I blogged about iDog almost 1 year ago, now you see another “i” pet in the market. Segatoys introduced the iFish after seeing the success of the iDog.

Almost identical to iDog in term of features, you can play music or sounds through iFish’s built-in speaker as well. It flashes some light while flopping around. By the way, please take note that you can’t put it into water though it’s a fish.

Can’t afford Sony Aibo? Get yourself an iDog or iFish. :)

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Just for your information, Microsoft just delayed the release of Windows Vista, the upcoming version of Windows desktop operating system. Windows Vista will only be available until January 2007.

Microsoft previously set the release date for this major update in fourth quarter of 2006, now we will have to wait another 10 months or so. It’s in the 5th year now since Microsoft released Windows XP in late 2001. No other choice but to wait.

So, what you can do now is to have a look of the forthcoming Windows, like which might be their new Start button. Would you want to know why Windows Vista is better? Take a look of its features and some cool stuffs. Last but not least, read the review of Windows Vista if you want to know more.

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I stopped blogging for 1 week or so but Google just can’t stop releasing new services. Here is another great one.

Google launched its latest service yesterday called Google Finance. It’s an online financial news portal that provides corporate news, information and graphs, and blog entries regarding the specific stock you are looking for. I believe this new Google service is going into direct competition withYahoo Finance, which I patrol quite frequently for stock information. The reason behind launching this cool service is the increase in Internet usage by investors in searching for stock information.

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Google Finance – Personal Online Finance Website

Hi all,

Just giving you all a brief introduction of my first every WordPress plugin – Submit It.

Introduction

Submit It helps reader to submit a particular post of yours and bookmark it at any of the popular blog services as linked in the plugin. For example, if your reader has an account at Del.icio.us and would like to bookmark one of your post, he/she just have to submit the post via the link in this plugin. in other words, Submit It offers you or your reader a fast way to bookmark a post.

The feature of Submit It is as follows :-

• WordPress 2.0 compatible
• XHTML compatibled codes
• Just add 1 line of code to use this plugin
• Layout customization using CSS
• Services included in this plugin :-
  • Technorati
  • Feedster
  • Bloglines
  • Del.icio.us
  • Spurl
  • Furl
  • Simpy
  • Blink
  • Digg

Requirements

This plugin was tested using WordPress 1.5.2 and 2.0.1, so it should work on any recent WordPress 1.5+ version to the latest version. If you are using an older version, I recommend that you to upgrade to the latest version.

Installation

Only 2 steps :-

• 1. Download the Zip file and extract everything and put them into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Activate the plugin from the Plugins menu in WordPress administration page.
• 2. Put < ?php add_submit_it(); ?> into your template (usually index.php or single.php)

You should see the following file structure in your /wp-content/plugins/ folder :-

• plugins folder
  • submititicons folder (containing all icons)
  • submitit.php
  • submititstyle.css

That’s it. :)

Please feel free to leave your blog address in the comment, I will list all the blogs using this plugin for free advertisement.

• Hi Tech Blog

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Hi everyone,

I’m so glad I finished my first ever WordPress plugin today. I named it Submit It.

Submit It is just a simple plugin as shown in the picture. You can try it out at the end the written artile in any post. The plugin will insert some pieces of codes in every single page to show the links. Basically, the plugin allows you or your readers to submit a particular post of yours and bookmark it at any of the popular blog services as linked in the plugin.

I saw these links in quite a lot of blogs but have not seen any plugin for it. So, I created myself after one of my blog buddies, n305er sent me some of the basic codes. Submit It plugin was created with “easy to use” goal in mind. You just need to put only 1 line of code into the PHP file and start using the plugin.

I will write a detail tutorial of installing this plugin later in a separate page so that everyone can freely download and install it into your WordPress blog.

By the way, I’m not a PHP programmer expert, so if you find any bug or problem using the plugin, please let me know. Fell free to tell me your opinion about this simple plugin as well, like do you find it useful?
Thanks.

This robotic mule as shown in the picture is developed by Boston Dynamics for military purposes. BigDog is the latest alpha robotic to be added into Boston Dynamics family of robots. Boston Dynamics is also supported by Foster Miller, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Harvard University Concord Field Station. They named this robotic beast BigDog, the most advanced quadruped robot on earth !

BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. In other words, it’s very sturdy as it can withstand a kick to the body without falling over. BigDog can walk, run and climb on rough terrain and carry heavy loads. Technically speaking, BigDog is able to trot at 3.3 mph (5.35 km/h), climbed a 35 degree slope and carried a 120 lb (54.4 kg) load.

It’s specification is as follows :-

• Long : 1 meter
• Height : 0.7 meters tall
• Weight : 75 kg

Please click continue reading to watch the stunning video. The video is 3 minutes long, about 28MB in size, so please be patient while loading.
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Big Dog – The Robotic Mule