Google Patches Its Gmail Update Status To Look Like Twitter’s Tweets
Gmail users may soon very well be Twittering either they hate or love to tweet. How? Google launches a rival feature that is very similar to Twitter which allows Gmail users to update status in a stream format. This means Gmail users will be able to allow each other to see micro blogging messages such as tweets. The effect of reading tweets within Gmail may be very different from reading tweets on Twitter since your real purpose is to check emails and not tweeting. Still, it’s a cool idea to see what your friends and your family members have been up to with theirs most recent short update messages that they wrote when they were using Gmail. What you think about Google is launching a Twitter-clone feature within Gmail? Source.
Nexus One Versus HTC HD2
OK, so you are looking for a new smart phone, but there are too many of them out there. You heard about the Nexus One, and a comparable attractive smart phone known as HTC HD2, but you don’t know which one to choose. This sounds like you? If it is, then you can check out a very good YouTube video that compares Nexus One against HTC HD2 in great depth after the jump! Watching this video may help you make a right choice in picking the smart phone you want between the two since you’ll know which phone has the features that you’re drooling for.
Use SpeedFan To Monitor Computer Temperature
Linux users never have to worry about not knowing how hot or how cold a computer runs since aptitude and apt-get and yum and yast and whatever else are only a command line away to obtain the temperature sensor programs/widgets. For Windows users, you (as in all Windows users) have to search the Internet for such a program to download, and hopefully it won’t be a download that has a virus. No worry, I’m here to tell you such a program exists, and it is safe to download and safe to use for Windows. I found out this program known as SpeedFan from CNET as I browsed Google for such a program. I’m glad that CNET has a review on this very program, and I trust CNET since whenever CNET recommends a software to use, the software seems to be solid and safe to use.
The whole purpose for some of us to download SpeedFan is to keep check on how hot or how cold our computers have ran. So we don’t really need to understand the advance options that SpeedFan has, because those options are something that even an average computer user may not understand. Another advantage of running SpeedFan due to the fact that this software utilizes the sensor mechanism of your hardware and certain capabilities of your hardware to control how fast or how slow a computer’s fan runs according to how hot or how cold a computer is; this helps bring down the consumption of electricity (energy) and noise.
After installing SpeedFan, you have to open the program and let it runs, otherwise it won’t be activated and lies dormant as if you haven’t yet installed it. SpeedFan launches slowly as it probes for hardware’s capabilities, but it won’t affect your computer performance. There are many advance options that you could toy with through SpeedFan’s easy to understand and navigate user interface, but I recommend you not to mess with such complicated options and features unless you know what you’re doing, otherwise you could really create some strange computer behaviors that you may regret for having done so. After all, we’re installing SpeedFan to keep an eye on the computer’s temperature.
Why should we know how hot or how cold our computer runs? When a computer runs too hot, and not enough airflow permeates throughout the computer case, and the fan is not running correctly, all of this could lead to a very slow computer; in extreme case, all of this could lead to broken components. Luckily, this generation laptops and computers do have mechanism that shut down your machine when it gets too hot to prevent a worse scenario. Still, even with such a mechanism, there is no guaranteed that everything is normal with the machine. By knowing the temperature for a computer/laptop beforehand, we could brainstorm and poke around for a solution before any type of mechanism or mishap kicks in. In this way you could prolong the machine’s lifespan.
How could you tell at what temperature that your computer/laptop should be running? It’s depending on the type of processors and components that your computer have. For processors, you have to look up that with the manufacturers for information, and these information could be easily found on theirs websites. Each processor has its own maximum temperature which dictates when a computer runs beyond the maximum temperature prescribed by a process’s manufacturer, your computer/laptop could stop functioning correctly and may horribly go wrong. A same recommendation from many sources seems to agree that a computer/laptop’s temperature should be running at a room temperature. What’s a room temperature? Wikipedia has the answer to this!
