demo GUI
Sunday, June 29, 2008
HP new TouchSmart PC 3
the ad is clearly much better than the real thing but not bad for a HP product..
at 5:16 PM
Saturday, June 28, 2008
I am your father
Luke, I Am Your Father! Darth Vader USB Hub Hands-on
When you plug it in your computer, Darth Vader begins to breath, his eyes glow, and he moves his head!
It will be available at the beginning of August, but you can pre-order it now on GeekStuff4U.comfor 43€!
Stay tuned, cause next week we'll have R2D2 in action. This USB hub moves its head, lights up, and emits its well known Star Wars sound effects!
Now, take few seconds and watch video to see our Darth Vader in action!
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-16308-Luke%2C+I+Am+Your+Father!+Darth+Vader+USB+Hub+Hands-on.html
BIll Gates Retiring
other than being rich and benevolent,
Bill has made various important contribution to the IT world,
- Open Platform: while everyone was saying MS is not a Open company,
it is important to note that MS has actually executed "Openness" very successfully
in a few important turn of the IT World.
a. IBM PC motherboard, MS DOS
b. MSDOS allowing any software to develop on
c. Windows allowing any software to develop on - MS Excel, the first graphic spreadsheet and the Office suite
- building the software business model
- Embrace and extend the Internet, quickly accept the Internet business model and beat Netscape at its own game
- Persistence (sometimes), IE beating Netscape, MSN beating ICQ
- Innovation is for a smaller niche market, how to make things for the mass is the most important name of the game
Apple never learns this with the Mac, but its coming back through iPod and iPhone.. we will see how that fights out
but without Bill this time
However, in the later part of his career,
there are few important things that MS cannot do, that's affecting its future perspect
- Innovation can change the world, MS's in ability to come up with a answer to Google actually shows that it never learns
how to working in the Internet world.. always coming 2nd.. - too slow to enter the Mobile market
- too slow to enter the Mobile email market
- too slow to adopt to software rental model
- business software market, product getting obscure and too many names, showing no focus
i'd say Bill's contribution are revolutionary, esp during the early part of the IT/Software industry
and the short coming of MS in the last 5-10 years are just the fact that the world has changed too fast
and the ability of the finance market to drive innovation beyond one company
and that it's not possible to be good at every facet of every industry..
BIll Gates Retiring
other than being rich and benevolent,
Bill has made various important contribution to the IT world,
- Open Platform: while everyone was saying MS is not a Open company,
it is important to note that MS has actually executed "Openness" very successfully
in a few important turn of the IT World.
a. IBM PC motherboard, MS DOS
b. MSDOS allowing any software to develop on
c. Windows allowing any software to develop on - MS Excel, the first graphic spreadsheet and the Office suite
- building the software business model
- Embrace and extend the Internet, quickly accept the Internet business model and beat Netscape at its own game
- Persistence (sometimes), IE beating Netscape, MSN beating ICQ
- Innovation is for a smaller niche market, how to make things for the mass is the most important name of the game
Apple never learns this with the Mac, but its coming back through iPod and iPhone.. we will see how that fights out
but without Bill this time
However, in the later part of his career,
there are few important things that MS cannot do, that's affecting its future perspect
- Innovation can change the world, MS's in ability to come up with a answer to Google actually shows that it never learns
how to working in the Internet world.. always coming 2nd.. - too slow to enter the Mobile market
- too slow to enter the Mobile email market
- too slow to adopt to software rental model
- business software market, product getting obscure and too many names, showing no focus
i'd say Bill's contribution are revolutionary, esp during the early part of the IT/Software industry
and the short coming of MS in the last 5-10 years are just the fact that the world has changed too fast
and the ability of the finance market to drive innovation beyond one company
and that it's not possible to be good at every facet of every industry..
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Death Star Lego Movie, way cool
way cool...
but no space for this thing..
and it cost more than a 3G iphone!!
KDDi rolls out Toshiba Sportio W62T cellphone
ER: cool girl, not necessarily the coolest phone.. a runner's phone?
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posting from iphone
i am using a web application from iphone. Its called blog it by the nice people from typepad
at 5:42 AM
Friday, June 20, 2008
Time for Metal Gear Solid 4!!
Time for Metal Gear Solid 4!!
a busy weekend coming up
hi hopes
gamespot metal launch site
When Liquid Ocelot amasses a force that rivals that of the United States, Solid Snake is brought back into action to stop him once and for all, but can the aged and thoroughly disillusioned Snake save the world again? Old friends and enemies return, and the secrets of the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo are finally revealed in this, the final chapter of Snake's saga. Keep your Solid Eye fixed on our launch center for the latest news, previews, videos, and our review.
