blog|HAII http://blog.mynothing.net to express something ding dong | nothing is something .. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:35:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Giant Swiss Army Knife http://blog.mynothing.net/giant-swiss-army-knife http://blog.mynothing.net/giant-swiss-army-knife#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:26:34 +0000 adq890 http://blog.mynothing.net/?p=191

Permit us to explain. The Wenger Giant Swiss Army Knife - note the use of the word ‘Giant’ - has no fewer than 85 implements capable of performing over 100 separate functions, from scaling fish to fixing bicycles. All of which makes it impossibly useful. Want a laser flashlight? No problem. Torch? Can do. Universal Wrench? Yup. Golf divot repair tool? Si. Double-cut wood saw? Uh-huh. And so it goes. On and on and on and on. There’s almost no indoor our outdoor emergency which could not be tackled with this comprehensive if somewhat unwieldy device.

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Phone, iPod, Internet, and more.

Introducing iPhone 3G. With fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, and the new App Store, iPhone 3G puts even more features at your fingertips. And like the original iPhone, it combines three products in one — a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device with rich HTML email and a desktop-class web browser. iPhone 3G. It redefines what a mobile phone can do — again.

For more about iphone, check here

]]> http://blog.mynothing.net/new-iphone-3g/feed Rangkuman Semasa http://blog.mynothing.net/rangkuman-semasa http://blog.mynothing.net/rangkuman-semasa#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:41:13 +0000 adq890 http://blog.mynothing.net/?p=187 Pilih Pakatan Rakyat ganti kerajaan Umno/BN

Permintaan Umno supaya “Yang di-Pertuan Agong campurtangan bagi menangani penghakisan hak-hak keistimewaan bumiputera” (Utusan Malaysia, 8 Julai 2008) ibarat mengesahkan satu perkara sahaja iaitu Umno yang telah mengangkat kedua-dua belah tangan.

Dia sendiri telah secara muktamad mengesahkan kegagalan parti itu sebagai pembela orang Melayu. Sudah selama 50 tahun dia membela(?).

Nasib orang Melayu menjunam dalam hampir semua pentas; agama, bangsa, tanah dan air.

seterusnya…

Petronas ke-8 paling untung di dunia

PETRONAS berada pada kedudukan kelapan syarikat paling untung di dunia tahun lalu dalam senarai Fortune Global 500 majalah perniagaan Fortune.

Di Asia pula, ia muncul syarikat paling untung, mengambil tempat pengeluar kereta terbesar dunia, Toyota Motor dari Jepun, yang mendahului senarai itu pada 2006.

seterusnya…

Pak Lah undur 2010

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi menamatkan spekulasi berhubung proses peralihan kuasa dalam kepimpinan parti dan kerajaan apabila mengumumkan akan melepaskan jawatannya pada pertengahan 2010 dengan menamakan Datuk Seri Najib Razak sebagai penggantinya.

seterusnya…

Hadi akui rundingan PAS-Umno, ulas impak isu dakwaan meliwat Anwar

PETALING JAYA: Dalam temu bual yang dilihat sebagai pendirian terbuka dan tegas, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang sambil mengakui PAS telah mengadakan perbincangan dengan Umno bagi menerokai kerjasama masa depan menegaskan, parti itu “berhak” berbuat demikian sambil menegaskan peranan PAS yang telah membawa kejayaan Pakatan Rakyat tidak harus “diketepikan” begitu sahaja.

seterusnya..

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]]> http://blog.mynothing.net/rangkuman-semasa/feed UNESCO’s World Heritage http://blog.mynothing.net/unesco%e2%80%99s-world-heritage http://blog.mynothing.net/unesco%e2%80%99s-world-heritage#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:49:31 +0000 adq890 http://blog.mynothing.net/?p=186

Malaysia’s two oldest cities — George Town and Malacca — have finally been listed as World Heritage sites after seven years of campaigning at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), which gave the status yesterday

The World Heritage Committee meeting in Quebec City has added eight new cultural sites to UNESCO’s World Heritage List on the morning of the 7 of July. With these inscriptions, Papua New Guinea and San Marino enter the World Heritage List for the first time.

The new sites inscribed are:

Melaka and George Town, historic cities of the Straits of Malacca (Malaysia) have developed over 500 years of trading and cultural exchanges between East and West in the Straits of Malacca. The influences of Asia and Europe have endowed the towns with a specific multicultural heritage that is both tangible and intangible. With its government buildings, churches, squares and fortifications, Melaka demonstrates the early stages of this history originating in the 15th-century Malay sultanate and the Portuguese and Dutch periods beginning in the early 16th century. Featuring residential and commercial buildings, George Town represents the British era from the end of the 18th century. The two towns constitute a unique architectural and cultural townscape without parallel anywhere in East and Southeast Asia.

