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The craze and the sense of adrenaline that is associated with fast cars is so much that some do whatever it takes to get their hands on it, while for some, it is a distant dream .Now comes the curiosity asociated with them. We wonder how fast really are these cars. Well, here is the list of the five fastest cars in the world currently purely by the measure of their top speed.

SSC Ultimate Aero

1.SSC Ultimate Aero: The SSC Ultimate Aero tops the list with a whopping speed of 257 mph+, coupled with 0-60 in 2.7 secs. The car boasts a Twin-Turbo V8 Engine with 1183 hp and a base price of $654,400. The SSC Ultimate Aero was tested by the Guinness world records in March 2007 came out leading the fast cars league and was crowned the fastest car in the world beating the Bugatti Veyron.

Bugatti Veyron

2.Bugatti Veyron: The exotic two-passenger Bugatti Veyron has speeds of 253 mph+ and attains 0-60 in 2.5 secs. Coming with a base price of $1,444,000, the Bugatti Veyron is powered by a four-turbocharged, 8-liter, 16-cylinder engine that creates 1001 horsepower. A fairly perplexed 7-speed transmission with the AWD system allows the Veyron to control the 1001hp. Its interior plush and completely leather upholstery, save the center console, and its body is fashioned with carbon fiber to offset the weight of the powertrain. Coming with all these features and lineaments, this car stands out as the most expensive car in the world.

Koenigsegg CCX

3. Koenigsegg CCX: Made in Sweden, the Koenigsegg CCX, expected soon to take the number 1 spot boasts speedsof 250 mph+ and goes 0-60 in 3.2 secs. Coming at a base price is $695,000, the engine of the CCX is based on the Ford Modular engine architecture, that is a 4.7 liter V8 coming with 4 valves per cylinder with dual overhead camshafts. The block of the engine is made of 356 Aluminum, which has undergone the T7 heat treatment; the heat treatment is a kind of accelerated precipitation strengthening. The engine of the car is supercharged by two centrifugal superchargers, which are creditworthy for enhancing the compression to 17.5 psi with a compression ratio of 8.2:1.

Saleen S7 Twin-Turbo

4.Saleen S7 Twin-Turbo: With speeds exceeding 248 mph and a car that attains 0-60 in 3.2 secs, the Saleen’s S7 Twin-Turbo is Unites States’ first and up to date the only exotic supercar with mid-engine configuration. When it went on sale in 2002, the Saleen was the only street-legal car in America that has more than 500 hp output and 500 lb-ft of torque. S7 Twin-Turbo is the successor of the already fabled supercar S7. Like in any other genuine supercar, the doors of Saleen S7 Twin-Turbo open upward and away from the body. It boasts an even more brawny all-aluminum V8 engine, which raises 750 horse power @ 6300 rpm and 700 lb-ft of torque. The redline is at 6500 rpm. Twin Turbo All Aluminum V8 Engine with 750 hp coming at a base price of $555,000, this car will surely make you want to show it off all the time.

McLarenF1

5.McLaren F1: Developes by McLaren Cars Ltd., McLaren F1 supercar is one of the fastest, most powerful and most expensive road cars ever. It is inspired from the Formula 1 cars and the engine and the power that it has reminds one, of any Formula 1 car.  Much of the experience gained with the team’s F1 effort, McLaren wanted to make the best road car regardless of profits. And many say that it was this spirit that helped the McLaren F1 become the car it is. The car features a 6.1-litre 60° V12 BMW V12 engine and it was conceived as an exercise in creating what its designers hoped would be considered the ultimate road car. With the speeds of more than 240 mph, the car gains 0-60 in just 3.2 seconds. Fitted with the BMW S70/2 60 Degree V12 Engine with 627 hp and carrying the base price-tag of $970,000, this car is really a wonder to possess.

Twitter can be said to have taken the communication through the internet on an altogether another level. It is much more than a social networking site. Some people look at it as “Tumblelog” while many others have this perception that it is an extravagantly huge chat room. Well, to face the fact of the matter, it is much more than all of these things and a considerable step forward. Twitter has been brought on by the developers of Odeo, a directory and also a successful search engine for RSS syndicated audio & video. Twitter is fast becoming a fun and a really cool way to share stuff and talk to all your friends.

Twitter is loaded with many utility features. You can use it for tumblelog wherein most of them act as links compiled together and many online discoveries to indulge into. However, it’s popularity is increasing as many bloggers use them for their artistic and creative endeavors. The really short-story idea of tumblelogs makes it much simpler for all artists showcasing their new photos and artwork. And all these works really well in Twitter, because the submission is extremely simple here. The web interface of Twitter that has a simple text box, is fairly easy to get things done. You can even use your cell phone by setting it up and using the jabber instant messaging for getting the latest updates and also the IMs from your friends.

