Robots, this will be a regular topic here. Hollywood has made it obvious that robots will one day take over the world. They (the robots) will be all friendly, cute and helpful at first before they initiate their master plan of world domination and kill us all.
Anyway, this cute little robot called ApriPoko developed by folks at Toshiba is a talking robot that also functions as a voice-operated universal remote control for multiple home appliances. It is a prototype and still in development and testing phase.
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Nine Inch Nails is doing what artists in the music industry should be doing as their distribution model for years. Nine Inch Nails are one of the few music artists comfortable being on the Internet. Most music artists and their record label companies generally fears the Internet and have being fighting a crusade against it being a distribution medium.
Trent Reznor, the person most people blamed for the web shenanigans Nine Inch Nails have being causing on the Internet lately, have been vocal about his thoughts on record companies and their relationship with musicians. He has been experimenting with alternative methods of getting Nine Inch Nails’ music out directly to its fans, most of the time it involved the use of the Internet.
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Got myself a new camera recently. A digital SLR camera the Canon EOS 400D also know as the Canon Digital Rebel XTi in some parts of the world. I’ve always wanted a digital SLR ever since Canon and Nikon release their entry level DSLR cameras.
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Things are very democratic lately. With the elections proceedings (U.S elections and the upcoming Malaysia Parliamentary elections) everybody feels the need to vote.
Yahoo! recently launches Yahoo Buzz, a Digg.com like website. Yahoo’s approaches to this is a little bit different from Digg.com’s concept. Users vote on stories from pre-approved news publishers to push them up. If on Digg.com you ‘digg’ a story up and ‘bury’ a story down on Yahoo Buzz you ‘buzz up’ a story and ‘buzz down’.
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“Is that the iPhone?”
“No. It’s just an iPod Touch”
When I meet new people, I store their contacts on the address book on my iPod Touch. People mistakenly thought it is an iPhone.
“Is that a PDA?”
“No it’s just an iPod Touch”
I note down appointments on my iPod Touch using the calendar app. It syncs with iCal when connect it with my Mac. I take notes and create to-do list using the Notes app on my iPod Touch I then mail it back to myself if I want a copy on my Mac. People mistakenly thought it is a PDA device.
“Is that an Internet tablet?”
“No it’s just an iPod Touch”
Whenever there is a wifi signal I can get on, I check my email, surf the web, watch YouTube video and sometime use Google Map to figure out where the hell I am at or where I’m going. People mistakenly thought it is an Internet tablet of some sorts.
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Feng-GUI is a heatmap creation service for your website. However, unlike Crazy Egg or other similar heatmap services, Feng-GUI creates heatmap of your website based on the human eye.
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Changed this section from ‘Linux Chaser‘ to ‘Open Source Chaser‘, just to be more general in posting on this topic. I am interested in other Open Source projects and not just Linux. Read more...
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In the old days, the mobile industry was a predictable. Companies keep designing new phone, each better then the previous version, nothing revolutionary. Then Apple came in and sort of slapped everyone on the face with its new iPod with GSM phone capabilities, known to many as the iPhone.
Now it seems that everybody wants to get into mobile phones. Google announce its mobile platform OS known as Android. Clever move on Google part by not making a phone but a mobile OS instead. Google is not a hardware company.
Microsoft is not just sitting still hanging on their Windows Mobile either. While the Microsoft $40 billion deal with Yahoo! still hanging, they when shopping for another company. This time they get a mobile phone company Danger Inc. the makes of the T-mobile Sidekick.
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Apple is pushing the web browser envelope with their Safari web browser, using the WebKit open source application project since last fall. Safari had grown a lot since it was first introduce as the OSX browser. There is a version of Safari for Windows. It (WebKit), also runs on mobile devices, the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
And the iPhone and iPod Touch SDK might just be based only on Safari, here is why.
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5 undersea Internet cables snapped within a short time frame. Is the Internet under attack? The Internet, most of it, are connected with intercontinental cables submerge undersea.
Several undersea Internet cables in Asia that connects to Europe and the rest of the world snapped. India and part of the Middle East are suffering from Internet traffic slowdown.
Some sources mentioned of ship’s anchor being drag by a storm which might have cause it. It’s must be a huge storm if it can drag anchored ships from Egypt to India (is that even possible?). May be it wasn’t the same ship, several ships suddenly dropped anchor on Internet cables around the same week.
Five cables around the Middle East snapped, ok so one was powered down for some odd reason, it is still weird and a little bit fishy to me.
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Until the early 1990s, media had always relied primarily upon print and analog broadcast. Newspapers, magazines, radio and television broadcast are the known method for people to consume information and entertainment. These medium are easily controllable.
These days, I find myself not needing any of those.
I rarely watches television even though I have an Astro subscription with over hundred channels. These days I download all my entertainment needs from the Internet. I am not advocating piracy.
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It is no secret that Microsoft is looking for a way to venture out into a non-software related field. Take a look at Microsoft Live. However it is clear that they are some what lacking when competing against the web giants with the likes of Google or Yahoo!.
If you can’t beat them, buy them.
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