Monday, October 31, 2005

Cand3la's Halloween


cand3la_Halloween
Originally uploaded by cand3la.
To all of my readers and friends:

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

SCOTTEVEST [SeV] - Technology Enabled Clothing

SCOTTEVEST [SeV] - Technology Enabled Clothing has clothing for the geek in all of us. It's kind of cool to be able to carry with you all your tech-devices. Networking? this this clothing line even has a personal area network...

HotRecorder

HotRecorder allows you to easily record and convert iTunes* and Yahoo! Music Unlimited** files into universal formats that are now playable on an iPod and on any other MP3 players.

Fibre optic data transfer record struck

A JAPANESE outfit is claiming it has broken a record for data transmission after stuffing a two hour movie down a fibre optic cable in 0.5 seconds.

Kansai Electric used fibre-optic cables on power-transmitting steel towers to achieve the speed of one terabit per second.

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Zombie masters hunted down

Microsoft claims to have tracked down those responsible for using vast botnets to send forth torrents of spam hoping to turn the tide on spam zombies, Microsoft has filed suit against entities it said used compromised PCs to send millions of junk email messages.

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Partners in Mobile WiMAX

Intel Corporation and Motorola have teamed up, to help accelerate the standardization of the proposed IEEE 802.16e specification for mobile WiMax.

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Software Notebook: Surprise alliance for MSN book search prompts concern

Microsoft has been trying to control its own destiny in the critical Internet search business, crafting its own technologies to replace those it has licensed from a rival. But in announcing a new book-search initiative last week, the company took a different approach.

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IBM, Google hook up in search

IBM and Google have teamed up in the search field, with the computer manufacturer integrating its WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition Enterprise search system with the search engine's Desktop search tool.

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Russia to Launch Europe's Venus Mission on November 9

The European Space Agency's first mission to Venus will be launched on Nov. 9, Russia has announced.

According to the Russian Space Agency's announcement, quoted by the RIA-Novosti news agency, Venus Express will be launched on Nov. 9 at 3:33 GMT from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on the Russian Soyuz-Fregat rocket.

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PC Pro: News: Samsung leaps at iTunes-free Asia

Samsung is hoping to take a bite out of Apple's iPod sales in Asia by launching a music downloads store to complement its own range of MP3 players.

Apple's iTunes Music Store had a successful launch in Japan earlier this year but has yet to open elsewhere, leaving a gap that Samsung hopes to fill.

Friday, October 28, 2005

Cool Yahoo! Podcast Search

Yahoo! Search - Audio Search

Check it out!

PCWorld.com - Industry Group Tackles Spyware

PCWorld.com - Industry Group Tackles Spyware

A new coalition of technology companies and public interest organizations has hit some early milestones in its effort to combat spyware. On Thursday, the Anti-Spyware Coalition published two documents that the group hopes will take the computer security industry a step closer toward setting best practices for stopping this type of annoying and invasive software.

PCWorld.com - Microsoft Stalks Super Spammers

PCWorld.com - Microsoft Stalks Super Spammers

Microsoft announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against groups that use zombie computers. The software giant took the action after learning through a company experiment that use of infected PCs to thwart spam blockers and pass along immense quantities of junk e-mail is more widespread and disruptive than Microsoft expected.

PCWorld.com - Canon Tests Hydrogen Fuel Cell

PCWorld.com - Canon Tests Hydrogen Fuel Cell

TOKYO -- Canon has unveiled a prototype hydrogen fuel cell it has developed to power portable electronics products such as digital still cameras.

PCWorld.com - Motorola, Intel Team on Mobile WiMax

PCWorld.com - Motorola, Intel Team on Mobile WiMax

With the IEEE 802.16e specification for mobile WiMax slowly moving toward approval, Motorola and Intel are now teaming up to help lay the groundwork for the next phase of standardization: establishing WiMax Forum profiles for implementing the mobile version of the wireless broadband technology.

Frappr!

I just set a cool API Map with Frappr. Click on Frappr! Cand3la to add your location on the map!

