What’s the Obama Factor? – The Differences Between The Popularities of President Obama and Former President Bush

Barack Obama has entered the White House with one of the highest ever opinion ratings for an incoming president. He has entered the office with the nation’s biggest economic meltdown since the Great Depression, the dire situation in the Middle East worsening and with critical problems in sectors including education, [...]

Apple’s Tough Job – The Tough Road Ahead for Apple Computing

Its been a difficult two weeks for one of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world. Here’s a summary.

End of Macworld Expo: Apple Computing cuts its affiliation with the Macworld Conference and Expo, leaving this year’s 50,000 dedicated show attendees without the chief drawcard for next year’s expo.
Steve Jobs Takes 6-Month Leave [...]

Research Shows Fat is Addicting

Currently in a research laboratory in New Zealand, a group of researchers are currently exploring the intriguing possibility that the consumption of fatty foods may not simply due to to preference, but perhaps linked to addiction. Their research has been published in the medical journal ‘Medical Hypotheses’ and has the possibility of radically changing the [...]

What’s Up With Microsoft’s Songsmith Advertisment?

Hey, I just finished reviewing Microsoft Songsmith, and I have to admit I’m pretty scathing about it. Prior to reviewing the product, I watched the advertisement to their product, and I hope that the terrible fake musical thing didn’t color my judgement.

Personally I think the ad is pretty chessy and doesn’t [...]

Microsoft Research Songsmith Review

Last year when I reviewed Autocollage 2008, a Microsoft Research product, I noted the program for its wonderful ability, albeit a few personal complaints, to intelligently and seemlessly create collages of your images. However, the major stumbling block for me was its price tag, with the product selling for US$20 and the same numerical [...]

Palm webOS Preview

Before CES, Palm looked like an inevitable failure in the global recession. Since their peak with the Palm Pilot PDA, the world has since moved on to more modern, elegant and featured devices like the Apple iPhone and the Blackberry line of smartphones. Analysts correctly predicted that if Palm were to continue as a viable [...]

24 Season 7 Impressions

Note: Although I’ll try to keep it at a minimum, expect to see a small spoilers from Season 7 in the following overview of the season thus far. However, since it was shown last year, I’ll be readily referencing events from the telemovie 24:Redemption without warning, so don’t complain if I’ve spoilt something.
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Over the past [...]

IBM Microscopes Better Than MRI

I’m always amazed at the speed at which technology seems to improve over time. We’ve already seen innovations like magnetic resonance imaging provide fascinating insights into the structure of the human body, but today IBM researchers from the Almaden Research Centre in California have announced a breakthrough new “nanoscale microscope” which is capable of a [...]

What’s New on Lijonoli

Hi everyone and welcome to Lijonoli. Here’s some of our latest and most popular stories which you may like to look at.

Victoria’s Worst Ever Bushfires: A quick look at the devestation that has occured in Victoria where bushfires have ravaged man, property, and the heart of the nation.
The Superbowl Ad Challenge – Reviews: I was [...]

First Look @ MacBook Wheel

I’m sure the tech savvy would have already witnessed the ’stunning’ innovation that Apple has bought to us with the MacBook wheel To those of you who have seen it, its probably yesterday’s news, but for everyone else, its in Apple’s words “the future of laptop computers”. Its shiny, simplistic and I think is one [...]