Owner: Techno Lab - Your Technology Navigator URL:http://techno-lab.blogspot.com/ Join Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:45:47 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: Technology is penetrating every area of our life. Over the last decade it has moved from being of interest to only a small number of computing enthusiasts to something that generates interest and excitement among all of us. The new generation is adopting Site statistics:Click here
Sony unveils its new 3D universe 2007-03-08 11:37:00 Sony
described Home as a 3D social networking service Sony is hoping to replicate the success of social networks and Second Life with a feature called Home. Playstation 3 gamers will be able to meet, chat and share content with friends inside a 3D universe. "It's about community, collaboration and customisation," said Sony's Phil Harrison at the Game Developers Conference, in San Francisco. Gamers can buy furniture and clothes, while publishers and retailers are also expected to offer 3D spaces. Mr Harrison said the games industry had to learn from the success of the web 2.0 movement This is not just about Sony brands and Sony games - it's a much wider network of connected spaces Read more:Sony unveils
Plot Your EMail Trajectory on Google Maps 2007-03-08 11:36:00 Wondering what physical path an email message (from a friend or some spammer) had followed before reaching your inbox ? Try the Email graphic traceroute service.You copy-paste your email headers in the Email Routemap web interface and the service draws the path of your email message on Google
maps.For the above screenshot, we used a test mail sent via yahoogroups.com.The orange icon (destination) denotes the location of Yahoo! Mail servers while the green pin indicates the origin or the location from where that email message was sent.Another very interesting Google Maps
mashup is Google Maps Traceroute - type in any IP address and the service will show the exact physical location of that IP on Google Maps.
ASUS P5N32-E SLI PLUS 2007-03-08 11:26:00 ASUS Commando ASUS has expanded their line of Republic of Gamers branded motherboards with the ASUS Commando based on Intel’s proven P965 Express chipset. Does it compete with what’s on the market and offer features beyond current P965 motherboards?Introduction The ASUS Commando is the latest in the Republic of Gamers branded motherboards featuring the proven and highly overclockable Intel P965 Express chipset and ICH8R south bridge. The Commando supports the Intel® Core™2 Extreme Quad-Core / Core™2 Duo / Intel® Pentium® Extreme and Intel® Pentium® D processors. . Following Industry trends the ASUS Commando requires only a few components to create a working machine. The required components are: Socket LGA775 CPU, DDR 2 memory, power supply, drives and a video card. ASUS integrated the following components into the Commando:1 ATA-133 port; 1 floppy port; 10 USB ports (4 on the backplane and 3 headers supporting 2 ports each.) ; 6 SATA 3G ports; 2 GigE Ethernet ports;
The Z List - It Works! 2007-03-08 08:09:00 I read about this on Dosh-Dosh yesterday, and thought ’sounds interesting, I’ll give it a go later’. Logged on this morning, and noticed I had 4 more incoming links from blogs I’ve not heard of before - checked them out and they’re all running z-list postings. Now I’ve thought ‘This is VERY interesting-I’m doing it!’. What’s the idea? It started with Mack Collier of The Viral Garden, who came up with the idea of giving a links boost to us smaller bloggers, the ‘Z List’. As you may know, a blog’s success in terms of visibility really depends on links: more links = higher Technorati & Google Pagerank results = more people finding you. The premise is simple: Write a post, and copy and paste my list from below into it. Make sure the links are active and correct. If your blog is on that list, remove it because your post isn’t about self-promotion. Don’t worry, because if your name is on mine, it’s on others and will spread. Add your favourite deserving blogs Read more:Works
Samsung Q2 UMPC revealed! 2007-03-08 08:00:00 So check it: every so often we find a juicy tip in our inbox, and today we sure got a doozy. One of our faithful readers -- who prefers to remain anonymous -- has sent in several slides featuring Samsung
's followup to the Q1 UMPC, the Q2. While some of the specs appear to be identical to the beefed-up Q1P -- like the 7-inch touchscreen, 1GB of RAM, and 60GB hard drive -- other features, along with a revised form factor, are completely new to a model that we expect to be unveiled almost a year to the day after its predecessor, at CeBIT 2007. According to the PowerPoint presentation which you can view in the gallery below, the Q2 will sport an unknown Intel (not Via) CPU running Vista Home Premium, a 1,024 x 600 WSVGA resolution (no 800 x 600 here), two digital cameras (1.3 megapixel for "photography" and 0.3 megapixel for videoconferencing), and a fingerprint scanner. Most exciting, though, are your connectivity and input options; the Q2 tacks on a much-needed, albeit split QWERTY keyb
