There is a lot of talk going around the Web regarding Vista’s Aero interface eating up precious battery life on laptops. Today the Windows Vista Blog responded to the concerns that a lot of people had by saying:

First off, yes, as Dwight correctly points out, the Aero theme drives the GPU harder and therefore uses more power.  But in the big picture, it's really not that

When Flickr meets Google maps, what do you get? A really cool mashup that shows you in real-time, geo-located Flickr photos. Flickrvision was just released yesterday and it’s created by the same person who made Twittervision, if you’re familiar with that.

When you go to Flickrvision, you’ll see a big map of the World.  Flickrvision moves all around the map to show you where the most recent geo-tagged photo came from on Flickr, and

Trillian Astra is going to be the next generation of desktop chat client that will drastically change the appearance and features that are included in the Trillian software package. From what we’ve seen so far, Trillian Astra’s interface looks pretty amazing and it is packed with so many features that it would take awhile if you tried to go through them all.

Unfortunately Trillian Astra is still in a

The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) was going on for the last few hours and I watched it live online. It isn’t the most exciting thing in the world, and doesn’t have the cool demonstrations that are normally found at the Consumer Electronics Show in January of each year, but there was still some interesting information mentioned that I thought I would cover here.

Bill Gates has been the primary speaker and introduces everyone for each of

Getting your hands on a Nintendo Wii is still no simple task. However, now there’s a way (while it lasts) to not only get a Wii, but get one for $50 through an offer over at Gamefly (video game rental service).

Right now they have a promotion going on where if you refer five friends to Gamefly and they sign up for a paid package, you will earn a Wii. I’m sure

Meebo is determined to set themselves apart from other messenger alternatives. Google has been working on a better online messenger, and Yahoo! has been working on integrating chat with their email, but Meebo has been working on something the others don’t have…chat rooms!

These aren’t just your typical chat room either. After you create a room, or find a room that you really like,

One month after announcing their “to infinity and beyond” unlimited email storage, Yahoo has finally started rolling it out to their users. The entire process of enabling all users with the unlimited storage will take a few months, and they do this to make sure that it’s a smooth process.

We already mentioned the fact that there really is no such thing as “unlimited” storage because there’s no such thing as unlimited hard drive space. It’s not