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New Lord of the Ring: Ring that exchange information when handshaking
2008-02-12 11:15:00
What you do when meeting new person, handshaking and followed by name card exchange or sort of information exchange. Shaking hands is a customary greeting action and this ring designed by Hideaki Matsui is designed to exchange basic information with new people by shaking hands in their first meeting.When hand shaking, the rings on their fingers gain the proximity to operate and the rings exchange the information and store it. The more the people met by the user, the more information is gathered. When the user need to check people that have met, ring need to attach to the card and the card will displays information that was stored in the ring. The power source of this ring is obtained from body temperature, so no worry on empty batteries.
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Ubuntu will use KVM for its primary virtualisation software
2008-02-12 04:36:00
It has been confirmed that Canonical will use Kernel-based Virtual Machine as its default virtualization software for the next Ubuntu Server after various options available been tested, including Xen, OpenVZ, QEMU+kqemu and VirtualBox. Soren hansen, the first man behind Canonical virtualization section speaking in the Weekly Ubuntu newsletter said that they found that KVM was the best fit for them right now.For managing the KVM on the next Ubuntu release, Canonical add the libvirt package. Libvirt is management system for a number of different technologies, such as Xen and KVM.Canonical has confirmed, KVM will be built into the Hardy Heron which is due for release in this April.
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Geothermal heating: bring comfort to your world
2008-02-12 03:42:00
Up to 50% of energy bill is for heating and cooling, people are always finding new way for efficient usage of energy for this 'most household expenses'. How about geothermal heating systems ?.Geothermal system is a system which capture the heat from below the frost line ( about 4 feet deep ) where the temperature are constant at 50 degrees Fahrenheit all year long ). During the winter, the heat pumped from the ground and uses it to warm the air in your home. In the warmer summer months, the processed is reversed, taking heat from your home and transfered it back into the groundWith up to 75% energy efficiency offered compared to the conventional heating and cooling system, geothermal system is offering a great savings. Furthermore in term of environmental, the U.S. Department of Energy forecasts that by the year 2030, geothermal heat pumps can provide as much as 2.7 quads per year of renewable energy. This is very significant, as U.S annual energy appetite in is 81 quads per year...
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How to make a cool music powered mini laser show
2008-01-29 11:27:00
This is step by step guide on how to make your own mini laser show to visualize your payed music. Think about making your little room as a mini discotheque or club. Bunch of items can be contructed into a cool DIY mini laser show. [via matt's blog]
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Windows Asus Eee PC will be released soon
2008-01-21 11:24:00
Another hit by Asus , it's 'Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to play', renowned for Eee PC will be released soon with Windows based OS around this first quarter. The Windows XP-based Eee PCs will be released after the previous model with Linux preinstalled released to the market in last quarter 2007.There will be no more hacks needed for putting Windows into Eee PC, however I wonder how it will affect the notebook market if it released to the market. Even though Eee has its own segmented market, it may lead a price war in a notebook market. Lets see, last year Asus claimed Eee PC has become the most wanted Christmas gift, could it be the most wanted Notebook this year ?
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How to flag a blog with a hidden navbar ?
2008-01-21 10:45:00
Although it is legal to hide the blogger navbar, there is a drawback caused by this. It is difficult for a user to flag a blogger blog that are found as splogs or against Google TOS. If found the navbar is hidden and you want to flag to that blog do the following steps : Find the "blogID" in the blog html code ( you can view the source of a blog with your browser)Note the number after the = (sample "blogID=12345678"), 12345678 is the blogIDNow open the blogger navbar with the blogID number you find above, http://www2.blogger.com/navbar.g?blogID=1 2345678 , replace 12345678 with the actual blogID When the navbar appears, click the flag button.Alternatively, you may want to follow some tips from quickonlinetips.com on how to complain and report spam bloggers blogs.
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A big cleaning blitz
2008-01-21 10:16:00
I was away from the internet for quite long time and in the middle of January 2008 I found this site pagerank was dropped to 0, my bad luck. Actually I was aware that my site was getting Google penalties in last November when it's dropped to Pagerank 2, but at the time I cann't do a lot of thing since I was totally off from the net.With limited Internet connection, I have removed all things that are violates Google TOS and quality guidelines, most of them are paid reviews, and one of the hotlinked image that accidentily turn into adult image.Lets take a look a couple day a head, I already sent my reconsideration request. Hopefully I can back to post actively on this site.
