Ipod Projector..

Get ready to be rattled by the new Nano Projection technology.Explay is a technology company that develops the world's smallest projector. The company's product is a projector engine which is small enough to fit inside a mobile device or housed in a separate pocket size accessory unit that is connected to a mobile device (e.g. cellular phone, digital camera, Personal Media Player, etc.).

This is the company that is going to bring the power the of Nano-Technology on to your Ipod, mobile phones or anything that is small enough to fit your pocket and is an electronic device. So next time you have a beautiful movies (pirated) on you mobile device or Ipod you know the best way to watch it and impress someone special.

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Wireless USBs

Are we looking at another device that's making itself less tedious by going wireless. Yes! it's the time for USBs to go wireless. D-link is going to launch it's wireless USB device. Everything that connects to your computer using USB will be wireless in near future. However, you'll just have to connect the wireless USB Adapter to your PC and bang every device that uses USB goes wireless.

The DUB-9240 Wireless USB Kit is expected to ship in Q4 and will cost around $200. Pricing for the DUB-2240 Wireless hub and DUB-1210 wireless adapter will be around $100 each.

Another dashing idea ! - Paid Comments

I was running through a couple of blogs and was hit to this post which I never thought would be possible. Marketers; yes I mean the SEMs (Search Engine Marketers) have reached a point where they'll do everything to get the inlinks from other sites, even if they are ignorant about the fact that most of the free hosts today are having nofollow on their comments sections. Ladies and Gentlemen bow down to the concept of paid comments. I am not citing the site here for the fact I am not the big advocate of paid posts and this guy (the blog where I read about paid comments) is into paid posting.

I don't have something personal about this guy but I don't like the fact that web journalism is getting poisoned by this activity, even if they disclose that they are into paid posts or advertorials. I am not getting into the details of whether paid comments are ethical or not. May be they are good marketing weapon (at least for the SEMs who suffer from the myopia) but the very fact that they are driven by the sense to make money and forced commenting behaviour takes away the essense of web journalism/blogs.

Chicken Foot

No!, it is not a delicious delicacy as part of chicken. This is a Firefox extension. Chickenfoot is Firefox extension that puts a programming environment in the browser's sidebar so you can write scripts to manipulate web pages and automate web browsing. In Chickenfoot, scripts are written in a superset of Javascript that includes special functions specific to web tasks.

This is too useful for people who want to execute something on a page. It's more or less like the popular greasemonkey extension but it has a different flavor as it differs in the way you can execute a piece of code as you are coding on a given page. It has libraries you can import and get a functionality flawlessly.

I am giving an example of a script which I use to bypass the firewall that blocks sites (false +ve in too many cases) on my LAN. I just have to run that trigger on the page and the links on that page go via a proxy that is thankfully not blocked .

Here's the code:

include('prototype.js');
var links = $$('a');
for(var
i=0;i<links.length;i++) {
var src = links[i].href;
src =
src.replace("http://","http/");
links[i].setAttribute("href", "http://www.xoxy.com/cgiproxy/nph-proxy.pl/010110A/"
+ src);
}

Let me know, if someone needs to know how to configure this in their chickenfoot editor.

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Get Im-ified.

Although this is an old story and quite an old product launch, the technology is worth keeping an eye on. I am talking about a new IM based reminder service named imified. Did I just say reminder service ! Apologize me for giving a narrow scope for the product that might just be the next revolutionizing technology.

Let me talk a little more about it. But before that let me ask you a question that might sound stupid and give an impression of my high levels of ignorance which might be a bliss in my case. How many of you use Instant Messengers? If you think that's stupid enough, let me ask you another question. How many of you use AIM, MSN and Gtalk/Jabber? No points for guessing and this time I'll feel offended if you'll question me, "what the hell is wrong with you moron; why are you not naming the king of all IMs Yahoo?" I have a reason to not mention yahoo messenger here. So if you guys use IMs other than Yahoo as mention above please continue reading. For the people who cannot think beyond Yahoo Messenger, I am afraid you'll have to stop reading as this post will not bring any sort of enlightenment to you. Because Yahoo! doesn't support Imified.

Imified is a new concept and who else will be better able to define it than the site itself which says, "IMified is an instant messenger buddy that works across all major IM
networks and offers access to a growing number of web applications, as
well as productivity tools like notes, reminders, and todo's. Imified
helps you get things done faster."

I'd suggest all you nerdies to check out the developers section because Imified has come out with it's own API and you can develop your own widgets for Imified.

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The world of Widgets..

With the advancement of Web 2.0 the way a site's interface is designed has taken a new dimension. I came across a beautiful web 2.0 site named widgetbox. The site has amazing widget for blogger, typepad, mysapce and others. They are driven by the power of social network and user generated content.

The Widgetbox Remote Gallery feature enables users to embed a selected number of widgets from third party developers and provide over 10,000 widgets from the Widgetbox main gallery, giving their users the ability to easily find and use widgets.

So if you are looking for some really cool gadgets to make your site look smart widgetbox.com is the place to visit.

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