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Amen to that Mark.Admin presence hasn't been what it used to be, as say in the summer holiday, as I've returned to Sixth Form and my A Levels have taken priority, Marc has work, Ian has work, Mark has work, just a lot of other work basically.But yeah because of this we're gonna be on a short fuse, no messing around. I've spent ages perfecting the guidelines to make it clear what is an acceptable post and what isn't. If you've read them and follow them, I mean, follow them, you have nothing to worry about.

Yay! Finished my Graphics book cover.

Welcome Jack!..the Sack. Tadah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWPf1BWtkwThe new Windows adverts are awesome. Very subliminal and deep message.

I honestly can't tell if he is being sarcastic or sincere. Someone help me out.

The ear buds with mic and play/pause/volume buttons aren't in production yet, and won't be for a month. Once they're out, I believe they'll be included in Nano Chromatic and iPhone 3G

It's nice to have a speaker there if you need it, Steve said himself it's casual listening. Apart from other cute features and slight improvements, what else CAN you do with the iPod? End of the day it's there to play music and video, and now they're branching out into games. There is only so much you can do with it, and the improvments announced yesterday make the experience just that little bit better.As for how Genius is going, it's working great, recommending some really great tracks, and MGMT albums I didn't even know existed. It's like Pandora, love it.

Just as expected, today Apple released updated iPods! New iPod Nano Chromatic. Widescreen, and has a really cute feature "shake to shuffle", you just shake it and it plays a completly random song from your collection.The iPod touch got thinner, bigger space, volume controls and a built in speaker.iTunes got a pretty big update, with something called Genius, it goes through all your music, and then finds songs you may like based on what you already have, so its a recommendation engine. It can also make playlists based off one song, which are similiar. Been trying it out and it's working pretty well.Take a look! http://www.apple.com

In programming, in all languages, the first program you ever make is one called "Hello World", and all it does is display "Hello World" on the screen, then quits. It's tradition!

program helloWorldbegin Write("Hello World"); ReadIn;end.How cute. Phills first Pascal program in computer science.

*Raises hand* I'm poor! Save me Will!

Out of all the posts you could of picked here on TPM, you picked mine for forgetting an 'O'. Wow. And no I passed English ta. English has a capital 'E' by the way

With the iPhone on PAY AS YOU GO, the first years internet is free, 100% unlimited 3Gness, sign me up..or not, no contract, sorry couldn't help that joke.

Yeah me to.

You don't need to stab it, you just press it like any other key. It's when you strike it from an angle or softly, it won't come on. It's to do with springs in the key, to prevent the age old problEM OF ACCIDENTALLY TYPING CAPS LOCK MID SENTENCE. f**k.

There shouldn't be any lag WITH THE CAPS LOCK KEY. Like I just demonstrated there. Ensure you're actually pressing the key, as the new keyboards have a feature to prevent you from accidentally striking it mid typing. And Marc, we don't want your freakin' stinking PC so SHUT THE HELL UP. See my caps works fine.

I already explained in great deal what Google Chrome does that no other browser atm does. Each tab has its own process, despite what you think, that does not exist on any other browser in existence, other than Google Chrome. Secondly, Javascript runs insanely fast, 20x faster than Safari, the previous fastest browser out there. It's so fast because they've made JavaScript a virtual machine, and in a sense actually compiles the code, which makes it blazing fast. No other browser does this. Thirdly, each tab is 'sandboxed', meaning it has no affect on any other tab in the window, or your system, meaning the site has no access to read cookies unless that site specifically put them there, stopping the age old problem of session hijacking. Fourthly Chrome manages your systems memory in an incredibly efficient way. I'm not smart enough to explain this one, but basically with every other browser, even with Safari on the Mac, the more tabs and windows you open, the more memory you use, of-course, simple enough. Problem is when you have loads of tabs, you're using a lot of memory, so you close the tabs, so your ram usage for that application has lowered, right? Wrong. You're still using a lot of ram, as fragments get left behind, and the application doesn't shrink as far as it could. Google Chrome has solved this. That's just four things that it does that no other browser does, but there are some more. Look it all up, MacBoy

Well as soon as we've had enough people show genuine interest in the content our adverts display, thus then clicking them to find further product information, they'll have to stay! Jus' saying.

