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Tags: Apple | OS X

The release of Apple's Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard, operating system is imminent and ZDnet.com has an informative article on why you may want to upgrade some of which I list below..

1. If upgrading from Leopard, it's only $29 for a single licence
2. Booting-up time and shut-down are faster as well as connecting to wireless networks
3. It's lighter - a whopping 6GB of memory is freed-up on upgrading

Check out the full article here...

Tags: gadgets | google | internet marketing

Watch this video from Google on how to share gameplay and other gadgets, like a to-do list, with your friends, right on your iGoogle home page...

(p.s. if you have a blog or web site with a rss feed, this could be a great way to push your content out to more people)

I've been a fan of the shoot 'em up rpg Quake since the first game was released back in 1996 - I played a first-level-only demo that shipped with a computer mag and just had to get the full game. (Quake One still has a strong following here...)

Now id software, the developers of Quake, have released a free-to-play online version called Quake Live and it's awesome!  Check out the unofficial trailer below and then go register at www.quakelive.com 

Tags: gadgets

"Augmented Reality" is one of the hottest terms in electronics today, but what does it mean? According to Wikipedia...

Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time. The term is believed to have been coined in 1990 by Thomas Caudell, an employee of Boeing at the time.

Here's a video that demonstrates quite well how AR is being used in the world of gaming...