A well cared for and well maintained oriental rug can last from a minimum of 25 years, and up to 100 years or over, depending upon the quality of the rug. So this new year we suggest that you take a break from technology and invest in good rugs, which will certainly give you company for a lifetime.
Geeks identify people with their gadgets, but a rug with a bold, overall design can be the focal point of a room. These rugs are available in different sizes (13×16 10×16 10×13 8×11 6×8 4×6) and in different makes. So go through the wide range of variety at Superiorrugs and buy one.
When people think of a rug, the first thought thatusually comes to mind is that of a rectangular-shaped coveringthat sits upon the middle of your floor. But who says you should onlybe limited to such a square piece of material when many area rugs nowcome in a variety of shapes and sizes? As fun alternatives to the usualrectangular or square-shaped rug, round rugs with detailed edging andhalf-moon or crescent shaped rugs can easily dress up your home.
The following are some of the general types of fibers, each with different characteristics:
Nylon - Wear and soil resistant and easily cleaned. Resilient, withstands heavy traffic and the weight and movement of furniture. Unlimited variety of brilliant colors.
Wool - Noted for luxury and softness. Has high bulk and is available in many colors.
Olefin (Polypropylene) - Strong and colorfast with a soft wool-like feel. Resists wear and stains. Affordable. Predominant machine-woven synthetic fiber. May also be used in outdoor carpet.
Polyester - Noted for its soft “hand” when used in thick, cut pile textures.
Acrylic - Offers the appearance of wool at a lower cost. Sometimes is blended with other fibers. Most often appears in bath rugs and mats.
Cotton - Noted for its softness and performance. Available in many colors.
Blends - There may be blends of any of the above fibers.
Shinhan Card has rolled out the first ever USB credit card in Korea. The card can be plugged on to the USB port while making online purchases, thus eliminating the trouble of typing the CC no and other details. The card can also be used at stores with a IC card reader. The built-in IC chip includes the public authorization and the internet credit payment programs. However, it is limited for users to delete or save data so that the USB itself cannot be used as a portable storage device.
The company said, ?It provides the online andcontactless payment functions. And the card itself can be an accessoryas well. We think those young customers familiar with the online andmobile payment will prefer the USB type credit card.?
Panasonic has revealed that it has started to ship the worlds thinnest Blu-ray Drive to manufactures. This little priceless wonder from Panasonic is just 9.5mm in height. Even with its thin profile, the new Panasonic BD drive features double speed reading and writing for both write-once BD-R and rewritable BD-RE discs @ 2X. The product is also capable of reading and writing on BD-R DL (dual layer/50GB) and BD-RE DL discs and will be compatible with future organic pigment-type BDs. This drive also burns DVD.
The samples will be exhibited at the 2008 International CES, theworld’s largest consumer electronics show, to be held from January 7,2008 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
So planning something geeky and unique this New Year? How about the USB Think Light
The USB Thinklight helps you get noticed and provides a bit of funalong the way! Once you have installed the supplied software, just plugin the USB cable attached to the Thinklight and type as fast as youcan! The faster you type, the brighter the light gets! Features (in case you really wanted to know):
? A great idea for all geniuses ? The faster you type, the brighter the light ? Great for practising your typing skills, or just general stress relief ? Compatible with Windows XP and 2000 ? Contains CD with software, user guide and support link ? Powered by USB
A-Data has announced 64GB SSD in 1.8″ and 2.5″ forms with SATA & PATA interface. This Hard Drive replacement is shock resistant, faster, and has a longer data retention capability. This low power disk is compatible with UMPC, PMP and camcorder.
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Pricing and availability details not available yet.
Indiais already the worlds fastest growing mobile market, with 60.35 million newwireless users in April-November. According to figures released, Indiaadded a record 8.3 million wireless users in November, taking the total base to225.5 million. According to COAI officials, United States had250 million subscribers at the same time. In all probability India(growing at approx 8 million a month) will overtake US in early 2008.
