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The world’s first open source car, “c,mm,n”

A group of Dutch researchers just rolled out their product, claimed as the world’s first open source car at the at the AutoRAI car show in Amsterdam. The car is called “c,mm,n“, which is supposed to be pronounced as “common”.

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Everybody wants Linux? And Dell promises Linux on its desktop and laptop!

As a long-time Linux user both on the desktop workstation and also the servers, I shall include some news here about how the tech world is doing with it! The first is Dell! Dell just announced that it promises its desktop and laptop PC will come with Linux support.

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MojoPac brings your applications and desktop everywhere

It’s pretty paintful having to always switch between PC desktop and software applications environment. Sometime, it will cause you a long pause or lose track of your work. Just like me, I’m using my home PC to work when I’m home, switch to office PC while in office and again switch to using laptop while traveling. All these computers are loaded with different application software and desktop preferences.

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Web browsing via widgets on your phone by Zenzui

The newly launched Microsoft backed ZenZui’s mobile web browser allows you to have different web browsing experience on your phone. It allows you to have up to 36 different website widgets. The widget is the small window loaded with web content that is optimized for your mobile, which you can interact with it by zooming into it for further detail. The ZenZui browser comes with a 6×6 grid of widgets, where you can surf over, pan and zoom around for all the 36 website widgets. You can zoom all the way into one widget and as far out as a 4×4 grid of widgets. Zooming and panning around the widgets are by the use of touch screen if your phone is equiped with one else only by the number pad.

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Symantec: In fact, Windows is the most secure!

I was working a lot over the Linux server system environment before becoming the manager of the team. I like Linux much better than Windows as the server, due to it’s less virus and hackers prone. Furthermore, the Linux server environment is easier to manage and maintain, if you’re used to command line interface and those shell scripts. Especially I like most is that you can remotely login to manage the servers. I’m not saying Windows no good, but anyway it’s got pretty nice and user-friendly GUI interface. But the only problematic side is it’s too virus and hackers prone. As a user, I did have several bad experience that I deployed a Windows server purely for software development on my home PC. Due to laziness, I didn’t patch it immediately. But too bad was the Windows server got infected by worms and followed by viruses only after a few days of using Internet Explorer for surfing the web!

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AmberAlert USB drive stores your kid’s info

There are tons of USB flash drives out there in the market. Most of them besides coming from different manufacturers and boasting different storage sizes, they all serve no difference. In order to make it more marketable, some manufacturers, just pre-install some kind of software onto it.

Here is an idea of AmberAlert, by adding a software program, called AmberAlert Child ID Kit (As the attached screen). This software allows you to store and organize the information of your child (biographical data, vital stats, relatives, places where they hang out, where they go online, etc.) in one location. It works only one child at a time. This idea is to let you have all the information to cling on if an unlucky abduction happened to your child. Touch wood! The USB drive itself is a Kingston’s product.

$29.95 on AmberAlert, Via [PopGadget]

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Skype Prime lets consultants make some money

If you’re a computer or Internet consultant, who’ve been servicing clients in the corporates or small medium sized companies, then you could make use of this opportunity introduced by Skype newly launched service, Skype Prime, to make extra bucks. The Skype Prime lets you charge your clients for Skype voice and video calls. You can set the fees that you wanna charge. Skype charges the paying side via their Skype credit, and then pays the money out, minus a 30% fee, via Paypal. So, starting today, introduce to your clients to start using Skype. The new Skype Prime service needs both sides to use the newest Skype version (3.1.0.134) for Windows and other platforms are coming eventually. The approach by Skype would lead to bigger user database in terms of not only home users and also business users.

Via [TechCrunch]

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Apple made it, iTunes is ready for Vista now!

Just about 10 minutes ago spotted at Digg. Apple has done it! The iTunes is now compatible with Windows Vista. My post last night was still claiming that iTunes 7.1 was still not ready for Vista, but just couple of hours later then Apple managed to get it done. It could be simply just a little patch on iTunes, which solved some of the bugs. I have no luck to access the original source of Digg, which is TechnoSpot.net for further find out. I guess the site is now getting too much hits that its wordpress having database connection problem. According to Foxnews, iTunes 7.1 still having some glitches for Vista compatibility.

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New freebie from Microsoft, the Virtual PC 2007

It’s only the first quarter of 2007, Microsoft has already started giving away some gifts. Its latest version of Virtual PC 2007, is now a freebie. The Virtual PC 2007 is a program that allows users to run multiple operating systems at once on a single physical computer. This means that you can run Windows XP, Vista or ME etc on the same physical machine. Users can easily switch among operating systems by only clicking the mouse! If you’ve ever used software such as VMWare, then you should know how this works. The only downside is Virtual PC supports only Microsoft’s operating systems, which means you’re unable to have non-MS operating systems such as Linux, MAC etc.

The new version of the Virtual PC has some additional features such as:

• 64-bit host operating systems
• Hardware-assisted virtualization
• Network-based installation of a guest operating system
• Running virtual machines on multiple monitors

It’s available for free download for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. To me, I’m not so interested in running few Microsoft’s OSes under one physical machine. Maybe I’ll do for only XP and Vista. I’m more interested to have different vendor’s operating systems under one physical machine, such as Redhat/uBuntu Linux, Mac, Solaris and Windows XP would be just nice. Too bad, Virtual PC can’t do it!

Source: DailyTech

France Runs .. Away from Itunes!

Unknown to me, it appears everyone is not in love with Itunes! Why is this? Because they are quite angry that Itune’s songs only work with Ipods. Are there concerns and complaints even worth hearing? Hear what I have to say about it right now! I will give you a hint. NO!