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This handy little Access plugin allows you to export your .mdb file to a Zoho online database. Zoho allows you to edit your database online and provides 3 types of access. Full access to the entire database, access only to the left hand column, and access only to forms and reports.

If you want your database available to the public, why not check out Zoho and upload your database for everyone to see (only if it suits). The only downside is that you can only share a database with two users for free, otherwise you need to choose a plan between $15 and $175 to share with unlimited users.

Have a look at this video and see the advantages and how easy it is to use.

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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You can now try out the BETA version of Microsoft’s Bing search engine at http://www.bing.com

I somewhat like the image search feature better then Google, in some situations. Have a try and post comments on what you think of Bing.

Currently, their is a feature in Microsoft Windows that allows you to deny the Automatic Updates for Windows Service Packs. However, this will change.

For Windows Vista users, on 28th April, 2009, you will be forced to download and install Service Pack 1. Service Pack 2 will not be forced on you to upgrade.

For XP users, 19th May is the day that you will not be able to block the update.

For some PC users, this will be timely and costly. If you are still a dial-up user, the update will take a while and Internet time outs my make it impossible to update, using your Internet speed every day.

For broadband users on limited bandwidth (Telstra Bigpond 200mb plan), at 15 cents per megabyte, a forced upgrade to your computer will be costly. If your on this plan, you basically loose 15 days of not using the Internet because your computer will be heavily downloading this update.

Current plans state that Windows 7 is due to be released in September 2009.

But who’s to say that is going to happening?

After trying to install Spyware Doctor from Google Packs on my Virtual Windows 7 Machine using Virtual Box, Windows 7 simply froze and would not boot. Clicking on ‘Start Windows Normally” on the boot screen tried to successfully boot Windows 7, but it failed. Then on the screen, I get an option to repair Windows 7 Automatically.

And fixed. When Windows 7 finished it automated repair, a quick boot and the system was back up and running.

The only downside is, that the other Google Pack software that was installed, was removed. But the main thing for the end user is having a quick fix to a broken computer.

Today I have been playing around with Microsoft Office Live Workspace Beta, and frankly, Google Docs and Zoho is much better. It is easier to use and is purely web-based, unlike Office Live which asks you to install a setup file onto your computer.

You can view word documents online, but you cannot create or edit them without installing the software. What is the point of that, especially if your on a public computer.

If you are trying to have an Office online, make it so you don’t have to install software, otherwise, just use Google Docs. And with Google Docs, you can have it on your own personal domain name if you wish.

Even though Microsoft is trying to compete online with Google, they are not doing a good job with it.

To get started with Office Live Workspaces, visit http://workspace.office.live.com or you can download the optional Windows Update program Office Live Add-in which installs a link into your start menu.

A while a go, the EU is wanting Microsoft to either unbundle Internet Explorer with its operating system or bundle it with Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.

But when the EU told Microsoft to unbundled Internet Explorer, how would people surf the Internet as their is now no web browser to download other web browsers.

Every new computer I buy or reformat, I always install Firefox, and now I will install Chrome, Internet Explorer is just an unfriendly web browser.

I think it will be good if Microsoft bundles other browsers with its OS. What are your thoughts?

Just like the shocking launch of Windows 7 BETA, Microsoft can’t even get their logo right.

Ever since Google Chrome was launched by Google, the way the Internet currently works is changing. The online war between Microsoft and Google is only beginning. Currently, Google is winning the war, and is proven by the fact that Microsoft can’t even handle people downloading the BETA version of Windows 7.

But being forgrounded is that this war between the two multimillion dollar companies will effect us, the end user.

So we have the two sides:

Google

• Largest Search Engine
• Google Maps
• Google Docs
• Gmail
• Google Reader

vs

Microsoft

• Live search
• Live search maps
• Microsoft Office
• Windows Live Hotmail

Now how would this war effect the end users of the Internet? Well its pretty simple, and the root of the cause is at the web browsers. The four main web browser currently being used is Internet Explorer version 6 and 7, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Now being a regular Internet surfer, I only use one web browser and that is Chrome, because on a 10inch laptop screen, Chrome shows me more of the webpage then Internet Explorer or Firefox.

But recently, websites such as Gmail are giving messages to the IE6 users to update and change their web browser to Google Chrome, and Microsoft is doing the same with their email client, Windows Live Hotmail by prohibiting the use of Google Chrome Browsers sending out emails. In the Internet world that we live in today, this is not benefiting the end user, it is creating a monopoly by disallowing certain sites to be accessed from different browsers, which is not ethical.

With this war only starting, in the near future, don’t be shocked when certain ‘features’ of a website are only available to certain web browsers. Features are of websites won’t be available due to compatibility issues, but it will get us to use ‘their’ browsers, all so they get people using their software for their websites.

This rivalry war will require us users to use multiple web browsers when visiting our most frequent web pages, which is something that I am not looking forward too. Are you?