Feeling lazy:See what others have achieved!

One of the best way to charge you up and work towards your goal is to see what others have accomplished. Normally for everyone of use, achievements of friends give us that big confidence boost that may reassure us about the positive probability of accomplishing a task you have in mind which you thought were impossible.

Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age asks you to enter your age, and then displays a mix of famous and non-famous people with their accomplishments as of your age.

Maybe, just maybe, you’ll find some energy after you visit the site to get out there and do something amazing!

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What I read today…

Chinese PC maker offers $129 system

Turn IM into a public Radio

China to measure the Great Wall

Valentine’s Day viruses, experts caution

PHP6 -evolution or revolution

Strange wired Windows powered gadgets

We’ve heard about many Linux that run on embedded platform today I came across many Windows powered gadgets that I though was never existed.Here are a few of them.

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Windows Powered Casket

Make sure you are always connected in the afterlife also

Windows CE Powered Gas Pump

OK.What is special about this one?Sure it looks cool, it works nice too.Ovation iX is a Windows CE powered gas pump that lets you download MP3s, purchase coffee, and even check traffic conditions.Customers can also print customized coupons or watch full-motion video commercials on its 10.4″ display with built-in iX Media technology.

Some more stuff…

Psion Teklogix is shipping a pair of rugged, vehicle-mount computers targeted at harsh warehouse and cold storage environments. The 8580 and 8590 run Windows XP Embedded and include a built-in environment controller that “ensures adaptability to changing conditions,” according to the company.

Ampro has expanded its line of industrial panel PCs with a 10-inch LCD model. The PowerPanel 10 supports both Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded targets a broad range of applications such as digital signage, medical equipment, and human-machine interfaces (HMIs), according to the company.

Technorati tags: Panels, WIndows CE, WIndows, Wired, Linux, Embedded

Some Links…..

IBM Crowd-Sources With Many Eyes [InternetNews.com]
Even Experts Have Difficulty Understanding Web 3.0 [Daily Yomiuri]
What’s next at DARPA? [Computerworld]
Do prizes spur innovation? [David Wessel]
A peek inside the world of Yahoo! Research [Financial Express]
Microsoft tackles immortal computing [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
The future of robotics [Living on Earth]
Brazilian outsourcing takes off [Wall Street Journal]

[image: A robot that scouts for hazardous asteroids]

The cool stunt man

I have no idea what they are promoting or advertising. But the site is cool. You can make a stunt guy run into walls. jump through windows and all kind of other stuff which is really cool. And its easy to do to, all you have to do is just drag the guy and throw him around on stuff and see the way he reacts. It makes me appreciate the stunt work that stunt people do a little bit more. Nice site to waste your time on.

Give it a try

Nero Burning ROM 7.7.5.1

Nero Burning ROM 7.7.5.1 download Nero is a flexible, reliable, and easy-to-use application designed to write both data and CD audio to CD-R and CD-RW discs.

I’ve been using Nero 6 all the time, since it was available and I never upgraded to its latest version 7.Many of my friends asked me why?, my humble counter question was why should we upgrade ? I asked many of them about what they are burning with the software most(everyone) said they burn data, VCD’s and mp3 files.

If you have used the “new” Nero, by now you will understand why I am standing back against the flood of “updates”.As a person I always try to run the latest software (except for Windows updates)packages.But Nero stands out from the crowd, the answer can be said in one single word “BLOAT”.

The entire package is a BLOAT, I will have to look innocently while Ahead’s installers fires the graph in the setup, only after clicking the “Finish”, I really realized that the story of my system is finished(almost).They included all the software that the company had made in its entire lifetime and they mercilessly installed them on my system, making it less responsive and workable.

So I am staying away from this…….