Hello again, everyone. Honestly was surprised when I looked at my clock and it said it was Tuesday today. Nearly spent the morning playing Section 8 instead of typing this up, my bad. 😛

A quick little thing to toss out to iPhone users, the official Flickr app has finally made it through the gauntlet that is the Apple App Store approval process seemingly unscathed. Techcrunch has already tossed out a review so I won’t go into the heavy details. I skimmed over the article and initial thoughts on the app seem to be that it looks and feels like Flickr far better than any third party download, seeing the “wall” of photos is a nice addition, and upload is painless along with nearly all the options as if you were accessing the web version of Flickr. This app is available as a free download from the App Store.

The line of Android based smart-phones is getting another contender developed by HTC. The Tattoo comes out next month for everyone to poke and prod at till they get tired of it and regret ever laying down the money for it…oh wait, that’s a real tattoo and not a phone. Cheesy puns aside, this phone looks like it has the intention of contending with Apple’s iPhone3GS in terms of hardware. Hit the link for the full write up on the specs. One of the major selling points for this phone that HTC has been pitching left and right is the apparent ability for the consumer to customize “all aspects of the phone.” Right, we’ll see how much freedom we are given once this thing hits store shelves and the early adopters pick them up.

Quick little update, Opera launched their browser update to the world a little while back. A little time has passed and I did a bit of digging around to check out some reviews. It seems the general consensus on the net is that the new update for Opera has definitely placed the browser as a contender against the other browsers in terms of speed. Hearing this makes me want to see about getting it installed on my Linux laptop just because I like to have options when I choose a program to use. Lifehacker included the new Opera 10 browser and Chrome 4.0 in their latest speed test, so check it out if what you are looking for is a very unscientific test of software capabilities.

I have absolutely no idea how much scientific validity this picture has, but it gave me a good laugh and I would like to share it with you. I like to call it: Proof The Matrix Is Inefficient.

While I would love nothing more than to sit down and go into details about the benchmarking that was recently done to Intel’s new Core i5, I think I will save everyone from my techno-babble on that one. Instead, I jump to my usual explanation of my choice of titles. No odd commercials this time around, but I do have a demo video of a new Formula 3 race car. Now why would I show you this and what does it have to do with a grocery store? The thing is made out of various produce, yet it still can take a corner at roughly 125mph. I am not a gear head by any means and I still find that impressive. This race car has been named the WorldFirst and was created by researchers at the University of Warwick. The WorldFirst makes its first race against twenty-two other Formula 3’s on October 17th. Enjoy the demo video, and I’ll see you next week.