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The microwave PC

2005-05-16T03:15:00.000+08:00

I don't understand why do we need this in our life? Surf while you are cooking?

Ten ways to live longer

2005-05-16T01:56:00.000+08:00

Have you ever think of live longer? I prefer to think of how to live happier.

1. Don't oversleep
2. Be optimistic
3. Have more sex
4. Get a pet
5. Get a VAP
6. Be rich
7. Stop smoking
8. Chill out
9. Eat your antioxidants
10. Marry well

Queen - The Geatest Hits

2005-04-18T19:20:00.000+08:00

I have been listening to Queen since the first day I knew 'We Are The Champions' and 'We Will Rock You'. One of the greatest rock band on earth and they had released uncounted of greatest album due to their popularity and good songs. Queen is a British rock band and they were so popular in the 1970's and 1980's, almost the same era with Beatles and Rolling Stone. They are well known for the sports anthems which is 'We Are The Champions' and you can hear it almost played in every stadium around the world. While I was listening to their songs, I saw Mack mentioned that Brian May, the guitarist, has his own blog Soapbox.
Grab their hit songs here [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Intel to 'reveal wireless chip' - WiMAX

2005-04-18T17:49:00.000+08:00

Intel is revealing the wide-range wireless technology on Monday. It is the new chips that will use Wimax technology. Wimax stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access and it is specialising in point-to-point broadband wireless access.

Scott Richardson, general manager of Intel's broadband wireless business, said Wimax equipment was probably still too expensive for wide adoption, but that Intel and networking equipment makers were working to push equipment costs below $200 (£110) from the $300 to $500 level.

"Most of the world does not have (broadband) infrastructure," said Mr Maloney.

"For most of the world this will be how they will get broadband," he said.

Most of the countries doesn't have braodband is either too poor or political unstable and how they can afford to have such technology if it is too expensive? Can Malaysia use this technology to reach more remoted area especially in Borneo?

Celcom 3G Service on May 17

2005-04-18T17:25:00.000+08:00

From Yahoo News,

KUALA LUMPUR (Dow Jones)--Telekom Malaysia Bhd. (4863.KU) will invest around MYR300 million for the initial launch of its high-speed third-generation, or 3G, phone service, called Celcom 3G, on May 17, the New Straits Times says.

The new service will be launched simultaneously in the Klang Valley, Penang, Johor Baru, Malacca and Kedah, the report quotes Telekom Malaysia Chief Executive Abdul Wahid Omar as saying.

Did you notice it is still Telekom Malaysia Bhd? Obviously the rebranding not reach them yet. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi has officiated the launch of TM Bhd on 15th April 2005.

3G or third-generation mobile technology where it involved high speed transfer rate for voice data and non-voice data. It will have signaficant differences with the previous technology such as 2.5G and 2G. What you can do with 3G?
1.Video
2.Pictures
3.Games
4.Location Services
5.Watch TV
6.Download email
7.Video Conferencing
8.High Speed Contents

Edible User Interfaces

2005-04-18T16:26:00.000+08:00

Believe it or not. Edible User Interfaces (EUI) is an application that let you taste the food through your computer with some add on hardware.

The TasteScreen system consists of an LCD monitor with a USB on the top. The internal chamber of the USB device contains twenty small plastic flavor cartridges filled with various flavoring agents. The TasteScreen device can drip controlled quantities of flavoring into a deployment chamber, where they are mixed and dispensed. When dispensed, the flavoring chemicals drip down to coat the monitor with a thin liquid residue.

A user can sample the dispensed flavor by touching his tongue to the computer screen. Certain combinations of flavoring agents recreate a flavor appropriate to the user’s task.

