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United Nations World Investment Report 2007

David — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:09:15 +0000

Ever wonder what the united nations are up to? If you are an investor, take a look at this report dated back to August 2007 and at least have some insights on what’s happening around the world during that time, what happened, what’s REALLY happening currently, and maybe some upcoming opportunities.

Young Australians Dumping Private Health Insurance

David — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:50:15 +0000

The 2008 federal budget for Australia has been announced and the federal government expects 485,000 people to dump private health insurance after it doubles the Medicare surcharge threshold.

At least 600,000 people would abandon private health cover, based on figures from the budget and the Private Health Insurance Administration Council.

“If it is the young and healthy who drop out as the government hopes, who pay lower premiums, this number may be up to one million,” she said.

“This will start a health fund drop-out snowball.”

Should I get rid of my private health insurance as well? Even though I bought my private health insurance last November from Medibank and is currently paying 100++ for the premiums per month, it currently serves not much benefit to me and I’d only made a single claim so far. What do you say?

via Yahoo! News

Google Can’t Do This But Yahoo Can!

David — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:35:54 +0000

Consider yourself an elite Yahoo! user if you know what these are. I wonder how many people knew about these, including a faster way to send mails in Yahoo!, search and redirect to your favorite sites and searching incoming links for a domain.

1. Send email command directly from seach
Let’s say you are searching in Yahoo! and thought of sending an email to someone using Yahoo Mail. You can do so and the fastest way is to actually type !mail email@xyz.com into the search bar.

2. Seach and Redirect to your favorite websites from Yahoo! search
For instance, type !wiki google in Yahoo! search box to search Google in Wikipedia.com. You will be redirected directly to Google’s page on wikipedia. Other popular shortcuts are !ebay, !amazon, and !flickr.

3. Search linking domains
This is a tip for SEO. Google’s links: operator returns only a small list of incoming links to a particular website. Yahoo! probably does a better job in this regard with their linkdomain: operator.

Let’s say you want to find who links to google.com, this would be done as:
linkdomain:google.com

So after reading this, do you still think that you are an elite Yahoo! user after all?

Read and Download Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Ebook Online

David — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:17:20 +0000

I remember it was on 2007 that book 7 of Harry Potter was released and J K Rowling decided to make it the last book. For those who haven’t read it yet, you can read it here and even download it, thanks to scribd.

* This file is not hosted on this server/website and we held no responsibility of whatever the user might take. In fact, it’s encouraged to buy a copy of the book if you are really interested.

Buy the book

Perth Most Boring City in Australia?

David — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:34:56 +0000

West Australia boomed like crazy thanks to mining, and suddenly immigrants are coming in, rental, traffic, food and fuel prices are rising, and so is inflation. However, I can’t help it but have to admit that Perth is really kind of quite and boring.

Perhaps this quote says it better than I do:

What’s wrong with Perth
1) It’s Boring!!
2) It’s got no character!!!
3) The airport is hopeless!!!
4) Shops close too early!!!
5) Public transport is non-existent.
6) Shopping centres are dull and lifeless.
The list could go on and on and on…….
Basically it’s a cemetery with streetlights

Have to agree for points 1-4, but ould disagree on 5 and 6 though. What’d you say?

via thewest: what’s wrong with perth?

Microsoft WorldWide Telescope The Virtual Galaxy Viewer

David — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:23:36 +0000

Have you ever wanted to view how the galaxy was form or what scientists at NASA are seeing? Now you can with the new Microsoft Wordwide Telescope. The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.

Choose from a growing number of guided tours of the sky by astronomers and educators from some of the most famous observatories and planetariums in the country. Feel free at any time to pause the tour, explore on your own (with multiple information sources for objects at your fingertips), and rejoin the tour where you left off.

WWT is a single rich application portal that blends terabytes of images, information, and stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a seamless, immersive, rich media experience. Kids of all ages will feel empowered to explore and understand the universe with its simple and powerful user interface.

Join Harvard Astronomer Alyssa Goodman on a journey showing how dust in the Milky Way Galaxy condenses into stars and planets. Take a tour with University of Chicago Cosmologist Mike Gladders two billion years into the past to see a gravitational lens bending the light from galaxies allowing you to see billions more years into the past.

WorldWide Telescope is created with the Microsoft high performance Visual Experience Engine; and allows seamless panning and zooming around the night sky, planets, and image environments. It has been in the Microsoft Research Lab for quite a while now, and let’s just hope that there will be other useful apps released to the public in the near future.

via Microsoft WorldWide Telescope

Download Mac OS X Flurry Screensaver for Windows

David — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:57:50 +0000

One of the most popular screensaver on Mac OS X, Flurry, has now been ported to Windows. It runs perfectly fine in windows.

Download flurry screensaver here

If you are a developer, take a look at the source code here

Manchester United English Premiership Champions 2008

David — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:30:50 +0000

Now that’s why I love watching Manchester United play. They got good players and keep on winning! It’s their tenth premiership title, wow!

Highlights of their last match against Wigan Athletic which won them the title. The result was 2-0.

A funny video with some crosses and a tick at the starting.

Kudos to Ryan Giggs who started playing with MU since 17 and has been a part of all 10 titles that MU has achieve. Now that’s a record!

Let’s just hope they can win the UEFA champions league against Chelsea later in this month. Go Go Go!

Increase Productivity in Outlook with Xobni

David — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:57:20 +0000

If you’re using Microfost Outlook as your email client, you should really install Xobni. Just take a look at the video for some cool things that you can use it for.

What is Xobni?
1. Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that helps you organize your flooded inbox

2. Bill Gates called Xobni the next generation of social networking.

What I like most of Xobni
1. Searching email has never been faster.

2. Sidebar view of previous conversation, exchanged attachments, phone number (with Skype support) plus a link that look into my calendar and generate an email listing my availability time slots for the whole week automagically.

This is no doubt the best plugin that I’ve discovered for Outlook so far. And, best of all, it’s free! Boost your productivity today.

Download Xobni

Oracle and Marvel Partnership

David — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:36:25 +0000

Oracle is currently showing off their partnership with Marvel due to the success of Iron Man. Not sure what they are doing but the technical press release is located here. Sounds like a complex document management system to me.

There’s even a comic section from Oracle