The sequel to the insanely popular Left 4 Dead has been banned from Australia because it could not be categorized as  +15. According to the reports the board said that the sequel contained a lot of violence which was not suitable enough for under 18 viewing. In Australia the game rating is either suitable for above 15 year old viewing or it is not. The game classification system out there does not have any above 18 rating system. If any game fails to get the 15 + rating, then that means the game is effectively banned in the country. This comes in as a huge setback for the Gametraders as they were expecting a real good market Down Under. Also Chad Polley national marketing manager of Gametraders added that the decision was hugely disappointing. However they are hoping that the board comes up with some above 18 classsification  to prevent the game and the others who fall in the same category from being banned. The other games  [...]

Well for all the Chrome fans… Google has announced the launch of the Chrome Version 3.0. Frankly there ain’t  any point getting into the number game because that doesn’t mean that Google has got any more mature than it already is, it’s probably just Google’s way of emphasizing its news features. However, most of the users wouldn’t even notice the change in the version because Google automatically updates the browser. Though most of us would agree that its one of the fastest browsers available today, with the Chrome 3.0 its performance has improved more with Google claiming to improve the Javascripts by about 150% since the launch of the original Beta version. Following Microsoft, Chrome supports themes as well now. So you could change the themes everyday by selecting from one of the 28 available themes. Also continuing with the visual tweaks, the new tab section can be easily customized  [...]

21st of September is the day when Music is going to change forever. No no, I aint trying to be dramatic here… that’s just what the Sony Ericsson website has to say. Well the website has surely sent music lovers into a state of trance and we here are Techsoft are trying to explicitly figure out what Sony Ericsson wants to say with “Change music forever”. The buzz doing the rounds is that this could be the first touchscreen walkman or probably even the Android powered Rachael. But the possibility of it being the first one seems to be more likely because it says “ Change music forever “. Sony has already branded it as the “new ground breaking technology”. Its surely got all the techies and the music lovers excited but all I could hope for is that this isn’t another launch gimmick for some other music accessory. LOL. With all the hype being created around it if this one turns to be a music accessory  [...]

Its been quite some time since Facebook added the chat application and now its come up with plans of launching a voice chat application, and it has no one else but voice chat leaders Skype for competition. The application is being created by Vivox and is called Web Voice atleast for the time being. Having worked with second life in the past, Vivox is no debutante in this arena. Coming along with the good news is another announcement which says that the Facebook users list has crossed the 3 million mark. This means that Facebook is already floating in a sea of  goodies and with the new WebVoice service its just expanding its horizons. Also facebook could easily capitalize on the voice chat service by adding advertisements and also they have plans of expanding the service through conference calling. Skype has a stronghold of about 480 million customers and even if all the 300 million customers of facebook add  [...]

Well this one is for the developers who are bored of the CUPCAKE… yeah I mean the Android V1.5 which according to the pastry oriented Google naming service is called the cupcake, here comes the DONUT. The Android V1.6 has been launched and it’s surely quite a pleasant treat becauses it gets along with it a few new features and also polishes a few of the features which already existed. Well the one that has already sent most of us at Techsoft salivating is the expandable CDMA support. Which means now Android has opened its doors to Verizon, Sprint and Virgin mobile. Plus this one could support screens of resolutions all the way upto 800x480 pixels. The homescreen has an added Quicksearch box which lets you search through the web pages of your choice and the camera has been drastically improved by around 38%. Also they have included a new battery usage system which keeps a track of how much charge is being used by a certain application. So for all those who had  [...]

Well there are so many of us who are used to retweeting on twitter without once thinking about the profit. So here’s where the Whuffie Bank steps in … finally a bank which wants to reward people for their contributions to the web. The Whuffie Bank is a non profit organization which is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina which was inspired by the Creative Common. It aims to reward the users of sites by a certain Karma-like currency. It will keep track of the users activities through out the web including all the posts and the comments so on and so forth. So the more the user contributes to the web the more whuffies he gains. However whenever the user does something which is detrimental to the web his whuffies get reduced. Well how does one use it?? The user just needs to enter his name on twitter and then his whuffies collection is displayed in front of him along with a graph which shows the progress made by the user. It makes  [...]

Going by the facts… internet tablets have never really taken the market by a storm ever. But still Archos is launching not 1 but 2 internet tablets of which the Archos 5 is going to be in the limelight tomorrow. The movie and music playing features of this one are as same as the Archos Media player but is based on the Google Android version of Linux which is quite commonly found in the mobile phones. Its loaded with a 5 inch touchscreen display. Also at a thickness of 1 cm this one could easily be termed ultrathin. This one goes foor sale on amazon from tomorrow and ranges between £199.99 to £369.99. The other internet tablet being launched by Archos is the 9PCTablet and would be out in the market by 22nd October. Actually Archos is waiting for the official launch of the Windows 7 to release this one. This one is going to have a 9 inch screen touchscreen Intel Atom Z510 processor, 80GB hard disk, and built-in DVBT TV. However  [...]

Looks like Packard Bell is trying hard to recatapult its brand with the release of the Easynote DT85 and the Dot m/u. Well the Easynote is surely going to have many techies drooling over it. Its got an absolutely Ki-ller set of features and specs and can easily match upto any desktop. It’s got a 18.4 inch HD monitor, a Blu-Ray drive and an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor. It comes loaded with a 4GB of DDR3 RAM and  NVIDIA's GeForce GT 240M graphics chip and also has a 1.25 TB hard drive on board so that you can take along your collection of movies with you. This one is expected to hit the U.K markets by the end of this month along with a $699 price tag. Coming to the Dot m/u notebook… this one is a sleek notebook which almost less than an inch and weighs only 1400g and can easily fit into the handbag plus its lightweight as well. The Dot m/u is offered in two colours black and red. Its got a decent enough battery life of 8 hours.   [...]

Apple has always been describing its TV lineup as just another hobby and now it has cut off the 40GB model and also brought down the price of the 160GB model by around $100. So what could this exactly mean?? Is Apple planning to end its TV lineup( it has a lot of fans) or is it just devicing some other plan to take it to a different level altogether. The Apple’s site still has the 160GB model listed and also it offers a new software upgrade to its users. With the help of this software, the users can create movie wish lists and watch their favourite regional movies with subtitles. This software can be checked for by the Apple TV and it will download it automatically. However Apple has always maintained that the combined category of TV and media players is still a hobby. Also this combined genre faces tough competition from the cable set boxes and according to most analysts Apple is going through the same phase as Microsoft went through once upon a time with its Windows  [...]

Well imagine you want to fiddle around with your company’s firewall settings… what’s the first thing on your mind?? Well it would surely be browsing the net anonymously. While this is possible to achieve using a computer, however it was a tad bit of an impossible task to achieve using the android phone. But with the collaboration of the open source anonymity network Tor, this has been made possible by the experts at the University of Cambridge. This is possible using the: TorProxy: It is a Tor client and it handles all the communication with the Tor network. Any application can push its data through it and remain anonymous. Shadow: The built in Android browser cannot be configured with the TorProxy and this browser takes its place. All that you have to do is install both of them and then probably wait for the proxy to make the connections and then just blow up the browser. This is just  [...]