Ace on Tech: Stardust Ed.

‘Parallels‘ now makes it possible to run MacOSX as well as Windows (and Linux), or any other Intel-compatible operating system on a single Mac. O’Reilly demonstrates this application, which uses a chique visual to transition between the operating systems. Cute, but whoe, as O’Reilly states, this is merely a visual effect. ‘Parallels’ is in fact [...]

It’s official: the minimal system requirements for Vista-capable PCs (to enable all the eye-candy and performce) have arrived:

An 800 Mhz processor,
512MB of RAM,
20GB Hard Drive with 15GB of free space,
128MB Memory on Graphics Card.

I guess it’s quite clear that many will need at least a new graphics card and some additional RAM, because the [...]

It is said that a preview-version of Windows Media Player 11 is to be released somewhere this week. Though the exact date is unsure,

Slashdot:
A New Zealand company has successfully turned sewage into modern-day gold. New Zealand Herald is reporting that a Marlborough-based Aquaflow Bionomic yesterday announced it had produced its first sample of bio-diesel fuel from algae in sewage ponds. It is believed to be the world’s first commercial production of bio-diesel from ‘wild’ algae outside the laboratory [...]

Microsoft announced that it would be launching Halo 3 for the XBOX 360 somewhere in 2007.
More information can be found here (Paul Thurrott’s Supersite for Windows).