PlayStation Home revealed 2007-03-08 07:48:00 Good news for the PlayStation
camp, full details of Sony's PlayStation Home
have been revealed, and it ain't no slacker. Alongside those avatars and achievements we heard about earlier, the "service" seems to be a new-gen Second Life killer, with public hangouts, personal apartments (to show off those fancy prizes you've been racking up in recent frag fests) and voice chat. The seeming-MMO even includes casual games such as pool, bowling and arcade machines embedded into the world, but at any time you can invite a fellow resident to join in on any PlayStation Network-capable game. As for user-generated content, PS Home allows you to hang your own pictures on your apartment walls and share videos with friends. You can of course dress up your avatar in assorted virtual clothings -- for a price -- all while enjoying "dynamic advertising" of some sort. A large scale beta goes live in April, with the full product to be launched this fall. Make sure to hit up the read link for a gallery
TechFest Video: Play Together 2007-03-07 18:49:00 Microsoft's Andy Wilson demonstrates his videoconferencing device. I drew the head and the hair on my piece of paper, and Andy filled in the rest from across the room on a separate piece of paper. The two projector/camera systems are networked together for bi-directional operation. Read more:TechFest
Bluetooth 2.1 on the way: near-field communications and 5x battery 2007-03-07 18:45:00 Gear Live got the chance to check the new Bluetooth
2.1+EDR specification live with Michael Foley, executive director of the Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group). Most definitely, the coolest new feature is delivered via an optional part of the spec dubbed "near-field communications." Using a prototype Nokia cellphone and Parrot picture frame, Foley was able to snap a photo on the handset and then pair and transfer it to the frame by simply holding the phone a few inches away from the display. Other notable enhancements are 5x reduction in battery
drain (hoozah!) for Bluetooth mice and keyboards as well as enhanced security. The spec is "just being finalized now" with first product expected to hit around the 2007 holiday season. Fingers crossed eh, as these things tend to drag out a bit longer than expected. In the mean time, check the full video demonstration after the break.
Google Desktop 5 Released 2007-03-07 18:37:00 some of the look and feel of the application, increased the security – there were some recent problems – and added previews to Desktop
search results.Google
Desktop’s old features are still intact:You can search through your computer (and Outlook) faster than what Microsoft offers themselvesYou can hit the Ctrl-key twice to bring up a quick Google search boxYou can include Google gadgets, like news feeds, a clock, or todo listsPersonally I prefer an uncluttered desktop and don’t need gadgets, but Google Desktop
search part is still great if you store a lot on your computer, and the new preview function is an improvement for at least some file types.The new preview plusbox. Useful for files like PDF, not too useful for web pages...The dialog for adding gadgets. Google gadgets (former “modules”) come in 3 flavors, and some gadgets support all of them: desktop gadgets, personalized homepage gadgets, and webpage gadgets.
Vulcan FlipStart vs. a BlackBerry 2007-03-07 18:36:00 It's hard to judge how big the FlipStart
is even with a gallery with shots of it next to Brian's hand (he has dwarf-like appendages, in case you were wondering). So here's the UMPC-like device next to the businessman's favorite love/hate gadget, the BlackBerry
.In fact, business people are so familiar with RIM's little emailing device, eHarmony should have a field measuring your naughty bits in BlackBerries. After all, 1.5 BlackBerries wide and 4 BlackBerries deep make a whole lot more sense to a man than a cryptic "32C". Read more:Vulcan
jkOnTheRun first look at the Vulcan FlipStart- YouTube Edition 2007-03-07 18:32:00 The good folks at Vulcan
were kind enough to send me a pre-release evaluation unit of the new FlipStart
ultraportable PC. The FlipStart is essentially a tiny laptop complete with a full QWERTY keyboard, trackpad, trackstick, integrated EV-DO, and a secondary display in the LID. It’s taken a while to get the FlipStart out the door but it appears Vulcan has used that time wisely with a lot of attention to detail and a very solid build quality.The unit I am using has a Pentium M 1.1 GHz processor with 500 MB of RAM, A 30 GB hard drive, Windows XP SP2, integrated EV-DO, and a web cam. I used the web cam to make a video call to Marc Orchant and it worked pretty well so I can see the FlipStart as a great mobile communications device using VoIP. I recorded a 20 minute quick overview of the littlest laptop and have posted it here for your viewing pleasure. I’ll have the device for a few weeks and I’m sure this won’t be the last you’ll hear or see of it. Read more:Edition
