Apple iPhone 3G coming July 11

Smarter, Faster and half the price at $200, it is the talk of the town once again. Comes with 3G, onboard GPS and Microsoft Exchange, GPRS, GSM, EDGE, Wi-Fi, HSDPA, UMTS and also be able to allow 3G video talk with your friends. Now is that a killer or what? Check it out here and here

"It`s the first time I`ve really changed my career since I was 17 years old,"

Thus spake Bill Gates as he officially announced his retirement from a Full-Time role at Microsoft at the annual Microsoft TechEd conference.
His talk was mainly a relatively stoic, standard Gates keynote that included references to how much the industry`s changed since he co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen more than 30 years ago. Read on here

That kind of makes me want to repeat the famous 11 rules of life he recited at a school speech some time back. They go like:-

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

If you can read this - Thank a teacher.

Google Launches Gmail Labs

Google has just launched Gmail labs and if you are on Gmail then you might have probably noticed a link right on top which says 'New! Gmail Labs'.

Log in and check it now, if you haven't already.

And what you need to do to get to the labs is go to settings and click 'labs'. And now you can try some features which are not robust enough to go online yet.

Have a ball.

Linkedin hit by 419 scammers, Social Service message

Be Warned !! 419 scammers are those people who send you mails about transferring large amounts of money they either found in an unclaimed bank account, or their 'deposed' uncle left in their custody.

In either case, it is a dangerous scam and some people have been hounded and even killed. It's simple, they work on your greed. If you fall for the trap, then that is it. People from many countries are known to be 419 scammers but the term originated from Nigeria where there is a penal code or something numbered 419 for embezzlement. Probably hence the term. Read about 419 here.

Now Linkedin, the famous professional networking site is facing threat from 419 scammers as warned here
" Users of the professional-oriented social networking site LinkedIn are being warned that scam artists are using the site to nab lucrative bank account information from naive victims, say security experts." by this news article here

Drivemocion - Telling the tail gater

A display device to communicate with those trailing you on the road, with the middle finger sign taking included. Check it out here

Anti-gropers Jacket packed with an 80 KV jolt.

The No-Contact Jacket is a wearable defensive jacket created to aid women in their struggle for protection from violence. When activated by the wearer, 80,000 volts of low amperage electric current pulses just below the surface shell of the entire jacket. This exo-electric armor prevents any person from unauthorized contact with the wearer's body. If an assailant were to grab hold of the wearer the high voltage exterior would interrupt their neurological impulses which control voluntary muscle movement. The jacket is non-lethal and I would recommend one for all those women who use public transport and have to deal with perverts. Check out the website here.

Google Android Demo by Steve Horowitz

if Android is any where close to what this demo shows, I am getting it for sure. Already drooling over the I/O.

Dell Mini Inspiron

thisjustin: Dell releases their first Mini PC and it's quite a looker. Check it out here

I saw *me* on the cover of a magazine..

Want to see yourself on the cover of a *fake* magazine, heres the easier way to do it. Visit http://www.magmypic.com and just load up your pic, select a cover and you are good to go...

Like this shadow person below..

Hey Coolio !! What's your Vumber

Here is a service called Vumber, All you need to do is just sign up and choose a Vumber with any area code* you want. Use our simple and instant online tools to connect it with your home, cell, work or any other phone.

When someone calls: You can a) answer; b) send them to Vumber Mail; c) give them a busy signal; d) tell them the number is out of service; or e) play a custom message you create.

You can call from your Vumber, too. Just dial your Vumber, then dial the number. It’s that easy.Vumber says this service helps take control of your identity. Check it out here

A six legged Logger machine

It's a Plustech Oy / John Deere hexapod logging machine prototype. This contraption is a Walking Machine and has 6 strong legs so as to minimize the damage caused to the forest and move through more challenging terrain than wheeled or tracked logging machines. Check it out here

Salvage your water damaged handy

Here is a video of what you should do if you happen to give your cell phone a water job by mistake. For starters, remove battery and sim card, blot out the moisture as much as you can and then leave your phone in a container with dry rice for a day or two. Read on here

Comcast owned by teen -|4><0R3R5 (hackers)

Comcast website was defaced by teenager hackers who called the admin at Comcast to inform him of the defacement but were snubbed and not taken seriously. This irked them further and they then redirected traffic and played with Comcast like it was marbles. They say, they could have saved user details and stolen their information but did not.

