There are two main types of computer monitors, the old, but extremely reliable CRT monitor and the newer flat panel monitors. If you have been computer shopping, you will immediately notice that the older monitors have all, but disappeared. You might be saying what gives? Well, for most computer users the flat panel monitor has definite advantages over the older CRT monitors. (more…)
An interesting Yahoo article explains why Google is now considered the heart of the Internet and the electronic center of human knowledge.
In these 10 years of life, Google has indexed billions of web pages, images, books and even videos from all over the Internet. This is definitely a must read.
In the past years Google has expanded at a breakneck pace, and currently has some 13,700 employees. The company thrives on a culture of innovation: the best example is that it asks employees to dedicate 20 percent of their time to develop ideas for the company.
Uh, boss? There are some guys here… I’m not sure you really wanna know what they’re doing…
Ever wonder what it would be like typing without a 
keyboard. Check out the Celluon Laserkey CL800BT which offers a look into the future of desk space saving and convienient typing. How it works is the mini tower that is the size of a large PDA projects a laser keyboard onto the surface in front on it. Just tapping your fingers on a plain desk surface with a projected keyboard is all it takes to type something up.
The laser is a red laser diode that casts a keyboard image on a surface, works best with non-reflective, opaque flat surfaces. The keyboard is in a regular sized QWERTY style and is visible in 1000-5000 lux ambient light.
The Celluon Laserkey CL800BT picks up 400 characters per minute which is pretty good for the average keyboard user especially a user getting used to pressing their fingers on a regular flat surface, so unique and cool.
The Celluon Laserkey runs on an integral lithium ion battery and has a 830mAH capacity at 3.7V. Adaptor comes in 1A or 5V depending on your capatability. Bluetooth technology needs v1.1 class 2.
Right now the Celluon Laserkey is compatible with Windows Mobile Pocket PCs and the smart phone edition so you can spead out your fingers and type on any flat surface avaiable (the Celluon Laserkey mini tower is easy to carry with you when you are on the go). also compatible with Palm OS, Blackberry, Symbian products, not to mention Windows 2000/XP or higher.
The Celluon Laserkey Cl800BT is one the coolest gadgets coming out in tech I think. Pretty soon a computer will be a screen with USB pocket portable drive sized hardware, a little nob for a mouse and now a mini tower with a projected image of a keyboard right in front of you. Break out the table cleaners because you will be able to type and use you free desktop space for anythings else you need it for.
Another one of LifeHacker’s top 10 lists was published yesterday. To see those in detail, check out the source and click on each link.
If you are tired of your plain old looking external HDD, you might like the following gadget. It’s a nice looking golden case, with a nice HDD inside. Comes in a package with LaCie backup software and works under Windows 2000/XP and even MacOS X. It connects to your PC via a USB 2.0 cable, and under the hood there are 500GB of storage working at 7200rpm that are ready to reach speeds up to 480MB/s.
Alienware released their media server platform as a response to Sony’s Home Entertainment Server. But unlike Sony who offers a meager 500GB of storage, Alienware gives you 4TB to store your favorite movies, songs, etc.
And not only that but the HD Media Server offers a HDMI output, Dolby Digital 7.1 preamplified output, wireless connection with other devices like computers or mobile devices. Besides it can provide automation for many functions around the house like lighting, air conditioning, or room music.
What Alienware is trying to do with this new Media Server, is not only beat Sony, but conquer a new market of centralized home entertainment. A Media Server that not only takes care of your movies and music, records TV-shows or downloads media content from the web, but also centralize other house functions into one media core. It sounds good but I don’t know for sure if this trend for centralization is leading us in the right direction.
Not a very long time ago, Digg removed the top 100 users from its interface, due some left-in-the-dark corruption issues (people were trying to buy the top users’ action of submitting stories so that they’d get dugg faster).
Using a small trick, one of the regular users launched this page in order to keep an unofficial list of the above mentioned people. Now, Glen Allsopp analyzes that list in details and here’s the result.
According to Wikimedia Inc, the English version of the very popular online encyclopedia passed the 2,000,000 articles mark today.
The English-language Wikipedia currently contains 2,000,853 articles. This number excludes redirects, discussion pages, image description pages, user profile pages, templates, help pages, portals, articles without links to other articles, and pages for Wikipedia administration. Including these, they have 10,201,476 pages
74 days ago, Apple released iPhone, a revolutionary little gadget-like device that was to keep the front page of tech blogs for days to follow. Today, the very same Apple sold the 1,000,000th phone. Therefore, the predictions turned out to be true, as they passed the milestone before the end of September as presumed.
In the end, I congratulate Apple for the accomplishment and for those interested, here’s a small quote from the press conference. Fear the fruit, Gates!
Apple(R) today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone(TM) yesterday, just 74 days after its introduction on June 29. iPhone combines three devices into one-a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod(R), and the best mobile Internet device ever-all based on Apple’s revolutionary multi-touch interface and pioneering software that allows users to control iPhone with just a tap, flick or pinch of their fingers.
“One million iPhones in 74 days-it took almost two years to achieve this milestone with iPod,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We can’t wait to get this revolutionary product into the hands of even more customers this holiday season.”
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market this year with its revolutionary iPhone.
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