Now Control your iPod using your Eye Movements

All you need is an eyelid to play your favourite iPod tune…Yes, there’s a new Japanese remote control that actually works with the blink of an eye.

What happens is, when the person winks, sensors clipped to him (via Headphones or glasses) detect the move and then generate a electric signal and uses them to play/stop/rewind/skip your iPod. Kazuhiro Taniguchi of Osaka University’s Graduate School of Engineering Science, who developed the “KomeKami Switch” or “Temple Switch”, said.

- When you wink Strongly for 1 second with one eye, it will rewind!
- Blink the other eye strongly to skip to the next song.
- Close both eyes to pause and play.

When asked if someone accidentally blinks, what will happen? will it malfunction or something?

“It doesn’t happen at all. This system doesn’t malfunction even if the user eats, talks, walks and runs,” Taniguchi wrote, saying there were differences in movement between an accidental and an intentional blink or wink.

“The computer can judge the difference of those signals,” he added — even if other people around you may be left wondering what message your eyes are sending.

DjFlush needs to buy one and I wish he gets a flu after that (Just to test the thing) - Joking

Get MSN new Toolbar beta (Powered by Silverlight)

Lately there was a news circulating the Internet stating that Microsoft shall soon be unveiling its new version of MSN Toolbar beta (Powered by Silverlight).



Well here it is! LiveSide is reporting that MSN Toolbar beta is now available to users in its first phase of testing. The new beta version will be available to only some Microsoft Connect users so if you want to get your hands on the new MSN Toolbar beta, Signup now.

The cool thing is that the MSN Toolbar beta is powered by Silverlight (the counter-technology of Adobe Flash by Microsoft) however the toolbar is not good looking at all (I did not want to use the word “Ugly”) . Honestly if you come to think of it, how did Microsoft even deem that a black glossy style would be liked by Windows users who usually are accustomed to the white and sky blue colors.

The other big question is about Windows Live Toolbar, is Microsoft planning to dump it? or is Microsoft going to continue its development?

Microsoft Silverlight on Nokia Coming Soon

When it comes to interactive mobile applications and an exciting mobile experience, Nokia phones are the best because of their powerful back-end operating system — Symbian OS.

Nokia never fails to surprise its users and always comes up with a new technology that becomes the corner stone for the future.

Likewise, Nokia has just recently announced through a press release that it is soon going to introduce Microsoft Silverlight for Nokia S60 and S40 Symbian powered devices. This will of course open a new gateway for developers allowing them to create rich, interactive applications that run on multiple platforms in a consistent and reliable way.


Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering next-generation media experiences and rich interactive applications. It is much like Adobe Flash but with a different name and a different company on its back.

Microsoft will demonstrate Silverlight on S60 during the opening keynote at Microsoft’s MIX08 conference on March 5 in Las Vegas. Silverlight is intended to be available to S60 developers later this year with initial service delivery anticipated shortly thereafter for all S60 licensees.

Download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

Finally, the much awaited browser by Microsoft — Internet Explorer 8 is finally available for download. This is the beta 1 release and I really cannot thank Microsoft enough for making the download available for the public instead of just pushing it to Microsoft Connect users only.



Of course there are new exciting features but the look most closely resembles to that of Internet Explorer 7. It is too early too say this already but it looks more like a major IE 7 update than a whole new browser itself but the thing to remember is that it is still the beta release, not the final.

Below is a list of new features in IE 8.

Activities

Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.


Web Slices

WebSlices is a new feature for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes.


Favorites Bar

In Internet Explorer 7, the Links bar provided users with one-click access to their favorite sites. The Links bar has undergone a complete makeover for Internet Explorer 8. It has been renamed the Favorites bar to enable users to associate this bar as a place to put and easily access all their favorite web content such as links, feeds, WebSlices and even Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.


Automatic Crash Recovery

Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) is a feature of Windows Internet Explorer 8 that can help to prevent the loss of work and productivity in the unlikely event of the browser crashing or hanging. The ACR feature takes advantage of the Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer feature to provide new crash recovery capabilities, such as tab recovery, which will minimize interruptions to users’ browsing sessions.


