Strange what the Japanese invest there time on (although I now know it’s a Dutch invention, makes sense really!), I noticed this over on Gizmodo and also noticed the link they have to the video is down so here’s a mirror.

It’s worth a look just to see it in ‘action’ and try here for the manufacturers website

Firefox 1.5 has been released. Make sure it’s in your arsenal of tools.

The new stuff :-

• Automated update to streamline product upgrades
• Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance
• Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs
• Improvements to popup blocking
• Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut
• Answers.com is added to the search engine list
• Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and “Safe Mode” experience
• Better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows. Screen readers read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the i
• Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox
• Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer
• New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6
• Many security enhancements

Meant to post this a while ago, Minimo is a micro browser for PocketPC based on Mozilla. It works quite well, give it a go, highly recomended if your not a WM5 user.

Ok, some gaming stuff to keep you all updated. 

• Sony have launched PSP Firmware 2.6 for Japan and America, Europe should get it soon. What’s new? Well WMA support (no WMA9 Lossless, DRM or Pro support) and the ability to save DRM’d content to he MSDuo directly from the browser and RSS support. 
• Rhindle over on the GA-Forum has been playing with running Windows applications via the media extender abilities of the XBox 360. Lot’s of things run but some stuff crashes. 
• The European advert for the 360 that is on TV at the moment is apparently not the only one; this one was apparently blocked by Microsoft. It is quite amusing though. 
• Microsoft have already got some downloadable (pay for) content for Kameo available for Christmas (see right). 
• A trailer for Prey on the 360 has been released by 2K Games; it’s based on the Doom 3 engine so should look pretty in HD ;) 
• Not sure why you would want to, but a downgrader from 1.5 to 1.0 has been released for the PSP (Get it here). The nice news on this though is it will allow developers to make ‘custom’ firmware for the PSP as it uses own written code to replace the NAND memory with the v1.0 files. So we could have 2.6FW with all the benefits of 1.5! (Original story) 
• Nokia has finally done the right thing and killed the nGage off, about time! 
• EA has released information about the XBox 360 version of Burnout 3 

That’s about it for the important stuff, more if I hear/see it.

Well thanks to Dan for letting me know ‘it’s out there’ I too have upgraded to the latest nightly of RC1.

Looking good so far (still got the ping issue, but hey)

I have been neglecting my PSP posts for a while now, so here we go with some PSP goodness. 

• First off we have Joystiq’s guide to PSP and XBox360 
• MPH has got a nice Firmware launcher (Still buggy), but it does launch 2.5 firmware for 5 minutes or so. Pop along here to get the latest on that (Local download of 1.3). Sowith a little luck we will be able to run firmware 2.5 on 1.5 firmware, allowing you to play with all the 2.5 goodness. 
• Whole bunch of loaders (Fastlauncher 0.5 through 0.8, devhook 0.22, and others) in a 4mb zip here 

I will set some time aside to get back up to date on the PSP stuff, hopefully before 360 (Friday) but no promises ;) 

Very good Dilbert….

Yes evey now and again we get some, and here is some piccies.

The Skoda WRC team may currently still be deciding if they are going to continue in 2006 (they are waiting for a decision from VAG bosses, but it would be a mistake to pull out in my personal opinion, there as popular in the UK/Europe as they are for a reason, and that reason is there Motorsport Heritage).

However it seems there are at least two teams actively pursuing a privateer entry of the Fabia vRS WRC.

The two teams doing this are apparently Red Motorsports and a team fronted by ex driver Armin Schwarz (with possible Red Bull backing).

Both teams are apparently in talks with Colin McRae (alongside the Factory team), and Armin is apparently in talks with Duval (Citroen) to drive one of the cars.

So it looks like it may be a strong 2006 for the Fabia vRS WRC, up to 6 cars running! not bad, just proves that the car is decent, and with a little more work by the Skoda boys I am sure it will be constantly competitive.

Toyota have launched there new challenger for the 2006 F1 season. The TF106 V8 has been launched and will be tested at Barcelona for 4 days this week. 

Mike Gascoyne said “We have been working on the TF106 since the end of 200. The TF106 that will run in Barcelona marks the first stage of development for this car with continuous improvements planned in the run-up to the first race. 

We are adopting a similar schedule to last season by testing the car early. This allows us to develop the mechanical side of car thoroughly before we introduce a new aero package in time for the first race. 

This strategy helped us to be extremely competitive at the start 2005 and we are confident the same will happen in 2006.” 

The other big reason stated for early launch is that the Bridgestone Potenza rubber that Toyota have agreed to run with this year has never been used in any sort of anger on the Toyota, so a lot of the testing will probably be based at getting an idea of the differences between the Bridgestone tyres and the Michelin tyres that they ran last year. 

Hopefully with more large teams (Williams and Ferrari are both on the ‘Grade A’ tyres as well) on the Potenza tyres hopefully Bridgestone will catch up on the performance gap that they were experiencing last year. 

With all the current debate (Honda are not happy with the V10 restrictions) around V10 vs. V8 engines the 2006 season could be a cracker!