Lithium polymer (Li-Po) replacement, the Nanotube battery

Everyone agree that battery is the most important part of our digital devices? I think you do. Well, to agreed or not you still have to accept that our devices needs battery to live. Now let’s take a look at the battery we use right now, most of it shaped like this picture on the right, just for the record that picture is a Li-Poly battery for Motorola mobile. It is usually need at least an hour to be fully charged, a couple hours sometimes.

Now, do you ever wish you could charge your cellphone or laptop in a few seconds rather than hours? Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T) are developing a battery that could do just that, and also might never need to be replaced.

As our portable devices get more high-tech, the batteries that power them can seem to lag behind. But Joel Schindall and his team at M.I.T plan to make long charge times and expensive replacements a thing of the past–by improving on technology from the past.

They turned to the capacitor, which was invented nearly 300 years ago. Schindall explains, “We made the connection that perhaps we could take an old product, a capacitor, and use a new technology, nanotechnology, to make that old product in a new way.”

On top of that, the shape too, will not just be light-weighted, thin, or flexible, it could be made from a paper. It was researchers from Rensselaer Phytechnic Institute, who recently release this latest energy storage technology which dominantly made from cellulose which can be found in papers. Only they fill the paper with nanotube carbon , to used as electroda. As for prove, they have made a battery just a sized of a stamp that can lighten up a small fan or a LED light.

- info from : sciencentral.com, www.rpi.edu 

The latest barcode technology called “semacode” !!

Ever think of another way of buying things other than going to a store or electronically (over the internet) ? Well, now you have to because there is one, it’s called the semacode system. You all know about barcode, right? This whole semacode system is all started from barcode. For you that doesn’t know about barcode, i’ll explain a little bit about it, barcode is a system that attached to a database which contains information like prices, types or else of a product from a store, you should know it because it’s just a common thing to meet in life, almost all department stores are using it now, it’s that scanner thing that cashiers use to scan the product that we pick when we give it to them at the cashier desk.Semacode use the same ways as barcode, only in semacode the scanners are a little bit different, we will need a mobile phone, but must has a camera embedded on it. Here is how it works, we’ll need a software though.

Semacode’s Software Development Kit is a system for ubiquitous computing. Using this software you can create visual tags for objects and contexts, and read them using a mobile camera phone. The software that runs on your phone will then deliver you to the appropriate mobile content.

Semacode works by embedding a URL (web address) into a sort of two-dimensional barcode which looks like a dense crossword puzzle — called the tag. The software contains capability to detect and decode the tag very rapidly with the camera on your phone. It extracts the URL and sends you to that address using the phone’s built-in browser. The user experience is simple to use and easy to learn. By connecting users from physical media to mobile content, the system creates new affordances, new ways to interact with the objects and media that surround us (including augmented reality, remote presence, social software and location tagging). There are a number of opportunities to use this technology to improve the way people interact and communicate.

In addition, this is an open system. Anyone can create as many semacode tags for as many different URLs as they wish. Millions, even. As long as you own the domain name, the tagging system is completely unrestricted. Better yet, all of the software tools are available freely for non-commercial use. Therefore it is possible to build a complete system (for non-commercial purposes) without restrictions.

Now it even better, not just we can instantly get access to the URL which contains the specs of the semacode-tag-ed product that we took pictures from. We could also buy that product too, how? It’s easy, the H&M company are already using this service. They incorporates semacode to their advertisements, we as readers and consumers has the option to purchase goods with our mobile phone by scanning the semacode bar or tag. Then we’ll be directed to a menu where size and color can be picked. The item will be charged to our cell phone’s bill. how about it?

- info from : semacode.org

Hide your control panel from start menu to protect your settings

How do you feel when you left your friend alone with your PC ? Did you worried about what they’re doing with your PC ?
It’s fine if they just use it to finish their homework, like just using Excel, Word, etc. But what if we don’t realize that what they really do is changing our windows settings ?
It is obvious that they can easily access our control panel from start menu, for just about 2 clicks they can get to ControlPanel window.

To avoid that, let me give you 3 simple and easy steps to make your Control Panel disappear from Start menu, but before that i need to warn you about editing your regedit, before you click here and there, you better backed your reg file, you can save the regedit by using the ‘export’ from the regedit menu, or you can use the system restore that is provided by windows by accessing Startmenu / AllPrograms / Accessories / SystemTools / SystemRestore, after you have the back-up reg file, or the system restored you are save to edit your registry :

1. Open the ‘Run dialog box’ from your Start menu, you can do it by clicking the Start button and then click on the ‘Run…’ menu, or you can also do it by click and hold the windows logo on the keyboard and then press ‘R’ ( +R ), in the Run dialog box type ‘regedit’ then click ‘Ok’.