3,800-Piece Death Star Diorama Is Coolest Star Wars Lego Ever [LEGO Star Wars]
ER: Super Cool!!!
really consider this Death Star
but its likely quite big! might need permission..
Move over Millennium Falcon, because there's a new Best Lego Set Ever in town: the $400 Death Star. Almost 4,000 pieces of absolute nerdgasmic technological terror now available to order, showing 14 scenes that happened in the no-moon during the original trilogy. We have all the official information and three high definition photos that show every angle of this amazing set, with 21 amazing mini-figs, including Han and Luke dressed up as Lego Imperial Stormtroopers.
#10188 Death Star™ Ages 12+. 3,803 pieces. $399.99
Recreate the action and adventure of the Star Wars™ movies with the ultimate Death Star™ playset! This detailed battle station features an incredible array of minifigure-scale scenes and accessories from Episodes IV and VI. Its different decks include the Death Star control room, moving turbolaser turrets, hangar bay with TIE Advanced starfighter, tractor beam controls, Emperor’s throne room, detention block, Imperial conference room, droid maintenance facility, and the powerful Death Star superlaser, plus much more! Swing across the chasm with Luke and Leia, face danger in the crushing trash compactor, and duel with Darth Vader for the fate of the galaxy. With over 3,800 pieces, the Death Star measures 16” tall and 16½” wide when completed. Includes 25 Star Wars minifigures and droids!
Death Star is a LEGO Exclusive available for pre-order on www.LEGOshop.com starting July 1, 2008 and can be found in LEGO Brand Retail Stores starting September 1, 2008!
Includes the following 7 new and exclusive Star Wars minifigures and droids only found in this set! Luke Skywalker™ (Stormtrooper outfit) Han Solo™ (Stormtrooper outfit) Death Star Trooper (x2) Phlutdroid™ Interrogation Droid Death Star Droid
Other minifigures and droids include: Obi-Wan Kenobi™ R2-Q5™ Emperor Palpatine™ Darth Vader™ Grand Moff Tarken™ Emperor’s Royal Guard™ (x2) Stormtrooper™ (x2) R2-D2™ C-3PO™ Princess Leia™ Chewbacca™ Luke Skywalker™ (Jedi Knight) Mouse Droid Dianoga (Trash Monster) Luke Skywalker™ Han Solo™
Product Features: Death Star Control Room Death Star Turbolasers Hangar Bay Control Room Superlaser Control Room Death Star Superlaser & Weapons Bay Manned Turbolaser Emperor’s Throne Room Hangar Bay Detention Block Tractor Beam Control Trash Compactor Scene Swing over the Gap Meeting room Droid maintenance
at 10:17 AM
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
the Longtail presentation
The long tail for Interactive Marketing
From: erwinhuang, 7 minutes agoPresented 13th jun 2008, the eCMO Conference in HK
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Britain Launches Final Real-Life Skynet Satellite, Dubs it Skynet with No Sense of Irony [Bad News]
ER: Skynet really coming?
now that the Western world is investing so fast on robot weapons (remote control mostly for now)
we are really not far from these things becoming real...
scary..
The UK has just sent up a new communications satellite that's completed their Skynet, the highly-advanced network that's going to give them the ability to allow robotic military units at long range. You know, like in the apocalyptic vision of the future from the Terminator movies. The network's name in those movies? Skynet. Have you learned nothing, England?!
The system allows for communication both in the voice and data variety between basically any unit of the British Armed Forces, including computers talking to computers, probably about how best to murder their makers. For example, a base computer in cheery old London can communicate with the "Reaper," a robotic spy drone in Afghanistan, retrieving data and telling it where to go, and transmitting live video over the connection from the UAV. The sat also has solar sails which extend its life to 15 years, a special anti-jamming antenna is set on the receive side, while 4 steerable antennas can be aimed in a single spot to concentrate broadcasting ability.
Even worse is the fact that the whole thing is privately owned, with the British Armed Forces only promised a portion of the bandwidth rather than having control over the whole thing.
All I know is that we've got to protect John Conner at all costs, wherever he may be. [BBC via io9]
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Apple MobileMe Official: Sync For the "Rest of Us" [Wwdc 08]
Er: this thing is so much like the Virtual Desktop that Magically has done in 2000.
i actually think my patents still apply in these areas and covers what Mobileme do..
