Interstallar GPS system ... something out of Star Trek

Someone's come up with a system to pin-point your location in the galaxy similar to the GPS system we have today. The signals from 4 pulsars form a natural GPS system that could locate any object in the galaxy to within a meter.

This would be handy when we develop warp drive to help keep us from flying into random planets in the way.

Link: Technology Review

Eggshell speakers - organic and environmentally friendly

How cool is this - Eggshell speakers.
Maybe a sign of future things to come.

Link: DVICE

F-35 makes for easy fighter combats

This is where all the US Department of Defense budget goes to. 

Its pretty amazing stuff. The "Distributed Aperture System" allows the pilot to have 360 degree view of the battlefield. Best part I like is it can detect planes sneaking up to you and all the F-35 pilot does is shoot a missile (while flying away) and the missile will fly around to hit the target... how unfair is THAT!

Give it another 20 years and we'll see some of this technology in cars or something :D

R2-D2 flying the Enterprise in new Star Trek movie!!

Paramount has inserted R2-D2 into various scenes in the new Star Trek movie and is running a competition to spot where he is!

Picture from Gizmodo

If you believe you have spotted him you can enter the competition here:
Paramount facebook link

Wolfram Alpha launched

A new research search engine ("knowledge engine") has just been launched. Its called "Wolfram Alpha" and its meant to be the "Google" for science and research....give it a whirl and learn something new today.

Apparently Melbourne's population is 3.73m.

Note that Google announced that they will be launching a similar search engine later this year!

Check it out here!

Installing Windows 7 on your Mac

One of the nice things about having a Mac is that you can use Windows and not feel dependent on the buggy, ugly looking OS. You can run Windows in dual-boot mode via Apple Boot Camp, or even better virtualise it straight inside OSX using Fusion or Parallel.

Microsoft has just release Windows 7 Release Candidate 1. This meants its less buggy than Beta, but not ready for commercial release. The upside is, its free for use till Mar 2010 when it will start shutting down your machine every 2 hours. All indications is that Windows 7 is the OS Vista should have been...rather than the annoying anti-user Vista.

Here is a guide to getting it up and running on your Mac.
Gotta love the packaged drivers from Apple to help get your Windows environment going.
Talk about playing nice...

Installing Windows on Mac Guide

Vaccine drip to help your computer recover

What a cute concept! This drip-concept device gives your laptop some much needed love when its in trouble. It can recover corrupted files and provide vaccine software to clear up viruses.

Original post here.

Apple Store in Westfield Doncaster!!

Apparently the rumour is that Apple Store will be opening at Westfield Doncaster!! Sweet!

Original post here.

Are Apple laptops better than PCs? Well consumers think so!

The Macbook tops the latest Consumer Report in all three notebook categories: 13-inch machines, 14-inch to 16-inch laptops, and 17-inch models.

Despite the lower cost of PCs, the Macbooks won over. Apple dominated the 13-inch category with its unibody Macbook coming first, followed by Macbook Air and the white polycarbonate Macbook. While the 17-inch MacBook Pro got the highest rating of any notebook reviewed by Consumer Reports, scoring 80 points out of the magazine’s 100 point scale!

Keeping track of the economy

Everyone is aware of the Global Financial Crisis. So what better way to track this monumental event than check out the US Govt. site Recovery.gov. Lots of graphs on the where and how money is being spent. If you're into the details here are a couple of other sites to track....

• Economic Indicators
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Economagic

Beware the deluge of statistics and data on the economy.
If you can make sense of all of it and what it all means you'd probably be the first!

Kevin 37 TV to help you spend your stimulus $$

So everyone should be getting their K.Rudd $$ by now. Kogan's released a 37 inch TV to help you spend your $900. As a bonus you also get a free T-shirt! LOL

Check it out here.