It is expected that there will be more than 500million telephone users in Indiaby 2010. Bharti Airtel Ltd, with nearly 53 million subscribers in November, isthe top mobile firm in India,followed by Reliance Communications Ltd, which had 39.4 million customers atthe end of the month. Other leading players include Vodafone-controlledVodafone Essar Ltd, state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam, Tata Teleservices and IdeaCellular.
This antique shaving brush has been sold on eBay India for Re 1.
The listing reads: “This Auction is for the Sale of my Dad’s 15 year old (My mom claims its over 18 years old) Shaving Brush. With this i would provide you a declaration from my Parents certifying that this is indeed over 15years old. Recently some part (bristles) of this brush has started to wore off (believe me its still great to use). As seen in the picture below i am trying to preserve all of those, It will be given free to the winner of this auction!” The listing was part of the eBay India launch of the ‘Fun Stuff‘ category. Although the seller sure didn’t get his desired price, I really wonder what the winner of this bid will really do with it?
See the original listing here
iPod’s today have better battery life than ever before. The ill effects of hearing non stop music on the iPod is Apple’s next concern.
A new patent reveals that the next iPods and iPhonescould automatically calculate how long a person has been listening, andat what volume, before gradually reducing the sound level. Itstates: “Since the damaging effects on users’ hearing is both gradualand cumulative, even those users who are concerned about hearing lossmay not behave in a manner that would limit or minimize such damagingeffects.”
With capacity of 1GB to 4GB, the i201 weights 1.35grams and is only 2.7mm thin. The same is backed by PQI’s patented Intelligent Stick interface. Thats not all, with a special packing technique the drive is also shock, vibration, water & dust proof.
Villagers in Kajrai (Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh) walk almost 20 kms just to charge their cellphones. Although the government’s development arm is yet to bless them with electricity, they already have, what has become the craze of the nation - Mobile Phones!
We can see here the popularityof mobile phones despite the absence of electricity. Although villagers benefit with better connectivity, charging their cells is a problem for them. “We are thirty to forty people who have mobile phones in this villagebut we have to go to Mandi Bamora village to get our phones charged,”says Rajesh Ahirwar, Villager.
Read at IBNlive
Hope its not costing a bomb! cant expect it to be cheap either!
Motorola Z8 Ferrari Limited Edition
The phone itself is a regular Z8 with a Ferrari customization, comes pre-loaded with two Ferrari videos, ringtones and wallpapers! And the Bourne Identity.
On December 19, 2007, AMD released a new AMD Phenom? 9600 Black Edition quad-core processor with Clock Multiplier Control for tunable performance. The newest Black Edition processor can improve platform performance by unlocking the potential of AMD OverDrive?? the industry?s most powerful Windows-based performance tuning utility.
AMD has unveiled the AMD platform codenamed ?Spider,? combining next-generation AMD Phenom? quad-core processors, ATI Radeon? HD 3800 series graphics and AMD 7-series chipsets to deliver accelerated computing for the Ultimate Visual Experience?. The platform can deliver upgradeability and customization for scalable enthusiast performance, leading-edge performance and bandwidth to deliver next-generation HD experiences, and industry-leading platform performance-per-watt for flexibility and headroom.
Well as we no there is NO Gphone, and as expected by us its the open source software platform Android that Google is developing. Leaked shots of an early prototype of the Google Android powered device (now referred as Gphone) have made its way to the internet. The looks of this Android-Gphone is quite similar to Windows Mobile devices developed by HTC. It is believed that the Gphone’s are in final stages of design and development and the Android platform will hit the markets some time in 2008. According to the anonymous tipster, the OS (and device) - in its early form - light and fast - much faster than the desktop emulator at times. And as a longtime programmer, he thinks it’s a lot more put together than Window Mobile 5 on the back side of things.
As you can see in the demo video below the Android platform has some exciting and powerful features like 3G, 3D Graphics support, Maps, Touch features like the iPhone etc. As Android is just a software platform for Mobile Devices just like Windows Mobile, multiple handset manufacturers would be able to utilize the same to develop handhelds. Being a open source venture there is lot more potential for Android and the final version in hand might well be a surprise. However check out the official Google video on Android (demonstrating the features):
Leaked / Spy shot of a SE phone (rumored to be P5i)
So is this the next edition of the Sony Ericsson P-series? Although the pic is not very clear and it might well be a fake, many are sure that this is indeed the SE P5i. The interface is said to be similar to the Nokia Touch concept and the iPhone. It is believed to be running on Symbian 9.1 OS.
