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Massive Solar Storms Trigger Stunning Northern Lights

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:47:53 PST

These are some magnificiant pictures and videos of auroras that was taken due to the event of a coronal mass ejection, or CME, that hit our planet earlier this week. A CME is a cloud of superheated gas and charged particles hurled off the sun. The experts said that a strong solar flare had erupted from an active region on the sun triggered the strongest solar storm experienced since October 2003.

When a CME hits Earth, the charged solar particles can interact with gases in our atmosphere to produce the northern and southern lights [National Geographic].

Facts : Airplanes had to change routes, and the power grid and satellites were affected.

Photograph by Ole C. Salomonsen, www.arcticlightphoto.no
Taken in Lyngan Alps near Tromsø, Norway, on January 24.

Photograph by Thilo Bubek, www.bubek-fotodesign.com

Northern lights flow over the snow-dusted mountains near Tromsø, Norway, on January 21.

Photograph by Thilo Bubek, www.bubek-fotodesign.com

Bright green auroras light up the night sky near Tromsø, Norway, on January 21.

Photograph by Bjørn Jørgensen

Bright auroras seem to spread like wings over the mountains outside of Tromsø, Norway, on January 22.

More pictures and information on National Geographic..

Videos

Time-lapse movie of the coronal aurora appeared over Fairbanks, Alaska. Red aurora was also captured. (1:44 - 2:11am AKST, January 22, 2012).

Northern Lights 24.1.2012 (Solar Storm) Ylläs-Äkäslompolo, Lapland Finland.

www.northernlightsphotography.no

Amazing view of the aurora borealis in Sweden on January 24th, 2012. Chad Blakley, www.lightsoverlapland.com

[via National Geographic]

Casio G-Shock Smartphone Prototype

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:23:54 PST

Back then, we may only know G-Shock as a brand for a world renown rugged watches known for its resistance to shocks, designed primarily for sports, military, and outdoor adventure oriented activity [wiki]. Now, Casio has taken a huge step since the last attempt with its first Android smartphone models, G’zOne Commando..

G-Shock smartphone is a Casio pre-production prototype smartphone firstly introduce to public in CES 2012, Las Vegas. It been said that it has all its basic G-Shock line essential features with a rugged appearance and shock resistance.

Features :-

Android OS
Shock resistant to 10 feet
Water resistant to 1.0 bar = 10m
Pressure resustant to 1.0 bar
Metal caseback
Plastic / resin construction
Camera and flash

[via G-Shock Zone]

Fujitsu Lifebook 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:10:43 PST

Fujitsu Lifebook 2013 is a concept device, design by Prashant Chandra in a competition held by Fujitsu in which attracted more than 3500 designers around the world. Lifebook 2013 has been shortlisted in the top 100 in the competition.

Well enough talk, look just how well did Prashant transforming his idea to life. It is simply brilliant..

The proposed Lifebook is a laptop computer concept based on the principle of “shared hardware”. Currently a lot of hardware is wasted when we use separate devices, as there is often a lot of “repeat” of data stored and features. For example if I have my songs on my music player, why do I have to block the same amount of storage on my laptop? Similarly, if I have a processor sitting in my tablet, why can it not also run/assist my laptop? If I have a fully functional camera with its own memory and image processing power, why do I need to have it repeated in my laptop? ~ Prashant Chandra

via : yankodesign.com

How to Host Your Blogger Scripts and Files on Google Code

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:46:07 PST

Blogger tweaks or even adding a new widget to blogger template constantly require the use of JavaScript and CSS for customization. Hosting a JavaScript and CSS proven to be better practices than installing it directly to the HTML. This way, the load time will be more faster and more cleaner HTML template.

One of the free option to host a files is by using Google Code. Google Code runs a Project Hosting service that provides revision control offering Subversion, Mercurial and Git, an issue tracker, a wiki for documentation, and a file download feature [Wiki]. This means, with the 200MB file limit, you can upload any file - JavaScript, Image, Video, CSS, Documents etc with no restriction.

