The new features are:

• 3G ( duh! )
• Avaliable in Dark Grey, Red
• Thinner ( 20% ) - MacBook Air like bezeling
• Stereo Speaker in the back
• Front Camera for iChat
• Exchange Support

Update: Engadget reports that these images are fake!

Its amazing to think that kiteboarding kites could revolution the windpower future - but actually just a few years back when I was just learning how to kite, ant the kite went into the death spin - it was pretty clear to me how much power this kite technology is capable of. View the prototype test video.

Source: ( Kite Gen ) | Artist illustration out of scale (reduced altitude of the power kites and increased diameter of the lines).

Source: Kite Gen | Artist illustration out of scale (reduced altitude of the power kites and increased diameter of the lines).
 

Check out this post or visit Kitegen’s website for more videos and technical specificaitons.

TinEye

is an image search engine, still in beta & invite only. You are able to upload an image and find out who uses your image on the web. It is so accurate that it even is able to find images that are modified versions of the original one - pretty impressive.

Is this the video that is supposed to proove the existence of Aliens? Sorry but this won’t cut it, one peak in the window and we are supposed to believe. Please give me some stronger evidence, some that can be taken more serious.

From the Rocky Mountain News’ liveblog:

The film shows a window, reportedly 8 feet off the ground in a rural Nebraska town in 2003.

In the enhanced version of the video, a creature pops up in the window, looks around, and pops back down, again and again.

“It looks like the quintessential Gray, right out of E.T.,” Scheiber [a skeptic] said.

Audience members wanted to know why the creature traveled all those light years just to peep in a window.

Yes, it would be good to know why they didn’t knock on the window!

By ImportGenius.com

Since mid-March, Apple Inc. and its logistics partners have imported 188 ocean containers of a product type never before declared on its shipping manifests. [...] On March 19 Quanta delivered 20 ocean containers of merchandise, described on the Bills of Lading as "electric computers," to Apple, Inc. Neither Apple, Quanta, nor any other company has ever used this product description for any shipments to the U.S. [...] Over the last few months shipments of "desktop computers" and other devices did not fall off, indicating that these "electric computers" represent a new product for the company rather than a simple renaming for their Customs declarations.

Check out this slideshow video of all the mobile phones starting 1985 until today ( May, 20th - 2008 ). I have to admit, I recognize 80% of the shown phones as prior owned. A big slap into my face that proves - "I love cell phones", and can’t wait for the 3G iPhone Model.

Based on Kevin Rose the new iPhones are supposed to have a video chat option?

Update: June 9th - Will the new 3G iPhone be black, and have a front side camera?

Saturday night, March 15, The Bone House Band played at Jacques’ Bistro in Paia for a benifit to support 6 year old Jacquline Steve’s continued fight with cancer. There was an incredible turn out and it was a very fun night! For donations, visit 4jacquline.com

This was the first session. ( Video below )

Read the real speech and ask yourself, are we not still very much a racist nation?   Can  white America ever truly see a black man or woman for who they are without heed to the color of their skin as an issue?  We have come a long way in America and we have a long way to go.  Why is it that when a messenger of hope steps forth, the arrows come tumbling out of their quivers?   Is it the backlash of guilt?

Please read this short speech and ask yourself if this is not the kind of America we live in and if the vision of his words are not where our country needs to go………………………………   

P.S.  I am not shilling for Obama.  That is not my intent.   (In fact, I am quite disgusted with both parties).  This is beyond who you are voting for.   This is about our country and addressing the very real issues we must face and conquer once and for all.

‘We have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle—as we did in the OJ trial—or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina—or as fodder for the nightly news.
‘We can play Reverend Wright’s sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.
‘We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she’s playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.
‘We can do that.

‘But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we’ll be talking about some other distraction. And then another one. And then another one. And nothing will change.
‘That is one option. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, ‘Not this time.’ This time we want to talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children and Asian children and Hispanic children and Native American children. This time we want to reject the cynicism that tells us that these kids can’t learn; that those kids who don’t look like us are somebody else’s problem. The children of America are not those kids, they are our kids, and we will not let them fall behind in a 21st century economy.

Not this time.

‘This time we want to talk about how the lines in the Emergency Room are filled with whites and blacks and Hispanics who do not have health care; who don’t have the power on their own to overcome the special interests in Washington, but who can take them on if we do it together.

‘This time we want to talk about the shuttered mills that once provided a decent life for men and women of every race, and the homes for sale that once belonged to Americans from every religion, every region, every walk of life. This time we want to talk about the fact that the real problem is not that someone who doesn’t look like you might take your job; it’s that the corporation you work for will ship it overseas for nothing more than a profit.

‘This time we want to talk about the men and women of every color and creed who serve together, and fight together, and bleed together under the same proud flag. We want to talk about how to bring them home from a war that never should’ve been authorized and never should’ve been waged, and we want to talk about how we’ll show our patriotism by caring for them, and their families, and giving them the benefits they have earned.

‘I would not be running for President if I didn’t believe with all my heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want for this country. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation—the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.

