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18V Drill Powered Mini Bike!
Here’s a unique way to make an electric bike. You can actually buy this one for $629.
Weight 33 LBS. Speed 15MPH. Distance on battery charge depends on battery type and voltage from 2 miles to 6 miles or more. Front and rear suspension will carry 250 Lb Rider.
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Green Laser Projector!
Remember I made a simple homemade DIY green projector? Well you can buy one at Brando gadgets for about $80.
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Will Firefox Mobile Make It in Time?
Sure it’s early days in the mobile browser wars, but early days have a tendency to fly by quickly, and by the time Firefox introduces a beta version of its upcoming mobile browser later this year, it may be too late. Last night Aza Raskin, head of user experience for Mozilla Labs, posted a demo of the forthcoming mobile browser along with some ideas and features he’s thinking about. He has some good ones. But he also has a large blind spot in that he says it’s designed for a touch phone.
Touch, and Raskin’s realization that fingers are fat and so buttons need to be big, are what makes the demo so compelling. However, even as touch spreads as a user interface, plenty of people may never have such an advanced device at all. Jay Sullivan, VP of Firefox Mobile, said the company is developing for other interfaces as well, but it’s difficult. “The non-touch devices present a super design challenge, especially those without QWERTY keyboards. No existing browsers are very usable on those devices, so there’s a lot of room for innovation there,” Sullivan said.
Still, it’s hard to hear Mozilla CEO John Lilly talk about the value of bringing an open web to mobile users, rather than a web experience filtered through carriers to cell phone subscribers, and not hope for success. But even aside from the relative dearth of touch phones out there, Firefox mobile has several barriers to overcome.
The mobile browsers using WebKit as their platform are farther along, and as Om points out, WebKit (unlike Firefox on the desktop) results in a smaller footprint when compared with other mobile browsers. There’s also the grand champion of mobile browsers in Opera Mini, which had 11.9 million users as of March, to fight off. And let’s not forget startup browsers such as Skyfire for Windows Mobile devices. I think Firefox would be well-advised to get the lead out and start wowing with innovations beyond touch.
Linux starting to take over the world with Mini-notebooks and netbooks!
Recently, I’ve been noticing that more and more laptop manufacturers are putting Linux on their mini-notebooks inluding the Eec PCs.
I’ve actually predicted that Linux would take over Windows back in year 1999 within 5 years. Boy was I wrong but my prediction that Linux will take over Windows will be true in about another 5 years AFTER the mini-laptop sales really takes off and Linux takes over 50% market share.
Well, it could just be me rambling, then again, it is true that Linux is virtually free and easily customizable to any small laptops as the operating system doesn’t take much resources than even a Windows XP.
Microsoft is afraid of Linux!
Microsoft is afraid of Linux because once people start catching on to Linux and start using it more often, there will be no more need for Windows. By then, the only way Microsoft will be able to compete with Linux is by going open-source and making Windows royalty-free.
Want to know about how Linux came about?
Linux basically arised out of a steroid-equipped Minix. Minix was an operating system made for educational purposes by copying Unix. The creator of Minix, Mr. Tannenbaum never made any big money off Minix.
However, Linus Torvalds, hacked Minix and created Linux. Linux is basically a free Unix really.
Mr. Torvalds never really made big bucks off Linux either as he wasn’t greedy like Bill Gates. He did however revolutionize how open-software was made forever. If you don’t believe me, take a look at Wikipedia. Linux was there first, not Wikipedia.
Microsoft sits alone at the cafe as Acer walks out, peering into its empty coffee cup, thinking, “I don’t need her anyway.” What are we getting at? Acer VP of Marketing Gianpiero says the computer company is seeing a big future with Linux. He says the cost of Windows over Linux — especially in its low-cost products like the Aspire One — is the biggest reason, and offered this meta explanation: “We have shifted towards Linux because of Microsoft. Microsoft has a lot of power and it is going to be difficult, but we will be working hard to develop the Linux market.” It’s not you, Microsoft. It’s Acer. Really.