2. In the Registry Editor window, from the folder tree, go to ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer’, make sure you click on the folder ‘explorer’, then in the explorer window on the right of the folder tree just right-click on the area and choose New DWORD Value in the name of ‘NoControlPanel’, you have to type it carefully exactly like mine, check the capital letter, after the DWORD is added, double-click on it and a little window will appear, now change the value data from zero(0) to one(1) and then click ‘Ok’, you can close the Regedit window.

3. Now that you’re done, you wanna check whether your Control Panel are still on the Start menu or not, but if you do that right after you close your Regedit window i’m very sure that your Control Panel still staring at you from the Start menu. You wanna know why? i’ll tell you, it’s because the explorer needs to be restarted first.

There are three ways to restart your explorer, first is the easiest but take the longest time, just restart your PC, second is same as easy but takes less time, log off your PC and then log in again.
The last way need a little concentration, but it is the fastest, here is the steps:
- Open Windows Task Manager, go to Processes tab and find explorer.exe, after you’ve found it right-click on it and then choose End Proccess, but don’t close your Task manager quite yet.
- Now your taskbar will disappear and all you need to do next is to bring it back, and you can do it by going to the Applications tab in the Task Manager find New Task under it then click it, a small box will appear, type ‘explorer’ and click ‘Ok’, that’s it your taskbar will come back.

The last thing i should tell you is how to make the Control Panel access back to Startmenu, it is very easy indeed, all you need to do is go back to regedit, in step 2 above, i told you to change the value data of ‘NoControlPanel’ from zero(0) to one(1), this is the explanation: one(1) means disappear, and zero(0) will obviously means that it will not disappear, very easy right?

I really hope this information can be useful for you or anyone else.

Flashgames at yetisports.org

There are so many sites that provides free minigames, flashgames, etc. But many of them are just games, not great games and some of them even poor games. When i visit yetisports.org, I find it very interesting playing games i downloaded from this site, they have like 7 games with 2 main characters, the yeti and the penguins.

All the games has its own line, like this first one, we have to hit the penguin for as far as we could to reach the highest points.

Other than that first one, there are 6 more games to play, most of it are in flash. these are the screen caps of some of it, i though i could upload them so that you can see the preview of the games.

And one more thing, these games are better to be can play it with your family,played not alone, you like your brother, or your little sister, or whoever you like, cause it’ll be more enjoyable if you play it with someone.

Update your XP MSConfig

I know most of XP users don’t even care about their MSConfig or maybe they don’t even use it at all. But, information will never hurt, right? Now let me just give you the link and a little description about the update :

It will change your MSConfig setting window from this :

to this:

With the ‘Tools’ tab we can easily access all the thirteen Windows XP tools that available in our harddisk, like Registry editor, programs, command prompt, etc.

Now that you know what the update is for, just decide whether you need it or not, the links are just below:

first, you can download from the original source : microsoft.com if you are sure that you can pass the Windows XP validation, cause it requires that before you download the update.

But if you want an instant download, i also have the link : 9down.com

Microsoft surface, tech will never stop !!

Say no more, just watch the video above and you’ll know what i mean by “tech will never stop”. If i had US$ 10,000 right now, i’ll be sitting in front of that Microsoft surface table thing, touching and pointing my fingers to it like crazy. That thing, by the name of God is the everything i could think a computer should be, at least today before they could create the next generation of a computer.

Speaking of the next, just for “blah blah” how do you think it would be? will it be in a shape of nothing, maybe. Or i don’t really know, what i know is they’ll do their job as long as they have the vision. Tech is now developing really quick and fast, i don’t think researchers even sleep enough, you know? they keep thinking forward on how the future will be.

- info from microsoft.com/surface

Windows XP Service Pack 3 is leaking . . .

This third service pack for Windows XP were originally scheduled to be released in 2006, but then is got postponed to 2007, and again it got postponed the second time, and now it is currently planned for the first half of 2008, i think it was all because of Windows Vista and stuffs that this SP3 is pushed to background by Microsoft, it was old news for them. But still not only this service pack is alive and kicking now on the web, but Microsoft also managed to leak details about what the refresh will contain.

Windows XP SP3, despite its collection of delays, will make it to the market, and Microsoft plans in integrate changes to Internet Explorer and to Windows Media Player into the refresh. “Microsoft has agreed to make changes to Windows XP, two Middleware Products, and Windows Live Messenger. The Windows Live Messenger changes have been delivered in the Windows Live Messenger 8.5 beta and will be included in the public release. Changes for Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player will be made available to users in August 2007 and Microsoft is discussing with the TC the delivery mechanism for those changes. The Windows XP changes will be incorporated into Service Pack 3 for Windows XP,” revealed the U.S. Justice department in its filing.