Improved Phishing Filter

Internet Explorer 7 introduced the Phishing Filter, a feature which helps warn users when they visit a Phishing site. Phishing sites spoof a trusted legitimate site, with the goal of stealing the user’s personal or financial information. For Internet Explorer 8, we are building on the success of the Phishing Filter with a more comprehensive feature called the “Safety Filter”


Download and Install Internet Explorer 8

Download and install Internet Explorer 8 using the following links:

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Vista
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Vista x64 Edition
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Window XP SP2
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Server 2003 SP2
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Server 2003 SP2 x64 Edition and Windows XP SP2 Pro x64 Edition

Windows Vista (Journey Review for One Year)

Congratulations to Windows Vista for completing its one year journey in the technology market.

I know it has been a really tough year for Windows Vista and Microsoft as during the whole year Vista has been the subject of some major criticism and also attracted a lot of negative reviews but that certainly does not stop Microsoft from imposing this new OS on us even if we are not yet ready to accept and use it.

Lets take a deep review of Vista’s one year journey discussing the good and the negative points:

Delays and Repulsive Requirements

Windows Vista is famous for being the only Windows OS to be delayed the most times ever. However even after we got to see the final version of Vista on January 30 2007, the system requirements of the OS were so high that most of the people decided not to switch to it (Of course why would people want to buy a new PC just to try a new operating system?)

Worst Product of 2007

CNET and PC World even went to the extent of declaring Windows Vista as the worst product of 2007. This is sad because even I think that Windows Vista is not such a bad product after all. Perhaps?

100 Million Copies Sold

This is definitely a plus achievement for Microsoft. 100 million copies of Windows Vista have been sold to date even after the high system specification problems that caused users not to buy Vista.

Windows XP: Biggest Threat

This is now a funny part that the biggest threat to Windows Vista was not some other operating system like Leopard OSX or Ubuntu rather it was its own predecessor Windows XP.

Windows Vista: Threat to XP

As we all know that what goes around comes around so we have a kind of serious situation in this case. Microsoft is planning to cut the production and sales of Windows XP by June of this year 2008. This is extremely shocking for all of the Windows XP fans out there. If you think that Microsoft should increase the XP timeline then sign for your petition at SaveXP.

I think that sums it up quite well. If I forgot to share any important news about Windows Vista that took place in 2007 please share it with me in the comments.

Meanwhile just relax and listen to Wow is now - Windows Vista Promotional Song sung by Sunidhi Chauhan from India.

Now Improves Google Mobile Experience

Another great step by Google as they introduced new features to Google Mobile, as it says “Access Google from anywhere, anytime” and it looks like we will all be a googaholic very soon.

According to Google, this new search service, mobile phone users will get amazing results for what they’re looking for. I thought, how will that be…well, accordingly these search results will not only be Web results, Instead, Google will search through the whole web, mobile web, news articles, local business listings, and image index to get the information needed and then provide the most relevant results.

For example, if you search for say…a Keyboard…it will provide links to webpages plus Images of that keyboard as well. Another thing I must mention is that Google Mobile Services varies…some services are provided more or less in different countries…but I don’t think that will be a big problem.

How to search?

Go to http://mobile.google.com on your mobile device’s web browser.


And click on any of the links provided to start using Google services on your device.




and you’re done

Source: Google Mobile

Released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Ready to Manufacturing

Finally after much anticipation, the Windows Product Management team at Windows Vista Blog has announced that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been released to manufacturing (RTM) and will be available in March in five set of languages (English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese).

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 intends to fix all bugs and issues that were reported and identified by Vista customers over the last year.

Vista Service Pack 1 claims to bring great progress in performance, reliability and compatibility. 2007 has been a great year for Windows Vista in terms of application development and device compatibility according to the Windows Vista Blog. Now over 78,000 devices and components are supported by Windows Update and as a result over 100 million licensed copies of Windows Vista have been sold.

According to the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 availability time line, it will be released to Windows Update (in English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese) and to the download center on microsoft.com somewhere in mid-march. Customers who visit Windows Update will be able to choose to install Service Pack 1.

I hope with this great new news Microsoft will be able to reform the image of Vista as a good and useful product.

