The Japanese Linux company Lineo has announced a pretty cool technology that is supposed to fire up a Linux machine in less than 3 seconds. The system uses a clever compression technology and a fast flash memory to store the hibernated data.

Linux boots in 2.97 seconds [linuxdevices.com]
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As you might now Apple is hosting a big event today where they will present some new products. We will do an update about this tonight but if you want to follow the event ‘live’ here’s a couple of sources:

Engadget
Gizmodo
Macworld

Today I got the new Xperia X1 from Sony Ericsson. It’s their current flagship model, ready to take on the competition with the rest of the bunch. A review will follow in the near future. Check out the unboxing below.

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Today I’m unboxing two gadgets, first of all a really big box featuring LG’s latest top notch 42 inch LCD TV, the LG7000 (42LG70 in the US). A review will follow in the next couple of weeks but until then you can check out this small unboxing gallery.

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I have a couple of invitations to Spotify, so if you’re interested drop a comment and you might be the lucky one. I’ll pass them on to a couple of random comments tomorrow. I wish I had more of them…

Google turned 10 years old a couple of days ago and to celebrate this they brought back their oldest index available - and made it searchable. Pretty cool, check it out. A search for ‘blog’ will give you 76 400 hits, today the same search gives you 3,450,000,000 hits.

Search Google’s oldest index [google.com]

Most of the really good iPhone apps tend to cost at least a dollar or two, but you can save some money by browsing around among the free apps as well. Here’s a nice example showing 5 paid iPhone apps vs 5 free ones.

Bargain Hunting: 5 free alternatives to paid iPhone Apps [ismashphone.com]

Here’s a nice collection of user generated Apple product mockups. Some of them are quite interesting, like the Mac tablet featured above. An additional 46 design can be found here:

47 Best Pics of Apple Anticipation: Best iPod, iPhone… [wisestartupblog.com]

Here is an interesting little animated gif showing how to hack (or at least bypass the password) a Windows 98 machine. It’s annoyingly easy. Check it out.

Animated gif [tinypic.com]

Even though this phone might look a bit better on the paper than the iPhone, I would really be surprised if it can compete with the Jesus phone at all. Rumour says that it will be unveiled on Thursday. I’ll let you know then…

Nokia, Apple iPhone to lock horns at last on Thursday [appleinsider.com]