To use SpeedFan, you can download the latest version at here. To reinforce your trust on SpeedFan, you could check out the CNET’s SpeedFan Review. I’m running SpeedFan on Windows 7, and it seems to work just fine! I haven’t yet tested SpeedFan with any other version of Windows besides Windows 7, and so if you have tested SpeedFan with other Windows versions, please write a comment or two to let me and everyone knows how it goes. Check out a SpeedFan screenshot that I took for your viewing pleasure right after the jump!
Humanoid Robots To Work Alongside Astronauts In Space
Unmanned drones and aircrafts are beginning replacing some specific jobs within the military, but you could never say no to one day that we may see unmanned wars! With this same idea, I think we might see unmanned spaceships making ways to parts of galaxies and stars. Unmanned space missions were conducted before, but to have unmanned spaceships through the use of intelligent robots for exploring unknown space territories before humans take over seem to be plausible. What is exciting is that instead of using non-intelligent robots to do some of the astronauts’ works but artificial intelligence.
OK, let back up a bit, I’m just saying stuffs that may not come to light at all — but the thought of this is really cool. The inspiration for me to spew out nonsense things due to the fact that I read about humanoid robot creation by GM and NASA. Both institutions team up and create a robot that is a prototype for many more robots to come that could work alongside with astronauts. They call it a Robonaut 2 or as known as R2. For now this prototype has no leg, but it has hands that are capable as human hands so it could work on repetitive stuffs that astronauts have been doing. Like I imagine, alongside astronauts for now, but will we see humanoid astronauts someday? Source.
Steve Jobs Arranged Secret Meeting With The New York Times
Like a mafia bosses up for territory grabs, Steve Jobs arranged a secret meeting with 50 most important people from the New York Times. Even a blind man could see that this is an obvious move to grab up more contents for iPad and subsequently allowable leaks onto iPhone and iPod Touch — if applicable. Companies like Amazon, Google, and Sony may very well arrange secret meetings with top news companies and content providers just like Apple to compete in content war; eventually the hardware may get to be almost like twin when technology slows down on innovation, and the difference may have to come down to contents. Exclusive contents are the two words that we all could meditate on! Who is a flashier tech mafia boss, Steve Jobs or __blank__? Source.
Yahoo Sells HotJobs To Monster For $225 Million
Yahoo bought HotJobs for some $400 million plus, but now Yahoo is selling HotJobs to Monster for $225 million. It seems to me that is a bad deal for Yahoo, but with Yahoo’s new strategy — it seems Yahoo wants to sell off parts of Yahoo to cut costs and refocus and revamp parts of Yahoo that matter most! Yahoo is still one of those websites/portals which has more users/visitors than most, and by realizing that something has gone wrong since it has been bringing in less revenue when comparing Yahoo with similar size web services in ratio. This explains why Yahoo is changing gear and hunkering down for new approaches. The reasons for Yahoo to sell HotJobs aren’t public made known (or is it?), but I think it may relate to HotJobs isn’t a potential ad grabber avenue while the operation for keeping the service running keeps on inflating in cost. What you think? Source.
Make Your Firefox Prettier With Personas
Firefox 3.6 has a new thing known as Personas. What this does is allowing you to change the look of the primary area of your Firefox browser which is the top part of your browser. It seems that there are around 30,000+ Personas that your Firefox browser could wear. It’s cool and it does make Firefox no longer a boring browser — prettier too! Don’t confuse this Personas thing with Firefox’s themes. Firefox themes do more than just changing the background images and colors for various parts of the top part of the browser; Firefox themes could change the look of the browser completely such as making Firefox looks exactly like Chrome browser but running the Firefox engine. Firefox’s Personas does remind me of Chrome’s themes, because Chrome themes tend to change the top part of the browser to look prettier and more colorful. I’m not sure Personas will work with Firefox 3.5 or not, but you could try it and then let me know through comments if this will work or not. You can get Firefox’s Personas at getpersonas.com. Check out the video which talks about Firefox’s Personas after the jump!