[via we make money no art]

Music From Vanilla Sky

2005-04-18T13:31:00.000+08:00

For those who like music from movie and a little diverse, this is one of the great album. Artists from R.E.M to Radiohead and Paul McCartney are the few that everyone love their songs so much. If you watched this movie, you will noticed that some of the soundtracks are not featured in this album which I think make this soundtrack a little dissapointed. There are many more good tracks from the movie such as Joan Osborne, One of Us where Tom Cruise sang this track too. U2, Wild Honey also played in this movie and many other great songs. The whole movie is bout great music from the beginning till the end but I think it is the recording policy that don't want to fit everything in a single CD. Pretty sad.
1. All the Right Friends - R.E.M
2. Everything in Its Right Place - Radiohead
3. Vanilla Sky - Paul McCartney
4. Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
5. I Fall Apart
6. Porpoise Song {Theme from "Head"} - The Monkees
7. Mondo '77 - Looper
8. Have You Forgetten - Red House Painters
9. Directions - Josh Rouse
10. Afrika Shox - Afrika Bambaataa
11. Svefn-G-Englar - Sigur Rós
12. Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
13. Can We Still Be Friends? - Todd Rundgren
14. Fourth Time Around - Bob Dylan
15. Elevator Heat - Nancy Wilson
16. Sweetness Follows - R.E.M.
17. Where Do I Begin - The Chemical Brothers

Floating Logos Project

2005-04-18T01:56:00.000+08:00

Good Stuff! Check this out!

'Floating Logos' is a working title for this project. The images are inspired by signs perched high atop very tall poles in order for people to view them from a very long distance. The poles are digitally removed from the image in order to give the illusion that the signs are disconnected from the ground as they ominously float above us.

[via A Whole Lotta Nothing]

What Do You Think About Putrajaya?

2005-04-18T01:11:00.000+08:00

Putrajaya is formerly known as Prang Besar is the new administration of Malaysia. As we all know, the city is named after the Malaysia first prime minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra. International Herald Tribune published article title Malaysia's tidy new capital: Strict rules and tranquility and I found some of the interesting points here where words from the leaders and residents there.
Samsudin Osman, president of Putrajaya Corporation,

How much did the city cost to build?
"I don't have the figures myself," Samsudin said during the interview.

Anwar Ibrahim, former deputy prime minister,

"There was no debate," Anwar said in an interview. "It was the decision of one man." He added that contracts had been awarded "only to those who were very close to the leadership."

Fikri bin Ahmad Jamani, resident,

"There was more entertainment there," he said. "There was snooker and video arcades."

Khairy Jamaluddin, a member of the ruling political party and the prime minister's son-in-law,

"We convinced her (prime minister's wife, Endon Mahmood) to move in, but it still needs renovation," he said.

Tiger's Engineers Trading Cards

2005-04-18T00:22:00.000+08:00

WOW! Are they have become an icon or what to have their trading cards? As far as my knowledge is concern, trading cards used to be about celebrity, sports or my favourite, comics. According to wikipedia, a trading card or collectible card is

A trading card (or collectible card) is a small card which is intended for trading and collecting. Such items are argued to have great potential for appreciation and can become collector's items. Trading cards are traditionally associated with sports; baseball cards are especially well-known. Modern non-sports trading cards often feature cartoons, comic book characters, or television series. They can also be associated with trading card games.

In some jurisdictions, trading cards (particularly baseball cards) are distributed by police officers to children in order to boost public relations.

Microsoft Media Center PC Concept

2005-04-17T23:47:00.000+08:00

Media center concept is the next big thing for both Microsoft and Apple to meet the new lifestyle in the technology world. But this is still few years to go and currently they are still fighting for their own OS between Longhorn and Tiger.

Most people say that what is holding back the home theater PC from the mainstream is the ugliness, noise, and general unstable nature of PCs. If MS could find a manufacturer to sell Media Center PCs like this, I'm sure they'd have an easier time getting people to try them out.

[via PVRblog.com]

Where Blogs Meet Maps

2005-04-17T23:14:00.000+08:00

Add your blog to Blogmap. You can search and browse blogs around the world with maps and location. At the moment I found 10 blogs through this map in Malaysia.

Use Google To Find Video, Music & E-books

2005-04-17T22:33:00.000+08:00

Don't just use Google for news, information or your friends' blogs but search for more than you can think of.
1. Music
No music no life. Music is part of everyone life. I google unprotected directories that people usually leave it in the internet.
Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" mp3
Using this string we are using the "index of" and the inurl commands to attempt to isolate directories only. The mp3 tag on the end tells google to look for mp3s in these open directories. You can change this to wma or ogg if you wish.
Example,
Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" mp3 "beatallica"
This command will find open directories with mp3 files with Beatallica. Obviously you can change the band name or file type to better define your search.

2.Video
Again we can search hidden directories that full of video and Google Video Program is up now.
Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html -inurl:asp intitle:"index of" +(wmv/mpg/avi)
Example,
Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html -inurl:asp intitle:"index of" +(wmv/mpg/avi)+sincity
This will lead you to any video files that contain Sin City.

3.E-book
Looking for free e-books? This is the solution to google your favourite items.
Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" +("/ebooks"|"/book") +(chm|pdf|zip)
What does all of this mean? The -inurl htm and -inul html is attempting to get rid of regular webpages and show just index pages. Looking for index of in the title is doing the same. Using the pipe ( | ) tells google to look for something OR something else. Here were are telling google to look for book or ebook directories... and we have listed several common ebook formats (zip, pdf, chf).
Example,
Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" +("/ebooks"|"/book") +(chm|pdf|zip) +"o'reilly"
This uses the same idea but attempts to focus on directories that contain O'Reilly stuff. It's not perfect, but it's better than paying.

Got it now? As simple as eating nuts. Enjoy.

Firefox Downloads @ 45,865,565

2005-04-17T20:40:00.000+08:00

When I check the spreadfirefox.com, the downloads counter is at 45,865,565 and it is still counting. You can see the live counter running at www.infocraft.com with some explaination how the counter is counting. Mozilla originally known as Phoenix and briefly as Mozilla Firebird headed by Mitchell Baker. Recently Mitchell was selected as one of the TIME 'World's 100 Most Influential People". For me the most significant features which I like are the pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing and the live bookmarks which Internet Explorer is far more behind compare to the Firefox browser. Firefox is no longer an alternative to Internet Explorer but otherwise.

Chewing Gum Can 'Enhance Breasts'

2005-04-17T19:40:00.000+08:00

I should call this killed two birds with one stone chewing gum. Firstly, exercise your teeth and secondly enhance your breasts and it is big hit in Japan.

A chewing gum which the makers say can help enhance the size, shape and tone of the breasts has proved to be a big hit in Japan.

B2Up says its Bust-Up gum, when chewed three or four times a day, can also help improve circulation, reduce stress and fight ageing.

Beatallica - Parental Advisory

2005-04-17T02:30:00.000+08:00

Beatles plus Metallica become Beatallica. This band play Beatles songs as if they where covered by Metallica but I pretty impressed by the resulted tunes. The band founded in the year 2001 by singer Jaymz Lennfield, guitarist Krrk Hammetson, bassist Kliff MacBurtney and drummer Ringo Larz. Do you see their names? Hehe. All the songs played by the band are strictly non-commercial policy adn it is free for download to avoid any legal problems that will arise but the band was recieved notice from the Sony/ATV Music Publishing which states that they are violating the copyright for Beatles.
1.Blackened The USSR
2.Sandman
3.And I'm Evil
4.Got To Get You Trapped Under Ice
5.Leper Madonna
6.Hey Dude
7.I Want To Choke Your Band
8.We Can Hit The Lightz

Big City = Loneliness

2005-04-17T02:03:00.000+08:00

Like the big city life? Some positive and some negative. For me, big city is the place that create more opportunities than other places to achieve your dream. You can get anything you want from job to entertainment which for youngster is heaven. Considering again how good is a big city like Japan,

-Drunk salarymen vomiting everywhere, especially on the platforms while they are trying to catch the last trains -- I have seen more vomit on an average Friday night in Tokyo than I ever saw at Oktoberfest.
-Trains so overcrowded at rush hour that people have to be squished into the car by white-gloved train attendants.
-Annoying department store music that repeats itself over and over again.

Just Do It - Nike Lists Abuses at Asian Factories

2005-04-17T01:12:00.000+08:00

Nike has just released a report that documenting abuses at its factories around few countries in Asia and for the first time the giant company also revealing the location of all of their operating factories.

Between 25% and 50% of the factories in the region restrict access to toilets and drinking water during the workday.

