With E3 upon us in the coming weeks, and Sony keeping tight lipped about their schedule I think it’s time we started predicting the outcome, the announcements and surprises with educated and industry sector knowledge.

Today I noticed that Nintendo have had falling profits for 2010 and predict even less sales for next year.

The Wii 2 hasn`t been officially announced and from what I can see is not really on the radar. This is backed up by this interview in Edge.

There is the fact that Microsoft and Sony are obviously looking to take marketshare off Nintendo (and each other) with there current developments. The PS3`s Move seems to be getting good feedback from early reviewers – saying how much more accurate it is then the Wii controller.

The Android mobile operating system is both fast, reliable and can do everything that the Apple OS can and a little more (all for normally a fraction of the price.) plus it supports Flash and soon Flash 10.1.

However due to the open source nature of the Google Android system there are a wealth of applications for free on the Android market place, so which ones should you try first?

In life our minds can often set us traps that can hinder the way we think and the way we work which leads us to such things as bad reasoning and making bad decisions.

How difficult is it to open a IMAP mailbox in PHP and show folder names and email headers, well, no difficult at all.

Websites are the most consumed pieces of media around. Popular sites are often so because they are ‘human friendly’, they are easy to use, easy to understand and provide you with the information or service you need effectively.

Now Ruby isn’t a bad language by far, but coming from PHP or .NET to Ruby on Rails especially when you have to rewrite code is like trying to turn a PC into a Mac, it is possible to do with a lot of glue but it turns out messy.

What follows are my top 9 reasons why you should switch back from Ruby on Rails and move away from the hype machine.

I have found a really handy VB.net class to do Wake On LAN.  The original website is here:

http://www.lucamauri.com/snippet/snip.aspx?id=6