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Gooele: the gBall

The gBall is a football developed by google. It has inbuilt sencers to calculate the speed and force of kicks aswell as GPS to track how far it was kicked. When lost the owners wil be able to go to google maps to find the missing ball. The ball costs $10 upfront with aditional charges based on the time of day it was kicked aswell as the distance it traveled. The accuracy of the ball is within 0.025 pixels of a standard 17″ LCD monitor.

Youtube: Your new viewing experience

Youtube has flipped their site upside down! this includes videos aswell as al lthe text (although the layout hasn’t changed). They recomend turning your screen upside down because computer monitors give better quality when upside down, tilting your head or moving to Australia because eevryting in Australia is upside down (Australians are recomended to move to the northern hemisphere if it is upside down for them).

Smashing Magazine: Internet Explorer 8.1 Eagle Eyes Leaked

Claims of IE8.1 bieng leaked. you’ve got to read this one for yourself.

Sitepoint: Internet reboot today at 11:59UTC

The internet will be rebooting at 11:59UTC with an expected downtime of 1 mintue.

You can call me cheap or picky or whatever, but when I see something advertised as discounted by a certain percent, I want that item discounted by that percent. Not some rough estimate made by a monkey.

(sorry about the quality and those lines… no idea what made them appear)

The tag for the above ring clearly says 60% off it also states that the original price was $29.95. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that $19.95 is not 60% off. it’s onyl 30%. So is it wrong of me to ask for the ring at the price of $11.98 (with the proper 60% discount).

I asked about it and aparently (according to the staff member) it is not false advertising adn the ring is $19.95. That’s one custoemr they’ve lost and hopefully more.

Store: Bevilles, Highpoint Shopping Centre, Australia

Ok, it might not actually be suitable for those ages but judging by the size of it, you’d need to be that old to use it!

The new iPod shuffle is just 1.8″ (45.2 mm) tall, 0.7″ (17.5 mm) wide, 0.3″ (7.8 mm) thick and weighs 0.38 ounces (10.5 grams) . It features no buttons on the player itself and it controled by buttons on the headphones.You can now hear the name of the song that is playing, and the artist using a new VoiceOver feature which speaks 14 languages.

It uses the same controls as the iPhone, single click for play/pause, double click for nxt track and tripple click for previous track, it also features volume up/down buttons and the VoiceOver feature is activated by holding down the button.

While this is smaller than the previous iPod Shuffle it can store more music boasting a 4GB capacity (roughly 1,000 songs). t is made from stainless steel so if you do step on it I think it would survive.

Play mode is switched using a switch with one option for shuffle, another for playing in order and the third option ofcorse being off.

Interested in buying one? It will cost you US$79/AU$129and is available in silver or black.

Link: http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/

I recently had a Look at my inbox and the first thing that came to my head was “WTH?”. That’s it. Have a look at this picture and you’ll see why.

As you can see, I have 6 emails saying The Code Cast has followed me, ofcorse when I checked they wern’t actually following me. I checked the list of people they were following and refreshed it a few times aswell… every time it was (roughly) the same number of people but every time it was a completly different group of people. So it really makes me wonder, what kind of a business model do they have? Right now they seem just as bad as all those companies trying to sell \/1@gr@ or transfer $1,000,000USD to my bank account. Do they seriously need to do that much spaming to get people to go to their website? Does it really suck that much?

If they would just stop spaming so much, maybe they wouldn’t get such bad posts about them. Surely this can’t be good for them, can it?

I actually did a search to see what people were saying about it, and it turns out people are actually falling for it, ther profile currently has 1,600 followers and is growing, people also seem to be going to the website because I see alot of people coment on the content. If the content is as good as people say, then why do they need to spam so much? Are they too cheap to afford to run some ads somewhere? I know I don’t have to spam everyone to get people to my websites. I don’t even run ads and I get visitors. Infact the current theme for my blog was chosen at random and I still haven’t changed it and I still manage to get visitors!

Hopefully someone from The Code Cast will read this and stop their spam, but I dout they will stop anyway.

Twitter is going to be down for about 30 minutes to do database maintance… Can I survive the 30 minutes without twitter?

Bill gates earlier today released some mosquitoes at TED. What was he thinking? Good thing i’m not there, I might be tempted to throw a pie at him.

The Eid Mubarak poster has eben released in the Habbo AU catalog for 3 credits, it will be availiable for the next 3 days. What have they done, this poster was priceless as only 3 were known to exist and now the price will fall.

A few people have been asking me for the list of penguins that will be given out on Habbo Hotel this year, so here’s my list:

Day 1: Emperor Penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri. The Emperor Penguin is the tallest and heaviest Penguin. Its main diet consists of fish. These Penguins are extremely social animals and are very sensitive to climate change.

Day 2: Executive Penguin
Aptenodytes Loman. The Executive Penguin is all about business. When he isn’t buying bottled water, freezing it and selling it as real estate in the Antarctic he likes to return videos.

Day 3: Infected Penguin
Aptenodytes Bacterium. This Penguin appears to have been infected with the same disease that broke out over Habboween. Users are urged to use caution when handling this species and we ask that they keep a good distance! Read the rest of this entry »

YouTube has recently updated it’s website and video layer and is now in widescreen. The layout width has been increased to 960 pixels. Aparently the change is due to many complaints. I know I would have complained about it… if i could find the complaints link!

It seems that every year in the leadup to caps lock day it’s all I think about. I always plan to do something for that day… and every day, just a few days after caps lock day I remember that I missed it.

Did anyone else do anything for caps lock day?

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