questionable Android mobile wallpaper app, which collects your personal data and sends it to a mysterious site in China, has been downloaded millions of times
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It collects a user’s browsing history, text messages, your phone’s SIM card number, subscriber identification, and even your voice mail password.
You have nobody to blame.
I thought it's just me, but it's real: gym is way more crowded on Mondays. If you didn't notice, maybe you should go to gym on Friday once in a while.
During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" seemingly at random. This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance.
Pretty cool.
The Tetris effect occurs when an activity to which people devote sufficient time and attention begins to overshadow their thoughts, mental images, and dreams. It is named after the video game Tetris.
I'm fully aware I've been experiencing such thing over the years. I just found out that it has a name.
There is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit.
"Such bad luck," they said sympathetically.
"We'll see," the farmer replied.
The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses.
"How wonderful," the neighbors exclaimed.
"We'll see," replied the old man.
The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy on his misfortune.
"We'll see," answered the farmer.
The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. Seeing that the son's leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out.
"We'll see" said the farmer.
Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.
Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.
From 1995.
To make video calling work, you have to install an app yourself: either Fring or Qik. But we never did get Fring to work, and Qik requires people you call to press a Talk button when they want to speak. The whole thing is confusing and, to use the technical term, iffy.
Compare with FaceTime
Android Fanboys care about openness and choice. iPhone Fanboys care about presentation and experience.
So, what about Windows Phone SomethingSomething 7?
Remember the JooJoo? e27 reports that it is coming to Singapore soon:
JooJoo is well on its way to Singapore as we speak. Tonight at 11:59 pm, you can pre-order your very own JooJoo from their website. Singapore residents will have the choice of owning the JooJoo, well before the iPad makes a landing on the island!
699 SGD for the JooJoo, and 39.99 SGD for JooJoo Stand. I wonder how many days they're gonna need to sell their millionth device.
This program downloads the entire Boston Globe Big Picture photo series and tags each photo with their relevant caption.
Open Source, nifty little application to download the entire series from The Big Picture, and their captions, for your own offline viewing.
Battery and heat are also of concern: the pre-release beta we have, according to Adobe, lacks hardware acceleration
The newly released, Google's "open" platform with funny name, Froyo, apparently comes with Flash implementation that lacks of hardware acceleration. It also gets "piping hot" after heavy video watching.
I wonder what's Adobe's excuse. Is it not open enough for them?
“We believe Apple is now selling >200k iPads/week, greater than US Macs (est. 110k Macs/week) and just below US iPhone 3GS first quart (246k/week).”
Wow... just wow...
Hi, my name is Amudi. I make apps, websites, and (sometimes) video games in Singapore. Here, you will find some interesting stuff I found on the internet, and probably boring writings that I wrote.
You can email me: amudi@amudi.org
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