Ad blockers block adverts that support your dear TPM, Marc must be high on drugs to say that I think.And I hope you're not insinuating that IE is better than Chrome. What's that? You're not? Oh Googly® good.

Putting the icon in teh bin doesn't mean it's gone! BURN IT!

Google aren't making a phone, they're making Android, the software for a phone in a partnerships with other companies. Google is a search company, their primary goal is to "organize all of the worlds data, and do no evil", that is there mission statement. Branching out into the phone software market is a clever move, as it means close integration with their Google Docs, Gmail, Google Search, Google Calender, Google anything. People then use these tools online, see more Google products, use Google search, see the sponsored links, click, Google gets more money. They're not gonna do an mp3 player purely for the fact it doesn't tick the boxes for integration with their existing products. Everything Google do is for their benefit, and they have to do it to survive as a successfully company. Recently net neutrality became a big cause for concern for Google, as restricting access and speeds of websites affects their business models, so it's in their best interest to protect that neutrality, which is why soon they'll be offering tools to alert the consumer if there ISP is throttling them (I believe it'll built into Chrome, actually). Google for the past 7 years has been buying miles and miles of copper cable, and recently announced that they'll be laying an underwater cable between Japan and the US, to me it sounds like there 'insurance plan', if net neutrality goes belly up. They do it to protect themselves. Google, whilst it does all of this for its own benefit, I think they're a majorly important part of the world today, they create drive and competition, which only pushes them and the competition to create even better products. So I think Chrome, Android, and all these new Google ventures are a step forward and a big push, the internet, the phone market and technology in general needs, which is why I'm so excited about it all.

So Google are pushing the boundaries of evolving the internet, and possibly computing as we know it, and all you can think about is porn?!

I completely disagree. Firstly Google are trying to achieve what everyone else has failed at doing, evolve the web browser to catch up with what we expect from the web today. It's the only browser I know of that has made me think 'why has no one else thought of this?'. It seems such an obvious thought to make each tab unaffected by another one, yet the most elegant and clear solution has remained the most illusive all this time. Not only does this give stability, but also security. For years now it's been an issue with malicious web pages able to extract information from other session, or cookies from other sites, such as emails and passwords. But now that's not a problem, because Chrome blocks that from happening, each tab is in its own little world, unaffected by any other actions. So just that alone makes it have a lot of real difference from other browsers out there today. Yes the design is minimalistic, but that's not what this project is about, its about pushing the browser forward. Ask any web designer what the most frustrating and limiting thing is in web design, and they'll tell you making your sites work consistently in all browsers. The amount of times I have been reduced to sheer rage at the fact that something will work in one browser, but not an another, I can't even remember how many times. And this is what Google is trying to address, using a rock solid engine, which is W3C standardized, so you follow one set of rules, and you KNOW it'll work across the board.I could ramble on a lot more about why this is great, such as the fact it's one step closer to 'cloud computing'. It's clear Google has its eyes set on eventually replacing desktop applications as we know, it's already done it with email (Gmail), and it's trying now with Google Docs, etc. Applications and Javascript run a lot more fast. It handles memory A LOT more efficiently. One problem with FireFox and Safari is the fact that when you open loads of tabs, and then close them again, the ram hasn't been recycled back into the system, its just sitting there, not being used, and won't go back into the cycle until the program has been closed (known as a memory leak).I think this is one massive win for the internet as a whole.

Here is my two cents on Google chrome as a web developer. I'm in love with what they're doing. They've basically said "Look, the web has evolved, but the browser hasn't". They've redesigned everything and started from the ground up and built it around what the web is today. It was built with applications in mind, each tab is its own process, so if one web app crashes, the rest of the browser is fine, similar to how OS X works. They've used webkit, a great rendering engine, same that Safari uses so web pages load fast, and standard compliant. The UI is minimalistic, and is typically Google to just get out the way of things, and let you get on with what you want to do. Google don't care if this thing is a 'flop', they've even said that themselves, what they're trying to do is evolve the web, which is why they've made the entire project open source, so other browsers such as Firefox can take these ideas and run with them. It's to Googles advantage to keep the web evolving, they're a web based company after all, and they want to push web applications to their limits. This all makes perfect sense.