Before we go further, you must know that Google Code Project Hosting is a shared hosting rather than regular web hosting services. So all projects hosted on Google Code are Open Source, and are available for anyone to view or download.

Various licenses are used for the files served by Project Hosting including GNU General Public License (GPL), MIT License etc.

How To Host Your Files On Google Code

Step 1 : Go to Google Code Project Hosting and fill the required fields. Choose License as MIT License and Version Control System as Mercurial and press Create Project. [More on how to choose a Version Control System here]

Step 2 : Go to Downloads tabs and then click the New download button.

Step 3 : Now fill all the necessary field and select the file you want to upload and click the Submit file button.

If you're hosting a JavaScript file and want to get the source url, just click on on the files listed..

Now, right click the link highlighted in red and copy the source link..

Lastly, if you wanna make a change, make a new download or delete files, just go to Google Code homepage and click the My favorites link on the top-right corner and select your projects.

Go0d Luck..

Journey 2 - The Mysterious Island 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:14:34 PST

To whom who enjoyed the previous sequel of the movie - Journey To The Center Of The Earth (2008) or a hardcore fan of Jules Verne - the author, must be truly anticipate this upcoming movie on cinema this February (Malaysia - 19 January 2012).

The Mysterious Island is a story based on novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874 - basicly tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific [More info on Wiki]. While in the movie, Sean Anderson(Josh Hutcherson) partners with his mom's boyfriend(Dwayne Johnson) on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.

The book can be downloaded here : ManyBooks.net

Trailer

Photos

"BELIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE. DISCOVER TTHE INCREDIBLE."

How to Add Facebook Send Button on Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Thu, 19 May 2011 10:36:22 PDT

Aside from Like button, Facebook now has introduce new features in its collection - the Send button. Its allow users to send your blog post to their friend in diffrent way. The option are :-

send message to the inbox of their facebook friends
send to the group wall of any Facebook group they are a member of
and send as an email to any email address

The message will include a link to the URL specified in the send button, along with a title, image, and short description of the link.

The best thing is, we can integrate it with the Like button in a single attribute. Apparently this only works with the XFBML version, so if you have the Like button on iframe before, you have to change it intirely. But not to worry, its very easy.

Now here is how to do it..

1. The Facebook Send button code in XFBML (if you want to add it seperately)

<script src='http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1'/><fb:send colorscheme='light' expr:href='data:post.url' font='arial'/>

2. Integrate with Facebook Like button (Facebook Like + Send)

<script src='http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1' type='text/javascript'/><fb:like colorscheme='light' action='like' layout='standard' expr:href='data:post.url' font='arial' send='true' show_faces='false' width='450'/>

3. As to where to put the button code

Step 1 : In your Blogger dashboard Click 'Layout' ► 'Edit Html' ► 'Expand Widget Templates'. Don't forget to backup your template by download it first.
Step 2 : Ctrl + F and find the following code in your blog Html

<data:post.body/>

Step 3 : Paste the code after the above code

4. Customize (button style)

layout = standard / button_count [choose layout]
show_faces = true / false [show picture]
action = like / recommend [option : Like or Recommended button]
colorscheme = light / dark [color]

And last but not least, use this if you want to make your button appear only in your post page and not in your index page.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
..The_Code_Here
</b:if>

You can also use the AND statement to avoid it appear in your static page

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "static_page"'>
..The_Code_Here
</b:if>
</b:if>

Or refer to this post for more choice of the button placement.
[Control your Widget Placement with Conditional Tags]

Go0d Luck..

James Potter by G. Norman Lippert

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:39:15 PST

I believe that everyone who watch the Harry Potter's movie have to read the books as well in order to get a clear view on the story. Sort of.. i guess. Nevertheless, I've read all the J.K Rowling books in the Harry Potter series and feel at loss because its already end. But recently I've catch up with some interesting news. Seems like the stories is back, now with Harry's son, James Potter as the protagonis. And I've come to know that the author of the new sequel of James Potter is not J.K Rowling but some American computer programmer named G. Norman Lippert. Rowling had threatened legal action against him but somehow dismissed her threat after Lippert offered Rowling an advance copy of the novel.

