Zaurus SL-C3100 Photo Album

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As announced a few days ago, this is the new Sharp SL-C3100.

Konica Minolta Dimage Z6

Digital Camera Reviews, Ratings, Tips and Comparisons - Digital Photography Blog

CNET Reviews has a review of the Konica Minolta Dimage Z6 and writes - 'One of several 12X-zoom cameras on the market, the 6-megapixel Konica Minolta Dimage Z6 differs in only a few respects from its 5-megapixel predecessor, the Dimage Z5

Heating gloves... USB style

Akihabara News - Heating gloves... USB style

 

This thing can only come from Thanko, so let's explain what it does.

Samsung SPH-B2500, 4 times more music in your phone

Akihabara News - SPH-B2500, 4 times more music in your phone

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Samsung has just presented their new DMB phone, the SPH-B2500.

Good Smell Perplexes New Yorkers

Good Smell Perplexes New Yorkers - New York Times

An unseen, sweet-smelling cloud drifted through parts of Manhattan last night. Arturo Padilla walked through it and declared that it was awesome.

"It's like maple syrup. With Eggos. Or pancakes," he said. "It's pleasant."

Late Night Drinking

Chairman of the Manly Liquor Accord, Nick Vescio says that taking pubs to court over late night drinking laws would waste taxpayers money and not solve anything.

He’s right. Over the last twenty years, the Manly Council and other fringe groups have progressively turned Manly into a retirement village for the priveleged few. What was once a vibrant nightspot with plenty of late night entertainment and dining options is slowly closing down.

There's no coincidence that this story is being run on the very day that daylight saving starts (where we lose an hour by winding clocks forward). Could it be that opponents to late night drinking are trying to use the time change to catch pubs and clubs out ?

The next big thing in Manly …. late night Bingo !

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Google Base provides unintentional peek at classified ad service

Google provides unintentional peek at classified ad service

Google Inc. has unintentionally provided a sneak peek at what appears to be a looming expansion into classified advertising - a free service that might antagonize some of the Internet search engine's biggest customers, including online auctioneer eBay Inc.

Blogs No Longer Safe for Work

Wired News: No Longer Safe for Work: Blogs

Robert Mason (not his real name) would love to spend a few minutes during lunch catching up on blog posts from around the web, but his company doesn't allow it. The financial institution where Mason works as a vice president has security filters set up to block access to -- among other things -- any website that contains the phrase "blog" in the URL.

Flock Me

I have read a little bit about the Flock browser which has just been released in Beta. (isn’’t everything nowdays).

I’’ve got to say that this is very impressive. For a long time now I’’ve battled with keeping del.icio.us and Flickr tags in sync. Flock does this for you. It also does it for other non photo pages too.

Having done this the long way round for a long time, Flock has solved a problem I’’ve had (mainly boredom and time).

Long live Flock …. Flock me baby and pimp my links.

www.flock.com

Bush administration opposes U.N. Net control

In a sign that traditionally obscure discussions about Internet control have taken on new prominence, President Bush broached the topic in a meeting this week with European Commission President José Barroso.

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Tempted by blogs, spam becomes 'splog'

Tempted by blogs, spam becomes 'splog'

The scourge of e-mail--spam--has reinvented itself for the world of blogs, in a phenomenon experts have dubbed "splog." And Google is in the hot seat.

I can’t resist commenting …. does this mean that unsolicited porn comments … are called “splooge” ?

Listal

Thanks to a videocast (is there such a word) today I watched from Amber Mac and the folks at www.command.tv I am now logging my book collections online with www.listal.com

Listal is on an online organiser which allows you to record and tag which books, dvd, music and games you have and publish them in a list. My list is at peterkonnecke.listal.com.

I think this would be really good if you happen to lose a favourite item. You'll always have an online record of it.

Theres a greasemonkey script and a couple of bookmarklets which also help with adding items.

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Wiki Don't

I have spent a few hours today improving my skills and adding to some Wikipedia documents that I'm editing.

What I thought was appropriate content seems to have been jumped on by the editing staff to the point that I am now somewhat disillusioned with the whole process.

I'm sure theres a valid reason but for me I just wanted to take part, build community and develop some excellent content for the web.

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Wiki Nation

Back in April I joined the ranks of Wikipedians who are contributing massive amounts of content to the collective knowledge of the world wide web.

I have been working on several articles recently including one about my hometown of Beacon Hill NSW. More background on my Wiki wanderings can be found here.

My plans, of which I have hundreds, include sharing some of my Flickr photo collection with Wikipedia and beyond. I can’t imagine how educators and historians ever got along without the web.

Might I say these articles are always being edited, so please bookmark them and return to them often.

World's oldest noodles unearthed in China

World's oldest noodles unearthed in China

China's claim that the noodle came from there got a big boost this week when academics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed that they discovered a sealed bowl containing 4,000-year old noodles in an archeological site near the Yellow river in northwestern China.

Checking Out Your Cab Driver By Cameraphone

Checking Out Your Cab Driver By Cameraphone

In a world of crazy cab drivers, it appears that some people are a bit afraid to ride cabs these days. Apparently, folks in South Korea have decided this is a big problem and therefore are planning to stick special cameraphone-enabled barcodes inside and outside of cabs, so that riders can snap a quick photo, and "text-message it to their friends or family.

Korea's High-Tech Utopia, Where Everything Is Observed

Korea's High-Tech Utopia, Where Everything Is Observed - New York Times

IMAGINE public recycling bins that use radio-frequency identification technology to credit recyclers every time they toss in a bottle; pressure-sensitive floors in the homes of older people that can detect the impact of a fall and immediately contact help; cellphones that store health records and can be used to pay for prescriptions.

Queens Baton in Brunei

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Her Royal Highness Paduka Seri Pengiran Anak Isteri Pengiran Anak Sarah was among the hundreds of runners who took part in the 18th Commonwealth Games Queen's Baton Relay yesterday

More Turbulence for Secure Flight

More Turbulence for Secure Flight

Lawmakers are looking to put more checks on the Transportation Security Administration's long-running effort to come up with a new way to conduct background checks on airline passengers.

The project, Secure Flight, is supposed to allow the government to take over from the airlines the daily duty of checking about 1.8 million air travelers' names against terrorist watch lists.

Free WiFi For San Francisco? Sure, We Can Do That

Techdirt:Google: Free WiFi For San Francisco? Sure, We Can Do That

For all the rumors about Google's plans to offer WiFi around the country, the company has said very little. However, they waited until late Friday, when most people have gone home for the weekend, to let out the news

EU and U.S. clash over control of Net - Business - International Herald Tribune

EU and U.S. clash over control of Net - Business - International Herald Tribune

The United States and Europe clashed here Thursday in one of their sharpest public disagreements in months, after European Union negotiators proposed stripping the Americans of their effective control of the Internet.

Second-hand PC market booming - vnunet.com

Second-hand PC market booming - vnunet.com

Rising demand for cheap computers in emerging economies like eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa is leading to a peak in demand for used machines, according to a new study by Gartner.