GOOGLE MUSIC STORE RELASE

Google Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich are almost upon us. Another feature is the Google Music Store.The present store is just a locked in cloud but there is evidence that google is planning to turn it into an actual store. An apparent feature is a "Free Song Of The Day" spot which performs the function of its title.
Google might go hand-in-hand with Android for the sale of songs.

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Play station 3 and X-box 360 combined?

If you were thinking that what you see above is just another PC mod work, then you’re definitely wrong. What you see here is the future of gaming… well not really, but it will give you more space. It nicely combines the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, two of the rival current generation consoles into a single neat-looking case.

As you can see in the image above, this is not your ordinary mod work. It’s not just a matter of taking both consoles and placing them in a single enclosure. The genius creator of this do-it-yourself masterpiece claims that there’s not much problems in doing this in terms of the hardware and software. In fact, he’s currently working on a guide that would allow others to do the same thing he did.

As for the technicalities of the build, one issue that others might have with a build like this is the temperature as both consoles are known to have great processing power that results in higher temperatures. The creator didn’t opt for liquid cooling, as most would probably have, since the two units are properly cooled without it (with the PS3 between 38-39 degrees while 37-38 for the Xbox). Also, the PS3 unit used here was the large one, so that also plays to the form factor.

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Carol bartz fired as yahoo CEO

As derogatory as that title sounds, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz was fired from her office after receiving a phone call from Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock. The termination came as much as a surprise to the employees as to Bartz herself. In a note sent via her iPad, we quote:

To all,
I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward.
Carol
Sent from my iPad

Bartz came to Yahoo! in January of 2009 after turning down software giant Microsoft’s offer to buy the company at $44.6 billion. She then cut costs be trimming down the company’s head count as well as terminating Yahoo!’s other businesses like Zimbra, Geocities and Delicious. She’s also the cause for Yahoo!’s partnership with Microsoft which was seen as searches with the tagline “powered by Bing” attached — though the company still has to see the financial effect of that deal as their revenue is still down 5% as of their recent earnings announcement. In response to this termination, Yahoo! CFO Tim Morse was elected as interim CEO while the board is still looking for a suitable leader.

Apparently, investors liked this move as Yahoo!’s stocks rose by 6% to close at $13.32 per share. As addendum, this gain was more than what the company produced since Bartz took over as CEO.

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Android sandwich underway!

Now here’s an ice cream sandwich that everyone would wanna eat. At San Francisco’s Dreamforce conference, Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt mentioned (accidentally?) that the next Android upgrade, deliciously named Ice Cream Sandwich, is due for release sometime in October or November. To quote the chairman:

We have a new operating system, internally known as Ice Cream Sandwich for some reason, which is being released in October/November, which everyone’s really excited about.

Current Android devices use a separate OS for mobile phones and tablets. With the Ice Cream Sandwich, Google aims to bring the best of Honeycomb and Gingerbread into one universal mobile operating system. This can also add to the speculation that the next Nexus phone, Samsung’s Nexus Prime, which is rumored to be released in the same time. As October comes nearer, more and more rumors will come out. Until then, head onto the video below for Schmidt’s statement.

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Opera mini 6.1 for mobile phones

Opera min 6.1 is an updated version of 6.0 or the beta version. to download, click here. 
Note: this is not recommended for low memory phones

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New alqaeda leader

Saif al-Adel acting leader of al Qaeda,

Saif al-Adel  

Born April 11, 1960/63 Egypt


Other names Muhammad Ibrahim Makkawi
Ibrahim al-Madani
Omar al-Sumali


Saif al-Adel (Arabic: سيف العدل‎) is an Egyptian explosives expert and alleged by some to be the current leader of al-Qaeda. In May 2011, after the death of Osama bin Laden, he was reported to have been chosen for the position.

Adel is under indictment for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Africa. According to the indictment, Adel is a member of the majlis al shura of al-Qaeda and a member of its military committee, and he provided military and intelligence training to members of al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Sudan, and to anti-UN Somali tribes. It is possible that his trainees included the Somalis of the first Battle of Mogadishu. He established the al-Qaeda training facility at Ras Kamboni in Somalia near the Kenyan border.

