Daily links 2010-02-08

Posted by delicious | Posted in daily links | Posted on 09-02-2010

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Daily links 2010-02-08

Posted by delicious | Posted in daily links | Posted on 08-02-2010

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  • Google has launched a series of videos on its official Nexus One YouTube channel, documenting various details on how one of the world’s best Android phones was created.
  • Mozilla just announced that it is also making good progress on an Android version of Firefox. According to Firefox developer Vladimir Vukićević, development of Android for Firefox is progressing quickly. While there are no plans for the release of an official alpha version just yet, Vukićević has already managed to compile and install an early version of Firefox for Android.
  • What makes them different from Chinese government?

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Other

  • Blogging is no longer the pastime of the young and has instead risen in popularity among older adults. Younger generation prefers Twitter?
  • Young people today will most likely become the first generation in US history not to surpass their parents’ living standards.

Science

  • New research by consultancy Mindlab International at the University of Sussex says reading works better and faster than other methods to calm frazzled nerves such as listening to music, going for a walk or settling down with a cup of tea. Even six minutes can be enough to reduce the stress levels by more than two thirds or 68%
  • Provides a broad base of quantitative information on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise. Measures how good is general public in scientific terms. Makes an interesting read…
  • Just like tobacco manufacturers, mobile phone manufactures and network operators do not want the public to be informed on relationship between number of tumours and heavy mobile phone usage by some business people. So investing some money into hands free for your phone could potentially save your life in addition to convenience.

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Turn your Android phone into Internet Wifi radio

Posted by Max | Posted in android | Posted on 06-02-2010

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Free “A Online Radio” application available from Android Market turn your phone into portable radio which plays thousands of live radio streams.

Features include:

  • Searchable directory of live streams
  • Ability to add your streams using URL
  • Add stream to favourites
  • View song lyrics

Work both via WiFi or via 3G connection (keep an eye on traffic amouts if your data plan has limited capacity)

Chainsaw “Hello Kitty”

Posted by Max | Posted in humor | Posted on 06-02-2010

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A “must have” item for “Hello Kitty” fans:

Chainsaw "Hello Kitty"

Be careful choosing your trademark

Posted by Max | Posted in odd bits | Posted on 06-02-2010

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In Tula, Russia you can buy shoes sold under trademark “Fart”. I wonder, if company has any plans to export their products to English speaking countries?

For curious ones: in Russian word fart means “luck” :-)

Taken from Exler blog

Photos uploaded (or rather downloaded?) from space station

Posted by Max | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 06-02-2010

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These days you can send a picture from almost any place on earth using your computer or mobile phone. But how about sending photos directly from space? That exactly what one of the residents of International Space Station is doing. Have a look at some magnoficient photos taken by him and placed on Twitpic

Unusual aircraft paiting

Posted by Max | Posted in odd bits | Posted on 06-02-2010

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South Africa’s Kulula airlines recently repainted their airplanes and decided to inform passengers how each part of airplane is called, where is a “blackbox” and, just in case you don’t know, where are the pilot sitting.

More photos under the cut…
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Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world

Posted by Max | Posted in videos | Posted on 06-02-2010

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It’s really impressive…

From Wikipedia

The aquarium is a part of the Ocean Expo Commemorative National Government Park located in Motobu, Okinawa. The aquarium is made up of four-floors which hold attractions of deep sea creatures, sharks, coral and other tropical fish. The aquarium is set on 19,000 m² of land, holds a total of 77 tanks with 10,000 m³ of water. Water for the saltwater exhibits is pumped into the aquarium from 350m offshore 24 hours a day.

The main tank called the ‘Kuroshio Sea’ holds 7,500-cubic meters (1,981,290 gallons) of water and features the world’s second largest acrylic glass panel, measuring 8.2 meters by 22.5 meters with a thickness of 60 centimeters.[2] Whale sharks and manta rays are kept amongst many other fish species in the main tank.

Daily links 2010-02-04

Posted by delicious | Posted in daily links | Posted on 05-02-2010

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.NET software development

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  • Streaming plaler for Android supports MP3, AAC and AAC+ audio streaming. Also includes comprehensive directory of worls radio stations.

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Daily links 2010-02-02

Posted by delicious | Posted in daily links | Posted on 03-02-2010

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