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Few days ago, Yahoo quietly launch its Instant Search Beta. Its functionality is similar to Yahoo Search, with an extra feature of analyzing the keywords when you are typing in the search box in real-time.
Most if the time when we search, the search results only appear after we typed in the search keyword(s) and hit the Search button. The real-time analyzing feature in Yahoo Instant Search Beta give us a fast and direct result while we are typing the keyword(s), it instantly provides us with the #1 result for that search. Well, you will know instantly if you have misspelled any of the keyword(s) too. :)
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Yahoo Instant Search
As mentioned in the earlier post about iTunes enabled phone, Motorola announced the launch of its iTunes enabled mobile phone, Motorola ROKR, yesterday, September 8, 2005. By the way, ROKR is pronounced as “rocker”.
The Motorola ROKR is the world’s first mobile phone with iTunes, offering the feature of transferring up to 100 songs from the iTunes jukebox to the mobile phone. The Motorola ROKR will pause the music automatically when user is taking a call and it offers the ability to listen to music while checking messages or snapping a photo.
There is a strange limitation as Apple and Motorola have an agreement that limits the number of songs allowed on a card to 100. However, users can create multiple 512MB SD memory cards with different playlists.
For the time being, the Motorola ROKR only available in the following countries :-
- the U.S.
- the U.K.
What is the fastest processor speed for laptop these days? What is the largest harddisk capacity you have seen in a laptop?
You will think those are fast and big capacity until you see this ultra super notebook computer from Atom Chip. The laptop is actually a research product from the research & development company utilizing the new technology of Quantum and Quantum-Optical devices.
The following are the specifications of the laptop:-
- Processor: 6.8Ghz CPU (AtomChip® Quantum® II processor or 4 x Intel® Pentium® M processors 1.7CHz)
- Memory: 1TB Quantum-Optical non-volatile RAM
- Storage: 2TB non-volatile Quantum RAM
- Optical Drive: DVD Super Multi / LCD
- Display: 12.1†WXGA (1280 x 800, 16:10) TFT Glare Type LCD display with 1.3 Mega pixel CMOS camera
- Communication: 10/100 Base-T LAN on board, MDC Fax/Modem V.90/V.92 on Board, 802.11a/802.11b/802.11g WLAN, Intel® PRO/Wireless 2100/2200BG/2915ABG network connection, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPRS -with Bluetooth antenna
- Weight: 1.9Kg(when fully equipped with AtomChip® Quantum® II processor)
or
2.2Kg(when fully equipped with 4 x Intel® Pentium® M processors)
Many of us must be very concern of the impact of Hurricane Katrina in the past few days. Now we can have a look of the outcome of the disaster through Google Earth. Google Earth is different to Google Maps, it is a desktop application which provides you similar functionality as Google Maps. It is FREE for personal use and no registration is required to download it. Please refer to the minimum PC configuration before you start installing it, because it is a broadband and 3D application.
In the past few days, Google has been providing some links to the latest snap shots of the impact of Hurricane Katrina from the satellites, those images (as shown on the right) are latest.
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Impact of Hurricane Katrina On Google Earth
Good news for iTunes users in the west, as there are at least three mobile phone operators around the globe are eager about offering its clients ability to acquire music in Apple’s iTunes online music store to their mobile phone. They are :-
- Cingular Wireless, from the US
- T-Mobile, from Germany
- O2, from the U.K.
Quoted:
T-Mobile of Germany, O2 from the U.K. as well as Cingular from the U.S. plan to announce a deal with Apple and allow its clients to use iTunes music store via special mobile phones from Motorola, Reuters news-agency reports. T-Mobile has reportedly officially announced the intention to enable iTunes in its networks by Christmas, 2005. Cingular and O2 declined to comment, it is claimed.
Sick of application forcing you to restart your PC after installing patches the operating system? I have a painful experience when the system automatically rebooted after installing Acrobat Reader’s patch, and I lost all my unsaved data.
Fortunately, the next Windows, Windows Vista, will have a new restart manager called “Freeze Dry“.
Perhaps in most instances, users won’t have to restart Windows Vista after installing the patches or updating an application even while the application is running. In fact, Windows Vista is doing a workaround trick by replacing the patched file and wait for the next time the application is restarted. It is at least useful for some people.
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“Freeze Dry” In Windows Vista