The plan for the Google orientated Linux PC has been dropped by super market giants Wal-mart. The Everex gPC launched in October with a $199 price tag and an operating system that focused on search engine Google.

The system actually looks very good, it focuses on applications such as Mozilla firefox, Gmail and GTalk. I personally think for $199 this is superb and should be marketed more worldwide.

The operating system has a beautiful user interface and below is a list of applications focused in the system.

Also the desktop software is compiled of the best open source applications available listed below.

With this system you can do everything you can normally on a system such as Mac OSX and Windows vista based but the price is very different, the fact it comes readily equipped with the applications is one plus factor, it saves time downloading the applications to get started.

Since going back on the wal-mart shelves in November 2007sadly it has been dropped and again it is looking hard for Linux to break into the mainstream consumer market.

Hopefully we can see this system trailed out in supermarket chains across the UK and Europe. Also for this to be pushed into schools as its much cheaper for the authorities and governments. Lets hope this wonderful and most importantly low prices system and group of applications can have a brighter future.

A fire at the Lite-On’s factory in China, which happened earlier this month, is set to have severe consequences for the desktop monitor business. The fire has damaged 14 of Lite-On’s monitor production lines. Unfortunately Lite-On supplies those wonderfully cheap LCD and high speed monitors to Dell and HP, who are two of Lite-On’s top partners, along with Lenovo. So it looks like it’s time to go and panic buy that monitor you have always wanted because Dell are looking at a 20% monitor shortage and HP are looking at a 22% shortage.

Via:  Engadget

Well it’s time to break into your piggy bank because Sennheiser has just put this beauty on the market. The Sennheiser Communications PC 35, which is described as a ‘Mega High-End Headset’ for only £150. This is a lot to ask for any set of headphones but they do promise ‘the most accurate sound positioning and the finest sound quality available in the gaming market’, but that’s the least I would want from a pair of £150 headphones. They do also offer a 3m cable and they can be used with Skype, other PC based communications and even your Hi-Fi.

Sennhieser says “A round-the-ear, closed type headset, the PC 350 shuts out disturbing noises from the environment. That combined with the special shaping of the frequency response improves gamers ability to detect where a sound comes from. This helps significantly sharpen reaction time, giving players a built in advantage over the competition. “When talking with your team or when listening for the enemy, the quality of your headset makes a difference,” says an online gamer. ”

As any good gamer will tell you, a good set of headphones really does make a difference to your game, but you would have to be a very serious and rich gamer to consider these beauties.

Via: Gizmodo

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I nearly collapsed a moment ago, after hearing the news of Lego Indiana Jones. The game has been rumored quite a lot recently but LucasArts just let the cat out of the bag. The game is going to be broken down into 3 chapters and each with 18 levels. The stars from the films will also be given the Lego make-over for the game and of course it will have loads of classic sequences from the films, such as Indy being chased by a giant Lego boulder. Also Indy still has his whip, which will be used to attack enemies and also used to attach onto the scenery, so it’s no surprise to know that Indy will be able to climb up the whip and scramble onto ledges. Surprisingly a spade is said to be of more importance as a weapon, as you will be able to dig and find weapons and some bonuses. Where would this game be if Indy didn’t have his lovely snake phobia? Well if encountered by a serpent Indy will be rendered useless, making another character deal with it (either AI or player).

Wait it gets better, apparently Lego Indy is also funnier than Lego Star Wars. In the scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark where our hero rams the Staff of Ra into that hole in the map room, an intense beam of light that is supposed to reveal the secret resting place of the Ark will either blind our hero or set the room on fire, but there are no details on which. But there is a downside, well it’s not really a downside but anyway, this version of the game will not have any Nazis and all trace of them ever being there, instead they have been replaced with “an anonymous genocidal, occultist, trenchcoat-wearing master-race”, which i think is a good substitute.

The game is set to be released in June sometime, so all we have to do now is occupy ourselves by watching the Indy films back-to-back until it is released.

Via: CVG