Boney M. - My Bonnie lies over the Ocean

Very rare video of Boney M. performing My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean. This track has never been released on LP / CD or Single

Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection

Nintendo have made Wireless gaming great with their Wi-Fi connection. It makes playing games online fantastic. I have just bought a Nintendo DS-Lite, along with Mario Kart DS, Need For Speed Carbon - Own The City and Ashphalt Urban GT 2. Playing Mario Kart over the internet is great fun, as you never know who you are playing with, unless you use the friend code system, which enables you to play against your friends online.

What is also good about the system is that Opera have made a browser for the Nintendo DS, so that you can go online on the DS, either through your home wireless network or at a free Wi-Fi hotspot, thus making online gaming fantastic.

The Wi-Fi connection is also available on the Wii, although there is only one title available at present - Mario Strikers Charged Football. Hopefully more titles will be available for online play, as it would be silly not to make them online compatible.

Another benefit of the Nintendo system is that the service is free, unlike some other console online services such as Xbox Live, or Games For Windows Live, which charge you to play games online.

All in all Nintendo have created a winner, and with the right games then Wi-Fi connection will become the best online gaming experience.

A Windows Safari

Apple have just announced that Safari - the default web browser in OS X has been released as a version 3 public beta for not only Apple machines and now Windows XP / Vista machines. This is a fantastic development for the PC as it means that PC users can browse the web in the same browser Apple users can.

This makes for a fantastic introduction to Apple software for PC users - first came QuickTime, then iTunes and now Safari. It shows the world that Apple software works in the same way as PC software, has a similar feel. This is great for web site developers as they can now see how there web site will look on a Mac, and ensure that it is working correctly. What is also great is that using iBench - the internet browser standard benchmark test Safari was rated the fastest browser on XP - twice as fast as IE 7. This I’m sure will give an even bigger market share to Apple, as im sure it will persuade more people to switch to an Apple machine.

Get Safari today at www.apple.com/safari

Nintendo Wii

I have recently purchased one of these fantastic new consoles. I was lucky to find a retailer that a few in stock and me and a friend bought one.

Wii Sports - the game that comes shipped with the Wii is fantastic. It comprises Tennis, Baseball, Golf & 10 Pin Bowling, along with a Fitness Test and practice modes. What I like about this game, is for example when you are playing Tennis, you hold the controller like a tennis racquet and use the controller like a tennis racquet. When bowling you use the controller like a bowling ball. This makes for a great game that the whole family can enjoy.

The Wii is also a Game Cube as there are slots on the top (or side depending how it is placed) of the console for up to 4 Game Cube controllers and 2 memory cards to be connected. This makes for a great gaming experience as there are several great games available for the Game Cube.

As part of the software on the Wii there is a download-able internet browser from Opera, one of the leading developers of web browser on PC’s, etc. This enables you to surf the web just like on a PC. Also a Virtual Console is provided. This is a system that enables you to purchase download-able games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64, Sega MegaDrive or TurboGrafix console, from the Wii Shopping Channel. This makes the console even better, as it means you can play classic games from your favourite console of the past - I’m looking forward to playing the SNES classics F-Zero & Mario Kart.

All in All while the Wii might not have the graphics performance of the PlayStation 3 or the Xbox 360, it is a fantastic machine, has great backwards compatibility and very well priced - the PlayStation 3 at £400 is too expensive for my liking