War is Boring, a political and wartime blog owned by David Axe (an experienced conflict reporter) just keeps getting better and better. It started up a few years ago as a small blog featuring a comic strip of the same name drawn by Matt Bors, based on David’s experiences as a war journalist. Since that time, the comic strips have taken a back seat with a more journalistic approach being adopted.
David began reporting from trouble spots around the globe such as Darfur, Iraq and Afghanistan. Money is raised through a donate button on the site for trips, equipment and in some cases to aid fellow journalists in sticky situations.
Every day there is at least two or three new posts so you’re never short of anything to read and feel like you’re missing out if you neglect the blog for a while. The best thing about War is Boring is that’s its not just some armchair general typing about Iraq all day, David actually goes to these places showing dedication and determination – something I found individual and attractive about War is Boring.
Recently, War is Boring underwent some changes including the addition of more correspondents. These include Kyle Mizokami, Bryan William Jones, Jason Reich and Kevin Knodell. These simultaneously cover different topics from around the globe ranging from US Politics, to Somali Piracy to Sri Lankan trouble. This gives the blog a good range in tone and subject matter instead of just following the one reporter. They also have some big trips planned soon such as heading off to Afghanistan and Dubai.
Overall, War is Boring is a cool blog that interest anyone who is in anyway politically minded or interested in warfare. 7/10
Microsoft it’s introducing a new way of marketing for their new home operating system, Windows 7 Home Premium. This version will the optional “Family Pack”, that represents the possibility, with a small fee, to include up to 3 computers from the same house to have this operating system installed.
Basically if you buy a Windows 7 Home Premium + Family Pack, you will have licenses for 3 home computers. The specific licensing terms are:
“b. Family Pack. If you are a “Qualified Family Pack User”, you may install one copy of the software marked as “Family Pack” on three computers in your household for use by people who reside there. Those computers are the “licensed computers” and are subject to these license terms. If you do not know whether you are a Qualified Family Pack User, visit go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?Linkid=141399 or contact the Microsoft affiliate serving your country.”
Actually Windows Vista included this optional feature but for a very short period of time, that apparently did not have the right impact among users; but you don’t have to be genius to figure this one out, anything that was related to Vista did not have any positive impact among users.
The pricing of Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack it’s not official, but the speculations say that would be around $189.
At least once a week we hear an iPhone rumour, ranging from new updates, faults, releases and Apple news in general where the devices name is uttered as an afterthought. Now however, it seems that the latest rumours may hold water.
On the 2nd of July, Apple filed patents for what seem like very interesting features for the iPhone. With the 3G S barely onto the market as it is, it seems like Apple is thinking ahead already.
These patents filed revolve around the fingerprint idea and how a touch screen recognizes them. This could be used for security reasons (which would make an iPhone pretty darn secure) and also for basic control of the device. For example, a touch with the little finger may be preset to bring you back to the homepage while the middle finger could launch the internet browser.
All this seems very complex and as such is unlikely to make an appearance to the market for a few years as apple don’t want to over complicate what it already a very revolutionary device. Still, it’s good to know that the Smartphone market will still be alive and competitive two years down the line.
As we’ve announced a while ago, Microsoft and Zune are getting ready to take an important step: the release of Zune HD. Now, there are some more news about it, this Zune HD will include Nvidia Integra system-on-chip.
This chip was build, of course, specially for smartphones, PDAs and MIDs. There are several type of processors within this chip: Tegra APX series (2500 and 2600) specially designed for smartphones; Tegra 600 and 650 designed for smartbook and MIDs.
Naming some of the features that the new Zune will include:
Will use flash memory instead of an internal hard drive. Remember that flash memory it’s quite faster than normal hard drives.
OLED multi-touch screen.
Wi-Fi enabled. No confirmation yet about if will include a support on 802.11n.
HD radio. High quality sound available.
Output available 1280×720 (720p). Will not support 1080p.
