The long awaited (build 7000!) Window 7 Beta 1 is now available for download two weeks sooner than expected. Billed for a mid January 2009 release, some unethical insider has released the new Windows OS onto BitTorrent with some aplomb.

Tweebay has arrived. eBay is dead. Ok, eBay isn’t dead but it’s getting old and a tad annoying due to all the new rules and regulations they’ve introduced (takes all the danger and gung-ho nature about eBay and wraps it up in a decidedly corporate-looking suit). Tweebay, on the other hand, looks like it may be a winner, taking one of the most successful social networking sites (Twitter) and adding the ability to buy and sell onto it.

There’s a big fuss over Novatels new MiFi device as the next big thing in mobile communications and maybe it is but it still uses sucky 3G to enable the connection to other mobile and WiFi devices. Now call me impatient or just plained spoiled but I hate 3G. As far as I’m concerned, it is just WiFi’s younger immature brother that needs to grow up quick.

When Walmart start offering anything you know it’s going to be cheap and reasonable in quality but not great. However, Walmart PC suppliers, Good OS, are now offering a cloud-based operating system named Cloud (not very imaginative on the naming front), which is more than reasonable in quality. It is in fact, pretty good.

Yes it’s Black Friday and all of us poor bastards are scrabbling around trying to make a saving on everything from HDTV’s to cheese graters. If it’s 50% off, we want it. GadgetHeat has decide to gather all the biggest online savings on Black Friday here in one place so you can see where to grab your 1 day (or 3 day if they last until Monday) bargains.

A solid state disk drive, technically speaking is not even disk in the traditional sense but can be (and is being) used as a hard disk drive to all intents and purposes. It is essentially a storage device. So there you have it. A five-point guide to SSD’s. Now you know what all the fuss is about, the next step is trying to find the biggest and cheapest one you can find.

With everybody going Netflix crazy these last few days, Roku has decided that this is a great time to announce that their Netflix streaming box will now have Netflix HD by the end of the year. Roku Netflix owners, good times are here at last.

The HP Mini 1000 is a standard version of the Vivienne Tam digital clutch machine that has been touted around. Surface spec wise, the HP Mini 1000 comes with a 10 inch screen, weighs less than 2.25 pounds and could probably slide underneath your door crack at less than 1 inch thick.

It’s been a while since I’ve done a review but having a look around the TestFreaks site made it easy to write this one. TestFreaks is a product review site with the emphasis on review. User review, expert review, video review, Q&A…the list goes on

Digital Television on a desktop is nothing new but the GV-MACTV From IO-DATA looks by far the easiest way to get it. Simply plug in the GV-MACTV vis USB and away you go. Digital Television On your Mac. Easy.