- info from news.softpedia.com

Moto GP # Valentino “The Doctor” Rossi is back in business !!!

For at least one more race, Rossi hold his biggest rival this season, Casey Stoner from becoming the world’s champion of Moto GP 2007. Right after the 28-year-old Italian rider passed Dani Pedrosa at the end of the race, he claimed this crucial victory as his fourth of the season, and first since the Dutch TT three months ago. This also means the bottle of champagne stays in the ice for the Ducati rider, Casey Stoner.

The fight and the real competition has just began, even though Rossi wins this Portuguese GP, but still the chance for the world champion is easier for Stoner to achieve than for Rossi, because of the point difference, because Rossi keep having bike trouble back then, engine trouble, etc. But now it seems like the bike doesn’t have any trouble anymore, we all hope this situation will stay till the end of the season so the competition will be fierce and on fire, you know what i mean?

The race itself started with Nicky Hayden on the pole position, tailed by Stoner and Rossi on the second and third grid. When the lights turn green, Stoner was the one who jump himself up front to take the lead but under the pressure of the Spanish Repsol Honda rider, Dani Pedrosa that burst through from the second row with his American rider teammate, Hayden on his tail in the third place. While they competing for the first place, Rossi who slipped to seventh st the first corner, didn’t take long to pass every rider in front of him to catch up to the leading group of one Ducati and two Hondas. Now it was all for these three to compete for the title after Hayden couldn’t hold his position to keep up with Stoner, Pedrosa, and Rossi. Stoner was still there until Pedrosa find a hole to come in and take the lead right before Rossi catching up the them. After Rossi can pass Stoner, there’s no way Stoner can catch right up to Rossi with his riding talent and Pedrosa with his incredible bike engine from Honda and of course not to mention that Stoner’s Bridgestone tyres failed to match the Michelins durability.

Although Pedrosa can keep fighting with Rossi, it was all for Rossi when the race reach a lap and a half to go, he flashed through Pedrosa to take the lead until the finish line to put the Portuguese Moto GP to the end.

Triple touchscreens mobile – Apple Iphone, Nokia Aeon, and LG Prada

There’s nothing to comment about these three, first thing to say should be “What a tech”. First, we got Apple Iphone, claimed as a mobile with the largest screen resolution today, 480-by-320 pixel at 160 dpi. Embedded with OS X operation system, with a complete wireless connetion like Wi-Fi, Edge, and Bluetooth, also not forgetting to provide a camera of 2.0 Megapixels on the back of the phone and of course with high video and audio playback, that is more than enough for a mobile not to mention so many more other great stuffs it can do, except for its camera that only 2.0 MP, but no worries cause we could always purchase a camera digital separately, right?

Second, there’s Nokia with its Aeon concept phone, but unfortunately Nokia hasn’t yet revealed when they’re gonna release this phone, at least not officially yet. So there has been no specification at all, no one knows what the phone can do, but i can almost sure that the phone must be great, as we could see in the pictures above, that’s one phone changes into three colors, very impressive i should say, aren’t you?

And now last but not least, i proudly present to you LG Prada, a deluxe phone for everyone if you have at least US$ 600 – US$ 800. It is a very fascinating and luxurious phone, we can see it from its deluxe package box. The Specifications are not quite difference with other phones, it is easy to use and surely also suitable for the less experienced or beginning mobile phone user.

All these phones are great but of course we cannot say that it’s the greatest, cause mobile tech is never stop maybe until we die. . . But i think i should say it again that these three are really a great phones, you could purchase one of them and i guarantee you will not regret it?!

- Info from Apple.com, Nokia.com, and LGmobile.com

 

Congrats to Venetian Macau Casino for its millionth visitor

The Venetian Macau Casino that claimed to be the world’s largest Casino resort welcomed its millionth visitor on Friday just 17 days from its official opening day. The lucky millionth visitor is granted with two nights hotel accommodation, dinner at the restaurant, and of course a cheque for HK$ 88,888 (about US$ 11,000), because ‘8′ is a lucky number in Chinese culture.

A million visitor for only 17 days running, it means an average of 55,000 visitors per day since it opened on August 28. The President of Sands Macau operation, Mark Brown also commented “To have received over one million visitors since our opening just 17 days ago is quite simply a momentous achievement.”

The casino resort which was built on part of the Cotai Strip development aiming to recreate Las Vegas in the southern Chinese city hopes to transform Macau from a betting destination to Asia’s leading entertainment centre, wow what a plan !!!