He was one of the masterminds of the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat, and left the country in 1988 to join the mujahideen in repelling the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He is then believed to have traveled to southern Lebanon along with Abu Talha al-Sudani, Sayful Islam al-Masri, Abu Ja`far al-Masri, and Abu Salim al-Masri, where he trained alongside Hezbollah Al-Hejaz.


In Khartoum, Adel taught recruited militants how to handle explosives in the unused sections of Al-Damazin Farms.

He is married to the daughter of Mustafa Hamid, and they have five children together.

Along with Saeed al-Masri and Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, he is believed to have opposed the September 11 attacks two months prior to their execution.

Militant connections

Several months before the 1998 embassy bombings, Adel was helping Bin Laden move his followers from Najim Jihad to Tarnak Farms. The group had begrudgingly agreed to care for the troublesome Canadian 16-year old Abdurahman Khadr, since his father was away and his mother couldn't control his drinking, smoking and violent outbursts. However, while in Kabul, Adel was approached by bin Laden and asked to take Abdurahman to the bus station and have him sent back to his family's home.

In approximately 2000, he was living in the Karte Parwan district of Kabul. On the local walkie-talkie communications in the city, he was identified as #1

On September 9, 2001 Adel was approached by Feroz Ali Abbasi who said he was so impressed by the killing of Ahmed Shah Massoud that he wanted to volunteer for something similar.The entire crew of the tank escaped. Shrapnel hit Khalid in the head, paralyzing the left side of his body. He recovered after four months, except for a slight effect in his left hand. ”


Saif al-Adl describing November 2001 American attack against militant tank near Kandahar


In early November 2001, the Taliban government announced they were bestowing official Afghan citizenship on him, as well as Bin Laden, Zawahiri, Mohammed Atef, and Shaykh Asim Abdulrahman. During the American bombardment of Kandahar, Adel was present and witnessed the deaths of Abu-Ali al-Yafi'i and his wife, Abu-Usamah al-Ta'zi with his wife and two children, the wife of Rayyan al-Ta'zi, the wife of Abu-Usamah al-Kini, and the wife of Al-Barra al-Hijazi who was arrested in Morocco before the Casablanca bombings.

On November , Adel was working with Abu-Muhammad al-Abyad, Abd-al-Rahman al-Masri, and Abu-Usamah al-Filastini, Abu-Husayn al-Masri and Faruq al-Suri; all of whom were staying in his empty house with him at night. In the early morning hours of November 19, he woke them up just minutes before the al-Wafa charity building was bombed, phoning friends in the area, he learned that Abdul Wahid had been killed in the explosion. He later learned that Asim al-Yamani from Al Farouq training camp and the elderly Abu-Abd-al-Rahman Al-Abiy had run to the charity's headquarters and begun rescuing survivors and pulling out the dead bodies. The pair had then agreed the area was not safe, and sent their women to the smaller villages, while they used their two cars to try and unpack their house's contents. An American jet bombed the pair, killing al-Yamani and wounding al-Abiy.[9] As it was the third day of Ramadan, the group in Adel's house began to prepare and eat Suhoor, but were interrupted by a cruise missile striking 100 metres away, destroying an empty house belonging to an Afghan Arab family, and a Taliban barracks. They gathered their belongings and quickly left, fearing another strike. Adel went to the hospital, where he visited the wounded al-Abiy, and arranged for him to be transferred to a hospital in Pakistan.

He was told by Abu Ali al-Suri that the American aircraft had machinegunned women leaving the city on the road to Banjway, and assured him that he would send aid. A convoy of 4-6 Corolla Fielders set out to Banjway, followed closely by American helicopters. The Americans attacked the lead vehicle, killing Abu-Ali al-Yafi'i, his wife, four women, and two children - and the second vehicle, killing Suraqah al-Yamani and Hamzah al-Suri. Abu-Ali al-Maliki quickly veered off the road with the third vehicle, turning off his headlights, and drove into the mountains escaping the attack.

Since al-Qaeda's military chief Mohammed Atef was killed in 2001, it has sometimes been said that Adel would be his natural successor in that role.

