I love traveling but traveling to overseas where language is a barrier of communication is no fun at all. Therefore, I’ve thought of this Instant Voice Translation application for Nokia N-series phones in the Better World category. Better communication for a better world! :)

The idea is illustrated in the sketch below :-

Instant Voice Translation (Click to enlarge)

• 1. The phone user speaks to the phone in foreign language.
• 2. The phone translates the spoken words into English by utilizing its voice recognition and language translation feature.
• 3. The phone sends a query to dictionary.com or Google Dictionary for the voice pronunciation of the translated words.
• 4. The dictionary.com or Google Dictionary server returns the voice output to the phone.
• 5. The phone will output the translated words in voice to the user.

I believe this application is fairly easy to be developed as all the features required on the phone and server are already available, the only thing to solve is to integrate them together.

Kindly please vote for this Instant Voice Translation and help make it a reality soon. :)
Thanks!

A new firmware version 21.0.102 update is available for Nokia N97 right now. I just downloaded the firmware (size is only 4,334KB) via Over-The-Air (OTA) update and installed it.

Steps to check whether the firmware is available for your N97 :-

• 1. Type *#0000# using your N97 dial keypad.
• 2. Select Option > Check for updates (WiFi connection is recommended)
• 3. Start installing the firmware.

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Nokia N97 Firmware v21.0.102 Update

Last week, I attended two of the most fascinating smartphone launches of this quarter in Malaysia, the Nokia N900 and Garmin Asus M10.

Nokia N900 is the latest N-Series smartphone by Nokia, featuring a new Maemo 5 Operating System. The aim of N900 is to deliver a PC-like experience on a hand-held device.

Nokia N900 & N97 Side By Side

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Nokia N900 & Garmin Asus M10 Launching In Malaysia

It’s been a long time since this blog got its Google PageRank 5. It should be around 2 years back if my memory serves me right.

In fact, I realized the recent update of Google PageRank about two weeks ago and was quite happy with it. I have not been sold text links anymore since the last PageRank (PR) drop, so I suppose this is the reward from Google to me for doing so.

Google PR of a website goes up and down depending on how Google judges it, therefore I’m not so particular with it. Nevertheless, it does have a significant effect to how the website is ranking in the Google search result.

This is how Wikipedia explains about Google PageRank :-

Google assigns a numeric weighting from 0-10 for each webpage on the Internet; this PageRank denotes a site’s importance in the eyes of Google. The PageRank is derived from a theoretical probability value on a logarithmic scale like the Richter Scale.

I usually use this PageRank Checker to double check the PR in addition to the PR showing on my Google toolbar. This PageRank Checker will query more than 20 Google servers across the world in order to show more accurate result.

By the way, I’ll be posting some reviews of Nokia N900 and two WordPress related books that has been long overdue. So, stay tuned! :)

It’s about time to upgrade your WordPress blog as WordPress 2.9 has just been released by the development team.

This new version is named “Carmen” in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae.

New features were added, such as :-

• Undo delete – Rescue back your deleted post or comment. By having this undo delete feature, there is no need to have the “Are you sure” message on every delete, so it saves our time.
• Built-in image editor – Crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images as you like, directly in the editor.
• Batch plugin update and compatibility checking – Update multiple plugins with one click, no more hassle!
• Easier video embeds – Directly paste a URL of an online video, you’ll see it magically turned into the proper embed video in your post. WP2.9 currently support videos from YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv.

Below is a test to try out the cool video embed feature, just make sure the video URL is on its own line and not hyperlinked :-

I just upgraded many of my blogs in 15 minutes, thanks to one-click automatically upgrade feature. :)

For detailed information about WP2.9, check this out.  Enjoy!

Just came across an interesting video about the new concept of laptop design – Rolltop. The new laptop design concept will be using flexible OLED display on both the display panel and keyboard.

The virtual keyboard will replace the conventional physical keyboard so that the 13-inch laptop can easily transforms into the graphics tablet, which with its 17-inch flat screen. The utility of this laptop is wide as you can use it as a primary monitor as well.

The designer of this futuristic rollable laptop is thoughtful enough to integrate the power supply and stylus into the carrying belt, and call it Rolltop! Check out the video after the jump :-
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Futuristic Rollable Laptop – Rolltop