CNET Asia Community Blog Entry – The Hit-and-Misses of Oxford’s Word of the Year 2009

My new entry over at CNET Asia Community Blog is up. This week’s entry, “The Hit-and-Misses of Oxford’s Word of the Year 2009″. Click here for the full read.

Video Preview – Microsoft Courier

Coming from a tablet user for the past 10+ years, I can tell you that this Microsoft Courier idea, if it works, would surely be one of the hottest thing to come but given Microsoft’s past track record, especially with their half heart support for OneNote and other Tablet devices and associated softwares…… I don’t know.  I surely hope it will be different this time around. Guess only time will tell.

Source – Gizmodo via myblogiphone

CNET Asia Community Blog Entry – Bare Essential of Safety from Air New Zealand

My new entry over at CNET Asia Community Blog is up. This week’s entry, “Bare Essential of Safety from Air New Zealand”. Click here for the full read.

On 20 June 2009, Air New Zealand staff bared all in the name of safety.

Video Review – iPhone 3GS vs Nokia N97: Browser Comparison

Well, think you have enough with the iPhone 3GS reviews, hmm… me too.  Always love those comparison videos where they pitch one phone against another.  Be it on the UI, the media player or the browser, always fun to check them out.  This vid from therevivedone features the duel between the Apple iPhone 3GS and the Nokia N97, bet you can tell that the iPhone wins out without even watching the vid given the processor, but nonetheless a nicely done vid, enjoy.

Source – therevivedone

CNET Asia Community Blog Entry – Booktop, the New Breed of Notebook Computer – Gigabyte M1022

My new entry over at CNET Asia Community Blog is up. This week’s entry, “Booktop – the new breed of notebook computer”. Click here for the full read.

Break for the Day – Lego Yamato Battleship

What does 6 years and 4 months means to you? For junlego, that’s how long for him to put together this 1/40 scale 6.6 metres (22 feet) long; 1 metre (3 feet) wide Battleship Yamato.  Unbelievable, a total of 200,000 Lego elements altogether, weighing over 140 kg.  Bravo.

Source – junlego

Tilt & Shift All You Want – tiltshiftmaker

Remember I posted up the above pic on my earlier post over on my photo blog, First Look Pics from the Sony Carl Zeiss 16-35mm F2.8 ZA SSM. Well, used it as a testing shot for the awesome application, the tiltshiftmaker and WOW, loving the effect. Give it a try, it’s free.

Link to tiltshiftmaker here.

AIST’s Newest Fembot – HRP-4C Gynoid

Remember back in 2006, I blogged about the Actroid DER2 fembot from Sanrio, well fast forward two and a half years and now you get to see the state-of-the-art fembot (female robot), the HRP4C from AIST.  Really unbelievable right?

For more pics, check out their site here.

Source – Robot Watch

Video Review – SCOTT E Vest

For US$75.00, what do you get? a windbreaker? a gadget vest? ya, you got it right, it’s the SCOTTEVEST. Check out this LONG video review from Carlos over at Its Me Morphious.  This jacket is intense and you’re gonna love it if you lug a few gadgets around all the time. I lost tack of how many pockets there are in this jacket and I’m seriously thinking of getting one.

Carlos packed an iPhone, an iPod Touch, a DS, a PSP, a DC camera, sunglasses and magazines all in the vest, unbelievable. The best thing about this jacket is that it folds back into the size of a small pouch.  Amazing.

Source – Its Me Morphious

Transform :: A short film for ScottKelby.com by Zack Arias – A Must Watch Short for all Photographers

Warning: Now this is deep. Read the following questions before you play the video.

Who am I as a photographer? What is my voice? I don’t even know what it means but it keeps me up at night. What is my vision? What is my goal? What do I bring to the table that countless others have not already served up on this massive platter of visual pollution we create each and every day?

Who am I? What is my goal?

This video is the most played across countless photographers’ blog the past two weeks. The intro features a short babbling monologue from Zack Arias, a music photographer. The actual video starts around 1:35 into the video. The above are the excerpts from the first part of the video, questions that most photographers have. Now go ahead and watch it. Enjoy.

Wait, finish the whole video, there are some silence segments in the video, just keep watching till the end.

I watched it a couple times and I am totally speechless. Share your thoughts and your views for the questions asked in the video as each would perceive them differently and you never know, it could be helpful to your fellow photographers here.

Source – usedfilm aka Zack Arias

CNET Asia Community Blog Entry – Geekamania–solution to social networking?

My new entry over at CNET Asia Community Blog is up. This week’s entry, “Geekamania–solution to social networking?”. Click here for the full read.

Extracts from the article……

“When I scrolled down the list of the so-called awarding-winning services that Geekamania provides, I just can’t stop wondering who would have come up with a such a whacky idea. Its services include:

• Design, setup and maintenance of personalized profile pages on all the popular Web 2.0 “social-networking” sites, including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Tumblr, Flickr, and more.
• Daily updates to your pages with smart, “hip” musings and status quotes, so you can focus on your real life, like paying bills, enjoying movies, playing with the kids, drinking heavily at work, and not having sex.
• You give us all your personal information–your darkest secrets, weirdest fantasies, frequent medications, favorite foods, bitterest resentments, embarrassing musical tastes, sexual hangups, and so on–and we do the rest. No logging in, no passwords to remember, and best of all, no actual personality to worry about. Don’t have a personality? No problem. We can make one up for you.
• Monthly reports of all account activity–funny messages, revealing pictures, and so on–printed out and mailed straight to your home via the trusty ol’ post office, because you hate your damn computer and can’t remember your AOL login and don’t even get you started on those f__king cell phones.
• Hopeful Hookup Detection–Our proprietary algorithm scans all your incoming messages for suggestive keywords and flirty behavior, on the remote chance that you might actually get laid some time in the near future, but of course, you probably won’t because you’re too terrified to followup and/or appear naked in front of another human.
• Ex-Lover SlutMaker–A special addon service where we casually befriend your ex-lover or spouse, and then start dropping nasty hints and posting ugly rumors about what a true bastard/bitch he/she really is, not to mention his/her secret obsession with bestiality and German fetish porn.
• And so on…”

MOD of the Day – AutoCAD Dimensioning Toolbar

Image from BME

If you’re familiar with AutoCAD, you probably recognize this, the AutoCAD dimensioning toolbar, a great cross-over between what I blog here and MODs.

Source – Geek Tattoo via BME

Pic of the Day – Taliban Loves iPhone

Image from aljazeera.net

Source – aljazeera.net via The Raw Feed

Google Latitude Privacy Tips

Privacy, are there any left?  Who are we kidding.

Source – Google