The smallest PC
Fit-PC Slim, weigh only 13 oz, dimension 4.3 x 3.9 x 1.2 inches, runs on 6W. 500Mhz AMD Geode, 256 M, optional harddrive and wifi.
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Entries for September, 2008
His or Hers?
Found this interesting website Side Taker User raises questions and let the world decide who’s at fault.
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Dell Inspiron Mini 9
Joining Asus to the mini laptop market. Dell launched its mini laptop (Inspiron Mini 9), which comes with Ubuntu Linux ($349) or Windows XP ($399). It only weights 2.28 lbs.
Specifications:
Processor — Intel Atom Processor (1.6GHz, 512KB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
OS — Mini OS powered by Ubuntu 8.04 / Windows XP
LCD Panel — Glossy 8.9 inch LED display (1024X600)
Memory — 512MB2 DDR2 at 533MHz
Hard Drive — 4GB Solid State Drive
Video — Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950
Sound — Base LCD Assembly
Wireless — Wireless 802.11g Mini Card
Battery — 32WHr Battery (4 cell)
Color — Obsidian Black
Texas Instrument developed DLP Pico Handheld Porjector
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Texas Instrument developed the handheld projector, DLP Pico Porjector. The project has WVGA display with 1000:1 contrast, as well as 0.5W speaker. It also comes with preview and slideshow functions. Its battery last about 2 hours. Isn’t this something nice to have?
Good News for those who don’t know how to ride a bicycle
If you don’t know how to ride a bicycle and don’t want to learn? Good news for you! This bike is on auto-pilot mode. The company is planning to release this bike to the market in 2009. Price undecided yet. Will you buy it for yourself or your kid?
What happens to your cellphone after you dump it
About 500 millions cellphones were trashed in 2007. Some people keep the old phones as backup or gave them to friends and family, some sell them on ebay, some simply put them in trash can. ReCellular is the largest cellphone recycle company in the U.S. 
The company collects about 50 millions cellphone a year, 60% of which are still in working condition. ReCellular refrubish about 15% of them, and sends the rest to a company called Sims Recycling Solutions, where the cellphones are broken in parts then sorted out based on materials.There are about 2.2kg of silver, 250g of gold in every ton of cellphone.
Picasa 3.0 comes out with face recognition
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Picasa 3.0 beta is out and so is the new web album. A news released from Google Official Blog. It’s got a new way for exploring pictures. But the key feature is the name tag. It can scan all your pictures and regonize human ( sometimes dogs) faces. You can put name tags associate with the faces, display pictures with only certain people. I am really impressed by the face recognition. Not only that it groups similar faces, but also make good sugguestion on associating faces with existing name tags.
My first experience with Google Chrome
Google Chrome starts up slower than Firefox. But once an instance is running, starting another is a lot faster than IE and Firefox. Surfing the web is fast, but I couldn’t tell the speed different from Firefox. All the google web applications run faster, but Lotus notes web application doesn’t work 
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The biggest question I have is where are the plug-ins ? And I can’t find any information on how to develop them. I also heard that it crashes on 64-bit windows. But it’s a beta software, what can we expect? I believe once the bugs are fixed, and the plug-ins come out (It will be nice if we can import Firefox plug-ins).