‘There is one story in particularly that I’d like to leave you with today—a story I told when I had the great honor of speaking on Dr. King’s birthday at his home church, Ebenezer Baptist, in Atlanta.
‘There is a young, twenty-three year old white woman named Ashley Baia who organized for our campaign in Florence, South Carolina. She had been working to organize a mostly African-American community since the beginning of this campaign, and one day she was at a roundtable discussion where everyone went around telling their story and why they were there.

‘And Ashley said that when she was nine years old, her mother got cancer. And because she had to miss days of work, she was let go and lost her health care. They had to file for bankruptcy, and that’s when Ashley decided that she had to do something to help her mom.
‘She knew that food was one of their most expensive costs, and so Ashley convinced her mother that what she really liked and really wanted to eat more than anything else was mustard and relish sandwiches. Because that was the cheapest way to eat.
‘She did this for a year until her mom got better, and she told everyone at the roundtable that the reason she joined our campaign was so that she could help the millions of other children in the country who want and need to help their parents too.

‘Now Ashley might have made a different choice. Perhaps somebody told her along the way that the source of her mother’s problems were blacks who were on welfare and too lazy to work, or Hispanics who were coming into the country illegally. But she didn’t. She sought out allies in her fight against injustice.
‘Anyway, Ashley finishes her story and then goes around the room and asks everyone else why they’re supporting the campaign. They all have different stories and reasons. Many bring up a specific issue. And finally they come to this elderly black man who’s been sitting there quietly the entire time. And Ashley asks him why he’s there. And he does not bring up a specific issue. He does not say health care or the economy. He does not say education or the war. He does not say that he was there because of Barack Obama. He simply says to everyone in the room, ‘I am here because of Ashley.’

”I’m here because of Ashley.’ By itself, that single moment of recognition between that young white girl and that old black man is not enough. It is not enough to give health care to the sick, or jobs to the jobless, or education to our children.
‘But it is where we start. It is where our union grows stronger. And as so many generations have come to realize over the course of the two-hundred and twenty one years since a band of patriots signed that document in Philadelphia, that is where the perfection begins.’

Again, you can watch or read the whole speech here:

Searchme went into a invite only beta on the 11th of March 2008, and you have to submit your email to receive a test account. What the compelling difference is between Searchme and any other search engine out there is that it returns results mostly in a visual format, as the image of the result site.

It feels like browsing through iTunes albums or the new Leopard file browsing feature. Pretty cool! Check out the video:

Zoho People is a Web-based solution that allows you to manage all aspect of human resources - Pre-created forms, Employee portal, Recruitment & resume management, Organization chart, and much more. Check out the screenshots and you will get the idea if you are in need of such a solution.

What I like about it is that it is free (for now) for up to 10 users - hey that beats salesforce at least and gives small companies the edge of an enterprise tool without the big monthly per user subscription.

Gramlee is a tool that anyone can use to transform their writing into powerful communication. Gramlee’s team of professional writers make the necessary changes to your text to ensure your next written piece is a work of art. What ?

Don’t get it - this has nothing to do with Web 2.0 or online grammar checking. The reality is that you have to paste your text in their text box, submit it and if it is over 100 words ( free offer now not available ) you have to pay for it. Hey, I don’t mind paying for it but what I don’t like is doing it oldschool. Develop a visual account process or a wordpress plugin, you might increase your chances to be called web 2.0

This software allows you to access files on your pc by using a software install on your Pc and their Avvenu Access & Share online account.

The features are:

Share a large file or folder
Grab the documents you need
View and share your photos
Listen to your music on the go? ( got to test it )

From Avvenu:

Avvenu gives you a direct route to your stuff on your computer, whether it’s your iTunes music collection, your photos, or your documents. Plus, you can share any file on your computer, with anyone you choose. Listen to your iTunes music collection–View your photos–Grab the documents you forgot–from anywhere even when your computer is turned off. It’s a two-minute set-up, and it’s instant gratification.

Check out the C|Net Review or go to the Avvenu Website directly.

Wow, I was checking today if YouTorrent was still up since I expect this search engine to be shut down any day now, and then I saw a post on their site announcing "300,000 searches/day" - impressive. They mention that they will 500,000 searches/day this month.

I understand how people think that everything should be free but at the same time I really don’t, specially when I see my own software being downloaded and cracked. What is this human notion that effort and ambition should be paid off by just stealing your results - this has nothing to do with freedom of speech or your rights.

Clearly some of you will put me against the wall and mention CherryOS, and say what about that incident - "cmon" I say! I wish I could give you all the facts and you would finally see more then some amplified facts that make up your judgement but I have not the right to do so, not yet.

What I am trying to say is that it is not responsible to create search engines or torrent engines that allow users to grab a hold of anything they want, even if it is possible. You think you are born with a right that people owe you something? Again, I just don’t get it.

Don’t understand me wrong, I like the fact that 3rd world countries have an option to utilize amazing software and content - but be realistic, how many of the 500,000 searches a day are them - would love to see those stats being posted by YouTorrent, give me some demographics please.

Why not unite and force the big Ms to agree to a deal - a deal that gives free licenses and access to the none privileged? Use our strength and power not to boost our ego (that’s what I understand from the post below), but to actually heal it.

