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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.
Manage Photos Uploaded On Blogger Through Picasa Web Albums; Edit, View or Delete Images 2007-03-08 11:34:00 If you own a Blogger
blog, open Picasa
Web Albums homepage and you may be pleasantly surprised to discover a new album containing all pictures that you have previously uploaded to the blog.That's because Google today introduced a new feature inside Picasa Web Albums to help you manage all photographs/images uploaded to your blog hosted on Blogger.com.Any photos you upload using Blogger will automatically appear in Picasa Web Albums. The title of your Blogger web album will match the title of that blog and contain those photos.And for the first time, you can remove previously uploaded pictures from the Blogger server - If you delete a photo from your Blogger album on Picasa Web Albums, the photo will also be deleted from your blogspot blog.You can also download the pictures uploaded to Blogger using Picasa software in one go. That makes it extremely easy to backup your Blogger Blogs.There's also a hint that Google might be adding the delete feature in Blogger itself. The What's new p Read more:Manage
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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
Enano ultra green computer 2007-03-07 18:53:00 The enano computer aims to introduce a paradigm shift when it comes to a smaller, more energy-efficient workstation. After all, most of us do not need a high-powered gaming rig to book movie tickets online, do we? enano means little or tiny in Spanish, and consumes a mere 20 to 25 Watts of power for average computing which is way below the radar when compared against a normal desktop. In fact, it uses so little power that it might even exceed the new Energy Star requirements for notebooks. The enano is also small enough not to be intrusive as you can store it virtually anywhere in the house without worrying about heat issues. Touted to be the world's smallest desktop computer, the enano can be purchased from $750 onwards depending on the configuration. Read more:Enano
TechFest Video: Demo 2007-03-07 18:51:00 Microsoft's Andy Wilson describes his Play Together videoconferencing system as an "11th-hour hack." Two of Wilson's Play Anywhere units -- an infrared camera, a projector and some object-recognition software -- are networked to allow bi-directional interactivity. In this demo, two players can see their opponents move chess pieces on each other's boards."Reflecting reality is much more interesting than the traditional, mediated approach to videoconferencing," Wilson says. Read more:TechFest
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.
Leopard Coming Sooner Than Expected? 2007-03-07 18:42:00 We like Jesse Tortora. Jesse is an analyst for Prudential and something of a Mac fanboy, or so it seems, as he’s always upgraded Apple’s valuation and is contact with many nebulous “inside sources” that even we corrupt bloggers can’t get our vodka-scented hands onto. So it comes as no surprise that he’s a source of many of the fun Apple rumors we find and relay, deliberately or not.The latest wisdom from high on top Mount Tortura is in regards to the ship date for Leopard
, the latest rendition of Apple’s OS X. While most analysts and developers are expecting an early Summer/late Spring launch, perhaps around mid-May, Tortora sees it happening much sooner, perhaps as early as this month. His argument is that as Adobe is launching CS3 a couple months early, it makes sense for Apple to launch its flagship product at the same time. And with new Macs due at NAB this year, it makes sense for Apple’s pro gear to be upgraded across the product spectrum, from hardware to softwar Read more:Expected
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
Creative the Latest Entry in the MP3 Player Phone Market? 2007-03-07 18:34:00 Have you heard? Apparently, there's a cellphone with a Creative-like interface on a flyer from Creative. This has a 99.9% chance to mean absolutely nothing, but it got us thinking that perhaps Creative will be the next entrant into the MP3 Phone market. After all, if Apple and Microsoft are both on board with combined products, one of the biggest names in the MP3 business needs to keep up.Even if this flyer doesn't signal the actual ZenPhone, we have a feeling that Creative won't be far behind. After all, if the market's moving towards converged devices, anyone without a finger in that pie will be left sucking their own thumbs. Read more:Entry
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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:YouTube
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Zenum Organum Mp3/Mp4 Player. It’s all about looks baby! 2007-03-07 18:29:00 If you are just starting and want to be noticed in the crowded CE Electronics field, you have to create something remarkable.Zenum Technologies knows that are are betting on exceptional design. One of their cool looking products, Zenum Opus Operis PDA Phone should be released soon, probably during Cebit 2007 next week.And now the Swiss upstart has another beauty in the works. An MP3/MP4 player called Zenum Organum.Slated for the end of 2007 release, Zenum Organum features:Support for MP3, ASF, WMA and WAV formatsBuilt in MIC/ USB2.01.8″ color display 128*180 matrixJPG, BMP, support multi picture view function2GB of storage capacityMulti language support (English/Spanish/French)While overall specs for Zenum Organum are not that impressive, the looks are. Let’s see whether that will be enough.
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
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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
Lots of softwares for nokia 6600 2007-03-07 07:43:00 Lots of softwares for Nokia 6600 1. Unlimited Camrecorder2. Hair Styling Software3. Lie Detector4. Answering Machine5. Radio6. Video Message and more Please copy link and paste in a new window, press enter,when a page opens, Click Free at bottom of the page,On next page, type the code it shows there, and submit, it will start download Click below to download Download
Cube Multimedia Cubix MP3 Player 2007-03-07 07:38:00 Cube Multimedia
Cubix MP3 Player for S60 phones SymbianOS BEST CHOICE! Amazing MP3 PLAYER with such features as: 3D VISUALIZATIONS, skinning, albums and M3U playlists support, 10-band graphical equalizer, playlist, and more! CHECK IT OUT! CubiX MP3 Player is the ultimate choice for any music fan! You get a high quality MP3 player which lets you create your own playlist, displays amazing 3D visualizations, provides a 10-Band Graphical Equalizer, M3U, album support, skinning and much more! CubiX MP3 Player is compatible with all Series 60 smartphones! CUBIX MP3 PLAYER - MAIN FEATURES: * two fully functional modes: graphics and text!* to play a chosen file directly from your playlist simply click on it!* 3 amazing 3D visualizations! (you can get more visualizations with the “ADDITIONAL PACK”)* skinning - you get 4 superb skins with the program! (you can get more skins with the “ADDITIONAL PACK”)* top quality MP3 playback: even 44khz, 16-bit, stereo (depends on phone’s specifica
OpenOffice.org 2.1 2007-03-07 07:11:00 Compatible with other major office suites, OpenOffice
.org is free to download, use, and distribute. Download it now, and get: Writer – a word processor you can use for anything from writing a quick letter to producing an entire book. Calc – a powerful spreadsheet with all the tools you need to calculate, analyse, and present your data in numerical reports or sizzling graphics. Impress – the fastest, most powerful way to create effective multimedia presentations. Draw – lets you produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations. Base – lets you manipulate databases seamlessly. Create and modify tables, forms, queries, and reports, all from within OpenOffice.org Math – lets you create mathematical equations with a graphic user interface or by directly typing your formulas into the equation editor.
floAt's Mobile Agent 2007-03-07 07:03:00 FMA is a free powerful phone editing tool allowing users to easily manage all of the personal data stored in their phones, via a number of different connections methods. FMA allows easy management of Phonebook (both SIM and Phone memory), SMS, Profiles, and Files stored on the phone. FMA can also allow you to pickup and dial calls directly from your PC. FMA is fun and much more; whatever you want it to be, it is whatever a mobile phone should have :-) (Currently based on Sony Ericsson T610 features set). FMA - It's Magic! Download latest FMA package and see by yourself. You could read about some user experience before doing that. Currently FMA supports officially Sony Ericsson phones only. Other manufacturers and brands will be addressed in next major version. The SourceForge.net Site Status page reflects the presence of a known issue with the accuracy of recent download statistics. Download statistics shown on this page fo Read more:Mobile
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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:DivShare
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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
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