;-) http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6571245.html
Apple has just unveiled mobileme, "Exchange for the rest of us." It gives push email to regular users and syncs all of your data from Mail, iCal, iDisk and Address book to all your devices at once. It works via a new site, me.com (which isn't up as of now). Me.com replaces .Mac and it'll be an automatic update for current .Mac customers.
It's pretty similar to Microsoft's Mesh software. Essentially, it allows you to do things like make appointments on your phone and have them sync your computer and vice versa, and the updates happen in about 10 seconds. The service will cost you $99 a year for 20GB of space, and there'll be a 60 day free trial available at launch in early July.
from Gizmodo.Apple Introduces MobileMe Internet Service
Push Email, Push Contacts and Push Calendar for iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs
SAN FRANCISCO, June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple(R) today introduced MobileMe(TM), a new Internet service that delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars from the MobileMe service in the "cloud" to native applications on iPhone(TM), iPod(R) touch, Macs and PCs. MobileMe also provides a suite of elegant, ad-free web applications that deliver a desktop-like experience through any modern browser. MobileMe applications (http://www.me.com) include Mail, Contacts and Calendar, as well as Gallery for viewing and sharing photos and iDisk for storing and exchanging documents online. "Think of MobileMe as 'Exchange for the rest of us,'" said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Now users who are not part of an enterprise that runs Exchange can get the same push email, push calendars and push contacts that the big guys get." With a MobileMe email account, all folders, messages and status indicators look identical whether checking email on iPhone, iPod touch, a Mac(R) or a PC. New email messages are pushed instantly to iPhone over the cellular network or Wi-Fi, removing the need to manually check email and wait for downloads. Push also keeps contacts and calendars continuously up-to-date so changes made on one device are automatically pushed up to the cloud and down to other devices. Push works with the native applications on iPhone and iPod touch, Microsoft Outlook for the PC, and Mac OS(R) X applications, Mail, Address Book and iCal(R), as well as the MobileMe web application suite.
MobileMe web applications are 100 percent ad-free and provide an incredible, desktop-like experience that allows users to drag and drop, click and drag and even use keyboard shortcuts. MobileMe provides anywhere access to Mail, Contacts and Calendar, with a unified interface that allows users to switch between applications with a single click, and Gallery makes it easy to share photos on the web in stunning quality. Gallery users can upload, rearrange, rotate and title photos from any browser; post photos directly from an iPhone; allow visitors to download print quality images; and contribute photos to an album. MobileMe iDisk lets users store and manage files online with drag and drop filing and makes it easy to share documents too large to email by automatically sending an email with a link for downloading the file. MobileMe includes 20GB of online storage that can be used for email, contacts, calendar, photos, movies and documents.
Pricing & Availability MobileMe, available on July 11, is a subscription-based service with 20GB of storage for $99 (US) per year for individuals and $149 (US) for a Family Pack, which includes one master account with 20GB of storage and four Family Member accounts with 5GB of storage each. Users can sign up for a free, 60-day MobileMe trial at http://www.apple.com/mobileme and current .Mac members will be automatically upgraded to MobileMe accounts. MobileMe subscribers can purchase an additional 20GB of storage for $49 (US) or 40GB of storage for $99 (US) annually. Using an iPhone or iPod touch with MobileMe requires iPhone 2.0 software and iTunes(R) 7.7 or later. For use with a Mac, MobileMe requires Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 or the latest version of Mac OS X Leopard. For a PC, MobileMe requires Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional (SP2), and Microsoft Outlook 2003 or later is recommended. MobileMe is accessible on the web via Safari(R) 3, Internet Explorer 7, and Firefox 2 or later. Internet access requires a compatible ISP; fees may apply. Broadband Internet connection recommended. Some features require Mac OS X Leopard and iLife(R) '08, available separately.
Monday, June 9, 2008
iPod touch only aluminum stand iClooly (Ai-up URI)
cool!! hope they have such a thing for the iphone
at 12:22 PM
Panasonic SD8-K
this is a cool color!!
i want to replace mine!
Panasonic has released a special version of its HDC-S7 camcorder dedicated to the coming Olympic Games, the HDC-SDK8. Specifications remain the same as the original version: our SDK8 records videos in full HD (1920x1080) on SDHC cards, and features a CCD 1/1.6''a 10x optical zoom, a Leica lens, and a 2.7''screen. It measures 56 x87x110mm and weighs approximately 310g.
This new camera will be available at just 150 units and will cost 780€.
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone
Continue reading Sling announces proof-of-concept SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone