May 2007
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Well, it’s been about 6 months since the Wii’s launch. I’ve already played through the few AAA games that have been released, and now the Wii’s been getting a little stale. There are a ton of great games in the pipeline, but those aren’t coming for a few months. What am I going to do with my system until that time comes?
I’ve complied a list of 10 things you can use your Wii for until Smash Brothers Brawl hits us across the face this fall.
1. Play Free Flash Games
There are a few web sites out there devoted specifically to providing links to flash games that work well on the Wii, some of the sites even feature news RSS feeds and such. Here are some links to a few Wii flash game web sites.
2. Watch Streaming Video
While you can just head over to YouTube and check out videos there, there are again, many sites dedicated to the Wii’s Opera browser and streaming videos.
3. Play the past top 25 Gamecube games
Despite it’s lower market share and small size, the Nintendo GameCube has a TON of great games that a lot of people missed out on. Check out IGN’s list of the top 25 games on the little system.
4. Play older classic games
The Wii has something the other systems don’t- a huge back library of classic games waiting for people to download (and pay cash for). Although some people think the Wii’s Shop Channel is a little pricey, some of these classics are wroth the admission. There are a ton of games from the NES, SNES, TubroGraphix, and Genesis, with more to be released every Monday morning in the North America and Friday’s in Europe.
5. Create celebrity Mii’s
I think I’ve had more fun creating Mii’s that didn’t look like myself, but looked like characters I saw in Movies and TV shows. Then I stumbled upon this little gem of a web site that has a TON of celebrity Miis including Master Chief, Samus, Sponge Bob, Storm Troopers, R2D2, and the classic Chuck Norris!
6. Use it as a portable presentation system
There are a few things that make the Wii great for doing presentations if you don’t have a laptop. It’s very portable and easy to hook up to a projector, it has a wireless remote and pointer, and an SD card slot. Most presentation software, like Keynote and PowerPoint, have the ability to export your slides as JPEG images. Dump those slides onto an SD card, launch the Wii’s Photo Channel and you’re good to go!
7. Use the free channels
Almost everyday I turn on my Wii. Lately, it hasn’t been for games, but the great little FREE channels that Nintendo has been releasing over the months. I usually start by checking out the weather from around the world on the Weather Channel, then hop over to the News Channel and check out the headlines, then lastly hop into the Everybody Votes Channel to give me opinion on some weird, but fun polls. It’s entertaining for a few minutes, and heck, some of the information that you get is actually worth it!
8. Use it as a free streaming media server
Orb is a piece of software that allows you to stream your media from your PC to any web browser (including the Wii’s Opera browser). Check it out, it’s free and works pretty well.
9. Lose weight and have fun doing it
There have been a lot of articles popping up online about people using the wii to loose weight. Simple pop in your copy of Wii Sports and do a few rounds of boxing and you’ll see how it’s possible. Maybe Nintendo will release an official exercise game in the future that’s more focused on weight loss, rather than using the sports titles for it.
10. E-mail yourself reminders
You can setup yourself as a friend on your wii via an email address. This makes it possible to email your Wii- complete with photos. The nice thing about this is, the Wii has a bright blue light that pulsates when you have a new message. The light is VERY hard to miss and forget about so it easily reminds you to check your messages. Violla! 21st century reminder system!
Written by admin on May 26th, 2007 with no comments.
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Again according to APC Mgazine, here is ten reasons you could hate apple iphone
1. Slow mobile data: EDGE is 2.5G, so the top speed you can get from it is about 100Kbit/s. Also, the only Australian phone network that supports it is Telstra - everyone else will only be able to use slower-than-dialup GPRS. The iPhone would be way cooler with 1.8Mbit/s HSDPA. (See our analysis of why Apple probably used EDGE in preference to 3G in our previous iPhone report).
2. Battery life sucks: Five hours of talk/browsing/email or 16 hours of audio playback? Look, we’re not saying the iPhone isn’t an amazing device, but you’re going to want a charger on your desk at work, one in your car, one on your bedside table…
3. Built-in battery: It must be the only mobile phone on the market that doesn’t have an easily user-replaceable battery. We know from the iPod that batteries age pretty quickly, but who wants to send their phone back to Apple for servicing when it needs a new battery? I don’t want to have to go back to my dowdy old Nokia while Apple swaps the battery. That’s a major flaw.
4. Touch screen: Have you ever stood at a touch-screen terminal in a shop punching away at the screen, trying to get it to register your touch? Despite what Apple disparagingly called “small plastic keyboards” on other mobiles, they’re way more likely to work reliably than a touch-screen. No doubt Jobs has licensed the world’s best touch-screen technology, but it’s still likely to be the weakest point of the phone.
5. Heavy data usage: There’s a reason why networks love ‘push email’ phones like the Blackberry: it’s because a tremendous amount of compression and optimisation can be done at the carrier-side before the data is sent over the air. An ultra-heavy user of a Blackberry might only use 20MB in a month - regular users will use just a few megs. On the other hand, the iPhone uses old-world ‘polling’ email methods - POP3 or IMAP, where the phone will check every X minutes for new email and download full emails. The phone might have enough CPU power to rescale that 7MB JPEG, but it still has to download a 7MB JPEG. Either the service fees that go with the phone are going to be huge, or carriers are going to take a bath on data pricing and risk network congestion.
6. Only a two megapixel camera: OK, camera phones are never going to beat a digital SLR, but Sony Ericsson has had a 3.2 Megapixel cameraphone out for months now. Unless S-E tied up exclusive supply on that part, it’s tough to see why Apple wouldn’t have gone for it.
7. Proprietary tie-ins: Look, I’m not saying that the rest of the mobile industry isn’t rife with proprietary tie-ins. Every carrier installs their crap onto mobiles, they disable useful manufacturer features so that you’re forced to use their less-useful and more expensive services. But shouldn’t we hold Apple to a higher standard? The iPhone can do push email according to Jobs, but only for people who have a Yahoo webmail account. Bad luck if you prefer Gmail or some other mail provider.
8. No video iChat: Er, hello? Apple has an incredible base of customers out there with integrated webcams - doubtlessly more than any other PC or software maker - so what a missed opportunity!
9. Apple chooses your mobile network: Apple has announced that its exclusive sales partner in the US will be the mobile network Cingular. Presumably, that’s because even though iPhone is going to be an obvious hit, there are many political battles Apple faces in breaking into the telco world: powerful alliances and rebate schemes between handset makers and networks, the networks’ fears that Apple might at some point introduce iTunes purchasing over-the-air, stealing away one of their valuable revenue streams and more. The end result? In each country, the phone will probably be locked to one carrier. (Interestingly, though, in Australia, carriers are legally obliged to unlock phones free of charge at the customer’s request - though that doesn’t cancel other contractual obligations such as ongoing plan fees.)
10. Only 8GB storage: Ok, ok, sure, it’s the biggest storage capacity of any phone on the market, probably, but 8GB is still pretty limited. Considering how good the video playback capabilities of the iPhone are, it’s unfortunate that you won’t actually be able to fit that much video on the device.
Written by admin on May 25th, 2007 with no comments.
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According to APC Mgazine, here is top ten things you should love about iPhone.
1. Smart Interaction. Finally no more lost or fiddly stylus action! Apple’s Multi-Touch software makes the stylus redundant. I rate this near the top of the features to love.
2. Smart design. Sure it looks nice. What Apple product doesn’t? But the real triumph is Apple’s commitment to a design philosophy that it not just about looks. Thin (11.6 mm), sparse and elegant, designed so that the software and hardware work perfectly together.
3. Smart heart. The iPhone runs Mac OS X. It’s hard to tell from the Keynote if it is a cut-down version or full-strength, but it promises the same intelligence, stability and elegance that I currently enjoy on my MacBook Pro.
4. Smart sensors. With three built-in sensors, the iPhone knows more about what it is doing than I do. A proximity sensor, an accelerometer that automatically switches from landscape to portrait mode and back and ambient light sensors make this more self-aware device on the market
5. Smart email. Rich HTML emails and true Blackberry-like “push” email make my Nokia E60 look like a dinosaur. This looks like a phone that it will be fun to email on, rather than a phone that you use to check your email is really, really have to.
6. Smart browsing. I’ve enjoyed using Opera mobile on my Nokia, but the full-strength Safari included in the new iPhone just blows it out of the water. It does really look like “the Internet in your pocket” as Steve suggests.
7. Smart headphones. Why are music phones less successful than the iPod? One of the key reasons has to be that you have to use the manufacturer’s special headphones, which you inevitably leave at home/work/in the other backpack. Phone manufacturers love the special headphones because replacements are a source of high-profit incremental revenue. Users usually hate them. Apple’s solution is special headphones that take advantage of the phone functionality but still fit into a standard headphone slot. Typical Apple elegance.
8. Smart voicemail. Steve says, “Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to listen to five [voicemails] to get to the sixth?” Oh, yes, it would. The new visual voicemail on the iPhone lets me choose which messages to listen to. No more waiting until the phone lets me hear the one I’m interested in.
9. Smart speaker. I’m not sure what quality the built-in speaker in the iPhone will deliver, but I bet my freelancing income for the next six months that it is better than the speaker included in any other four mobile phones I’ve used before. Even if I leave my standard headphones at home, I’m not stuck anymore.
10. Smart integration. In a perverse way I’ve grown to love the nightmare of syncing my phones and hand-helds with my Mac through third-party conduits and software. Everyone loves a challenge. The iPhone will bring all that to an end with seamless integration of contacts and all the info I need.
Written by admin on May 25th, 2007 with no comments.
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Life Law #1: You either get it or you don’t. Strategy: Become one of those who gets it.
Life Law #2: You create your own experience.
