The Haiku OS project turns 5 today. Back in August 2001, Michael Phipps "founded" the open source replacement for BeOS, called OpenBeOS, on the mailing list.

In 2004, the name was changed, in order to avoid infringing on Palm's trademarks (now owners of BeOS). The new name was influenced by an official community vote and was then revealed at WalterCon, the US-based Haiku annual conference.

Five years on and Haiku now boots on real hardware to an accelerated desktop. It can run many R5 applications, has a network stack in post-alpha (soon to be beta), and can performed tasks via USB that R5 could only dream of. It's stability increases week by week and should be capable of replacing R5 and going beyond in the not too distant future.

{mosimage}"Google has said it intends to crack down on the use of its name as a generic verb, in phrases such as "to google someone."



The Internet search giant said such phrases were potentially damaging to its brand.



"We think it's important to make the distinction between using the word 'Google' to describe using Google to search the Internet and using the word 'google' to generally describe searching the Internet. It has some serious trademark issues," a representative for the search company said."


Personally, I think they should pull their head in. People using the word google as a verb / term, is a compliment and goes to show how far reaching their search technology has been. Quite frankly, behaviour like this from Google, could be signs that they aren't the "cool" company we were lead to believe.

Check out this cool Coca Cola Ad that's got a nice twist on the GTA theme :)

{mosimage}EyeTV has now been updated and in their words, it's one more seat in the Front Row.
By this they mean, EyeTV 2.3 adds full screen menu support for EyeTV from within the comfort of Front Row. Nice.


It's a shame it's not part of the carousel, but the Delete feature is a god send. Also, I'm loving the DivX export. Thanks Elgato.



For more information, click here.

{mosimage}"Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote preview of Mac OS X “Leopard” from San Francisco's Moscone West."


See the New Quad Xeon 64 bit Mac Pro machine starting at $3,999 AU and new features in Leopard such as new Front Row, Dashcode, Spaces, VoiceOver, and the very cool Time Machine. I must say, can't wait to have a deeper look at the technology behind it.


Click here to see the keynote event or here for PC Guy's Intro to the WWDC.