The same percentage deny workers at least one day off in seven.

In more than half of Nike's factories, the report said, employees worked more than 60 hours a day. In up to 25%, workers refusing to do overtime were punished.

Wages were also below the legal minimum at up to 25% of factories.

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend

2005-04-15T10:44:00.000+08:00

He is the reggae legend that worked hard in spreading reggae music to the mainstream worldwide. His work is a real beauty of music that will be remembered forever and till today no any other singer can replace his talent. Robert Nesta Marley (1945-1981) better known as Bob Marley was a singer, guitarist and songwriter from Saint Ann, Jamaica. His devotion major work deals with the Rastafarian, a religious movement that believes that former emperor Haile Selassie of Ethopia is God incarnate which is very significant in Jamaica during his time. In this album, collection of all the most outstanding Bob's songs in this career,
1.Buffalo Soldier
2.Could You Be Loved
3.Exodus
4.Get Up Stand Up
5.I Shot The Sheriff
6.Is This Love
7.Jamming
8.No Woman No Cry
9.One Love People Get Ready
10.Redemption Song
11.Satisfy My Soul
12.Stir It Up
13.Three Little Birds
14.Waiting In vain

Respect The Dignity Of Human Life

2005-04-15T02:33:00.000+08:00

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Originally uploaded by lil aNNa.

When we look to the unborn child, the real issue is not when life begins but it is when love begins. Abortion=One Dead+One Wounded. The controversy between Pro-Choice and Pro-Life is never ending with both have their own reasonable reasons to argue about. I neither Pro-Choice nor Pro-Life but I do believe that the unborn child is human but sometime abortion is safer than childbirth. How about human cloning? Why the biotechnology wants to clone human embryos? And it is not only to harvest their stem cells but it is human embryos. This definately would lead to killing of the human embryos.

Google Video Search

2005-04-14T20:50:00.000+08:00

Everyone can become a videoblogger now. Google has begun to accepting video content from anyone want to share their videos. All you need to do is download and install the Google Video Downloader. They accept following types of files .mpg, .mpeg, .avi, .ra, .ram, .mov, .wmv, .asf.

What is the Google Video upload program?

The upload program lets you submit videos electronically to Google Video, as long as you own the necessary rights (including copyrights, trademarks, rights of publicity, and any other relevant rights for your content). Just sign up for an account and use our upload tool to send your videos to Google. The program is still in beta so you won't see your videos live on Google Video immediately.

To make sure that your video is submitted properly, please read below about preferred file formats and our approval process. Videos may not go live if they're not approved or if we're unable to accept the format.

Why Do You Blog?

2005-04-14T20:22:00.000+08:00

Journalists have always been paid based on their popularity. Therefore this should be apply to citizen blog as well cause it is the same business.
[Via gapingvoid]

Storage Technology - Get Perpendicular

2005-04-14T17:31:00.000+08:00

How is a hard drive work in our PC or HD mp3 player? Any idea? Hitachi has fun way of learning this.

Nike Just Did It Again On Tiger Wood

2005-04-14T17:13:00.000+08:00

The dollar signs are blinking again in Nike after Tiger hadn't won a major for two years. Immediately you can see Nike out with this following video.
Download Video
Via Jaffe Juice

U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

2005-04-14T15:21:00.000+08:00

U2 is an Irish rock band featuring Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. This has been in the music industry for more than 20 years and recently they are featured in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band has sold more than 120 millions records worldwide won seven Grammy Awards for the 2000's album, "All That You Can't Leave Behind". U2 is so successful and famous for their world tour which which almost every single concert also sold out. Their discography included War, Joshua Tree, Acthung Baby, Rattle & Hum, Boy, October, The Unforgettable Fire, Zooropa, Pop and the lastest one is How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
Tracklistings,
1. Vertigo
2. Miracle Drug
3. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
4. Love And Peace Or Else
5. City Of Blinding Lights
6. All Because of You
7. A Man And A Woman
8. Crumbs From Your Table
9. One Step Closer
10. Original Of The Species
11. Yahweh
If you like the album go grab it in all the major record store. It is available now.