Kuk Early Agricultural Site (Papua New Guinea) consists of 116 ha of swamps in the southern highlands of New Guinea 1,500 metres above sea-level. Archaeological excavation has revealed the landscape to be one of wetland reclamation worked almost continuously for 7,000, and possibly for 10,000 years. It contains well-preserved archaeological remains demonstrating the technological leap which transformed plant exploitation to agriculture around 6,500 years ago. It is an excellent example of transformation of agricultural practices over time, from cultivation mounds to draining the wetlands through the digging of ditches with wooden tools. Kuk is one of the few places in the world where archaeological evidence suggests independent agricultural development and changes in agricultural practice over such a long period of time.

Stari Grad Plain (Croatia) on the Adriatic island of Hvar is a cultural landscape that has remained practically intact since it was first colonized by Ionian Greeks from Paros in the 4th century BC. The original agricultural activity of this fertile plain, mainly centring on grapes and olives, has been maintained since Greek times to the present. The site is also a natural reserve. The landscape features ancient stone walls and trims, or small stone shelters, and bears testimony to the ancient geometrical system of land division used by the ancient Greeks, the chora which has remained virtually intact over 24 centuries.

Fortifications of Vauban (France) consists of 13 groups of fortified buildings and sites along the western, northern and eastern borders of France. They represent the finest examples of the work of Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707), a military engineer of King Louis XIV. The serial property includes towns built from scratch by Vauban, citadels built on plains, urban bastion walls, bastion towers and a residence. There are also mountain forts, sea forts, a mountain battery and two mountain communication structures. This property is inscribed as bearing witness to the peak of classic fortifications, typical of western military architecture. Vauban also played a major role in the history of fortification in Europe and as far away as the American continent, Russia and East Asia.

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates (Germany). The property consists of six housing estates that testify to innovative housing policies from 1910 to 1933, especially during the Weimar Republic, when the city of Berlin was particularly progressive socially, politically and culturally. The property is an outstanding example of the building reform movement that contributed to improving housing and living conditions for people with low incomes through novel approaches to town planning, architecture and garden design. The estates also provide exceptional examples of new urban and architectural typologies, featuring fresh design solutions, as well as technical and aesthetic innovations. Bruno Taut, Martin Wagner and Walter Gropius were among the leading architects of these projects which exercised considerable influence on the development of housing around the world.

Mantua and Sabbioneta, in the Po valley, in the north of Italy, represent two aspects of Renaissance town planning: Mantua shows the renewal and extension of an existing city, while 30 km away, Sabbioneta represents the implementation of the period’s theories about planning the ideal city. Typically, Mantua’s layout is irregular with regular parts showing different stages of its growth since the Roman period and includes many medieval edifices among them an 11th century rotunda and a Baroque theatre. Sabbioneta, created in the second half of the 16th century under the rule of one person, Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna, can be described as a single-period city and has a right angle grid layout. Both cities offer exceptional testimonies to the urban, architectural and artistic realizations of the Renaissance, linked through the visions and actions of the ruling Gonzaga family. The two towns are important for the value of their architecture and for their prominent role in the dissemination of Renaissance culture. The ideals of the Renaissance, fostered by the Gonzaga family, are present in the towns’ morphology and architecture.

San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano (San Marino) covers 55 ha, including Mount Titano and the historic centre of the city which dates back to the foundation of the republic as a city-state in the 13th century. San Marino is inscribed as a testimony to the continuity of a free republic since the Middle Ages. The inscribed city centre includes fortification towers, walls, gates and bastions, as well as a neo-classical basilica of the 19th century, 14th and 16th century convents, and the Palazzo Publico of the 19th century, as well as the 18th century Titano Theatre. The property represents an historical centre still inhabited and preserving all its institutional functions. Thanks to its position on top of Mount Titano, it was not affected by the urban transformations that have occurred from the advent of the industrial era to today.

The Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of Carpathian Mountain Area (Slovakia) inscribed on the World Heritage List consist of two Roman Catholic, three Protestant and three Greek Orthodox churches built between the 16th and 18th centuries in small, poor villages in an area formerly known as Upland Hungary. The property presents good examples of a rich local tradition of religious architecture, marked by the meeting of Latin and Byzantine cultures. The edifices exhibit some typological variations in their floor plans, interior spaces and external appearance due to their respective religious practices. They bear testimony to the development of major architectural and artistic trends during the period of construction and to their interpretation and adaptation to a specific geographical and cultural context. Interiors are decorated with paintings on the walls and ceilings and other works of art that enrich the cultural significance of the properties.