There has been speculation that Adel fled Afghanistan to Iran and was detained under house arrest near Tehran. Later reports indicate that he was released in late 2010 and made his way to northern Pakistan. Although Abu Hafs Al Mauritania was reported killed in a January 2002 American airstrike, it was also suggested he may have fled to Iran with Adel. We say to those who want a quick victory, that this type of war waged by the Mujahideen employs a strategy of the long-breath and the attrition and terrorization of the enemy, and not the holding of territory. ”

—Saif al-Adel, March 2003.


In 2004, he published a "terrorist manual" entitled "The Base of the Vanguard", an Arabic pun on the phrases al-Qaeda ("the base") and the Vanguards of Conquest.

Saif al-Adel was a key source in a 2005 book on al-Qaeda's global strategy by journalist Fouad Hussein.

Adel has been on the FBI's list of Most Wanted Terrorists since its inception in 2001. The State Department's Rewards for Justice Program is offering up to US$5 million for information on his location.

Writings of Saif al-Adel

In February 2006 the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point published a number of declassified documents from the Harmony database, some of which are known or believed to have been written by Saif al-Adel. One is a letter signed "Omar al-Sumali, previously known as Saif al-Adel", about the author's activities in southern Somalia during UNOSOM II (1993–1995). It identifies Ras Kamboni as a suitable site for an al-Qaeda base. It mentions an accomplice of Adel called "Mukhtar". In a letter from "‘Abd-al-Halim Adl" to "Mukhtar", dated 13 June 2002, the author strongly criticises the leadership of Osama bin Laden, blaming al-Qaeda's preceding disastrous six months on bin Laden's recklessness and unwillingness to listen to advice.

If someone opposes [bin Ladin], he immediately puts forward another person to render an opinion in his support, clinging to his opinion and totally disregarding those around him...
Perhaps, brother Abu Mattar has warned you that his opinion [of bin Ladin's leadership] has changed a lot since he got out of his previous situation.

The 2002 addressee "Mukhtar" appears to be the commander of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed:

The East Asia, Europe, America, Horn of Africa, Yemen, Gulf, and Morocco groups have fallen, and Pakistan has almost been drowned in one push. I, not to mention the other individuals who have also moved and fallen, have often advised on this matter. Regrettably, my brother, if you look back, you will find that you are the person solely responsible for all this because you undertook the mission, and during six months, we only lost what we built in years.

In 2004, Adel was also alleged to be the author behind The Al-Battar Military Camp, a manual that advised prospective militants about how to strike easy targets.

On March 11, 2005, Al-Quds Al-Arabi published extracts from Adel's document "Al Quaeda's Strategy to the Year 2020".

In March 2007 the Pentagon posted on the Internet a transcript of part of the hearing into the combatant status of detainee Ramzi bin al-Shibh. Some of the evidence against bin al-Shibh came from a diary of Saif al-Adel:

Sayf al-Adel is a senior al Qaida military commander with a long-term relationship with Usama bin Laden. Sayf al-Adel's role in the organization has been as a trainer, military leader, and key member of Usama bin Laden's security detail.
The diary of Sayf al-Adel was recovered during a raid in Saudi Arabia in 2004. The diary details the Detainee's involvement in the 11 September 2001 terrorist plot and subsequent attack. The Detainee is listed as a "highly professional jihadist" along with "9/11 hijackers", Mohammed Atta and Ziad Jarrah. The diary states that the three were briefed on an operation involving aircraft by Abu Hafs, a senior al Qaida planner.

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¤UPDATE¤ Latest MTN cheat

The latest Info: ¤UPDATE¤ Latest MTN cheat: "New tweak for operamini users on the MTN network. This tweak can be used with mtn default settings or MTN prov settings. If you wish to use..."

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Create a football team for facebook

I came accross a tip for making a football team on facebook so i  decided to share. To do this, follow the link below: It should look like this:

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Sixth sense

'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something, someone or some place, we use our five natural senses to perceive information about it; that information helps us make decisions and chose the right actions to take. But arguably the most useful information that can help us make the right decision is not naturally perceivable with our five senses, namely the data, information and knowledge that mankind has accumulated about everything and which is increasingly all available online. Although the miniaturization of computing devices allows us to carry computers in our pockets, keeping us continually connected to the digital world, there is no link between our digital devices and our interactions with the physical world. Information is confined traditionally on paper or digitally on a screen. SixthSense bridges this gap, bringing intangible, digital information out into the tangible world, and allowing us to interact with this information via natural hand gestures. ‘SixthSense’ frees information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer.