From their blog:

1. We have passed 300,000 searches / day, we are on course to hit 500,000 by the end of February (thanks for your support guys!)

2. We have made the Digg front page three times:

http://digg.com/software/YouTorrent_Great_New_BitTorrent_Search_Engine
http://digg.com/tech_news/YouTorrent_Give_It_A_Shot_Before_It_s_Shut_Down
http://lifehacker.com/350405/top-10-bittorrent-tools-and-tricks

3. We made TechCrunch:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/19/youtorrent-give-it-a-shot-before-its-shut-down/

4. We made the top 10 alexa movers and shakers.

As you can see, this is very exciting news for YouTorrent! As far as new features go, we have now added engine customization and improved a few things. Soon you will be able to group torrents by hash, as well as do much more advanced searching. Stay tuned folks.

P.S. If you thought the news above was good, we promise you there is some even more incredible news around the corner

This application is similar to my own project iRapp ( the PC to Mac apps access ), well the usability concept since Virtualbox is not a remote access tool but a Linux app that lets you run Windows applications within their own windows. Check out the instructions of how to make it work here.

This shows a neckband that intercepts nerve signals and allows you to talk on the phone without speaking out / emitting a sound. Footage was taked at the TI Developer Conference 2008, Dallas.

The next generation of voice technology may bypass the mouth, finally - I hope we this can bring silence, but could the ring be withing the neckband too?

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YouTube Blog:

We try really hard to make YouTube as open as possible…Nevertheless, we worried that we weren’t open enough. So, we pulled some all-nighters and added some powerful new ways to integrate YouTube content and community into other websites, desktop applications, video games, mobile devices, televisions, cameras, and lots more.

For users, the exciting news is that they will be able to actively participate in the YouTube community from just about anywhere, including the online destinations and web communities they already love and visit regularly. For partners and developers, YouTube has grown into much more than a website. It has become an open, general purpose, video services platform, available for use by just about any third-party website, desktop application, or consumer device. We now provide a complete set of (CRUD) capabilities for uploading, managing, searching, and playing back user videos and metadata from the YouTube “cloud,” managed by us. We do all of the hard work of trans coding and hosting and streaming and thumb-nailing your videos, and we provide open access to our sizable global audience, enabling you to generate traffic for your site, visibility for your brand, or support for your cause….

The number of possible new applications is endless. Electronic Arts has enabled gamers to capture videos of fantastical user-generated creatures from their upcoming game, Spore, and publish these directly into YouTube. The University of California, Berkeley is bringing free educational content to the world, enhancing their open source lecture capture and delivery system to publish videos automatically into YouTube. Animoto enables its users to create personalized, professional-quality music videos from their own photos and upload them directly to YouTube. Tivo is providing its users a rich and highly participative YouTube viewing experience on the television.

 

Specifically, the new APIs allow Web developers to:

* Upload videos and video responses to YouTube
* Add/Edit user and video metadata (titles, descriptions, ratings, comments, favorites, contacts, etc)
* Fetch localized standard feeds (most viewed, top rated, etc.) for 18 international locales
* Perform custom queries optimized for 18 international locales
* Customize player UI and control video playback (pause, play, stop, etc.) through software

Google Ad Manager is a hosted ad management solution that can help sell, schedule, deliver, and measure all directly-sold or network-based ad inventory.

Its sitll a soft launch and invite only access is allowed currently.

With FACEinHOLE you can easily and in a matter of seconds create a totally "new look" for you and your friends. You just have to select a scenario, upload and adjust a photo (or use your webcam) and there you have it; a great FACEinHOLE that you can send to your friends, post in your blog or make available to the world.

Liveshouts is a handy place to keep in touch with your friends, share photos taken on your mobile and let others know what you are up to.

Looks to me like a twitter clone.

On Netlog, you can create your own account with pictures, blogs, a guestbook, and much more. You can find people from your area, expand your friends network, or find people having the same interests as you.

A british company called ThruVision has developed a surveillance cam that is able to detect weapons, drugs or explosives behind people’s closes from up to 80 feet (25 meters) away. The T5000 camera utilizes a method called the "passive imaging technology" to identify objects by the emitted natural electromagnetic rays known as Tera hertz or T-rays.

The cam is able effective even on moving subjects but at the same time is not able to reveal any embarrassing body details, also based on ThruVision the screening process is harmless.

This technology could be used in military and civilian applications, for example airports, sporting events, school or shopping malls.

Interesting but also scary, welcome to the surveillance society.

Coffeenatic is a social network for people who love coffee. It helps such people find friends with the same interest. It also a great source of new coffee recipes. The service allow to share people’s personal opinions about different sorts, kinds and blends of coffee and different coffee recipes.

Zhura provides the an advanced online screenwriting tool, plus the ability to connect with writers around the globe. On Zhura you can work on your own projects, work with friends in private groups, or collaborate with other writers in the public community.

Mogopop is a free web-based service where members and visitors can create, publish and download multimedia content for iPod. This content that can incorporate audio, video, pictures, podcasts, and text. Mogopop downloads are like mini-Websites for iPod that anyone can enjoy.