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ioDrive: ultra high-speed 640 GB Flash Storage
2007-10-26 04:56:00
What you think about the storage media with a data rates speed almost the same with DRAM ?. It is almost a thousand times faster than any existing disk. ioDrive is designed to deliver 100,000 IOPS, 800MB/s Read and 600MB/s Write. io stands for Indexed Object, ioDrive is based on NAND, this is an ultra high speed and huge flash drive .The ioDrive™ is the industry's first, NAND based enterprise storage solution that provides access rates comparable to DRAM with storage capacity on par with disks — being able to improve both memory capacity and storage performance by 100x. The ioDrive™ leverages Fusion-io's proprietary ioMemory™ architecture to strip away the complexity and limitations of traditional storage infrastructure to provide a high performance, highly scalable Local Storage device or Storage Cache deviceIoDrive uses PCIe x4 connector to enable rapid implementation into todays computers, whihc rewuires no changes to applications or infrastructure. While the iODrive el...
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Gmail now supports IMAP
2007-10-25 12:32:00
Gmail now supports IMAP , yay, a long waited feature from Google. I have switched my account to IMAP , I use Thunderbird 2 for my mail client and the setup is easy. Firstly I have to enable the IMAP feature. This can be found on Setting menu under 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' tab on your Gmail webmail. Then setup the mail client. However this feature is likely only available to random sets of Gmail users, I saw few users are failed to find the IMAP option on their account, hence this is not a system-wide change, yet. If you can't find the 'enable IMAP' option your setting, you would shortly find the feature for your account, you may wait for some time.Click here for setting up Gmail IMAP on iPhone
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Watch Digg in a screensaver with Digg Arc
2007-10-25 07:41:00
Digg labs has applications that provide its viewer a broader view of Digg. Recently Digg Labs release its application in term of screensaver. Amongst their application are Arc, BigSpy,Stack and Swarm. You may recall Blogger Play that is a real-time slideshow of photos Bloggers users have recently uploaded to their blogs. These applications of Digg Labs is almost doing the same function , these application gave us a view how stories are digg-ed by users.Digg Arc is my favourite, stories are arrange themselves around the circlr as users digg them. Around the circle there are users name keep updating and rotate as the users diggs stories in real-time. Larger stories have more diggs, you see on the image 'Tun your PC into a Password Cacking Super Computer' story is having more diggs. Previously my screensaver was PolarClock and I found this Digg Arc is cool too, it is still in a sphere-shape which is in my opinion resemblance to the PolarClock . Yep, I love circle.
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Ubuntu 7.0 Gutsy Gibbon, I need to upgrade
2007-10-25 06:12:00
I was deploying my Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Server about 4 months ago to replace the old SuSE, and now Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon just come, welcome Gutsy. What I expect the most from this new release of Ubuntu is the Compiz :). Yeah, I love eye candy. On the server side I heard that Ubuntu has tools to deploy various server such as Mail,Print and Database server rapidly and also AppArmor for the security.I just put a CD request, lets see. Few friends has downloaded it and I'm waiting for their kindness to burn it one for me.

Halloween pumpkin carving patterns templates for your Jack-O-Lantern
2007-10-25 05:34:00
Halloween yay, now is your turn to make your own Jack -O-Lantern. Be ready with your instruments for carving, now the designs, got no idea ?. Don't worry, use the power of Internet. You will find dozen of templates for Jack-O-Lantern, from easy design to the advanced one, with various themes and best of all, most of them are free. Brent Evans of Geektonic has compiled a list of websites where you can find the best and free Halloween Jack-O-Lantern carving templates. Get ready for carving, make your Halloween night fantastic. Do it your self your Jack-O-Lantern for Halloween creatively, the list even has extreme Jack-O-Lantern templates. Just go a head to Geektonic's list of Jack O Lantern templates sites he also has 14 geek-themed Halloween Costumes[via Geektonic]
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Mac OS X Leopard available in October 26
2007-10-18 06:32:00
On Tuesday, Apple announced its next generation operating system, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard that will be available in October 26 . Leopard offers 300+ new features which include new desktop improvements, Time Machine , also it's come with BootCamp which offers solution for running Windows operating system on Intel-based Macintosh machine."We think Leopard is the richest OS X release yet,There is one version of Leopard — the ultimate version." , said Brian Croll of Apple Senior Director to MacworldLeopard will be availabe at $129 and is now availabe for pre-order.[via fosforgadget and macworld]
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Sex with robot by 2050 - future geeky behavior ?