This is so cool!

Check out our Frappr!

Star Reporter: Venus, Mars will glow brightly on Halloween - PittsburghLIVE.com

Star Reporter: Venus, Mars will glow brightly on Halloween - PittsburghLIVE.com

It's unlikely that many children will dress up as Galileo or Copernicus for Halloween, but that doesn't mean that adults can't play the parts this year.

For those who have a little bit of astronomer in them, there will be plenty to look at in Armstrong County skies on Halloween night.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Red Planet set for close approach

Mars is set for a close encounter with Earth, approaching to within 69.4 million km (43.1 million miles) of our planet in the early hours of Sunday.

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Hurricane Wilma: Update!


Originally uploaded by cand3la.
I will like to apologize for my delay in posting. As you all might know I have been busy with clean up from Hurricane Wilma.

I'll like to report that my electricity came back on last night. I did not have structural damage to my home. All I got from Wilma was two day with no electricity and phone. Also I got a broken water pipe which was fixed the next morning. I even got my cable at the same time as I got my electricity.

It was a little scary while we were under the Wilma but everything was ok right after. I don’t remember ever seen such shiny stars as the night before, maybe because the whole city was in the darkness due to the lack of electricity. It was beautiful!

One funny thing did happen to me while sitting at my house with no electricity; I was on my laptop’s battery writing my book when my computer said that I was connected to a low linksys network. I try opening my browser and there I was, online. I have no idea who could it be since there was absolutely no electricity. It was kind of freaky!
I open my AIM and started talking my favorite author Meghan Marco (Click here to view IM Conversation). Been online did not last but It was fun while it lasted.

I will like to thank all of my friends for your concern emails. My family and I are ok.

Thanks...

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Extreme High-Res Satellite Image of Hurricane Wilma

Here is a High Resolution Satellite Image of Hurricane Wilma over the Caribbean Sea. The image was taken from Satellite Terra on October 29, 2005. (Image Size = ~6MB)

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New Apple Quad Cores

Apple releases the new quad core power mac. That is awesome quad 2.5 G5s, terabyte hard drive and up to 16 GB of ram!

http://www.apple.com/powermac/

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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Will Yahoo Buy AOL?

Yahoo is the latest in a series of companies looking to purchase a stake in AOL.

gada.be

This is so cool if you like to read blogs. Gada.be is a real cool Blog search.

The Apple Store (U.S.)

How do you like the new Power book?

Second Life: Your World. Your Imagination.

How do you like this Game?

F u t u r e M e . o r g

Want to email yourself in the future?

Try this...

Hak5 Real Player Spoof Freaking Hilarious

Ok this is just funny it's an older episode but oh how true :) I burst out laughing when I saw this :) Here is the direct link... http://hak5.tv/releases/1x02/hak.5.1x02.teaser.mov ... PS When is real going to give up already...

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India concerned about Google Maps

The easy availability online of detailed maps of countries from services such as Google Earth can be misused by terrorists, according to Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

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Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Doom: The Movie Gets A Good Review!!! There Is Hope!!!

This review is from IGN and they talk about what makes Doom, "The best videogame-to-film adaptation yet." It is a great read and talks about how the film makers used the FPS view and also when it works and when it doesn't. Defiantly worth the read.

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PirateBay Quake-ifies itself

Apparently the leaked Quake 4 is real and Pirate Bay changed their little ship to honor it. Click the ship it takes you straight to the download!

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Wilma, where are you going?

Here we go again!

Are we brazing for Wilma now?

When is it going to end?

Monday, October 17, 2005

My Self Esteem

If you are one of the few lucky people that know me personally, then you'll know that I normally have a low sefl esteem. I have done one of the most stupid things that I have ever know any one to do. I put a pictuce of me in Hot or Not dot com.

Is this wrong?

Maybe not, maybe so but I know one thing, if I get a low number it definetely not help my self esteem. Which I know that is what i am going to end up with.

I'm sure I am not the only one thinking this way. Have ever woke up and felt this way?

