Sometime last year Nintendo pulled off a one of a kind ad on Youtube where the video interacts with the whole page and tears it apart. Unfortunately, that ad has been discontinued. This was the page the ads was on if some of you still remember.

The most recent one is an ad from a Spain company; Acciona. The ad has something got to do with sustainable energy. It shows a guy breaking into pieces followed by the whole video screen actually cracking.

The link to the video can be found here: http://tech.geekpolice.net/2009/11/ads-tear-youtube-apart-again.html

Dell Adamo XPS - The World's Thinnest Laptop. Just looking at the picture alone blew me away. Here's set of 15 images of the Dell Adamo XPS for everyone to drool on, enjoy!

More: http://tech.geekpolice.net/2009/11/first-looks-worlds-thinnest-laptop-dell.html

Microsoft's recent release of Windows 7 hit the ground running, with US sales in its opening days blasting past those of its Vista predecessor, according to the NPD Group.

According market research firm reported on Thursday, The sales of Windows 7 in the days following its Oct 22 release were 234% higher than those during the times of Vista when it was released into the market.

More: http://tech.geekpolice.net/2009/11/windows-7-sales-blasts-past-vistas.html

Smartphone sales will boom over the next three years. It is expected that it will grow by over 250% by 2012.

Globally, 180 million of these gadgets will be sold by the end of this year. Today, smartphones account for 14 percent of the sale of all mobile devices but that figure will go up to 37 percent by 2012, predicted research firm Gartner.

More: http://tech.geekpolice.net/2009/11/smart-phone-sales-to-grow-by-250.html

Gigabyte Technology issued a BIOS update on Friday that fixes a problem for some Windows 7 users who have been unable to sync their iPhones.

Earlier this week, Intel, Microsoft and Apple said they were investigating the issue, which people are complaining about on an Apple forum. The problem seems to be mainly affecting Windows 7 64-bit users with Intel P55 chipsets, and it prevents them from synching their iPhones with their computers.

On Friday, a few people posted on the forum that they’d downloaded the new BIOS from Gigabyte, a motherboard maker, and it solved the problem. In the description of the update, Gigabyte calls it a Beta BIOS and says that it fixes the iPhone sync issue, among other enhancements.

The BIOS update will help people who have the Gigabyte motherboard in their systems, but it won't help other people who have the problem, such as those with an Asus motherboard.

More: http://computerworld.com/s/article/9140478/

JavaScript, the now-ubiquitous scripting language popular in client-side Web development, has gotten faster and could find itself being used instead of Adobe Flash technology, according to Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript. "The browser vendors are making super-fast implementations of it, so JavaScript's gotten very, very fast, and this is helping developers use it more," Eich said when asked what he sees in the future for JavaScript. "It's being used for 3D graphics programming now."

"My prediction is we'll see even more JavaScript. We'll see 3D games being written, innovations that we haven't even conceived of yet," he said. Activities now done in Flash would be done in the browser via JavaScript, Eich said. Such enhancements to JavaScript would "take over" if Microsoft decides to support them in its Internet Explorer browser or if such support could be added to Internet Explorer through other means, according to Eich, who is a leader of the Mozilla Foundation.

More: http://www.macworld.com/article/143691/

Mozilla may have released the first beta of Firefox 3.6 nearly two months late, but the organization believes the final version still will arrive on schedule before the end of the year.

The Mozilla wiki page on version 3.6, code-named Namoroka, listed early September for the scheduled release of the first beta, but it actually arrived October 30. Despite that, Mike Shaver, vice president of engineering, said Mozilla wants to release the browser before the holidays and is sticking by the overall schedule for the open-source Web browser.

"We're still looking at a release candidate in November and (final) release in December at this point," Shaver said in a Tuesday interview.

More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10390931-264.html

In the public preview of the upcoming Xbox Live update that features access to Twitter, Facebook, and Last.fm, users under the age of 18 aren't allowed to access the aforementioned social networks. Unfortunately for those users, that will still be the case when the software launches on all Xbox 360s later this year.

According to Microsoft spokesperson Major Nelson in a blog post, Microsoft made the decision to limit access to Twitter, Facebook, and Last.fm to those 18 and older because parents won't have the ability "to use Family Settings to customize which of these applications their children can access." Microsoft is also concerned with keeping the Xbox Live environment "age-appropriate."

More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10392485-17.html

Adobe Systems on Friday introduced a new Photoshop app for Android users that lets them edit photos from their phone, as well as access their online photo collection on Photoshop.com.

The app comes just shy of a month after the release of the company's application for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users, which quickly became the top free application in the App Store and grabbed a million downloads within a week of its release.

The version for Android shares the same, simple editing UI as the iPhone/iPod version, both of which let users make edits by sliding their fingers across the screen and undo any changes made. It also features some very basic photo editing tools like crop, rotate, and image flip, as well as controls for adjusting exposure and tweaking color tint and saturation. Android users even get one new tool that iPhone/iPod users don't even have yet, which lets them straighten a shot against a grid.

More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-10392455-248.html

A new Update 17 version for JRE and JDK closes some major risks, including "arbitrary code execution," according to US-CERT.

Sun's new software versions, released yesterday, also address privilege escalation, denial of service, and information disclosure vulnerabilities, according to US-CERT's post. Unless you've turned it off, Java will check for updates automatically, but will only do so once a month (on a day that varies per installation).

To grab the new version right away, double-click the Java icon in the Windows Control Panel to bring up the Java control panel. Head to the Update tab, and then click the Update Now button.

More: http://pcworld.com/article/181443/