My son left a Christmas list on the kitchen bench over the weekend – an MP4 player, MP3 player, iPod, laptop and phone – he’s only seven!

Technology is becoming a natural part of everyday life, for a younger and younger age group. Ideas that are still over the horizon today are the tools that the next generation will grow up taking for granted. Read more

Why pay for an office suite, in fact, why even install it on your computer? Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has been getting some great press recently! SaaS is nothing more than a website that allows you to carry out activities normally done with desktop software – word processing, spreadsheets, email, and so on.

Why is this exciting? The only software that you need to install on your computer is your browser; the speed of applications is more related to your network connection than your PC hardware, making upgrades less important; the application is routinely updated for you (without even knowing it); your data is stored offsite and backed up automatically; and you can share your documents with others effortlessly. Read more

If space is a premium, then you will love this little PC that takes up no space. I mean no space! It mounts behind that little plastic plate on the wall where you normally plug into your network. Just connect a monitor and keyboard.

Jack PC, is a tiny PC computer system as small as your network socket port only. This tiny PC computer has the equivalent of a 800MHz to 1.2GHz desktop processor, running Windows CE, with stereo audio, and 4xUSB ports.

This Jack PC is developed by a company in Israel, called Chip PC Technologies. They have introduced three models from $485.

The Jack PC thin client is designed to be powered by standard Power-over-Ethernet and can also be powered externally.

If you haven’t yet discovered Firefox, then you should take a look. Firefox is a fully free alternative to Internet Explorer that leads the way with browsing, as a ’separate’ program to the rest of Windows. However the real power of Firefox comes from being open source software for which there are heaps of plugins. There are too many fantastic plugins to even start on a list of them this time, so we’ll just focus on one in particular. Read more

The ABC has released a new desktop app that makes watching TV and radio on your PC a piece of cake. This new widget, ABCNow, lets users access ABC content directly from their desktop PC. Read more

Freshly squeezed internet TV coming to a PC near you now! In the not-really-over-the-horizon category is Joost.

Joost, the peer-to-peer TV sharing application from the inventors of Skype and Kazaa, has signed up more than a million beta testers and boasts more than 19,000 shows available, and counting. Read more