping Quarters, Bee Hives, Taxis and many other bazaar places.

Google’s radical image is not just the ex-scrappy youngster but it is the way that it treats its employee’s and their families. Yes there is even a day care centre.

Like my hidden insights into the world? Like the way I show you the news that really matters? Then look out for my next article: Don’t Forget The Milk!

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That’s right, the new kid on the block is Google’s newest creation. The Chrome web browser. What is it about some companies, especially those in the technology industry, that inspire enthusiasm and love, not only among those who work for them but the millions of customers as well? Is it just me or is it strange how people who wouldn’t dream of falling in love with their bank or local supermarket develop such an attachment to products and technologies that emerge from companies such as Apple, Nokia, Nintendo, and (dare I say it,) even Microsoft.

Google

Over the last decade or so Google has be one of the largest of these inspiring companies with one of the biggest fan bases ever for an on-line based company. It all started when Google came out and was instantly so much better at its job as a search engine than any of its competitors, not only that but the fact that this engine was seen to be the smart, scrappy, youngster taking on the big boys.

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I’m sure you have all noticed by now that our front page has been covered all over with Google Chrome Headlines. Well I must confess, Google’s mind-boggling game blew our “geeky” brain cells away. Three days after the release of Google Chrome I noticed that all we talk and write about is Google’s new Browser. But then from what I saw on digg’s front pages it was a relief. We are not alone, Digg’s front pages are all covered with titles about Google Chrome too.

And here are the statistics about the browser usage of our visitor of the second and third day after the Chrome’s release. Notice how close it is to IE’s precentage :)

Google Chrome Site Statistics

I guess Google Chrome is taking over casual internet users much faster than we orginally thought. Watch out IE here comes Chrome!

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Ok people (to whoever reads this) it has been a long night, I’m very tired but managed to do some testing and I came up with some interesting results. I wanted to see for myself what this Chrome madness all about is.

In my previous post I tried to “feel” all the 3 browsers and then compare my impressions with some of the early benchmarks done by the dudes at lifehacker.com. I was right about some parts of the performance tests, but wrong about others – for instance I thought that Internet Explorer has a fastest script engine. Anyways I’ll try to keep this as short as possible.

I did the testing on average desktop machine with Windows XP Professional sp3: Asus M2N-X+, AMD Athlon 64×2 dual 4800+, 1Gb RAM, nVidia GeForce 8500 GT. Used CSS speed tests, javascript speed test and timer application for the speed performance, and Task Manager for the memory test. The browsers tested Mozzila Firefox 3.1b – Minefield, Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 and Google Chrome 0.2. All the settings on default. I averaged out of 5 results. Tried to be as objective as possible.

The cold start was a surprise, Internet Explorer 8 was the fastest to load. Another thing I noticed that IE 8 is a multiprocess browser too, ( I didn’t know that) same as Chrome. It prevents crashes to whole application. Warm Starts are pretty fast. Chrome wins here. Chrome also show its superiority in the CSS test. Draws way faster than both of its opponents. Javascript test show that Firefox handles scripts fastest. What surprised me is that Internet Explorer handled the script test unusually slow. I suspect the ActiveX controls but as I said previously the browsers were set to default.

memory overview

Here I saw multiprocessing in action. Two of the tabs crashed in Internet Explorer with youtube videos loading, but the whole application stayed intact, which is nice, neat and handy at the same time. In this category Firefox is the winner with its modest memory requirements.

. These new generation browsers, significantly faster, improved, unlike few versions ago, improving our experience are just gonna get better. Still only betas, we’re looking forward to final versions. I personally use all of them. Firefox for developing, IE for testing, Chrome for surfing. What browser do you stick with?

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Separate users on one browser can be handy for web developers and advanced users. Plus Google Chrome and Firefox share a history aware address bar or “Awesome Bar” that can create awkward situations if there is a lack of it. Creating separate users in most of the browsers can be tricky (especially in ff 2.x versions). I dont know why is that, there is no good reason for it but things are as they are. So if you want to create your user in Chrome you need to manually create a folder in Chrome’s application data folder, and that’s about it. Create shortcut of your own Chrome and leave no tracks on others. If you need more help check out this.

For Windows Vista - C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome
For Windows XP - C:\Documents and Settings\\Local
Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome

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If you want to make some money on internet you need to start doing some stuff. This is not tutorial how to make cash, just a little dose of reality. You need to spend alot of hours sitting, reading, writing, SEOing etc :P. So you might find this insipiring.

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