2007-10-17 06:40:00
Recent claim from an artificial intelligence researcher said that humans will be marrying and having sex with robots by 2050. Cool, you may recall Bicentennial Man movie in 1999, where it was based on Isaac Asimov writing. In that movie Robin Williams as a robot is so human-like, even he felt in love with human. It may be come true in the near future, us, human marry a robot. David Levy, a Netherlands university student who recently completed his PhD on the subject human-robot relationships told that robots would become so human-like in appearance, function and personality. Speaking of personality in a robot, is also predicted that people would fall in love with them, have sex with them and even marry them. He have identified roughly a dozen basic reason why people fall in love, and almost all of them could apply to human-robot relationship. He explains about this human-robot relationship on his thesis "Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners""At first, sex with robots migh...
More About: Robot , Future , Behavior , Geeky , Robo

Mobile computing is the future
2007-10-17 03:51:00
You may recall when Google starting Adwords ads within its Google Mobile search, Google know well where they will move. Future mobile platform is such a huge potential. Why the future of mobile computing is bright ?. As mobile computing terminology means a technology that allows transmission of data, via computer without having to be connected to a fixed physical link, the rapid growth if mobile users and the technology advancements that brings the compact of a mobile computer in the size of a hand held or even smaller, has also gave birth to many content provider and business related such as mobile website hosting and wap site hosting. And recent reports from Bango said that there are significant growth of mobile web usage.The top five countries accessing the mobile web via Bango in April 2007 were the UK at 27%, the US at 21%, South Africa at 11%, India at 9% and Indonesia at 3%. In total, Bango detects mobile web users from over 190 countries.In addition to growth in the US, Bang...
More About: The Future , Computing , Bile

5 ways to prevent Google Pagerank drop - stop Gevil dance
2007-10-10 07:18:00
It's been on top of topic in blogosphere in the recent weeks; that's a lot of site with higher pagerank were dropped 1 or 2 level. Most of them are sites with good quality in their content. Let say andybeard.eu who is amongst top 30 on SEO blogs, sabahan.com, endgadget.com. gizmodo.com and a lot more. If you are amongst those who are dropped by Google you my check what you are doing with your site.As of Google concern is quality links, it seems this is how Google treat those bad links. One of the most thing we might already aware of since it was discussed a lot before is the 'Selling paid links' that can hurt our pagerank. If that's so, as gaman of sabahan.com pointed out why adesblog.com is not affected ?. As I said earlier online marketing is about link building and goodwill, and link building is not that easy.While this is believed only visible pagerank drop and "guilty until proven innocent" moment, below are things you might to consider if you happen defamed by Google:Are ...
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12 Best Photoshop video tutorial I ever saw
2007-10-04 09:56:00
I'm always find a new way to do things in Adobe Photosho p , but rather than reading those Photosop tutorials, watching it in videos is a lot for fun and easier to understand. I have checked my bookmarks and found these video tutorials.These guys from watchandlaernphotoshop are cool people, their video tutorials are easy to understand, here they are :Warping Text with Smart Object There are many ways to warp text in Photoshop, but most of them have their limitations. Some methods allow you to edit your text after warping, but don’t provide full customization of HOW you warp the text. Other methods allow full customization but don’t allow you to edit the text afterwards. In this tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you a method for warping text that will give you the best of both worlds.Toning and recoloring the Skies Ever have one of those photographs where the sky is too bright and harsh? In this tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you an amazingly effective trick for toning down and r...
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Getting link love - more you get by giving it
2007-10-04 09:14:00
Do you remember my last post about articles by Chris Kata about proverb that guide your internet marketing ?, one said : The desire of the righteous ends only in good,but the hope of the wicked only in wrath.When you’re intentions are true and honest people know it, and they will want to do business with you, whether it’s link building, writing content, sending leads, etc.However, if you just want something for your own personal gain, in the end people will sense that in you and you won’t be doing business with themIn term of getting link love, all of them is matter of goodwill. Some says 80% of your traffic will come from only 20% of your links according to Pareto Principle, if you have goodwill to link love someone, it is matter of time you'll getting traffic from them. There you are, you will get 80% of your from 20% of from those link love. You might never know who are they, they might be a good blogger and their post someday will grow bigger, and they will bring you more...
