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Adobe, the worlds leading graphics design software manufacturer, have today anounced teh specs of th eeagerly awaited Photoshop CS4.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 is a ground breaking on several levels, first and foremost its graphic card utilization, a first outside the Apple Mac, and defiantely something that should be worrying the ol’ iPod creators.

The graphic card utilization gives Photoshop CS4 a whole new level of graphic manipulation, veiwing and modification power, greatly reducing lag. Mix this is with CS4’s 64bit compatability and its new Pixel Bending technology (Reduces rendering time on special effects) and suddenly CS4 is not only a more diverse, but also a much, much quicker product.

Along with the new speediness you also have Flash compatability now, allowing greater flexibility when creating flash documents and a new host of tools within photoshop!

My allover favorite feature though is content aware scaling, this can stretch and distort an image while retaining key areas. Say for interest stretching an image of a couple walking on the beach, you can stretch the image to the length you want while retainingt he size of the settnig sun and avoiding the couple becoming grotesquely fat!

All in all I love the new Adobe Photoshop CS4 and look forward to buying it on release!

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I have heard many claims in my life of the worlds greatest, smallest, lightest and fastest devices.  Most of these I discount as pure tosh.  Everyone claims to be the best at their own target audience, it is after all the name of the game.

This time however  the Fit-PC seems to have pulled off being the worlds smallest XP compatible PC, or maybe even just the worlds smallest PC .  The Fit-PC comes in at a tiny 10cm wide, 11cm long and only 3cm deep, making it quite possibly the worlds smallest computer.

Considering its tiny size the fit-PC has a fairly decent amount of hardware under the hood,

While it would not stand up to many of today’s games the fact that all this is packed into the worlds smallest XP compatible machine makes it more than worth the downgrade!

Unfortunately I soon realised that while this is possibly the worlds most portable PC it is just the PC, include the power pack, monitor, the monitors power pack, keyboard and mouse and suddenly I think you would find you asking yourself why in gods name didn’t you just buy a laptop?!

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Phorm, for those of you who don’t know, is the logging of personal information to provide targetted adverts to the user.  In recent years this has been hotly debated across the EU as to wether or not it is in fact legal.

Many people do not like to have their search information recorded, but lets face it, it’s not just the internet that does this.  Your local supermarket, be it Tescos or Walmart will be recording what you buy and when you buy it so it can send out advertising to you on the right day about the right products.

Personally I could not care any less if a company recorded information abotu what i bought, searched for or similar, I would prefer to have adverts relevant to me rather than an inbox full of, to put it bluntly, bullshit.

I find this move a hysterical response to an ‘internet phenomenon’ and that this is just anotehr example of nanny state behaviour appearing from the EU.  Many internet companies succeed becasue tehy can see that a certain number of people like certain things, if this information is removed or becomes unreliable the tax losses for governments nationwide will be pretty damn big as companies go under and new ones cannot start.

I use google keyword stats regularly so am more than well aware of how advert targetting is imperative to the survival of small business on the internet.

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We use pen-drive to store data, back up data, move stuff from one PC to the other. But have you ever seen pen drive being used for show off and decoration purpose. Well here are some of the USB pen drives we wish we all had seen before making a buy of a USB pen drive. Some of these pen drive are just pointless, some are heavy and some are too expensive to own.

5). The Nike Air Max 360 flash drive

This is quite a unique kind of Pen drives we have ever encountered. This Pen Drive, produced in the shape of a Nike Shoes, is fast and wraps the NAND memory and the connector with some rubber. With pen drive will make sure that you empty all the neighboring USB slots though.

4). iDisk Diamond

iDisk Diamond is the smallest Pen drive made so far. This pen drive fits into the USB port of you PC. In terms of memory, it amazes you with the amount of data it can hold. iDisk Diamond comes in all memory sizes, be it 128 MB or the 8 GB (Say WoW).

3). Wallet Flash Drive

Walletex has developed the Wallet-Friendly device, the Wallet Flash, the world’s first credit card sized USB Flash Drive. The Wallet Flash USB flash drive has received the CES innovations 2006 Design and Engineering Showcase Honoree in the Personal Electronics Category, right upon its launch, and awarded “The 2007 Promotional Gift” by Promotional World.
This world’s slimmest USB device, and the only one that can be conveniently carried in a wallet, provides the discerning user with several major advantages over the conventional USB drives exist on the market.

2). World’s Heaviest USB Drive

Chris Spurge decided to permanently “embed” his USB drive to a 16-pound Galaxie 3000 bowling ball in fears of losing it. One caveat: connecting it to a computer. I can see the new trend now - flash drives stuck into Foreman grills, Karate trophies and old Pintos. The future is a beautiful place. While attaching this device to laptops and PCs within cramped confines probably isn’t desirable, it should definitely keep that precious data out of the washing machine, but we doubt this bad boy lands a strike anytime soon with such an extrusion.

1). 007 USB Flash Drive

For some people, losing is pen drive is not a worry, but the data filled inside it is. What if a person steals your Pen drive containing all your personel records like Name, Age, Bank Account number, Credit card information and the worst of all, you bank account or PayPal password. That is where 007 USB Flash Drive comes to rescue. This device “not only keeps would-be data thieves from getting to the thumb drive, it also will physically lock the drive to an object, such as a desk, via the bundled steel cable.

So, what is you kind of pen drive? Did we miss anything? Scribble through the comments section below.

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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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Today I bid farewell to you all as I set my sights on a two week road trip around europe, I will be visiting La Rochelle, Barcelona, Marseille, and munich, plus a fair few random places on the way!

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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Sky have teamed up with music publisher Universal to give a limited number of downloads for a fixed monthly fee to subscribers of its new music download service.

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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