The rumored specs are:
Slider Phone with 2.8-inch screen (with Touch?)
GPS, Wi-Fi
5-Megapixel Camera
520Mhz / 360Mhz Processor
HSDPA and HSUPA connectivity
160MB of internal storage
Memory Stick Micro and MicroSDslot
Update: New Picture - P5i still a rumor
Update: Although we haven’t seen the P5i (or SE P5) some latest pics suggest similarity to the Xperia X1. So it this Symbian 9.3 powered Apple iPhone killer phone Xperia X1 instead of the P5i as expected??
Touch technology has been the trend setter in mobile technology this year. Now we hear, Vista successor Windows 7 is said to have integrated touch features. A Microsoft engineer said “if you are impressed by the ‘touch features’ in the iPhone, you’ll be blown away by what’s coming in Windows 7″. It is believed that the features will be similar to the Microsoft Milan Table PC concept.
Earlier this year DELL launched Latitude XT tablet which has a multi-touch support but the requisite drivers are still to be released for the same. Late in the lifecycle of Windows XP, Microsoft added its Origami “touch pack,” designed to pave the way for ultrasmall PCs that can be controlled with a finger.
The Milan Coffee Table PC Concept:
Improving user experience is eBay’s priority in 2008. In the past one year eBay has made several improvements to its system like the new homepage design, faster search, detailed seller feedback etc. However the focus now is shifting towards improving the overall experience for millions of its users worldwide.
So how many times have you seen a product on eBay with a shipping tag more than the products price? It has been a very common technique by eBay sellers to start of ‘auctions / fixed price listings’ at a low cost and then over charge the buyers under other heads such as shipping, taxes, insurance etc. eBay has been collecting detailed seller ratings from its buyers since a year now. They now plan to use these statistics to improve the buyer experience on the site. The company may use the data in more palpable ways in 2008, such asincorporating shipping fee complaints into search algorithms; sellerswith high shipping fees may not appear in the first page of searchresults. It also may include factors such as whether shipping wasprompt or the seller responds to questions.
“EBay needs to evolve the user experience to be more competitive and differentiated,” John Donahoe said in the company’s San Jose, Calif., headquarters. “We could start basing our search results or other policies on user feedback, or at least give the buyer a warning.”
The idea is to have a cleaning mechanism to the sliding display such that, every the the slider is moved the screen is wiped clean.
When the phone is open, the slider rests at the top of the screen. Then, during the closing process of your flip-phone, the slider moves to the bottom of the display, wiping it clean. And then wipes it once more when you are opening the phone again. The same process works beautifully with a slider phone form factors to. When you slide open/closed the keyboard, cleaning slider moves through the display wiping it clean. Simple, elegant, very useful and easily implemented.
Not able to access your Gmail account? May be they think you are a SPAMMER. Yes, Google has acknowledged that they had erroneously disabled several genuine Gmail accounts trying to combat spam last week. The number of accounts suffering with this is still unknown, but at least we didn’t hear any one in our neighbourhood complaining.
“I understand that some of you have had a frustrating experience withyour accounts being inappropriately disabled. Our team is aware of theproblem, and our engineers are continuing to investigate. Thanks forbringing this to our attention.” - Google support staff acknowledged
The problem began late on December 05, when severalof the Gmail users could not open their account or found that theirmail could not reached to its destination instead it bounced backed.Some of them had posted written complaint on Gmail Forum and put theproblem in front of Google staff.
The employees who monitor the forum came to knowwhat?s the real problem is all about and later on December 06, they hadsorted out the problem and regret in its ?Gmail Guide? declaring thatthings will be back to normal.
“No account data will have been lost, as we have anumber of safeguards in place to prevent this from occurring.” Read more
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iPod’s today have better battery life than ever before. The ill effects of hearing non stop music on the iPod is Apple’s next concern. 
