While Google has decided to take on Microsoft in the world of OS, Microsoft has their own trick up their sleeve: Office 2010… The Movie. Yeah, to coincide with Office 2010, they’ve put together this trailer for a faux movie, which is pretty entertaining…

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Without getting into all of the technical jargon and numbers, this is simply put, the largest and most detailed image of the moon taken from Earth ever created. So awesome is this photo that you can actually virtually cruise all over the surface and if there were people living there, you would be able to see them having a BBQ in their backyards.

The aim was to image the Moon at very high focal lengths using high frame-rate planetary cameras attached to numerous large amateur telescopes. Each telescope would take an image of a small section of the lunar surface at high resolution and these would be assembled, like a giant jigsaw puzzle, into a complete image of the 9-day old Moon. The mission was successful; so successful in fact that the image made the annals of Guinness’ Book of World Records. Hop over at take a peek.

I can’t believe this week is the 30th Anniversary of the Sony Walkman. In commemoration, I found this neat little ad from the early 80′s.

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I‘m actually pretty excited about this. As a guy who already spends far too much time communicating with others around the world, Google Wave should make it much more interactive and much quicker. This is truly the future and the title of this post is not a lie. Seriously, goodbye email; it’s been a nice run.

The guys over at Web Monkey explain it far better than I can, so head over there to read the article, but for a more fun version and visual demo, check out the video belowof the unveiling/presentation. Yeah it’s almost 90 minutes long, but just watch the first 10 minutes or so; you’ll get the gist. Damn that “playback” feature is wicked.

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You know that feeling you get right after you push send on an email bitching out your boyfriend for not putting the toilet seat down and you call him a ninny-muggins and tell him it’s over? You realize as you’re pressing send you shouldn’t have sent that? Well gmail has just introduced “undo send” as part of their ever expanding lab tools. After you send a message that wasn’t ready or you shouldn’t have sent in the first place, just click “undo” and gmail will grab the message and put it right back in the “compose” window.

How is this possible? Once something is sent, it is sent right? Well, yes. This trick doesn’t really grab an already sent email and magically bring it back. It just holds all sent messages in a queue for five full seconds before sending them. Which should be more than enough time for you to feel the pang of regret and hit the panic button to tell gmail not to send the message after all.

Leave it to Google to constantly come up with good, innovative ideas. More details on the undo feature can be found on the gmail blog

So over the past 18 months or so I’ve become obsessed with finding just the right browser for my tastes. I’ve dabbled with damn near everything from IE8 to Opera to Flock to SpaceTime to Pogo. Since Chrome came out, my search has ended as Chrome has the simplicity I look for in the aesthetics of Safari, the functionality of Firefox and the speed is unparalleled as of yet.

Still, when a new incarnation of a browser makes its way into my inbox, I’m always eager to check it out. Particularly when said browser is the next evolution in my second choice for browsers: Apple Safari.

Apple claims that the software runs 4 times faster than the previous generation of Safari and faster page loading times than either IE7 or Firefox (it didn’t say anything about beating out Chrome).

For iTunes fans, you’ll instantly recognize the “cover flow” feature which shows your browsing history in a series of screenshots that you can flip through, just like your home LP collection (or iPod album cover flow).

As innovative as Apple has been, they seem to have taken a few cues from other browser innovations however. For instance, Chrome seems to be ripe for the rip-off with the style points for the tabs feature; this includes adding the ‘+‘ sign to add tabs and also putting the tabs at the top of the screen rather than underneath the browser buttons. Also like Chrome, your home page can be set to a series of screen shots representing your most frequently visited sites (aptly named “Top Sites”); a feature I quite like… alot. Though with my particular download, this feature seems to be a bit buggy and all of the screenshots are invisible. Something Chrome doesn’t do with this feature that the new incarnation of Safari does, is implementing a feature that shows if one of these Top Sites has published new content since the last time you visited by adding a white star on a blue background that appears in the upper right-hand corner of the view for that site. Nice.

While I’m still getting used to the slightly different features of Safari 8, so far I think it’s a really nice piece of browsing software. Despite the bugs (that I’m sure are either only temporary or only affecting my specific download/computer), it does seem quicker than every other browser I’ve used (except Chrome). The tabs are gigantic and taking some time to get used to; including the “closing X” being on the opposite side that I’m used to and I can’t move the tabs around simply by grabbing them – you have to grab only the corner of the tab to move it. And you can’t move it into its own window like Chrome enables you to do.

If you wanna try out the new Safari, which again, Apple claims is still in BETA (which is code for, if there’re any bugs, don’t complain cause its in BETA), you can DOWNLOAD IT HERE. While it may not be completely up to snuff (so far), it’s worth a go – especially if you’re using that piece of shit called Firefox.