Volkswagon had not planned on revealing their famous and unique sixth generation Golf this soon but thanks (or no thanks VW would say) to the internet it’s been leaked! Leaked so soon that we haven’t actually got much to tell you about it, but we have got some nice pics.
With limited info at the moment, we can tell you that the range of engines which will be available with the new Golf VI will include a 1.4L TSI, 1.8L TFSI and some blogs are saying maybe even the 2.0L TFSI. While for diesels, there will of course be the company’s 1.9L and 2.0L TDI motors. The previous, fifth generation Golf was one of my favourite hatchbacks here in Britain, primarily because it was comfortable but at the same time offered the specs that outweighed many other sporty hatchbacks and it was absolutely stunning to look at. However, this one, I’m not too convinced, it seemed to have lost that distinctive appearance that I used to enjoy with the old one, though the one pictured does appear to have had suspensions lowered, I wouldn’t exactly say that it is appealling.
Here are some more pics to see…
The Android Scan is an application for the Android which I think could really enhance the experience of shopping in the future, in addition to that, it could possibly save you loads of cash!
Consider this example, ever had the experience where you saw something at a shop and bought it immediately without thinking just because you thought it was so cheap that you would be seriously missing out if you didn’t take it straight to the checkout? Then two days later, you’re at home and decided to look it up on the internet and to your surprise you find that the exact item was actually alot cheaper over the internet.
I’m sure anyone will have had the experience mentioned above once in a while, that’s why I think Scan has been perfectly designed for this situation. Scan, as you will appreciate from its name, is an application that uses your phone’s camera to scan product / item barcodes. It is designed to recognise barcodes then use the information to search over the internet. In the particular example above, Scan would help you search for bargains of the same item over the internet and also locally. What I like particularly about this is that it will then provide you with the relevant info, like local shop contact details so you can ring the shop immediately, Scan just makes life so much easier. If it finds you a bargain, it will probably make life less costly for you too!
Hey everyone this was just some random find off the internet, it seems some rich person (woman I presume from the look of the spoiler) decided to make abit of adjustment to her Porsche 911 Convertible completely with gold. This adds 50 pounds more to the weight of this pretty car, but then again, I suppose this particular driver didn’t really care about driving fast, just the shiny looks! After reading some comments, people are saying that the pics below were taken in Russia and that the gold is 24-carat gold.
I think this 911 looks alright afterall with the black alloys and black top but just imagine the dreadful feeling of getting this deco scratched or even worst, a car accident?
If you’re like some users who have just become fed up with the use of Safari on your iPhone / iPod Touch, you might be interested in watching this video. Firefox Mobile, though completely unofficial and just a concept, may interest you.
Some of the features of it as you will see in the video below includes:
- Addition of shortcuts for social bookmarking function conveniently located at the bottom of the screen
- Page zoom in and out feature
- Web controls and URL bar are hidden which gives you more browsing space, but reappear easily under your control
- Ability to organise your web tabs just the way you want them!
Firefox Mobile Concept Video from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
If you were following us in February you will no doubt remember the post in which we showed some Windows 7 screenshots in addition to a video of its ‘new’ start menu. These at the time were highly criticised for their authenticity and rightly so, they looked a lot like our present day Windows Vista, it was difficult for us to believer they were real too!
But just a few days ago, Bill Gates revealed for us what we all wanted to hear, that the next version of Windows: Windows 7 (formerly called Windows Vienna for some reason) will be out in 2010. Might my PC running Windows XP be able to wait two more years, I would hate to have to switch to Vista now, I’m in hopeful spirits for Windows 7!
As you can see, these are the latest pics that have been claimed by many blogs to be ‘real’, in my opinion, they look different from the ones we showed earlier, so it is really difficult to tell if there is any authenticity to them at all, we remain sceptical!
This is what Bill Gates said at the Windows Digital Lifestyle Consortium in Tokyo…
We’re hard at work, I would say, on the next version, which we call Windows 7. I’m very excited about the work being done there. The ability to be lower power, take less memory, be more efficient, and have lots more connections up to the mobile phone, so those scenarios connect up well to make it a great platform for the best gaming that can be done, to connect up to the thing being done out on the Internet, so that, for example, if you have two personal computers, that your files automatically are synchronized between them, and so you don’t have a lot of work to move that data back and forth.
Though we remain sceptical about these images, as they can be created by anyone who is keen on some ‘image enhancement’, it’s good to know that there’s now a date to look forward to, late 2009 – 2010!
[via Sizzledcore]
I’m a huge fan of Firefox and have been using it almost since it was first introduced, I like the add-ons, themes, its look and good stability, there’s also a huge community of people using it on the web as well. However, recently we talked about the Acid 2 test, a test which examines how well the browsers out there perform in terms of html and also css, etc… As you will remember, from the results, out of the six browsers that were tested, only Opera and Safari passed. The fact that Firefox didn’t pass didn’t really influence me that much at the time and I just kept using it, however, just yesterday I read that the latest Opera, Opera 9.5 beta2 actually out performs Firefox by a considerable margin.
Here’s what Opera does well:
- “Every page loads faster and this is something measurable even without having to use a stopwatch”
- Opera uses 30% less RAM when the same number of tabs are opened
- Visible wise, the scrolling page function in Opera is much more smoother when compared with other web browsers
- Opera’s built-in e-mail client features improved responsiveness
- Supports cutting edge Web standards and the upcoming web developer tools
- Syncs your bookmarks and Speed Dial between your computers and mobile phone
- A tiny minor feature is that the browser lights up tabs and query buttons, when you pass the mouse over them =)
As most will know, we in the United Kingdom usually get the latest in technology such as mobiles and other devices one step later than those lucky ones from the US so whenever news like this comes up, geeky bloggers like us get quite excited! This latest news just in, the three mobiles as titled have been noted as ‘coming soon’ on the Phones4u website as well as the Carphone Warehouse website. I have to say, even Phones4u which tends not to update as regularly, have decided to put these three phones up on their site, a possible indicator for their potential?
While Phones4u have not commented anything on possible arrival dates, we have managed to find these on the Carphone Warehouse page, here’s a quick list of what should be their expected arrival dates:
Samsung U900 Soul: 23rd April 2008
Sony Ericsson C902: June 2008
Nokia N96: August 2008
For others who may also be interested in upcoming latest phones which may be released in the near future, here’s a list sorted according to arrival month:
May 2008
- Sony Ericsson T280i
- Samsung F480
- Motorola MOTO Z10
- Nokia N78
June 2008
- Samsung G810
July 2008
- Motorola ROKR E8
- Sony Ericsson G900