, YouTube
How Bluetooth Makes Your Life Easier 2007-03-07 15:26:00 Bluetooth is a wireless communication system that can really make your life easier. You can use it almost anywhere and with over fifty products out on the market that supports Bluetooth, you can use it everyday. With there being user options for home, work, play, or en route, you will love everything Bluetooth has to offer. There is really something for everyone! If you are wondering exactly how Bluetooth can make your life easier in all of these areas, take a look at this information.Bluetooth At HomeMore people than ever are working from home these days. Homes are being set up with home offices or even old bedrooms or basements are being converted. Although technology is important for a home office, you will find that all of the wires and other jumbled cords can be very limiting. Cluttered wires and cables are dangerous. You can even start a fire when your cables are a tangled mess.When you think about all of the devices you have plugged into your computer (your mouse, p Read more:Bluetooth
, Life Easier
Add A Sitemap To Your Blogger Blog 2007-03-07 13:59:00 Further to my other post on why you need a sitemap, and how to add one to a WordPress blog, I have now set one up for a Blogger
blog.The steps are very simple, and will require a minor edit of your template. If you’ve never done it, it’s not as frightening as it sounds! Just make sure you backup your template first as described below.Visit Google Webmaster Tools and sign up to a free account. If you have a Gmail email address, you can sign in with that. If you haven’t got Gmail & would like it, mail me & I’ll send you an invite.Once signed into Webmaster tools, choose to add a website & submit your blog URL. Google will find it & invite you to verify your site.Click on verify, and choose to validate by uploading a Meta tag. (You cannot use the other method with Blogger) Copy & paste this Meta Tag to Notepad or similar.In a new window/tab visit your Blogger Dashboard, and click on ‘Template’, then ‘Edit HTML’.BEFORE doing anything else, choose ‘Download Full T Read more:Sitemap
Speakeasy - BandWidth Speed Test 2007-03-07 06:59:00 Take the Speakeasy Speed
Test and test your connection speed! By measuring the download and upload rate from the following locations you are able to accurately judge your current line throughput or internet connection speed.
Tea Serving Robots 2007-03-06 19:50:00 From the swirling web browser of The Swirling Brain comes a link to a CNN article about Japanese tea serving robots. Japanese robotics researcher, still intent on producing robots that can care for the elderly, are exploring how well they can make robots perform common tasks such as serving tea and washing dishes. In this experiment, a Kawanda Industries biped humanoid robot poured the tea, which was then delivered to humans in another room by a second, wheeled robot. This work is being done by Tomomasa Sato of the Intelligent Cooperative Systems Lab at the University of Tokyo. Read more:Serving
My Yahoo! Gets Web 2.0 Makeover 2007-03-09 15:51:00 <!-- sphereit start --> Hot on the heels of My.Netscape's personalized homepage makeover, Yahoo
has announced a new version of its own long-running personalized homepage, My Yahoo. It will at first be a private beta, with a limited number of users being offered a beta account at http://cm.my.yahoo.com/upgrade. Yahoo's plan is to gather Read more:Makeover
DivShare - An Easy Way To Save Your Bandwidth 2007-03-09 15:44:00 I have Carol to thank for putting me on to this, and I’ve now used it and think it’s pretty good. If you have lots of photos hosted in your blog, they will start to eat into your bandwidth each time they are loaded by your readers, especially if they get ’stumbled’ or enjoy some other rush of traffic. An obvious way around this is to have the photos hosted elsewhere, and link to them in your blog Read more:Bandwidth
, DivShare
Increase Your Backlinks - By Kathryn Crocker 2007-03-09 15:43:00 I have been using a free co-op advertising network (aff.). Since I have been using it my backlinks have increased from a few hundred to a few thousand, last check showed my abstract art site at over 15,000 backlinks and have done wonders for my serps and page rank. It’s easy to use, you just upload a couple of files to your site and then add the bit of code that displays the ads. You can choose Read more:Crocker
How To Widget? 2007-03-08 21:13:00 Being a publisher ain't so easy these days. I know a little bit about it now that I have this thing called a blog that I feel compelled to keep fresh and build (whatever that means, my audience has been flat for the past year - maybe because of the very subject of this post). But things don't stand still. You need to do more everyday to keep up with all the changes afoot. And one of the
Recommend Site To A Friend