You can now say that Twitter is really multiple web applications on one platform and is undoubtedly taking the Internet Relay Chat, IRC to the next level. You can now talk right through the browser, through your cell phone(that you have set up) or the jabber client. The users here, are not restricted to a single protocol. Now, this is the freedom that really sets twitter apart from the regular IRC.

There are a lot of things in Twitter that you can customize without making it look bad. You can customize the design, change colors, the background image and some say that no matter what you do with it, it won’t look bad as some of the other sites and services tend to get. Apart from the interface aspect, Twitter is great on the usability front as well. Everything is very simple to use. Right from posting entries to adding friends, everything happens on a single click. Commenting on the articles and updating your website or blog is extremely simple here. Everything looks like it was well thought out and has been executed greatly which you can really see.

The community on Twitter has some really cool people posting. Interacting with them is great fun and lot of them have also posted videos stating the reasons why they use and like Twitter. Micro-blogging has been really made simple in Twitter and the simple functionalities allowing users to publish brief text updates and micromedia such audio clips and pictures which is simply incredible.

After a steady beginning in Europe and Asia for months now, the Samsung Omnia debuted in the United States on Verizon’s 3G network just days before the Thanksgiving 08. It was made available for $249. Coming with a 2 year contract, this sophisticated looking phone had just about everything tht one looks for in a smart phone. The absence of a very standard 3.5-mm headphone jack and a physical QWERTY keyboard for some people, might just keep the Omnia away from being a potential threat to the Apple iPhone and the T-Mobile G1.

The Omnia has smart and quite elegant looks, mostly due to its chrome finish and black matte plastic back. The phone has a crisp, 3.2-inch, 640-by-480-pixel-resolution screen occupying most of the space on its 4.4-by-2.2-by-0.5-inch body. Here, the screen is 0.3 inch smaller than the one in the iPhone. The placement of the keys in the spine of the phone on the either sides looks quite good on the utility front. Buttons dedicated for the camera and the volume rocker, sit on the left spine of the phone, while the headphone and the charger jack with a stylus tether feature on the right. The Omnia being quite generous on the memory front can also accomodate a card with 16GB of external memory.

The Omnia weighs 4.3 ounces which is 0.4 ounes lighter than the iPhone, feels really comfortable in hand and also in pocket. Verizon’s 3G network quality being so good, the call quality was never really an issue. The calls sound loud and clear with some hsses and distortions. There is no official ratings for the battery life of the Omnia as yet, but the features and the display specs, looks all set to stretch it to the limit.

The landscape QWERTY keys are a bit tricky to use as they are smaller than conventional and you tend to hit the wrong ones. The predictive text function often predicts the wrong text and that is quite an annoyance. The menu key launching the menu of the messaging options can be difficult to access because of it being located directly below the minuscule space bar. On the positive side, the tactile response made the Omnia’s keyboard much more comfortable to type on than a lot other touch screen phones. It still seems that the Omnia would have greatly benefitted from having a physical, slide-out QWERTY keyboard.

There is a dedicated key for launching the camera, with autofocus and a power LED flash, on the spine of the Omnia. The camera lacks optical zoom but come with a handful of advanced features that include white balance and shooting modes such as night shots, sunset, sports and for text shooting. The image quality is really good. There is some amount of noise on indoor and low-light shots though.

Despite several disputes and a few kinks relating to the design and the interface, the Samsung Omnia is surely a high-quality phone delivering a bountiful array of lineaments.

Finally, the wait is over and the much-awaited browser by Google is officially out. Much to the surprise of many, it released with all the bugs and fixes. Well, no complains for that. The main reason for that being released in the unexpectedly less time it took in getting out of Beta. It was not too long ago that the Chrome Beta was available for download. Google has taken less than four months to fix all the bugs and make it ready for release.

The most common glitches that were seen in the beta version have been fixed by the team. Now the claim is that the full version has better stability and is fairly good on the performance front. Especially, the audio and video plug-ins have been well taken care of. Google says that there has been an improvement in the speeds, almost double from its first release. There are many utility and personalization features that make it really comfortable to work with.

One feature that was really great was the Bookmarking getting personalised with some privacy controls. Also, you can import your bookmarks in the post-beta version, making it easier to siwtch between your other browsers. Switching between tabs is now much easier than in the Chrome beta. The developers mentioned that security was one of the key aspects that they focussed on.

Speaking of security, this issue is been taken up quite seriously by the Chrome developers. The developers are constantly looking up for improving the features and the security stuff. Google chrome has this unique thing called the “sandbox technology” that creates additional layers of defense preventing harmful software, from  being executed while there is another Safe Browsing feature that provides protection against phishing and malware attacks.

Developers say that the work is not yet done on the Chrome and people should not think that just because it out of beta, the developement is at a halt. There a lot of features and enhancements that need to be taken care of like the RSS feeds support and the auto-fill function and many such loads of other features.

The Mac and the Linux versions of the Chrome are still under developement and should be realeased very soon with all the plug-ins and compatibility support.