Unfortunately, I was hoping that this Personas thing that Firefox 3.6 got going could do something like Windows 7’s wallpapers. What I mean is that I wish the Personas could allow you to set a playlist of Personas which will change every 5 minutes or 10 minutes and so on; this way your Firefox browser displays a new Personas between the time intervals.
wpToGo Evolves Into WordPress for Android 1.0 App
Wordpress users who also by chance are using Android could download a free Android App known as wpToGo to blog with their WordPress through smart phones that are using Android OS. It seems that wpToGo is only compatible with WordPress 2.7+. This is super convenient for bloggers who are on the go often but need to access their WordPress. Although administrative tasks are limited when using wpToGo, this application seems to be suffice in many other areas such as edit post, upload photos, and others. To use wpToGo, you must enable XML RPC Protocol in your WordPress. Don’t stop here, read more!
What I had written above was old news! The new news is that the continuation of developing wpToGo, the team behind this application has released a newer version of wpToGo now known as WordPress for Android 1.0. The price for this application is also $0! Check out the demo video of WordPress for Android 1.0 after the jump! Source.
Useful Tips For Probing A Problematic Computer
There are times that your computer may act strangely! For an example, your computer may restart without prompting you. Sometimes problems could be a bug within Windows and other software, and sometimes it may very well be a part of your computer such as RAM went bad. One of the possible ways is to use Windows’ event logs to figure out the hidden errors and when such errors had happened. To view event logs, you need to click on start button, and type in the search field with the keyword event, a list should be appearing after what you just did, and make sure to highlight and click on view event logs.
Unfortunately, even event logs could be helpful to only some users, because average users may not understand the error messages. This is why you should do the obvious things even though to do all of these things could be time consuming. Supposedly, after viewing the event logs, and you still have not a clue of why your computer behaves so strangely, you may need to go on and try to narrow down if the problem is related to hardware or software — in special case it could also be a malware or a virus or a rootkit.
Sometimes when a computer gets overheated, weird problems occur. Make sure your computer has enough airflow, clean from dirt, and a working fan (or two); these should be enough to address the overheated problem. If a power supply goes bad, you may not notice since it’s hard to track down a specific problem that could be related to a power supply. For RAM, Windows 7 has a tool which allows you to do a diagnostic test to see if your computer’s RAM is working fine or not. To do a memory (RAM) diagnostic test, you need to click on start button, type in the keyword memory in the search box, and make sure to click on Windows Memory Diagnostic. You will get a prompt window to ask you to restart so your computer could do a RAM check, and so make sure you do just that.
Testing for software problems, it could be a real mess since you may have too many installations of different software on your computer. You may not know which software is the culprit. Sometimes cleaning up the registry may help solve the problems. To clean up the registry, you could use programs such as Norton Utilties or CCleaner (free). You could use anti-virus programs and anti-spyware programs to look for viruses and spyware and rootkits.
You should try to do the obvious things first before you pay a computer specialist to help fix your computer problems. Paying someone to remove a computer problem could be expensive, and so the alternative way is to reinstall Windows when you have no important file to be kept on your computer. When there are important files to be kept on your computer, you need to do a backup of those files before you go ahead and reinstall Windows. Windows 7 does have a backup option for you to implement, but I suggest you should only use Windows 7’s backup feature when you know that your computer is clean of viruses and other malicious stuffs. Instead, I suggest you to buy external hard drive as this is cheap nowadays, or you could also use a flash drive as this option is even cheaper, and use these external devices to backup only important files; Windows 7’s backup feature is more like creating a system image which mirrors your whole Windows system including all other files and folders.
For my readers, if you’re a computer expert, please help make this post even better by posting insightful comments so everyone else could benefit from such a thoughtful task.
Google Tablet Is In The Making?
Watch out iPad, Google is in a process of coming up with its own tablet. Rumor has that Google’s tablet will be using Chrome operating system. You can check out the source for more in depth information. Check out the what may become a Chrome OS tablet concept video after the jump!
