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Set a Guinness World Record, enjoy a better web. It's the goal of the Spread Firefox group when Firefox 3 goes final this summer.


"Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome," the site says.

The official release date for Firefox 3 has not been announced yet, however, Spread Firefox claims to be posting on their site "soon."

View: Download Day 2008

The Ultramobile PC market is heating up and is getting more complicated. First the OLPC, then the Eee PC and now Redfox' new baby is born - the WizBook.


Powered by AMD LX processor, the WizBook is bigger than the Eee PC, which means bigger screen. Not only that, it also has a bigger storage, an 80GB HDD. A PCMCIA slot is also included.

The Wizbook comes in two flavours, the Wizbook 800 which is priced at P16,000 while the 10-inch Wizbook at P19,800 and both with Ubuntu Linux preinstalled.

Tired of seeing those ads on sites (hoping not this blog ^-^) you visit?

Now, here's your chance to change that. Add-art, a new add-on for Firefox replaces those adds with hmmm, art! Add-art works with Adblockplus.


While Adblockplus replaces ads with blank space, Addart connects to an online database of artworks and replaces those space with arts.

The art shows are updated every two weeks and feature contemporary artists and curators. You can learn more of it here.

Opening move: this post is not for minors.

Gary Kasparov, also widely known for being the first world chess champion to lose a match to a computer, when he lost to Deep Blue in 1997 was again shocked by another technology.

This time, a remote controlled helipenis. Yes, you read it right! Kasparov is a leader of the Other Russia movement, a loose coalition of activists opposing Vladamir Putin and the current Russian government.

Kasparov was interrupted by this "thing" during his speech. Better watch the video while it's still there:



Here's the translation courtesy of waxy:
After the security guard swatted it to the ground, Kasparov says, "I think we have to be thankful for the opposition's demonstration of the level of discourse we need to anticipate. Also, apparently most of their arguments are located beneath the belt." Someone in the audience shouts, "Finally the political power shows its face!" Kasparov quickly replies, "Well, if that's its face..." to laughter from the audience.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Ladies, take your battle for the environment a little closer to your heart with a solar-powered bra that can generate enough electric energy to charge a mobile phone or an iPod.

Lingerie maker Triumph International Japan Ltd unveiled its environmentally friendly, and green colored, "Solar Power Bra" on Wednesday in Tokyo which features a solar panel worn around the stomach.

A model (C) displays lingerie maker Triumph International Japan's "Photovoltaic-Powered Bra" during an unveiling in Tokyo May 14, 2008. The camisole bra, which the company calls it as "earth and human friendly", features a solar panel which can display messages on the removable small electric board when the cell generates electricity. The bra is also equipped with pads designed to hold beverages so that the usage of cans and plastic bottles can be reduced, the company said.

The panel requires light to generate electricity and the concept bra will not be in stores anytime soon, said Triumph spokeswoman Yoshiko Masuda, as "people usually can not go outside without wearing clothes over it."

But it does send the message of how lingerie could possibly save the planet, Masuda said, adding that the bra should not be washed or sunned on a rainy day to avoid damaging it.

Being eco-friendly is now fashionable in Japan, and the "Solar Energy Bra" follows the company's other green-themed undergarments that include a bra that turns into a reusable shopping bag and one that featured metal chopsticks to promote the use of reusable chopsticks.

"It is very comfortable and I can really feel involved in eco-friendly efforts as well," model Yuko Ishida said.

Animated Optical Illusion! - video powered by Metacafe

This is a very cool animated optical illusion with a concept that dates back over 100 years. This video will explain how the illusion works.

All you need is drill a hole in your existing GSM SIM card.


To effectively unlock the phone, SIMable puts a fake SIM under a subscribers existing SIM card to fool the handset into working with any network.

What a clever idea.

Full instruction: here

Now's your chance to own Tim Burton's Batmobile, well of course if you have the money. :)



This handsome car is powered by a Chevrolet 350 which features a custom chasis and costs $500,000 for the reserve and a 20% deposit is due within 48 hours of the end of the sale.

Nine Inch Nail's newest album is now available as FREE download. The ten tracks 44-minute album entitled "The Slip" is available for free download at www.nin.com (free signup required).

Available in different formats, including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality.

Tweaktown got a first close up look at Gigabyte’s full range of P45 motherboards. The P45-DQ6 motherboard is based on Intel's P45 chipset which sports quad LAN (pic below).



Most new mobo on the market has a dual LAN. I don't know if any user who will buy this mobo can utilize all those port. I mean what's the point? Most device on the network can't utilize the dual LAN featured on most NVidia chipsets, how much more with this quad LAN?

Let's see once this mobo get to the Tech sites for review.

After a series of delays, Microsoft has released the Service Pack 3 for Windows XP late Tuesday. A 316.4 MB download for those who are required to update more than 1 computer, or if you don't want to have use Windows Update the next time you clean install Windows XP.

Microsoft also released an ISO image of Windows XP SP3 standalone update CD which is a 544.9MB download.

Download: Windows XP SP3 Network Install (x86)
Download: Windows XP SP3 Update ISO Image (x86)

HTC unveils its latest mobile device, HTC Touch Diamond, the rumoured iPhone killer. Touch Diamond is said to be the first smartphone to use Windows 6.1. HTC also claim that Touch Diamond is the first in the world to feature a 3D graphical interface called Touchflo 3D.

Touch Diamond is set to be available via European carriers this June and Q3-Q4 for the US market.

Highlights

• 2.8-inch touch screen, with four times the pixels of most phones.


• Vibrant TouchFLO 3D user interface, responding perfectly to your finger gestures when scrolling through contacts, browsing the web, and launching media… all vividly displayed as photos and artwork powered by the 3D graphics processor.


• HTC Weather - providing a constant view of weather at home and abroad.


• Surf and download at broadband speed with HSDPA internet connectivity.


• 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera for quality stills and video.


• 4GB of internal storage to preserve more photos, music, files and exchanged data than ever before.


• Integrated GPS for use with maps software for a full turn-by-turn satellite navigation experience.

Memory maker Super Talent launched a new line of MasterDrive SSD (solid state drive). SSDs offer high performance, low power consumption and light weight combined with reliability that is far superior to hard drives. The only thing that prevents it from mass acceptance is its high price.



MasterDrive DX drives use SLC NAND Flash which Super Talent said can support an impressive sequential read and write speed up to 120 and 70 MB/sec and offers a three year warranty.

EVGA has just taken the wraps off two upcoming products. It is basically a box with a USB port to plug into your computer and a DVI port to plug into a monitor.



The system allows for connection of four monitors at once. It will also give you a lot of monitor when connected to dual-output graphic card.

EVGA.com will give away 15 UV Plus+ to lucky winners. Login or register here.

Fudo of Fudzilla have learned that the RV770 will be up to 1.5 times faster than the RV670.

In the real world, this should mean that if one game gives 50FPS with RV670 that the new chip should be able to get you around 75FPS at the same settings. On average, the new chip will have to be at least 30 percent faster than the old one to make you even consider it, but at least specification-wise there is not anything that you might miss.

Let's us wait for the answer of NVidia to this chip.

I'm addicted to lego when I was still a kid. Though this blog mostly focus on technology, I also post some which is of interest to me. :)



The world's tallest tower of bricks has been built to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Standing nearly 30.5m (100ft) tall, it was built by Legoland visitors with 500,000 bricks and resembles a Viking longboat mast.