After trying out Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) Beta 1 for the past couple of months. At that time, the software was never a release to the public and at times, often sought for by computer geeks and enthusiasts. About three days ago, Microsoft decides to release the Beta 2 version of their very own Internet Explorer to the public for preview release. This move has tactically capture the hugh bulk of Window users and hardly anyone who surfs the internet would be ignorant of the “international-wide” release.

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Most of us these days have computer systems with large storage space, at least 10GB in any systems, easily. As time goes by, users upgrade their hard disk storage capacity to as large as over 200GB in a system. As we take these storage devices for granted, what might happen if something goes wrong to our precious hard disk drive?

Not just in the corporate world, even common home users store important and confidential data in their hard disk drive, and most of the time easily susceptible to corruption by malicious viruses, as we surf the internet. Office management would worry for loss or stolen hard disk drives, containing secured company data, which can be an important asset to the company. As such, these hardware devices are likely to be more targeted as “criminal robbery” than just money in the wallet, in the future.

Research invested by Excelstor has paid off their work, introducing GStor Plus hard disk drives. Unlike other hard drive, GStor Plus hard drives are embedded with Hardware Encryption and other security features to protect data in the device, in the event of unforeseen circumstances, such as virus attack, or when software patching went horribly wrong. In addition, GStor Plus hard drives are also equipped with Restore functions, to recover any data loss or corruption, to its original state, as though nothing had really happened.

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For those php web designers, who are absolute into PHP stuffs, there is a recent release of phpMyAdmin, a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web, just right for you. Some of the added features include the ability to create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, instantly.

Latest Changes over the previous version:

• PHP 5.1.2 compatibility
• Possibility to hide databases
• Configurable memory limit for import/export
• Better support for CGI
• Web-based setup
• More than 55 bugs fixed

Download the latest phpMyAdmin beta release today. Note that, since the tool is currently in beta testing, there may appear to be some unfixed bugs. Nonetheless, it is a cool tool to try it out for experience.

Hightech Information System Limited (HIS) has delivered the latest Gamers’ gadget last week, promised to bring thrills and adrenalin rush down those fast 3D game enthusiasts. Introducing the HIS X1900XTX, HIS X1900XT and HIS X1900 CrossFire Edition graphic cards, the fastest 3D graphics processor available right now, known to be the fastest GPU on the planet.

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I’ve never seen the point in adding internal lighting to your PC but if you’re that way inclined you can now do it really easily with the LED Flash Power Y Cable.

The LED Flash Power Y Cable acts as a two way adapter for the standard power connectors found inside your PC but all 3 ends also incorporate bright blue or red lights, making your PC internals glow. Probably not suited to the typical beige PC but if you have a flash case and want to make the most of that glass window then why not.

Available from Think Geek for 7 bucks.

Before my Sinclair Spectrum, Lego was my all time favourite toy. Even my Lego train-set was cool, in fact there wasn’t a single thing that I couldn’t make (when I was 7). Why am I going on about a toy that must be at least 50 years old? Today I saw a picture of a prototype memory card holder that looked just like, guess what, Lego blocks

The company behind these keychain cases, Best Rubber Productions have also made such classics as the Silicone Rubber Bracelet, the Silicone Rubber Cover for the iPod and the Silicone Rubber Ashtray. So you can probably guess what these little Lego key chains are made out of. Like conventional Lego they are also stackable so if you have several SD Cards or memory sticks you can store them all together in an infinitely expandable Lego house :).

[Best Rubber Productions found via I4U]

Think of the latest gadget you might want to have, or give to your friends as gifts, and one that I would recommend and suggest to you is a Swiss knife, perfected with integrated USB flash drive device, all you need to show off to your pals - the Swissmemory USB Victorinox.

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Unlike most internet browsers, i.e. Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera or Netscape, Cibernaut has introduced totally new browsing features into its very own browser, Cibernaut version 2.28. Just like Firefox is based on Mozilla’s source code, Cibernaut is written based on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser engine. Thus, as expected, Cibernaut allows surfing sites that are IE compliance with ease. This includes MSN websites that require only IE browsers to access.

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