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The iBelieve is a $13 cap and lanyard for the iPod shuffle that turns the player into a cross when hung around our neck. Cool idea with "fashion with passsion" for the god!! :) >>

Nokia Introduces E61 smartphones, which gives mobile professionals a competitive edge, increasing productivity, and enabling more timely responses and the ability to make important decisions. The Nokia E61 is optimized to provide superior mobile email performance, with the ability to view and edit attachments and still deliver uncompromised voice functionality. Good wide screen. >>

FOXSports listes ten most feared people in sports, which includes Roger Federer in 9th place, Inzaman-ul-Haq in 3rd place and the first place goes to Mike Tyson not just for boxing, but also for bitting Evander Holyfield's ear off in the summer of 1997 ;). >>

Flock is a Mozilla-based browser, and looks and feels a lot like Firefox which is a good thing indeed. It packs a bunch of new features, mostly built around bookmarks, blogging, and photo sharing. It is build on variety of sites, services, and add-ons. We have to wait and see what it has in the browser space. >>

My blog, i5bala.blogspot.com, is worth $9,597.18 :) and Check out this little applet using Technorati's API which computes and displays our blog's worth using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal.Although, It's value is not perfect, or maybe even realistic, but it is still very interesting. You too can check your blog and know it's value. >>

Yesterday, I attended the IBM DeveloperWorks Live Session on Migrating and developing new applications for Linux. The Whole session is full of real-time demos on how to basics like Samba to XAD and How to convert Microsoft codes like VB, MFC to Linux-based.

They also explained about the Rational Software development tools, Bridging Technologies. Although the session was just for 4 hours, I have learnt lots of cutting edge technologies with GREAT demos. Finally, every one of us were given IBM Software Evaluation Kit DVD which has DB2, Lotus, Rational, Tivoli, WebSphere Software for Linux Platform. I Just LOVE to attend such interactive sessions. You too can order the DVD for free of charge at:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/linux-speed-start/


Thank you IBM :)

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Balakumar Muthu

rCard is not just another business card, But it is an card with little LCD screen, rechargeable battery, up to a gig of flash memory, a USB port, and navigation buttons, the rCard lets companies build their sales pitches and promotions right into the card. It also has enough processing power to perform simple applications, so companies can use them to give away little games or build them into larger promotions or sweepstakes events. >>

OpenOffice 2.0 one of my favourite multiplatform and multilingual office suite is released. With it's new features, advanced XML capabilities and native support for the OASIS Standard OpenDocument format. >>

Last week, I received an invitation for attending Macromedia Studio8 Launch in Chennai India. The speaker explained about the products included in the Macromedia Studio 8:

Dreamweaver 8
Flash Professional 8
Fireworks 8
Contribute 3
FlashPaper 2

Contribute and FlashPaper are bit new to me. FlashPaper seems to be very useful to convert documents, presentations, spreadsheet and other files into Macromedia Flash documents or PDF files with one click and Contribute allows designers and developers from web maintenance, allowing others to very easily for static web contents.

Now Dreamweaver supports RSS feeds, PHP5 and has a well made O’ Reilly references for JSP, XML, XSLT are some of the new features seems highly i4mpressive.

The Studio 8 offers rich functionality and cross-product workflows to create, code, and collaborate quickly. As a regular user of Macromedia products for all my web developments [Dreamweaver] and design [Fireworks] works, I could find lots of useful tips and new features through the sessions.

I demos are really COOL!! :)

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Balakumar Muthu

Apple's new iMac G5 with 17- or 20-inch featuring Front Row software and Apple Remote. Very Slimmer than ever, the gravity-defying enclosure also houses built-in iSight, SuperDrive, wireless and the easy-to-use software that brings it all together. But the Mighty Mouse is sold separately. Apple says iMac G5 was born to entertain. It always “think different” and entertain us, all Mac users like me will accept this!! >>

Just look at what Google is going to search in 2084. But, even now Google already supports most of the searches given in the list. I strongly believe, it won’t take much time for Google to do such searches, must be within 2035. Google will also enable us to search the Information’s in other planets too, why not??, even in 2005 we are able to search the earth with Google most accurately. So there no doubt, that we will be getting much more powerful search in 2084. What do you feel??

Just visited the “turnoffyourtv.com” website, it really made me think and how most of us are wasting our time and highly addicted to Television. Although watching TV is useful to some extent, we need such space to keep us away from TV. As Steve Jobs said:

"You watch television to turn your brain off and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on."

Is there is any site like turnoffyourpc.com ??? ;) >>

Google Reader makes it easy to find and subscribe to online feeds to help users organize and stay up-to-date on the ever-increasing amount of web information they consume on a daily basis. Provides a very clean and seems to be like a real-time desktop application. I tried it, it's really Co0l!!>>

Read on this PDF, explains why generally normal users faces some problems with Apche Web Server. Interesting to read. >>

Sun has announced an agreement with Google to distribute the Google toolbar along with consumer Java downloads from java.com. They will be adding some options to the Windows JRE installation from java.com. These options will allow downloading and installation of the Google toolbar as part of the Windows JRE installation. It will be options. If someone doesn't want these tools they can easily opt out and still download and install the JRE. Hope to except lots of Great things happens between Sun and Google. Cool na!! :) >>