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Got Gmail? Not even using 1% of your storage? What a waste. But not for long. Gmail Drive is a solution to fill up the 6000mb + of space that they provide. What Gmail Drive does, it allows you to use your Gmail account as a online file storage system so you can fill up the empty space. The good thing about it is that you don’t need to login to a website and upload/download files. You can do it straight from Windows Explorer. There are a few limitations to this, but once out of the Beta stage, it will be worth it.

So now you don’t have to login to a website to upload/download files, it will be like the files are stored on your computers hard drive, its quick, convenient access to your files. This is how online storage should be… drag and drop.

For more information about Gmail Drive, visit their website at http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

Today, the Internets favourite search engine Google have decided to change their name. The Google search engine is one of the most popular search engine on the Internet, above yahoo, live and all the others. From the start of 2009, Google will now be know as Hotweb. This name was decided after a meeting at Google headquarters. Experts have suggested that changing their name to Hotweb will lose surfers and will be a negative result for the multi-billion dollar company.

This has been one of the worsts move by Google.

The Google domain name will continue to work until the end of 2009, which will then be sold for an expected price of $3 million US.

From the start of next year, you can access Googles (will then be known as Hotweb) new website www.hotweb.com. So you better start remembering to tpye that in when you do a search.

We have a new category of interesting facts. If you have an interesting fact, tell us through our support website (http://support.jicola.com)

This weeks interesting Facts:

1. A whale’s penis is called a dork.
2. Back in the mid to late 1980’s, an IBM-compatible computer wasn’t considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.
3. Bubble gum contains rubber.
4. Camel’s milk does not curdle.
5. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
6. Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
7. During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
8. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
9. Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
10. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.

If you ever wondered how you can create your own forum, well now, it is pretty simple and easy.

All you have to do is go to www.jicola.com/forumhosting and set up a new account. From their, you can change your theme, and personalise your forum the way you want it.

Its free, and unlimited

The new Medion Akoya laptop is now out and selling at Aldi stores across Australia. This laptop has a 10inch screen, 160gb HDD, 1gb of RAM, 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, weighs only 1.2KG, and the latest wireless technology with a Bluetooth Dongle.

All this for $599AUD

It comes with Microsoft Windows XP SP3 and much more software. This laptop is a rebadge of the MSI Wind but cheaper and more features. It is a good buy.

More information can be found at:

http://aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/58_6111.htm?WT.mc_id=2008-10-17-00-40

http://www.medion.de/ms/aldi/md97160/au/flash.html

Their are many great ways for you to set up your very one personal, and small business website for a very low cost. Their are many ways that you can do this.

1. Find a good web-host and by a domain name. This can be a free or paid hosting on a shared server. But if it’s for a business, it is recommended that you purchase some hosting. This can be done for a couple of dollars per month.

2. Find a host that allows you to host a content management system like Joomla, Wordpress, Mambo, phpnuke, phpbb or many others. This is a really good way if you don’t have much coding experience and their are many themes that you can download off around the Internet

With the first way, some webhost have auto installers that allow you to install these scripts.

The next important step is to Analise how many visitors you get. A really good program for this is Awstats. This may come with your web-host. Otherwise, Google Analytics is really good.

To get web visitors, make sure you have your meta data filled out some the search bots can find your site and it may help to submit your websites in directories and search engine submissions.

This is a very brief way to set up a website. If you want more information, please contact us or leave a comment.

A robot is located at the top-left corner of a 64 x 47 grid (marked ‘Start’ in the diagram below).

The robot can only move either down or right at any point in time. The robot is trying to reach the bottom-right corner of the grid (marked ‘Finish’ in the diagram below).

Note: The grid below is 7×3, and is used to illustrate the problem. It is not drawn to scale.

*Image not to scale.

How many possible unique paths are there?

Question:

Find the smallest number that can be expressed as
the sum of 7 consecutive prime numbers,
the sum of 101 consecutive prime numbers,
the sum of 313 consecutive prime numbers,
the sum of 675 consecutive prime numbers,
and is itself a prime number.

For example, 41 is the smallest prime number that can be expressed as
the sum of 3 consecutive primes (11 + 13 + 17 = 41) and
the sum of 6 consecutive primes (2 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13 = 41).

A new law has been past in some countries called the Squealing Benefit. The Squealing Benefit is a new law that was introduced on October 1st 2008 that allows citizens of some nations to squeal on their mates if they break a law. Every five times someone squeals on something, the squealer becomes immune to what they person who they squealed on did. For example, you squeal on 5 different people for underage drinking, you can get court drinking underage with no charges. That goes with murder. If you know someone who has murder 5 people, you can murder 5 people.

It sounds a bit harsh, but its now legal

Honda researchers have developed a prototype of a car that runs purely on air. As the car travels forward, air passes through the engine. Although the specifics have not been released, the car is meant to be able to run continuously without the need to refuel or recharge.

This may revolutionly change the way how we see cars

The power the Honda prototype produces is of a V6 engine equivalent.

This is great news for all you rev heads out their.