{mosimage}Check out this strangely addictive new app for Windows, OS X and *nix called Packet Garden. Watch your packets be visualized like never before, as plants and terrain on a spinning virtual world.



"None of this information is made public or shared in any way, instead it's used to grow a personal landscape, a kind of 'walk-in graph' uniquely shaped by the way you use the internet.


With each day of network activity a new world can be generated, each of which are stored as tiny files for you to browse, compare and visit as time goes by."

{mosimage}The Tom's Hardware article states that "Vista in many regards is XP with a facelift with enhancements and series of new tools."


"Various ills plague my testing as I was attempting to review a work in progress in many regards. The operating system might be ready to ship to software and hardware vendors but that does not mean all of the bugs have been worked out."


"It is clear from the comparative charts that AMD (formerly ATI) has a Vista driver that maintains the same performance level as that of its Windows XP counterpart. Microsoft stated that it would not be uncommon that graphics performance under Vista would come in 5%-10% behind that running on Windows XP."



And in conclusion "In its current state Vista is too unstable at least from a graphics perspective and cumbersome in a number of ways to be attractive to gamers and even professional consumers."

I know they say the grass is always greener on the other side, but *this* is a different story. Yes, I'm jealous ...

In the words of Melle Mel ... "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrah!"

Another Classic.

{mosimage}This morning at around 3am local time, the Macworld Conference & Expo 2007 kicked off from San Francisco's Moscone West. Click here to watch Steve Jobs in action.



The long and short of it ...

• The iPhone has finally landed.
  
• Apple TV (previously known as the name-brand infringing iTV)
  
• New Airport Express featuring the lacklustre 802.11n.