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Storage bins for my old stuff
2007-10-04 06:48:00
I'm a hobbyist, since at junior high school I loved to play with electronic stuff, where my first project was a homemade security alarm for safeguarding my room, it was utilizing simple algorithm using LDR sensors and a biconvex lens. Now my stuff are huge, old and new projects and bunch of kits stored in those racks in my working room look like a mess. I don't want to throw them as I always working in new kind of projects and often I need stuff from those old project.I'm looking for storage with shelving or cabinet that can store all of my stuff neatly. Fortunately I came to this storage bins store that's offer a wide range of storage bins from one cabinet to one with shelving. I found that I would upgrade my components bins too. If you need storage bins, you may check them too.
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British Police Microdrone hovering spy camera
2007-10-03 12:35:00
British Police are now using flying surveillance camera. This camera is from Microdrone Gmbh, it's battery powered and has capability to return to its home base even if it losess two of its four rotor blades. With the capability to fly at 350 feet, it will be hard to notice from the ground. The ability of hovering outside a window and zooming just enough to say how intrusive this new toy might be, it open to use and abuse.Using these devices for military purposes is one thing, but when the police have them the discussion is completely different. Although in principle it won't allow them to spy on anything that couldn't already be seen from a helicopter, small and cheap MAVs are likely to be much more common. And, crucially, unlike a helicopter you will not be able to tell when one is watching you.[via Wired]Technorati Tags: Surveillance camera
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Proverbs that tells you the truth of online marketing
2007-10-03 12:07:00
An interesting article wrote by Christopher Kata of Sparkinternetmarketing.com was brought to my attention, after read it, I'm fully agree that all of them are very true. Online Marketing and SEO thingy is very challenging, all the results is depending on your serious efforts. Like SEO, nothing is exact in online marketing, but off course, the more you do the more you get.When you’re intentions are true and honest people know it, and they will want to do business with you, whether it’s link building, writing content, sending leads, etc.However, if you just want something for your own personal gain, in the end people will sense that in you and you won’t be doing business with themJust head over to this great proverbsTechnorati Tags: SEO, Online marketing tips
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Rsizr: Coolest Image Resizer
2007-10-03 04:54:00
Rsizr is a free web, Flash application that lets you resize JPG, PNG and Gif images on your computer. Rsizr lets you to process normal image rescaling and cropping , and also can resize image by using a new image resizing algorithm called Seam Carving ( a method of image retargeting ) that tries to keep intact areas in your image that are richer in detail.Here is what Rsizr can do, it pretty amazing.This is the original image:And this is the result, ( click to enlarge )Do you see the different ?, the above process shows how we can stretch the image into the panoramic view, but keep the object intact. The object at the center is not stretched, only the surrounding area is stretched. You can check what Rsizr can do at their image gallery.More info about Rsizr can be found here. Don't forget, that Rsizr requires Flash plugin 9.0.45 or greater.Image taken from Rsizr homepage[via BrentEvans] Technorati Tags: Photo editor, Image resizer
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Toshiba notebooks with HD DVD drive
2007-10-02 06:17:00
Toshiba has announced line of new Satellite notebooks. Following the HD DVD hype, Toshiba's notebooks are now has HD DVD capability. Toshiba's Satellite P205 with Intel Core Duo processor gives users the option of watching stunning audio-visual quality and dynamic content interactivity with HD DVD on the 1440x900 (WXGA+) 17" widescreen display.Toshiba equipped the notebook with HDMI output, allowing users to take advantage of the HD DVD drive and play HD content on their home televisions up to 1080i resolution. It's also equipped with 256MB Ati Mobility Radeon HD 2600 video display card and two Harman Kardon stereo speakers and also utilizing Dolby Sound Room technology to deliver surround sound when using stereo headphone or speakers.Toshiba laptops others than Satellite series which has HD DVD drive can be check here[Via Infosync]Technorati Tags: Notebook, Toshiba, HD DVD
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Review: Nightvision binoculars technology
2007-10-01 12:08:00
Binoculars are the world's most used optical intrument other than eyeglassess off course. Binoculars have many uses; for astronomy, hunting, even for watching Opera performance. Apart from those wide functions of a Binocular, I'm more interested in night vision binoculars .This binocular could see in the dark, awesome isn't it ?.How it works ?, Night Vision device is sophisticated optic-electronic devices that assist viewing in near or complete darkness by amplifying all available light. Light to be amplified are also often provided by additional light source, such as IR Illuminator which is firing Infra Red, this makes additional light and making viewing in complete darkness a reality.Night Vision devices collect and amplify existing light through the objective lens, which is then focused on the image intensifier. Inside the intensifier, a photocathode is "excited" by the light and converts the photon energy into electrons. These electrons accelerate across an electrostatic fiel...