Well I guess that can't be help since the story is not bad at all if you ask me. So far I've finish the first book and like it. The novel first appeared online in early November 2007 and till to date has three sequel on the seies. The stories build up around Harry boy's, James and start with what Rowling last books of Harry Potter left off, which is when Harry send his son off to Hogwarts by Hogwarts Express in the Platform Nine and Three Quarters of King’s Cross station. In the first book, the story expand with James adventure with his Merlin conspiracy and his daily life in Hogwarts. The story also develope pretty well with new dimension. Somehow Lippert trying to merge it with history and make it more global like the story of witch hunt in the Western world that took place in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Its also tell a story of how the nineteen eighty-four Quidditch World Cup was held with a typhoon off the coast of Japan and how the crystal ball been special made from China, about the flying carpet of the Asian wizarding communities and all. But the main dish is that of the main story of this book, the awakening of the greatest wizard of the old, Merlin..

Download PDF online:-

Book 1 : James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
Book 2 : James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
Book 3 : James Potter and the Vault of Destinies

Updates :-

Sigh.. I really don't want to say this. The first book was really good, so I have a very high expectation on the other two. But turn out the second book are boring. On the third book, I don't understand anything until the part where they arrive at Alma Aleron and start playing Clutchcudgel.

Zombie Ants

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:39:43 PST

A fungus from the stalk of four distinct species of Ophiocordyceps camponoti-balzani found in the Brazilian rain forest which was originally thought to be a single species, called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis turn out can infect an ant, take over its brain, and then kill the insect once it moves to a location ideal for the fungi to grow and spread their spores. The study state that this cryptic cycle has been going on for at least 48 million years.

Photo by David Hughes

The most amazing thing about this is that just before its death, the ant will crawl down towards the underside of the leaf and perform a 'death grip' around the leaf central vein and immobilising themselves thus provide the perfect condition for the fungus to release spores to create the next generation of ant-controlling fungi a.k.a Zombie Ants.

More reading :

National Geographic
Guardian.co.uk
Scientific American
Discover Magazin

Tanjung Simpang Mengayau

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:40:22 PST

Tanjung Simpang Mengayau or also known as Tips of Borneo is located in the district of Kudat, in the state of Sabah, Malaysia. Tourist can reach here about three and a half hours (or 215 kilometres) drive from Kota Kinabalu, and about 30 minutes from a the Town of Kudat. The tip is the meeting point of Sulu and South China Sea which called Tanjung Sampang Magazo in the Rungus dialect meaning a junction where a battle took place.

Tanjung = Foreland; Headland
Sampang = Junction
Magazo = Engage in Battle

Story state that Tips of Borneo is a historical place where the local warriors made a stand against invading pirates who always attack their village during 18th and 19th centuries.
According to historians, at once Ferdinand Magellan (Spanish Maritime Explorer) also stopped here for 42 days to repairs his ships on his way voyaging the globe.

This Sabahan wonderland was officially opened to public on July 2004 by Chief Minister of Sabah, Datuk Seri Musa Aman, turn it into one of the most must-see tourism spot on Sabah. Sabah goverment itself has spent a million just to improve the infrastructure for the visitor convenient.

More info here

The Most Cyber-Sociable Country : Malaysia

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:08:30 PDT

A study by research firm TNS revealed that Malaysia was at the top row on having the most friend on their social network. The research were conducted on 50,000 consumers in 46 countries based on their cyber-socializing habits. The result shows that Malaysian have in average 233 digital friend in their list while Japan have the fewest, 12 friends. Brazil follow closely at second place, 231 and Norway 217.

However, despite that, Malaysians were also the heaviest users of social networking sites, spending a nine hours per week on average communicating with their online friends. Russia came a close second, with its people spending an average 8.1 hours per week online, and Turkey third with 7.7 hours a week.

It was said that "being cyber-sociable doesn't necessarily mean you're particularly sociable in real life." Whether it is true or not, its hard to tell.

Source : Time NewsFeed