Strategy: Acknowledge and accept accountability for your life. Understand your role in creating results.
Life Law #3: People do what works.
Strategy: Identify the payoffs that drive your behavior and that of others.
Life Law #4: You cannot change what you do not acknowledge.
Strategy: Get real with yourself about life and everybody in it. Be truthful about what isn’t working in your life. Stop making excuses and start making results.
Life Law #5: Life rewards action.
Strategy: Make careful decisions and then pull the trigger. Learn that the world couldn’t care less about thoughts without actions.
Life Law #6: There is no reality, only perception.
Strategy: Identify the filters through which you view the world. Acknowledge your history without being controlled by it.
Life Law #7: Life is managed; it is not cured.
Strategy: Learn to take charge of your life and hold on. This is a long ride, and you are the driver every single day.
Life Law #8: We teach people how to treat us.
Strategy: Own, rather than complain about, how people treat you. Learn to renegotiate your relationships to have what you want.
Life Law #9: There is power in forgiveness.
Strategy: Open your eyes to what anger and resentment are doing to you. Take your power back from those who have hurt you.
Life Law #10: You have to name it before you can claim it.
Strategy: Get clear about what you want and take your turn.
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Written by admin on May 6th, 2007 with no comments.
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- Mao Tse Tung (China) killed 35 million people 1949-1976
- Joseph Stalin (USSR) killed 20 million people 1929-1953
- Adolph Hitler(Nazi Germany)-killed 11 million people 1939-1945
- Kim Il Sung (North Korea) killed 3 million people 1948-1994
- Mohamed Suharto (Indonesia) killed 2 million people 1967-1998
- Pol Pot (Cambodia)- killed 1.4 million people 1975-1979
- Theoniste Bagosara (Rwanda) killed 1 million people April-July 1994
- Saddam Hussein (Iraq) killed 2 million people 1979-2003
- Ante Pavelic (Croatia) killed 300,000 people 1941-1944
- Idi Amin (Uganda)-300,000 1971-1979
Written by admin on May 6th, 2007 with no comments.
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| City |
Avg. rent
|
Annual rent change
|
Occupancy
|
| New York** |
$2,469
|
NA
|
97.10%
|
| San Francisco |
$1,947
|
8.8%
|
97.4%
|
| Los Angeles |
$1,586
|
6.5%
|
97.5%
|
| San Jose, Calif. |
$1,487
|
11.6%
|
98.2%
|
| Orange County, Calif. |
$1,387
|
6.0%
|
96.8%
|
| Boston |
$1,332
|
2.1%
|
96.7%
|
| Oakland |
$1,248
|
5.8%
|
96.8%
|
| San Diego |
$1,213
|
3.1%
|
97.1%
|
| Washington, D.C. |
$1,205
|
4.5%
|
97.4%
|
| Fort Lauderdale, Fla. |
$1,134
|
9.7%
|
97.5%
|
*Source: M/PF YieldStar; second-quarter snapshot
**Source: REIS Inc.
Written by admin on May 6th, 2007 with no comments.
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| # |
Country or Region
|
Internet Users 2000 |
Internet Users Latest Data |
Internet Penetration |
Usage Growth(2000 - 2006) |
|
1.
|
United States
|
95,354,000
|
207,161,706
|
69.3 %
|
117.3 %
|
|
2.
|
China
|
22,500,000
|
123,000,000
|
9.4 %
|
446.7 %
|
|
3.
|
Japan
|
47,080,000
|
86,300,000
|
67.2 %
|
83.3 %
|
|
4.
|
India
|
5,000,000
|
60,000,000
|
5.4 %
|
1,100.0 %
|
|
5.
|
Germany
|
24,000,000
|
50,616,207
|
61.3 %
|
110.9 %
|
|
6.
|
United Kingdom
|
15,400,000
|
37,600,000
|
62.5 %
|
144.2 %
|
|
7.
|
South Korea
|
19,040,000
|
33,900,000
|
67.0 %
|
78.0 %
|
|
8.
|
France
|
8,500,000
|
29,521,451
|
48.4 %
|
247.3 %
|
|
9.
|
Italy
|
13,200,000
|
28,870,000
|
48.8 %
|
118.7 %
|
|
10.
|
Brazil
|
5,000,000
|
25,900,000
|
14.1 %
|
418.0 %
|
Written by admin on May 6th, 2007 with no comments.
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The National Insurance Crime Bureau has compiled a list of the 10 vehicles most frequently reported stolen in the U.S. in 2005:
- 1995 Honda Civic
- 1989 Toyota Camry
- 1991 Honda Accord
- 1994 Dodge Caravan
- 1994 Chevrolet Full Size C/K 1500 Pickup
- 1997 Ford F150 Series
- 2003 Dodge Ram Pickup
- 1990 Acura Integra
- 1988 Toyota Pickup
- 1991 Nissan Sentra
Written by admin on May 4th, 2007 with no comments.
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