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1 Gigabyte todays and 20 years ago physically compared
2007-10-01 09:33:00
Technology has evolved, things getting smaller while the capability is getting bigger. This shows how is a one-gigabyte of an IBM hard drive from twenty years ago is a gigantic compared to today's one-gigabyte SD card.[Via emergingearth]
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Microsoft 'Stealth Update' causes problem on XP Repair, solution found !
2007-10-01 04:48:00
It is been discovered that Microsoft has been sneaking behind by sending out "stealth" software updates that install themselves on users' computers without informing them or even prompting them if they wanted the updates. It just installing themselves even users had automatic updates disabled.So what the big deal of this ?, while many people still don't want to talk deeply about the ethics of installing software on anyone's PC, even if Microsoft says it has good reasons for it, the most concern on this stealth updates is, that there are circumstances where it's stymie XP repair process to completely restore the Windows XP using the repair fucntion. It is reported that the stealth update that Microsoft recently delivered to users machine, blocks 80 patches and fixes from installing after Windows XP is restored through 'Repair " feature on XP.Here is what Microsoft says what caused the problem :Here’s what we found: when an XP repair CD is used, it replaces all system files (inc...
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Review: High standard business web hosting at hostcolor.com
2007-09-27 06:56:00
What are you really looking for on a web hosting ?, reliability, low cost, great support, have community forum to exchange knowledge, feature-rich, easy payment, money-back guarantee ?. Your search would stop right now, Hostcolor has all of it. Whether you are build personal website or business one, Hostcolor is a right choice. For business purpose, it has various plan you can choose, one of them is Host Color Busines Mega . This Mega Pack is a web hosting solution offered by hostcolor.com at an unbeatable price and is best for advanced web sites, e-commerce sitesm web stores, large design sites, etc. For only $83.40 annually ($6,95 a month), this Mega Pack comes with 2 GB disk space with 50Gb monthly bandwidth, unlimited POP3 email and sub domains. Business web hosting from host color.con is also comes with antispam, antivirus, SSL support, FTP and SSH access, Ad management system, free domain name and 60 day money back guarantee as well as 20% renewal discount.For CMS, Joomla and...
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Microsoft quietly lets Vista users revert back to XP
2007-09-27 05:42:00
Have you installed Microsoft Windows Vista ?, are you satisfied with it ? hate vista ? fed up with it ?, Microsoft is quietly allows you to downgrade your Vista box to Windows XP Pro.According to PC World blog, Dell, Hewlett-packard and Lenovo are just a few of the system manufactures that offering downgrades to their customers. Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo are just a few of the system manufacturers offering downgrades. Each of these PC makers offer an XP Pro recovery disc to those who request one that can be used to revert a Vista machine to XP Pro. Dell, HP, and Lenovo customers can request a Windows XP Pro recovery disc to be included with their purchase of a Vista machine -- should they want to revert in the future. Customers who already have purchased a Vista-PC can request an XPEach vendor are offering different policy on allowing their customers to downgrade. Lenovo give a chance for its customers who purchased machines with Vista Business or Ultimate , to purchase a W...
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Bug in Excel 2007, fix on the way
2007-09-27 04:08:00
Earlier this week, reported a strange error in Microsoft Excel 200 was found. The error which caused the calculations is involving the numbers around 65,535. First example heard was 850 multiply by 77.1, the result will be 100,000 instead the correct result, 65,535. It is reported similar operations that should return 65, 535 will also return incorrect results. Problem is identified only present in Microsoft Excel 2007; earlier version is not affected by this bug.According to Microsoft, they are traced the problem back to a floating point issue and the bug is actually not the calculation itself, instead it's just a problem during showing the result on the screen. It is said, the result of the calculation stored in Excel's memory is correct.The fix in underway , Microsoft says they have come up with the fix of this issue and are on final stages of testing to ensure that the fix works and doesn't introduce another issues. The fix which are can be downloaded will be expected to be a...

iPhone in Europe : Germany,UK,France, next ?
2007-09-21 13:28:00
Apple just speed the pace on distributing their iPhone, "a sleek multimedia device" in Europe . Earlier this week, Apple has annouced the iPhone for distribution in Germ any and the UK. In Germany, Apple partnership with T-Mobile on launching iPhone, while in UK, Apple choose O2. For France , it has been rumored, that Apple have signed an agreement with Orange to distribute iPhone in France, no details have yet provided for this and Apple has not yet announced the partnership. Well who's next ?[via fosforgadget ]
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