I like to travel light but there are days that my luggage clocks in at more than 10kg. Suitcases with wheels help, but there are some places that simply don’t lend themselves to wheels. Think Greece where you have rolling terrain and houses separated by meters and meters of stairs! Your wheels would go bust in no time (and make a horrendous racket!). To meet this challenge, some inventors have designed a carrier that features rubber belt tracks along the length of the bag. This allows the full length of the bag to be wheeled along even on unforgiving steps.

Check out the details in this site: Continue Reading »
A Suitcase That Walks Itself

In the PC and laptop arena ,  Microsoft doesn’t give a rats ass to Linux or the Mac OS. They, after all, hold the lionshare of the operating system landscape.  But now the new threat to Windows monopoly comes in the form of ‘netbooks’ – lightweight, low-cost lappies that typically sport Intel’s blazing fast, energy miser Atom processor. Netbooks run happily on low RAM and with weak  graphics processors. Continue Reading »
Will Linux Finally Kill Windows?

One would think that the successor to Windows Vista would be secure and immune to hackers. I thought wrong. Microsoft hasn’t even released Windows 7 and already there are 3 versions Windows 7 Seven Activation cracks just for you. They’re  Time stop cracks.

HOW TO:
1. Activate…Please run as administrator or turn off user account control
2. Wait 10 second’s and its done. No confirmation appears  saying activated…
3. Witness your fully activated copy of windows 7 .

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They Just Cracked The Secure Windows 7!

I can imagine using NLP or speed seduction to get a date with a hot babe. But Economics? Is that possible?

Tyler Cowen, author of Discover Your Inner Economist apparently thinks so. Inspired by Freakonomics-inspired pop-economics books  Cowen aims enlighten readers with economic principles that help you get everything done from the dishes to being laid.I personally loved his chatty disquisitions and the way economics often recedes into near invisibility. It’s one uplifting guide on how to get more of the really cool stuff in life. With the wit uncanny to a professor of economics, Cowen offers cutting strategies for appreciating museum pieces, for building family rapport and harmony, for writing a personal ad, for reading classic tomes that seem boring on first glance, for surviving Chinese torture, for properly indulging in self-deception and for most effectively giving to beggars in Sudan. In the book’s most passionate and practical chapter, on food, Cowen explains how, with planning and tactics, we can eat much better meals at home and in restaurants, here and abroad. It’s a dieter’s bonanza! Continue Reading »
How To Make Em Fall In Love With You. With Economics.

Show them you care with real drinks- all on facebook! GetThemIn is a Facebook application (http://apps.facebook.com/getthemin) that lets people to purchase each other real beer, wine or other liquor for the first time ever – superb for meeting those last minute Christmas present quandaries or getting the Christmas drinks in with your buds without actually being there.

The service comes at a great time too since Christmas can be a terror when it comes to buying all those last-minute presents and making sure you see all your friends for a seasonal drink. With a GetThemIn participating store within walking distance  of most folks in the UK, it’s a really cool, instant way of making people remembered. Continue Reading »
Buy Friends Real, Last Minute, Drinkable Gifts Using Facebook

Almost everyone’s a shutterbug these days -  Momail (www.momail.com) decided to take advantage of it. In partnership with Flickr, Momail  integrated the former to its popular mobile email service that provides photo sharing and searching with just a mobile phone. Simply fire an email message, and the subscriber may upload photos from their camera phone, seek and obtain public and private photos and receive information on recent updates from associates and family.  How cool is that??
All photos attached to the mobile via the Flickr search and download features are realtime optimized for the individual handset via Momail’s seductive MMOPE-technology. Hence, photos download quickly and save up to 99.9% of mobile bandwith. Continue Reading »
Photosharing on the Go with Flickr

Too cheap to buy an Iphone? Here’s the next best thing! Truphone now enables an iPod touch to call any mobile or landline; and get this: with no SIM, no contract, and very little money. How is this possible?

Read on!

Starting this season people running Truphone’s free application for the iPod touch launch phone calls to ANY mobile or landline in the world, using Wi-Fi hotspots and the internet.

Usage is simple. When in a Wi-Fi hotspot, Truphone tweaks an iPod touch to act in the same way as a conventional phone. The great thing is that Wi-Fi hotspots are commonplace in offices, schools, campuses, at home, and even across entire town and even gas stations!

Truphone calls to landlines and cellphones cost from just £0.03/$0.06* per minute [UK to China or USA, for example], and the service is available for more than 200 countries – helping people to significantly reduce the cost of Christmas.

If you don’t have it, download it now! Rated 4 stars!

Myspace targets the teens. Adultfriendfinder goes for pervs. Now we have a social networking service for birdlovers. Are you one of them? Then check out Bird Network, a leading social network for bird fanatics worldwide. The website has already had a successful launch with thousands of members taking interest and joining up.

In a nutshell, Bird Network (http://www.bird-networks.com) encourages members to experience the feather passion with fellow members. Member accounts allow  uploading images or videos of secret latest bird spots, blogging about their intriguing sightings or stories, interacting on the discussion forums, and sending their own news stories, press releases and even bird poetry. Browsing through the site, I decided that  Bird Network welcomes bird enthusiasts of all kinds, from bird watchers, to twitchers, to those who admire from their garden habitat. Hmmm.. now only if they included the fairer birds that soar down the parks in mini skirts. Continue Reading »
Social Networking Goes to The Birds

The buzzword of today is electronically enabled mass-procurement. The acquisition of products and services online saves a lot of hassle (no plane fares, hotel accomodations etc) and increases the bottomline of managers into import export. With this in mind, you’ll be delighted to hear that IBX, a popular provider for efficient purchasing solutions, today officially launched the IBX Search Engine.