The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.

The SixthSense prototype implements several applications that demonstrate the usefulness, viability and flexibility of the system. The map application lets the user navigate a map displayed on a nearby surface using hand gestures, similar to gestures supported by Multi-Touch based systems, letting the user zoom in, zoom out or pan using intuitive hand movements. The drawing application lets the user draw on any surface by tracking the fingertip movements of the user’s index finger. SixthSense also recognizes user’s freehand gestures (postures). For example, the SixthSense system implements a gestural camera that takes photos of the scene the user is looking at by detecting the ‘framing’ gesture. The user can stop by any surface or wall and flick through the photos he/she has taken. SixthSense also lets the user draw icons or symbols in the air using the movement of the index finger and recognizes those symbols as interaction instructions. For example, drawing a magnifying glass symbol takes the user to the map application or drawing an ‘@’ symbol lets the user check his mail. The SixthSense system also augments physical objects the user is interacting with by projecting more information about these objects projected on them. For example, a newspaper can show live video news or dynamic information can be provided on a regular piece of paper. The gesture of drawing a circle on the user’s wrist projects an analog watch.

The current prototype system costs approximate $350 to build. Instructions on how to make your own prototype device can be found here (coming soon

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Sony hacked!!!!!

An intruder has apparently broken into So-net, an ISP subsidiary of Sony, and stolen about $1,200 worth of virtual tokens.

So-net disclosed the compromise in an alert (written in Japanese) on its home page on Thursday.

Meanwhile, security firm F-Secure today disclosed that it has also discovered a phishing site that's hosted on a Sony server in Thailand.

"Basically this means that Sony has been hacked, again," Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure's chief research officer, noted in the blog post. "Although in this case the server is probably not very important," he added.

News of the latest breaches come barely a month after Sony disclosed intrusions at its PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Online sites that compromised data on almost 100 million account holders.

A So-net spokesman told The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, that the breach of the ISP is unlikely connected to the previous compromises.

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Smartfish Engage Keyboard Ergonomically Efficient

An on-going two year production from manufacturers Smartfish has finally been completed and is soon ready to be unveiled. The keyboard, previously known as the Pro Motion and Ergomotion, has been revamped with an elegant all-black finish and boasting a 150 dollar price tag. The keyboard exhibits an internal motor which adjusts the two halves of the keyboard based on the individuals typing frequency. The adjustments made help combat fatigue, an effort developed in collaboration with The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. The keyboard looks impressive, and the ideas behind the self-adjustement mechanism sound very sophisticated.

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How to use your phone for months without charging

A flat battery on your mobile phone can leave you in a sticky situation, but new research could mean you might go months without charging it.
A team of electrical and computer engineers at an Illinois university may have solved the problem by using ‘nanotubes’ – carbon tubes 10,000 times smaller than a human hair.

The scientists replaced the metal wiring in mobile devices’ batteries with the nanotubes and believe the changes could extend battery life by up to 100 times.
‘I think anyone who is dealing with a lot of chargers and plugging things in every night can relate to wanting a cell phone or laptop whose batteries can last for weeks or months,’ said Eric Pop of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
Mr Pop claims his team’s research could one day mean a mobile device like an iPhone could see hugely extended battery life, possibly to the point that it could run by harvesting thermal or solar energy rather than relying on a battery.
The research could also prove groundbreaking for devices much larger than mobile phones or portable computers.
‘We're not just talking about lightening our pockets or purses,’ Mr Pop explained.
‘This is also important for anything that has to operate on a battery, such as satellites, telecommunications equipment in remote locations, or any number of scientific and military applications.’

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Charge your phone with noise

Believe it or not, Scientists have developed a device powered by noise to charge a phone battery.
Lets say you are about to make an urgent phone call, retrieve a phone number or read an urgent text message. But just as you make to reach for your phone, you discover that its battery is down. Read more


As frustrating as this experience may be, you may not always have to fumble to the nearest electric power point – which may not really be there, especially if you are in Nigeria where electricity supply is epileptic. All you have to do is let out a deafening scream which automatically charges your phone battery. The idea sounds funny but it is actually the result of a new invention by a researcher at the Institute of Nanotechnology at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea, Dr. Sang-Woo Kim.



