I recently discovered this new search engine whilst listening to the net@night podcast available at Twit.tv and quickly surfed on over to Viewzi and had a look what it was all about. Basically it allows your search results to be presented to you in different views, which relies heavily on flash. The visual is pretty amazing and shows you just how far coders are pushing the user experience with web 2.0. I have signed up for the BETA program and plan to investigate it further - however I can see my patience wearing a little thin and resort to the faithful Google - but I’ll give it a go nonetheless.

I see Jay-Z’s mockery of Oasis hit ‘Wonderwall’ backfired on him when he headlined Glastonbury. This came after Noel G’s comments on a hip-hop act, taking main stage at the annual festival, in which he said “If it aint broke dont fix it”. Jay-Z took to the stage following the video of Noel G’s comments, pretending to play the guitar and sing along to the number 2 hit (no doubtedly kept of number one by some pop shit).

Jay-Z then burst into his 99 problems hit and Although the crowd new then song, his other material were lost on the majority of the crowd. Oh well - at least his opening has helped sales of What’s the Story Morning Glory and put Wonderwall back in the charts. Oasis were not on the bill this year but they made main stage on Saturday - Genius.

It has been my intention in the last year to one day own a Mac, and until recent year the things that I wanted to do, was always not easily accomplishable on both platforms. However, we are now in a position where there are less incompatibilities with a PC and a Mac and the experiences for both sets of users - especially in the home with the drive for a media hub.

The July release of the 3G iPhone is set to raise the bar (especially with Exchange support for the corporate bods) and watching the last WDC left me thinking how much I want a Mac sat on my desk. I have been a PC user for 10 years now and not a bitter one I hasten to say, but I now feel that the step between a PC and Mac is less of a void, and with the use of Virtual technologies can continue to service my needs within the home, for leisure and work. My plan is to purchase the Mac Pro to run as my main machine and also dual booting Vista plus VMWare Fusion for development work. However my current development machine is a dual Xeon processor with 4gb of RAM and is doing a good job, but I can share the load with a Mac, when all Virual environments need to be fired up.

The Mac I intend to buy is of the following specification, I omit the price because it goes without saying, that purchasing an Apple is not cheap.

Mac Pro

• Two 2.8Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
• 2GB RAM
• NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3

I dont want bore you with the other details, other than that I intend to buy more memory at considerably cheaper price from Crucial.

My current PC and the only one I have built for myself, is now struggling to keep pace. Its running Vista albeit in a dumbed down manner but its been in service since 2005 and needs retiring or Ubuntu sticking on it. I plan to buy the Mac in August\September before I go back to University, and although I have the funds, Im going to borrow half the value so that I dont affect my ISA interest. Its going to be hard to splash out on the Mac but I feel more inclined to buy one than not - Just tell me you believe what Im saying….