The new service supports established procurement systems from prestigious ERP vendors and channels all purchasing transactions into a unified system. With its state-of-the-art usability, amazing performance and mind-boggling category support, IBX search engine users will be empowered to locate and purchase vital goods and services easier and faster. This is like alibaba.com (which I am a user of)- but much more comprehensive! Continue Reading »
How To Explode Your E-Procurement Business with IBX!

Got relatives abroad? I do. Many of my kin live in Singapore. Giving them a ring sure bites my budget! I was glad, therefore when Global mobile network operator Truphone today added Truphone Anywhere functionality to its iPhone™ application. It’s one cool app that  enables users to enjoy international calls across the internet for as little as £0.03/$0.06 [UK/Rest of World] per minute even when without wifi. Inbound Truphone calling on the iPhone is also provided for the first time, making it possible to enjoy completely free Truphone calls between two iPhones. Now that’s bringing IT to the masses!

Truphone Anywhere operates in 33 countries around the world, saving iPhone users from those nations money on pricy international calls made from their home country when not in Wi-Fi. The easy-to-use service works alongside domestic service providers, but reduces international call costs to as little as £0.03/$0.06 [UK/RoW] per minute.

Contrast those with, say, calling card solutions, Truphone Anywhere doesn’t require a user to remember circuitous steps. Whenever an international number is dialled from outside Wi-Fi, Truphone Anywhere simply asks whether he/she wants to make a Truphone call. The user merely accepts, and Truphone connects the call. Then it’s chat all night! Continue Reading »
Truphone Brings Dirt Cheap International Calls to the iPhone–Without Wifi

Empowering TV fans both to snap up programmes that they emjoy and discover new programmes that they might love, Tioti TV+ from Vizimo went live in the App Store today. And wow, mate, am I excited. (Im an Iphone fan)

During start-up, Tioti TV+ immediately displays ‘now and next’ information for all UK TV channels.  Specifically which channels are displayed is completely customizable; opt to display simply those channels available to you tailoredto your TV package, or choose channel-by-channel which ones to display or ‘turn off’.

Launching a particular programme allows the typical listings-style programme data to be displayed.  Now this is the point at which Tioti TV+ starts to bedazzle. Continue Reading »
iPhone App Helps Telly Addicts Watch More!

Vertu offers the world’s most expensive phones. A standard unit costs $37,000 which can get you a nice turbo-charged Mitsubishi Eclipse. Now what if you want to show off your dough, but don’t have enough smackers to purchase a Vertu? Why, get a Mobiado!

Mobiado also offers high-end cell phones, with the Professional 105GMT Gold handset the newest on the product line, It’s bragged as “the expression of mechanical perfection, mastering of aesthetic details, and the integrity of consistent craftsmanship.”

Of course, Mobiado buyers can only expect the plushest materials whose cost  would feed thousands of skeletons in Africa. The 105GMT Gold is made crafted single piece of sapphire crystal, ebony wood and a CNC-machined frame topped with a luxurious 24-carat gold coating. The keypad itself is built from sapphire crystal too, and hand painted with similar gold. The manufacturers of the Professional 105GMT Gold phone are especially proud of  the inclusion of a Discovery watch mechanism that is included in the lower side of the case. Features of the Professional 105GMT Gold include :- Continue Reading »
Can’t Get a Vertu? Buy Mobiado

Software Giant and virtual OS monopoly Microsoft rolls our a new variant dubbed Windows Vista PRODUCT (RED) edition on Dell computers from December 15th onwards. The software contains no performance nor security upgrades  but it costs a whopping $70 more than the flagship Ultimate version (at $219). So what benefit is there to forking over the dough? Easy. Every PRODUCT (RED) purchases funnels a a donation  made to a charitable fund. The upgrade therefore goes to your karma- if you believe in it.

Apart from coming in an blood red package, this Windows Vista edition features a slew of new wallpapers, a screensaver, a handful; of sidebar gadgets and a Dreamscene. Amazon carries Vista RED, but it won’t be long till others start offering this pricy monster as well.

Hmmm… I can already imagine the pirates and hackers cranking out their own version of Vista Silver, Gold and Platinum. It’d come with free Adobe Photoshop, Autocad 2008 and maybe even a zip archive of windows 3.11 to Windows XP. <grin>

Some folks like yours truly demand instant access to their programs. There’s cooll new software to help with that. ViStart.

ViStart rapidly cuts the time taken to search for programs by indexing your application shortcuts. Simply type part of the application’s name  and ViStart will “instantly” find it. No fuss, no muss.

The software doesn’t have that many frills and that’s what makes it great. It’s all about speed!

- It doesnt have a right-click context menu!
- It doesnt allow customization, such as what shortcuts are listed in the most used list (that eventually crowds things up!)

A few improvements and this baby will shine. Two annoyances it does have is it refuses to list contents under C:\ and that it starts blank the first time activated. Maybe the programmers should import a list of frequently used files, such as those in the Programs list.

For those wanting to give it a whirl, simply click on any of these links: Continue Reading »
Faster Access with ViStart 2.0 (Build 3467)