I do a little CG work from time to time, however, nothing prepared me for the eerie appearance of a photo/motion realistic CG of a female named “Emily”. Click the link for a video of the virtual creation herself.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4557935.ece
Coming to a Sprint store near you on Sept 11th (speculated):
“Victor”:
http://pocketpccentral.net/sprint_diamond.htm
Also, the phone Im personally waiting for Oct 11th (speculated):
“Touch Pro”:
http://www.htcwiki.com/page/HTC+TOUCH+PRO+for+SPRINT?t=anon
Impressive benchmark for the 2nd gen iPhone. Apparently 3 million units have moved off the shelves so far in the last month.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/08/11/analyst-iphone-3g-sold-3-million-so-far
In total sales from from July 07:
1st and 2nd gen sales at 8,407,000 units since the iPhone was constructed up to Aug 11th, 2008.
In comparison, Windows Mobile sold 18,000,000 units during the same time period:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080100468.html
The factory sound system of most Honda cars is absolutely horrible. Along with replacing the speakers it would be nice to add a subwoofer, however, space inside the small cabin is limited. Putting a sub in the trunk may be popular with folks looking to try and impress those around them but I want good sound in the cabin.
I found the following product from JL Audio called a stealth box that is custom made for a lot of vehicles including the Del Sol. The enclosure simply replaces the back cabin interior panel with two down-firing 8″ subs.
http://mobile.jlaudio.com/products_stealthbox_detail.php?fit_id=1403
Just as the title suggests, Xmms has been removed the repository for ubuntu hardy heron 8.04. From what I gathered on my limited reading of forum posts, Xmms was too unstable and not well maintained, thus it wasnt selected for inclusion in the standard ubuntu distro. I have heard that Audacious is the replacement program for Xmms like functionality. I just installed it today and will test it out.
For those still looking for Xmms, hit this link, and download the .DEB to install.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/i386/xmms/1:1.2.10+20070601-1build2
A must see for those into virtual sight-seeing. Google streetview captures a house fire:
** Update. Sorry, the image has been pulled. Too bad. Move down the street to the south to still see it **
Large Hadron Collider Rap – Very nice!
Following in the footsteps of fashion before function, eight lucky people purchased a “I am Rich” app for their iPhones costing about $1000. This app apparently does nothing more than display a message “I am Rich” when opened. Apple has since pulled the app from their store, however, the programmer is demanding to know why.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/08/iphone-i-am-ric.html
The Saturn Sky electric conversion car. Car $27K + Conversion $25K = ~$50K
Order one today: http://www.ampmotorworks.com/html/order.shtml
Finally a distribution solution for the upscale HDTV home theater crowd is now shipping. The ZeeVee ZvBox can encode/distribute a VGA HDTV signal over a QAM channel on baseband coax wire. If I can finally justify the $500 pricetag, I will definitely be getting one of these for home.