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The new Green PC out by Medion, the Medion Akoya Nettop-PC E2010D with the 18.5 inch LCD TFT Monitor E53002D included, is going to hit the shelves in Australia on Thursday 25th of June 2009.

The green beast, although I wouldn’t say very powerful since it only has an Intel® Atom™ 230 processor 1.6 GHz, 512 KB Cache, 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM, and 160 GB hard disk is for sale for $699AUD with a possible 50% Education Tax Refund, making the product around $350. For more information about the tax refund, you can click here.

The Nettop PC uses 50% less power consumption then a normal desktop PC as it only uses a maximum of 65 watts. Although I’d love to get my hands on this PC, I don’t see it fitting my needs.  The only people I see buying this product is people who don’t like laptops and regularly move to different places requiring a desktop PC.

If you love your stylish desktop PC’s and want to have a lot of space on your desk, this is a PC for you, but if you want performance and portability, you can find yourself a nice laptop. Although it will cost a bit more money, it will better suit your needs.

I don’t think that this computer will be successful in the market, but if you like a green, stylish, desktop PC, this is the one for you.

To see more specs, and photo’s, have a look after the break.

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So have we found the edge of the Universe? I don’t think so, but Google Maps Street view might have.

Google Maps Street View has a few images that are not meant to be or can be taken in a way that could have different connotations.

This street view image was taken on Kulin Holt Rock Rd, Jilakin WA which is somewhere in the middle of Australia. I don’t know why I was looking in some weird place, maybe to look at the large mass of water nearby. So I am not quite sure of what the picture represents but I do believe if we go to that location, it will be completely different. Not a star a a colour spectrum in sight.

I do feel sorry for the Google employees who took all that time to drive out here to take these pictures, only to realise when they get back that their camera was broken.

You can find more weird and strange Google Street View images by a simple Google Search.

The location of the above image can be found at: http://go.jicola.com/4×1ho/

Have you come across a Facebook video that you want to save to your computer but can’t find a download link? Well here’s how you do it without any software.

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A few weeks back, Facebook announced that you can get usernames for Facebook instead of using a bunch of numbers.

You can now get your Facebook username. Just visit http://www.facebook.com/username/ and choose your name.

Mozilla has release Firefox 3.0.11 today, so remember to update your favourite web browser. If your an IE users, make the switch now! To see the full bug list, visit Mozilla.

Checkmycolour is a useful web tool that will designers can use to test if their website design colours flow and match each other. But who says a automated program has the eye of a human? Some test sites show that websites that have a good design fail the test, but I think their a good design. Or is it just me?

You can get your blogging software here: http://wordpress.org/download/

You can get domain names pretty cheap; less than $5.00. But the average price for a .com domain name is about $10.00. The largest Australian Telecommunication company in Australia, Telstra Bigpond charges a single .com domain name for a two year purchase costs a $85.00AUD New Registration Fee/Domain Transfer/Registration Renewal Fee. This alone is much more expensive then other places on the internet.

But the thing is, this isn’t the only charge. Yes, there’s another charge, and it’s a recurring charge. You have to pay a management fee of 12.50AUD per month. This fee is roughly the same price on what you can by a domain name anywhere else.

The minimum cost of the a domain name over 2 years is $385.00. To me that is expensive. Every month you could basically purchase another domain name.

Have you seen a more expensive domain name registration from another leading company who makes billions of dollars every year.