We already have Windows and Mac OS, and now Chrome has just joined in the fun too! However, this time round its gonna be an open-source OS (integrating with the Linux). Check out the latest product from Google – Chrome OS. Not really a typical full-fledged OS, but more like integrating everything like the web apps (e.g. Gmail, Facebook, Twitter) together with the Chrome browser, the OS doesn’t seem to support SSDs, but able to read USB drive content. Things still look pretty incomplete, more details about the browser will only be announced next year, when its near the launching date. Check out the two videos below introducing the OS, as well as its UI concept. I have yet to find out more about the concept soon…

Sources:
Google Official Blog
Gizmodo: Everything you need to know about Chrome OS
Engadget: Live from Google’s Chrome OS

MacHeist is currently providing this free nanoBundle consisting of 6 different apps for your Mac. It’s totally free (Usual price: USD 154). However, you have 3 days left only, get it fast today! Following are the 6 different apps and its descriptions:

• ShoveBox – Catch all the little scraps of information that you can’t immediately act on, but don’t want to forget. ShoveBox sits up in your menu bar, waiting for you to drag in text, images, URLs, and more.
• WriteRoom – A simple, but powerful app that provides you with a distraction-free writing environment. WriteRoom does one main thing and does it incredibly well: It’s all about writing…
• Twitterific – An exquisite app that enables you to make the most out of your Twitter experience. It has a clean user interface that’s designed to take up little of your precious desktop space.
• TinyGrab – A simple, powerful app that enables you to quickly share screenshots of everything on your Mac.
• Hordes of Orcs – A Tower Defense strategy game where you build walls and towers to defend your village from orcs gone rogue.
• Mariner Write – A fast, streamlined word processor that’s useful for everyone… professional writers, educators, students, casual computer users, and everyone in-between. It has a simple, elegant user interface so that you can create beautiful documents the very first time you start using it.

Recently, while I was browsing the web to look for new interesting wallpapers to decorate my computer desktop, and happen to come across this site called Vladstudio.com. All the wallpapers are designed exclusively for the site, and by the author himself, some of them are available for free downloads, while those older design will require you to purchase either a life-time, 3-months or 1-year subscription to gain access. Nevertheless, its worthwhile to visit the site, and give it a try!

Other than the wallpapers, there is a category called Wallpaper Clocks, whereby the desktop wallpaper will refresh itself every minute to keep your time and date precise as well as stylish in many artistic ways! Its kinda cool. However, before using the wallpaper clocks, you will need to install a program, which is available here to download. Enjoy…

If you are a Singaporean student, and would like to look for most of the legal software (excluding Microsoft Office) from Microsoft, here is the good news, you might want to check out if your school has been enrolled in this MSDNAA (MSDN Academic Alliance) program. Some of the new software such as Windows 7 (both 32-bit and 64-bit are readily available for you to download). However, each student is entitled to one license per software. For NTU students, you might want to visit this site straight away, and get your login account from Lee Choi Wah (through NTU Webmail). You should be able to receive your login account to MSDNAA pretty soon… Enjoy!

After upgrading my iMac 24″ (white) from Win Vista to Win 7, I seem to have problem booting into the OS (BSOD), after its first reboot. However, I have discovered the following solution below and solve the BSOD problem (due to the graphics card problem), you may want to try it out if you have got the same problem as me:

• After the BSOD, allow the iMac to restart with the Win7 install DVD in. You will get a message saying press any key to boot from CD, do this and you will go back in to the Win7 Installer.
• Select you country and click next but don’t click the “install now” button, instead click Repair My Computer. You will be presented with a list (after some time) of windows installs on the iMac select the one you just did.
• From the Repair options presented select command prompt navigate to the c:\windows\system32\drivers folder by typing
  c:
  cd windows
  cd system32
  cd drivers
• Rename the broken driver file by typing: ren nvlddmkm.sys nvlddmkm.old
• Close the command prompt and restart the computer, you should be able to continue with the setup. (Remember to download the latest Graphics Driver for Win 7 after first boot in)

So, its finally coming, just a few more days to go… Its the same old question the Windows users will be asking, should I upgrade or not? According to many reviews online, its definitely going to be better than Vista, in terms of the new task bar, speed and stability. However, in terms of the pricing wise, its not going to be appealing for majority consumers. Some people are saying why should we pay for the mistakes made by Microsoft when they released Vista 2 years back? And when it comes to the upgrade path for XP users, many of them are complaining no upgrade option is available for them, and they can only use the custom install (clean install), and everything will be wiped out.

So that’s the latest strategy by Microsoft to totally ignore the XP users (not providing upgrade option), and expected the current Vista users to pay for another premier price to get Windows 7. Regardless of all these complains and etc., I believe Microsoft will still be doing very good for this new OS, as their support for previous OS (XP and Vista) will slowly diminished.