Archive for July, 2007

Chinese Man Electrocuted By His PC

A 20-year-old man in Shanghai was reportedly ELECTROCUTED TO DEATH BY HIS PC. He “didn’t want to switch on the air conditioner in his home” so he opened his PC’s case to prevent his PC from overheating (which doesn’t work, by the way), and his “sweaty legs came into contact with the computer’s wiring, [...]

Windows Live Writer Portable

TechLifeBlogged has done some work to make Windows Live Writer portable. Call it Windows Live Writer on a stick, USB Windows Live Writer; it?s portable.
Download page for Windows Live Writer Portable

RSS Mixer stacks up your feeds

RSS Mixer is a service for combining several RSS feeds together to create a master feed. The result contains all the feeds you’ve added, and makes it easy to plug it into a feed reader or share with others using a single URL. I gave the service a spin earlier today and it does just [...]

Fix Vista’s Slow File Transfer

There are just two installation files included that you need to install, and then you?ll reboot your computer. If something does go wrong your System Restore should have automatically made a restore point before proceeding with the installation of the updates
If you decide to try these out you should remember that they have not been [...]

Flock 0.9.0

0.9 Beta Release Notes
+ Drag and Drop as well as cut & paste issues exist within the favorites and news sidebars that cause unpredictable behavior.
+ Renamed feeds can revert back to original name after feed update.
+ Importing Livemarks from Firefox does not work.
+ Privacy settings for Online Favorites may not be immediately [...]

HP Pavilion dv6500 Special Edition Laptop

Remember that HP Korea is going to release the special edition of its Pavilion dv6500 laptop? Well, here they are, the dv6537TX and dv6536TX models. Both boasts a high-glossy ceramic finish and pure white color. The retail price is set between 1,490,000(KRW) to 1,590,000(KRW).

I Signed Up For PPP!

What is PPP?Well, in short, PPP stands for PayPerPost and it is the leading marketplace for Consumer Generated Advertising. The PPP platform connects advertisers with bloggers and other consumer content creators in order to develop and distribute compelling content throughout the blogosphere and social networks.
It is a program which allows the Advertisers to promote their products, services, [...]

Shadow’s Robotic Hand Uses Air Muscles to Grip Objects

Unlike other robotic hands, Shadow Robot Company’s version “contains an integrated bank of 40 Air Muscles which make it move.”
The muscles are compliant, which allows the Hand to be used around soft or fragile objects. The Shadow Hand can be fitted with touch sensing on the fingertips, offering sensitivity sufficient to detect a [...]

Bra Wallet

Microsoft Releases Anime-Style Zune Commercial

Microsoft has just released a new anime-style Zune commercial, titled “Planes”. We have to admit, Microsoft definitely put some creative effort into creating this short.

Cect K898 Cell Phone

CECT, a China-based manufacturer, proposed its latest creation, the CECT K898 cell phone. This handset comes with a sliding form factor and sports a nice rotateable camera module. There?s also a secondary VGA camera for video telephony purpose (yes, it supports 3G connectivity).

Ubuntu 7.10 alpha 3 available for download

The third alpha release of Ubuntu 7.10  is ready and available for download. The new version includes the super rap Compiz Fusion 3d desktop, which should make the Gutsy Gibbon rather attractive indeed. A whole slew of other improvements come along for the ride as well.

Opera 9.22 launched

Opera has released version 9.22 of the Opera browser for Mac, Linux, and Windows. Opera 9.22 features several security enhancements:

Prevented an issue where data URLs could be used to display the wrong address in the address bar
Improved the display of long domain names in authentication dialogs
Added Trustcenter class 3 G2 roo certificate
Fixed an issue that [...]

Firefox 2.0.0.5 Now Available

Mozilla Corporation has just updated Firefox to the awkwardly numbered version 2.0.0.5. Eight flaws are fixed in this release – three of which are marked as critical. Those of you wanting to know exactly which vulnerabilities have been fixed might want to check out the Vulnerabilities page at the Mozilla homepage.

Final Harry Potter on BitTorrent

 The final book in the Harry Potter series has been leaked to BitTorrent. A torrent with photographs of each page of the American edition of ?Deathly Hallows? has shown up on multiple BitTorrent sites.
Before you rush off to go get it, you may want to know that each page is an image, and the quality [...]

ASUS Eee Mobile PC

ASUS have started to promote a $199 device called the Eee PC  that will set the ultra-mobile PC market on fire.
The Eee PC will offer a few different configuration options, some of which inflate the price depending on your choice:
Display: 7″CPU & Chipset: Intel mobile CPU & chipset (900MHz Intel Dothan)OS: Linux/ Microsoft Windows XP [...]

Vlite 1.0 Final

Windows Vista from Microsoft takes a lot of resources, we all know that. So here is the tool for easy removal of the unwanted components in order to make Vista run faster and to your liking. vLite can also create the bootable ISO and apply the tweaks directly.
This tool doesn’t use any kind of [...]

25 free high-quality fonts

Freelance web designer Vitaly Friedman has put together a listing of his choice of the best 25 free fonts available online, and it’s very hard to argue with his choices. He plainly states that his bias is towards fonts that are useful in a business setting, rather than those that would be more at home [...]

Shine in Black

LG Electronics recently unveiled the new addition on its Shine phone range, the ?Titanium Black? series. The most notable difference is the replacement of full-metal bodied case found on the original handset series with an elegant dark and sophisticated metallic grey. Both men and women would love this mature and refined finish.

Picture:Lift the Moon

This picture was taken at just the right angle and time, making it appear as if the crane were lifting the moon.