Do you feel this way because of people around you or is it because of you?

I am not talking about the people that have a mental condition, I am talking about normal people.

Have you seen those people that are always smiling and have that appearance that they are please with themself?

I wonder if these type of people have this issues.

Is it this way when you reach a certain age?

Does age have anything to do with this issue?

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Apple beams in video iPod

Steve Jobs finally spills the expected beans: The new iPod supports video and more. It will be offered as a 30GB model for $299 and a 60GB version for $399. The device will also be 30 percent thinner than Apple's current iPod models, feature a 2.5-inch display, and an onboard iSight digital camera that can capture both images and video.

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DigitalLife TV Episode 9 WATCH IT NOW

Everyone get up and watch it, the more people watch the more they will do. They all need us to watch it especially when its live so they can see people are taking their time out to stop everything else and watch it. I know I am. Im looking forward to IPTV Ruling the bandwidth! Heheh!

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More new iPods on the way...

Apple plans to introduce more iPods before the end of the year, a company executive said on Tuesday.

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Wi-Fi: Yet another MIMO for the Mix

When a news release trumpeting a new next-generation Wi-Fi standard from a group called the Enhanced Wireless Consortium landed in my inbox yesterday, my first thought was, oh great--just what we need: another pre-802.11n MIMO technology to confuse consumers.

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IM merger expected today

Microsoft and Yahoo are expected to announce a deal today that will allow their respective instant messaging clients to talk to each other.

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Hitchcock-Liked movie now public domain. Download 1gb, 4gb or steaming version.

A recent widow gets chased by three men claiming $250000 her late husband supposedly stole from the government. Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Matthau.

1GB - http://www.archive.org/download/charade/charade.mpg
4GB - http://www.archive.org/download/charade/charade.mpeg
Streaming - http://www.archive.org/stream/charade/charade_256kb.mp4

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Monday, October 10, 2005

Linux in a web browser

Try out linux in a web browser! Uses Java.

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Thursday, October 06, 2005

Windows Vista: The Final Countdown

The real power in this platform has always been tied to the support of the developer community. When they get excited about changes the platform's potential is better realized. When they don't the market simply doesn't move. The developers at this year's PDC seemed more excited than I have seen in years.

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Changes to IPv6 in Windows Vista and Windows Server

Both Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" (now in beta testing) include the Next Generation TCP/IP stack, a redesigned TCP/IP protocol stack with an integrated version of both Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).

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Wednesday, October 05, 2005

And you though DVD Decripter was gone...

Visit the Official ImgBurn Website and you'll see that someone decided to follow on DVD Decripter's footsteps.

What a relieve!!!!!!

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Computers from 50 years ago

Nice gallery of how we got here. Admire the large square mice or laugh at the single figure numbers.

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There's a catch to free Wi-Fi

Google's Free WIFI has a catch.

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Microsoft gets hacker feedback on IE7 Beta 2

Microsoft aims to engage the 'security research community' more in the future...

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Martin Sargent Joins Revision 3

In an interview with Martin Sargeant on Computer America Radio , he confirmed that he is currently working with Revision3 on a podcast. March on Unscrewed Army!

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AMD Launches Cheap PC in U.S.

Finally you could get a computer for $299 if you are a U.S. consumers of modest means or just looking for a good deal.

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WiFi competition in S.F

TWO DOZEN COMPANIES WILL BATTLE GOOGLE TO PROVIDE PUBLIC WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS. But I think the internet access will be free!!!

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Microsoft shows off new games

In the five months since Microsoft Corp. unveiled a prototype of its new video-game machine, the Xbox 360, the company has tried to generate excitement by staging demonstrations of the console's ability to play music and display digital photographs and by trumpeting its online community features.

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Saturday, October 01, 2005

New WindowsXP SP3 Information

New WindowsXP SP3 Information about new fixes.

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AMD Launches Cheap PC in U.S.

Finally you could get a computer for $299 if you are a U.S. consumers of modest means or just looking for a good deal.

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