They are currently allegedly sleeping with their clothes on in anticipation of imminent arrest.
Check out the news here.

Gmail bugging me !!!

I just discovered this anomaly on the Gmail sign in page. When the page is loading it shows storage space as 2.5 GB as shown above, and then soon jumps to the 6.5 GB that it really is as shown below.


And it that were not enough, someone at GOOG hard-coded the trash page to read "No conversations in the Trash. Who needs to delete when you have over 2000 MB of storage?!"
Hello !! We have moved to 6.5 GB and hopefully will only go upward going forward. Here is a grab from the trash page.


Is someone from GOOG listening?

Crazy Cow sings

And another one

World's largest self portrait ....using GPS

The technique is described this way: "My pen was a briefcase containing the GPS device, being sent around the world. The paths the briefcase took around the globe became the strokes of the drawing."

He writes that the briefcase began a 55-day circumnavigation on March 17, ending up earlier this month back where it started in Stockholm, Sweden.(Courtesy DHL) He then downloaded the GPS information--the trip covered 62 countries on six continents--to his computer and made the self-portrait in a single stroke. Read on here

Car or Sub, you decide

First car capable of diving upto 10 M depth and with an open canopy (for safety) and builtin SCUBA breathing apparatus. This car called the sQuba can move at a sedate 1.5 mph under water.
On land, it is a different animal altogether. read on about this car here

Jet Engine Exhaust, wanna try this

24 Hours of Air Trafic Control, quite a sight

10 Optical Illusions in 2 minutes !!

Top 10 Google flops

Google is probably the biggest brand in the world and the most successful e-company today. But Google didn't get there without a few failures and a few risks--some of which have bombed considerably.

For example, remember the Google Accelerator, which was supposed to speed up Web surfing? And Google Answer. Google Video did so quite well and they went ahead and acquired Youtube to fill the void they could not do them selves. If you can't win 'em, buy 'em. Read on here

PC in a Keyboard claims Zero-Footprint

The Zero-Footprint-PC ZPC-GX31 is a new example of a PC squeezed inside a keyboard. It's an ideal solution for those who don’t require a powerful PC or a gaming machine - or those who want a basic and small desktop machine that doesn’t take up too much room. Read on here

From www.notalwaysright.com

This is a nice blog dedicated to people who have had humorous interactions with their customers. Here is a sample post below..

He Wants the Google

Call Center | Unknown Location

Me: “How may I help you?”

Customer: “I’d like to buy a Google. How much is it?”

Me: “Well, Sir, you would have to buy an internet connection, like our DSL to–”

*cuts me off*

Customer: “I don’t want to buy your f****** DSL! I want Google. My friend told me it’s the best, so I want that!”

Me: *trying not to laugh* “Sir, Google is a search engine, you really need to buy a connection package first to–”

*cuts me off again*

Customer: “I want Google! Are you listening to me? GOOGLE! HOW MUCH IS IT?”

Me: *innocently* “Oh, my guess would be a few billions, sir.”

Customer: “What? That’s ridiculous!”

Me: “I agree. However, if you buy our DSL package for $**.**, you can use Google all you want and it’ll be FREE!”

Customer: “Really? Then why would anyone ever be stupid enough to want to buy Google?”

Me: “Beats me, sir.”

Check it out here

Man flies over the Apls with strap-on Jet Wings

Calls himself the Fusion-man, and soars the skies like how..

And here is another vid


And you can check out his website here..

Route map to Success

PS: Click the chart to see details.