Firefox 3 was released recently, after vigorous testing, me and my colleagues have decided IT’S BRILLIANT!

It has taken 36 months to develop, and for a non-profit organisation, that is rather impressive.

Firefox 3 Boasts, 3 times faster page loading, compared to Firefox 2 and 7 times faster than Microsoft IE.

If we put this into perspective, Microsoft is a world leader, with Billions of Dollars of capital to invest in new products and Mozilla is a small non-profit organisation.

It just goes to show that monopolies can be beaten.

First, there was the cardboard box in the kitchenette for old cans and bottles. Then, the plastic bin under everyone’s desk for old print jobs and newspapers. Will the next trend in office recycling be a Dumpster for old computers?

A growing movement to recycle PCs and other electronics has the European Parliament examining ways to keep those machines from ending up in landfills and posing pollution threats.

Computer makers worry that government solutions focused on redesign, recycling and disposal will raise the expense of doing business. This will inevitably lead to an increase in the price tags of their products at a time when they can ill afford such costly changes.

Regardless of how it gets done, some form of wide scale recycling appears inevitable. The computer industry acknowledges that its products are becoming obsolete faster than it is putting new machines on the market. Leading businessess and consumers store tons of aging equipment until agreement can be reached on a way to dispose of them without doing grave harm to the world’s environment.

The Print Space has extended their do-it-yourself photographic printing process to the Internet. theprintspace.com will be the first online service to incorporate an easy to use professional color management process. It enables accurate soft proofing of images by clients on their own systems using bespoke print profiles.

The Print Space originated as Europe’s first walk-in DIY professional photographic printing lab. They were launched in 2007 and based in Shoredfich, occupying two floors of a 4,000 square foot area comprising of exhibition space, for-hire retouching and scanning booths, and large format printers. Their philosophy is to equip the customer with the knowledge and resources to get creative with high-spec professional imaging equipment.

theprintsource.com acts like a professional standard, fully color-managed print studio on your desktop by presenting a web interface for its creative print process. The site offers online articles and also face-to-face consultations from in-house color management and print technicians. A key feature of the website is the color management and profiling tutorials, which are available to stream or download.

Leading experts have decided that leading companies are overlooking the power of the social networking boom.

Seen by some as a platform for teenagers to organise booze ups, social networking is more about spreading the word, whether it is a party or a product, both have equal response.

And furthermore it’s free too; traffic will organically flow to a profile, without the need for paid advertising. And if your content is good, then people will keep coming back and you may become highly recommended.

With success stories such as Lilly Allen, who utilised Facebook to launch her illustrious music career, it is proof that social networking does pay dividends.

The Print Space offers instructions on its web site on subjects ranging from monitor calibration to building color profiles and soft-proofing at home, enabling users at any level to learn more about color management. In addition to Epson Giclee (inkjet) prints, theprintspace.com offers affordable digital C-Type prints that are genuine wet lab prints exposed by a real photographic process.

The Print Space’s digital C-type professional photographic prints are produced on a Chromira, which is a professional quality, color-managed, high resolution print device producing exhibition quality archival prints suitable for the professional art market on Fuji Crystal Archive and Kodak Professional paper. A straightforward web ordering process allows clients to send disks to the lab or to upload digital files directly via a built-in secure file transfer system. Instead of waiting days for digital prints, files can be transferred, printed and returned within 72 hours.

The company’s ethos is to give creative control back to individuals and also give them access to the kind of high-end equipment which currently only the most successful photographic and creative companies can afford.