How to Avoid Getting Your Adsense Account Banned

Google, being the undisputable leader in search engines from then until now, is placing a high importance on the quality and relevancy of its search engines. Most especially now that the company is public property. In order to keep the shareholders and users of its engines happy, the quality of the returned results are given extreme importance.

For this same reason, doing the wrong things in the Adsense and other forms of advertisements, whether intentionally or unintentionally, will result in a severe penalty, may get you banned and even have your account terminated. Nothing like a good action taken to keep wrongdoers from doing the same things over again.

So for those who are thinking of getting a career in Adsense, do not just think of the strategies you will be using to generate more earnings. Consider some things first before you actually get involved.

Hidden texts. Filling your advertisement page with texts to small to read, has the same color as the background and using css for the sole purpose of loading them with rich keywords content and copy will earn you a penalty award that is given to those who are hiding links.

Page cloaking. There is a common practice of using browser or bot sniffers to serve the bots of a different page other than the page your visitors will see. Loading a page with a bot that a human user will never see is a definite no-no. This is tricking them to click on something that you want but they may not want to go to.

Multiple submissions. Submitting multiple copies of your domain and pages is another thing to stay away from. For example, trying to submit a URL of an Adsense as two separate URL’s is the same as inviting trouble and even termination. Likewise, this is a reason to avoid auto submitters for those who are receiving submissions. Better check first if your domain is submitted already an a certain search engine before you try to submit to it again. If you see it there, then move on. No point contemplating whether to try and submit there again.

Link farms. Be wary of who and what are you linking your Adsense to. The search engines know that you cannot control your links in. But you can certainly control what you link to. Link farming has always been a rotten apple in the eyes of search engines, especially Google. That is reason enough to try and avoid them. Having a link higher than 100 on a single page will classify you as a link farm so try and not to make them higher than that.

Page rank for sale. If you have been online for quite some time, you will notice that there are some sites selling their PR links or trading them with other sites. If you are doing this, expect a ban anytime in the future. It is okay to sell ads or gain the link. But doing it on direct advertisement of your page rank is a way to get on search engines bad side.

Doorways. This is similar to cloaking pages. The common practice of a page loaded with choice keyword ads aimed at redirecting visitors to another “user-friendly” page is a big issue among search engines. There are many seo firms offering this kind of services. Now that you know what they actually are, try to avoid them at all costs.

Multiple domains having the same content. In case you are not aware of it, search engines look at domains IP’s, registry dates and many others. Having multiple domains having the same exact content is not something you can hide from them. The same goes with content multiplied many times on separate pages, sub domains and forwarding multiple domains to the same content.

Many of the above techniques apply to most search engines and is not entirely for Google only. By having a mind set that you are building your Adsense together with your pages for the human users and not for bots, you can be assured of the great things for your ads and sites.

Make Windows Xp Look Like Vista

With all the talks of Vista going around, its human that we all want the looks and feel of it running on our xp machines.There are some solutions like Style XP and Windows Blind but they all don’t change everything completely.

One of the magazines i was going through caught my eyes.They have tested it and this is what they say “Windows Vista Transformation pack does all that and without any system crash”

I wanted to try on my system but then It will slow my system.So i just wen to the orginal site and saw those pic.Amazing.So take a look at them below and think

Vista Transformation Pack Affect




So what do you think? Awsome right!! Ok here are some quicktips and then you can follow the link ot the original site itself.

Tips for Installing Vista Transformation Pack

You need a better hardware configuration, specifically better ram of around 512 will be good.You can still try but it might slow down your system.
It will take 200MB of space for complete installation and 2-5 minutes.
It has a preview thumbnail feature and sidebar is heavy…so if it takes a little time to install be patient.

Change Logon Background in Windows Vista

Stardock has a really neat application called LogonStudio that allows you to change the background of your logon screen in . I absolutely love the space background.
LogonStudio is available as a free download and also allows you to create your own backgrounds as well as download logon backgrounds via Stardock's WinCustomize Gallery too. Folks who create their own backgrounds can submit them to the WinCustomize Gallery. Give it a try. Let me know what you think.


LogonStudio XP (link 1)
LogonStudio XP (link 2)
LogonStudio VISTA (link 1)
LogonStudio VISTA (link 2)