Good news: For $199, you can own the new iPhone 3G. Bad news: You won't be as special anymore, you pay more in subscription dollars, and you get less out of the box.Remember the Motorola RAZR? It was once the most desirable phone in the market. Ultra thin, aluminium body, chemically etched keypad. It cost nearly $500 when it launched, and yet demand was overwhelming. Later, they decided to make it more affordable and lowered the price. Soon the streets were awash with RAZRs. It was goo... Read more »
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Wii Fit News & Reviews
Posted on 20 May 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Wii Fit videos, trailers and reviews:- Wii Fit Trailer Video Review of Wii Fit Wired Blog ReviewReview and a promise to test it out and show the resultsActual results:-What happens after using the Wii Fit for a long duration?It works kinda. But with alot of stress on the knees.Fun times with family. Yoga made hime feel better.More self awareness of his weight. More info:-Wikipedia on Wii Fit Official siteNintendo Wii FitQuestion: How is this affecting sales of other exercise ... Read more »
Half a Million Sites Hacked - Mainly with PHPBB Forum
Posted on 13 May 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Any affiliate that's been running a forum using PHPBB should take note. There was recently a coordinated effort compromise such websites and about half a million websites with such forum has been compromised.The damage includes:-Visitors who visit the sites are redirected through different servers which will end up with a server that pings the PC for vulnerabilities in in Microsoft Internet Explorer and RealNetworks Player. If there are vulnerabilities, the malware is downloaded into the PC.Troj... Read more »
Microsoft Daisy - Word Documents Print to Audio Files
Posted on 08 May 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Microsoft is rolling out DAISY. A software add-in that will generate typed text in Word Document into AUDIO files. Yes. For those of us who are too lazy to read. You can begin generating audio files of your text documents and reading them while you drive. If Microsoft is making this free and rolling it out on every Microsoft Office Word, expect there to be a revolution in the way we get information from text. If popular enough, people might even do away with alot of printing, affecting pri... Read more »
Basic Components of Electrical Power Utility System
Posted on 02 May 2008 by Seena Vincent, Affiliate
This is an abstract of blog post that is taken from the blog Electrical Engineering. Please read the original post Basic Components of Electrical Power Utility System for more details. The Components of Electrical Power Utility System are Electric Power Generation, Electric Power Transmission, Electric Power Conditioning and Electric Power distribution. One or more agencies are involved in this process of power power distribution. ever since the invention of electric power, Elec... Read more »
Grand Theftt Auto IV - Boring Gameplay OR Maximized Character Roleplay?
Posted on 02 May 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Rockstar's GTA IV is being hailed as one of the best games of our times with it's uber realism, ridiculously open ended gameplay, rich characterization, immersive roleplaying experience.Just only on day one, there were 1 million GTA IV users who went online with the game on XBOX Live. It dethroned Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4.Ofcourse, some of the elements of the game (not the only elements) includes doing drugs, drunk driving, visiting strip clubs and a whole list of felonies. If you want, you can... Read more »
iPhone Rumor Roundup
Posted on 30 April 2008 by William Lau, Affiliate
The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is just round the corner and we know a 3G iPhone is definitely coming. Details are yet to be confirmed though, so let's take a look at some predictions- Black - There were shots of a black iPhone floating around on the internet recently. And though it is possible to be nothing more than a cover for the current iPhone, we think Apple will make an effort to differenciate the 3G iPhone with the current model, so we're not counting this one out yet. 3G - T... Read more »
InPhase Holographic Discs Stores 300GB-1.6TB
Posted on 30 April 2008 by William Lau, Affiliate
There has been talks of holographic storage technology but with no commercial deadline in sight. And so it was a pleasant surprise whenInPhase showcased their Tapestry 300r holographic drive and media at the NAB2008 show in Las Vegas earlier this month. "Imagine having 50 hours of high definition video on a single disk, 50,000 songs on a postage stamp, or 500,000 x-rays on a credit card. Holographic storage makes it all possible." boasts InPhase on its website. The first Tapestry 300r ... Read more »
Wordpress launched 2.5.1 with important Security Fix
Posted on 28 April 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Wordpress just launched a new version 2.5.1 which includes a security fix. Obviously, those who just upgraded to 2.5 should upgrade to avoid your site security being compromised. Wouldn't want to get hacked and injected with hundreds of bad neighbourhood links in blog pages.For those of us who don't know, wordpress is free and is a great software for blogging, starting a website and managing it. With the use of plugins, you can easily add all types of functions into a website.New Affiliates or n... Read more »
Microsoft Live Mesh - Remote Computing, Yahoo's Q1 Profits
Posted on 23 April 2008 by David Tan, Affiliate
Well Yahoo has managed to dodge the bullet for now, with their Q1 profit and revenue beating Wall Street's estimates.So the takeover bid by Microsoft on Yahoo will drag on.Yahoo had a First Quarter profit of $542 million, with most of it (some $401 million) coming from IPO of Alibaba.com, a chinese e-commerce site owned by Yahoo.They have plenty of high value sites and if only they were utilized better. Too little to late?On other news Microsoft is starting work on a web based software system ca... Read more »