Archive for October, 2006

概念iMac

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

插画家兼设计师的Adam Benton最近设计的概念iMac。



-->



-->



-->



-->

可惜作者的主页好像打不开
http://www.kromekat.com

moto rokr e2

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

3.5mm通用耳机音响接口
130万像素带闪光灯数码相机,8倍数码变焦
支持视频短片摄录回放
支持SD通用存储卡,可扩展至2G
新一代Linux内核
USB2.0高速数据传输
支持飞行模式
价格相对较低(卓越2068送2G SD卡)

可惜不支持ogg

nokia 1110

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

Everything about this phone speaks simplicity, and it's easy enough for a child (or her grandmother!) to use. It's also nice and lightweight, and the battery life is excellent.



-->

Google to Sell Old News Articles

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

More accurately, scanning in 200 years of old
newspapers, and selling people the ability to view the full text. They'll be using publications like the NYT and Time magazine. Summaries will be free, but the full article text will have a price.

pcmanfm

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

extremely fast and lightweight file manager for X

PCMan File Manager is a gtk2 based file manager for the X Window System. Features:

* Extremly fast and lightweight
* Can be started in one second on normal machine
* Tabbed browsing (similar to Firefox)
* Drag & Drop support
* Files can be dragged among tabs
* Load large directories in reasonable time
* File association support (Default application)
* Basic thumbnail support
* Bookmarks support
* Handles non-UTF-8 encoded filenames correctly
* Provide icon view and detailed list view
* Standard compliant (Follows FreeDesktop.org)
* Clean and user-friendly interface (GTK+ 2)
Home Page: http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/ Authors: 洪任諭 Hong Jen Yee (PCMan) from Taiwan <pcman.tw@gmail.com>

It looks nice.

Global Text Project

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

The goal is to create a free library of 1,000 electronic textbooks for students in the developing world

The library will cover the range of topics typically encountered in the first two years of a university's undergraduate programs

The initial two texts will in English and Chinese.

这个项目和wiki book的差别在于wiki book更松散开放,而这个项目更注重管理和控制。

minimo

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006



-->

A small, simple, powerful, innovative, web browser for mobile devices. No, it's not opera.

And it's for Windows Mobile.

Finally the url: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/

Yes, another product of the mozilla commnity.

Webmail

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

The Webmail extension integrates web site based email accounts in to Mozllia Thunderbird, this allows Thunderbird to download and to send emails using the web site.

Currently Yahoo, Hotmail, Lycos (Europe), MailDotCom, Gmail, Libero, and AOL domains are supported.

Cool!

Firefox Widgets

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

It's only a begining.

Currently I knew two projects about this issue:

http://firefoxit.mozdev.org/

http://xulwidgets.mozdev.org/

PrefBar

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

firefox/mozilla/seamokey的工具栏,集成了很多功能。像切换代理,开关图片、javascript、flash,调整字体大小,清空缓存、历史、cookies等等。非常方便,定制性也较强。

http://prefbar.mozdev.org/