This discovery was made after new methods for using environment energy had been investigated. The thrust of the report of the research is that electricity can be generated to charge phones using human voice or the walls that insulate sound on highways.

The new device will allow mobile phones to be recharged simply by talking into them. According to Kim, it turns sound into electricity, allowing a mobile to be powered up while a conversation is in progress – and the greater the volume the greater the charge. He also hints that with future projects, “Sound power can be used for various novel applications, including cellular phones that can be charged during conversations and sound-insulating walls near highways that generate electricity from the sound of passing vehicles.”

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4G technology

In telecommunications, 4G is the fourth generation of cellular wireless standards. It is a successor to the 3G and 2G families of standards. In 2008, the ITU-R organization specified the IMT-Advanced (International Mobile Telecommunications Advanced) requirements for 4G standards, setting peak speed requirements for 4G service at 100 Mbit/s for high mobility communication (such as from trains and cars) and 1 Gbit/s for low mobility communication (such as pedestrians and stationary users).^[1]
A 4G system is expected to provide a comprehensive and secure all-IP based mobile broadband solution to laptop computer wireless modems, smartphones, and other mobile devices. Facilities such as ultra-broadband Internet access, IP telephony, gaming services, and streamed multimedia may be provided to users.
Pre-4G technologies such as mobile WiMAX and first-release Long term evolution (LTE) have been on the market since 2006^[2] and 2009^[3][4][5] respectively, and are often branded as 4G in marketing materials. The current versions of these technologies did not fulfill the original ITU-R requirements of data rates approximately up to 1 Gbit/s for 4G systems.

IMT-Advanced compliant versions of the above two standards are under development and called “LTE Advanced” and “WirelessMAN-Advanced” respectively. ITU has decided that “LTE Advanced” and “WirelessMAN-Advanced” should be accorded the official designation of IMT-Advanced. On December 6, 2010, ITU announced that current versions of LTE, WiMax and other evolved 3G technologies that do not fulfill "IMT-Advanced" requirements could be considered "4G", provided they represent forerunners to IMT-Advanced and "a substantial level of improvement in performance and capabilities with respect to the initial third generation systems now deployed."^[6]

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Power your mp3 with your heart beat

In a few years, you may never have to recharge your phone again. Today scientists announced the first viable "nanogenerator," a tiny computer chip that gets its power from body movements like snapping fingers or - eventually - your heartbeat.
This technology, long anticipated by futurists, could replace batteries for small devices like MP3 players and mobile phones within a few years. For now, they can generate enough electricity to power a liquid crystal display and an LED. A group of researchers led by Georgia Tech's Zhong Lin Wang announced their groundbreaking discovery today at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in California. So how do these nanogenerators work, and when can you buy one?<!--more-->
The generator itself is a flexible computer chip that you squeeze between your fingers. The chip converts the pressure into electrical energy, which it can store in capacitors and use to power LEDs. Over the past six years, Wang and his colleagues have boosted its power output by thousands times and its voltage by 150 times - and they think this is just the beginning.

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How to change windows XP logo to your own preferred logo.

How to change windows XP logo to your own preferred logo.

Alien: Today, I'll show you how to change windows XP logo to your own personal logo.
Now let's start the tutorial.
First, you need a bitmap image i.e bmp format
If your image is in anyother format e.g JPG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, etc. Don't worry, you can convert it with microsoft paint or COREL DRAW just copy and paste your image into any of the applications mentioned above
Instructions for converting your image
After pasting your image into the new template,
If you are using COREL DRAW, go to file, click on "export" and save it as .bmp bitmap image.
If you are using microsoft paint, go to file and click on "save as" also save it as .bmp bitmap image by clicking on the drop-down list button.
==> When your image is ready, make sure you adjust the size of your image to "180" width and "120" height. The next step is that you save your file into the system32 subfolder of your windows system subfolder and save it as oemlogo.bmp.
You can also input your contact info by creating a new file with notepad. Go to file, click on "save as" and save it as oeminfo.ini
In this file, you can enter your contact information so that whenever someone else opens the system properties, your information will be displayed therd with your logo.

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