During the morning session, the Committee also approved the extension of the Mountain Railways of India with the inscription of the Kalka Shimla Railway, a 96km long, single track working rail link built in the mid-19th century to provide a service to the highland town of Shimla.

Source : UNESCO

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USB Image Tool is a utility for creating an exact image of pretty much anything you plug into your USB port. This isn’t the same thing as copying and pasting all the files on a flash drive to a new directory or zip file. Instead, every chunk of data on your flash drive is saved in a single file that you can then burn to a disc, upload to an offsite storage location, or just save on your hard drive.

If you keep work documents, portable applications, or other important data on a flash drive, it’s a good idea to back it up occasionally. USB Image Tool makes the process about as simple as can be. You plug in a drive, hit backup, and choose a location to store the image. You can also select a compressed file format if you want to save a little bit of space, but it takes longer to create a compressed image.

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]]> http://blog.mynothing.net/usb-image-tools/feed SPAIN title EURO 2008 Champions http://blog.mynothing.net/spain-title-euro-2008-champions http://blog.mynothing.net/spain-title-euro-2008-champions#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:25:50 +0000 adq890 http://blog.mynothing.net/?p=183

Spain became European champions for the second time after Fernando Torres’s first-half goal in Vienna proved enough to defeat Germany in the final of UEFA EURO 2008™.

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Argosy’s Visible Body is the most comprehensive human anatomy visualization tool available today.This entirely Web-delivered application offers an unparalleled understanding of human anatomy. The Visible Body includes 3D models of over 1,700 anatomical structures, including all major organs and systems of the human body.

Please visit Visible Body

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]]> http://blog.mynothing.net/3d-visible-body/feed Final UEFA Euro2008 http://blog.mynothing.net/final-euro2008 http://blog.mynothing.net/final-euro2008#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:03:52 +0000 adq890 http://blog.mynothing.net/?p=180

GERMANY vs SPAIN

The final of UEFA EURO 2008™ will be played at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna on Sunday 29 June.

]]> http://blog.mynothing.net/final-euro2008/feed openSUSE 11.0 available http://blog.mynothing.net/opensuse-110-available http://blog.mynothing.net/opensuse-110-available#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:12:48 +0000 adq890 http://blog.mynothing.net/?p=179

The next version of openSUSE is now available! Some of the new features and cool innovations in openSUSE 11.0 include updated desktops with new features, including the revolutionary new KDE 4; a new installer which makes the installation quicker and nicer; Live CDs so you can try openSUSE before committing; innovative new desktop effects, quicker and slicker software management, and many new applications to improve your daily life.


Sneak Peeks of openSUSE 11.0

openSUSE 11.0 includes a brand-new installer. The Sneak Peek series on openSUSE News shows off some new features, plus an interview with Stephan Kulow!

There have been many improvements and changes to ZYpp, openSUSE’s package management system, including the major improvement: it’s lightning fast! Features an interview with Duncan Mac-Vicar.

openSUSE’s Desktop Effects (Compiz) have been improved, and include many new effects and new features which make running and managing them better! Also includes an interview with Dennis Kasprzyk!

In openSUSE 11.0, you get two KDEs for the price of one. Take a look at the new KDE!

There are many improvements in the new version of GNOME. Vincent Untz talks about the GNOME desktop environment in openSUSE 11.0.

Are you a reviewer, or are you writing about openSUSE 11.0? Take a look at our 11.0 Reviewer Guide.

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]]> http://blog.mynothing.net/opensuse-110-available/feed Firefox 3 : Guiness Book of World Record http://blog.mynothing.net/firefox-3-set-the-guiness-book-of-world-record-for-the-most-downloaded-software-in-24-hours http://blog.mynothing.net/firefox-3-set-the-guiness-book-of-world-record-for-the-most-downloaded-software-in-24-hours#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:24:48 +0000 adq890 http://blog.mynothing.net/?p=177 Set the Guiness Book of World Record  for the most downloaded software in 24 hours

On June 17th 2008, Firefox decided to set the Guiness Book of World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours. Mozillafoundation urged its users the world over to update their browsers by downloading the latest version namely Firefox 3. And the response was so massive on the D-Day that, there was an outage at the Mozilla data center for several hours. Once the servers were back online, the downloading continued and Firefox set the world record well within the 24 hours.

The record is 15,067,570 downloads (15 Million). Country wise, USA tops the list with a whooping 4 million + downloads. Surprisingly, sans the US, relatively small countries like Iran and France clocked more downloads than its larger counterparts like India and China.

If you are one of the people who downloaded Firefox on June 17th, then congratulations !!; You are a part of the Guiness Book of World Records. And the people at Firefox are ever too grateful to forget your valuable contribution.

So go ahead and download your own personalized Guiness Book of World Records Certificate

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