Internet browser optimized for multi-touch functionality.
We are still waiting on official release date and pricing.
Yes, I know, you probably didn’t even think about a walkman in a long time; and most likely it’s been a real while since you’ve seen one, but Sony’s is -NOT- celebrating the release of their first Walkman 30 years ago.
Sony is still trying to make a revolutionary product release that they didn’t have particulary since the first portable audio player hit the market. They are having a rough year (first annual loss balance in 14 years) and they don’t have so great expectations for next year either. Most of the hopes are placed in PlayStation 3 (mainly based on two things, the release of the slim version and waiting for the blu-ray to become a real home standard), and also the portable new console PSP Go!
Getting back to the walkman’s story, here’s a quick and funny image that a friend of mine sent me today:
Internet video startup Myka has launched its Linux based set top Bittorrent box. The Myka set top box comes in 80 GB, 160 GB, and 500 GB high-definition versions. The boxes themselves are equipped with a built-in Bittorrent client which supports most of the video and audio formats.
The video below gives a very quick look at Myka’s playback quality, and includes an ever-so-brief look at its support for iTunes HD:
Advertising for the big companies look Google, Sony and Dell never stray far from the ‘Hello. We love you. Buy our stuff’ protocol that we all have come to recognize. However, old Billy Gates had another trick up his sleeve when it came to Internet Explorer 8.
It’s a husbands/boyfriends worst night mare. Your significant other borrows your laptop for a few ticks only to discover Internet history that you’re not exactly too proud off. The word embarrassment comes to mind. Internet Explorer 8 now offers a feature called Private Browsing which stops your internet history being recorded for all to see.
Microsoft is the first company to really give this a go and especially to market it as one of the main features. Perhaps desperate times call for desperate measures when Joe soap with a computer seems to be rolling out new browsers every day.
It’s the way Microsoft are selling this feature that’s the real charm. They couldn’t exactly just throw it out there without the entire world raising an eyebrow. So they’ve gone and raised our eyebrows for use with this memorable ye informative video. It’s intended for online use only and as such won’t make it onto out TVs. However, just a few hours ago the video was removed from the official website. This points to second thoughts by Microsoft. Check it out below.
Over at digital music store CDBaby they have been making a lot of changes recently. Since the sale of the company the site itself has been going through a lot of changes. A while ago CDBaby announced to their community that they will be updating their website which is long overdue and here are early pictures of what it is going to look like.
If you are a geek blogger like me, you would know that the having a good ranking within the most important search engines it is a big deal if you are trying to promote your blog. KPMRS (Keyword Position Monitoring Report Service) can help you with that by monitoring constantly the page rank you have with Google, Yahoo and Bing.
How to use it is very simple, you don’t even have to be registered to receive any result, you can query and get some instant results about your site and a special keyword. The free registration can also give you: Email Alerts (when position changes or when a competitor has passed you); weekly reports; and monitor for Google’s Page Rank and Alexa.
Here’s a query about my blog with a keyword that I know I have a good ranking about it:
It is pretty cool to have these results and see the differences between the search engines; and of course will be very helpful to you if you are setting up your business to evaluate the status of popularity.
Google and Yahoo! Are the two main search engines in the West. The two have been around long enough for everyone to use them instinctively without much regard to competitors. Seriously, if you want to know something you either Google it or…uh, ‘Yahoo!’ it.
Now, Yahoo! have released an ad-on of their Delicious affiliate site for Google’s Chrome Internet browser. This is one of the first updates to become available since Google first released Chrome. Up until recently the browser was considered by many developers and programmers to be unstable and unsuitable to develop add-ons for.
Google call these new ad-ons ‘extensions’ are now growing in popularity. However, many are still hopeful of Google releasing more powerful ad-blockers.
Yahoo!’s Delicious extensions allows the user to log in and post their bookmarks and comments. This is considered very basics in comparison as to what’s available in Mozilla and internet Explorer but it is a step in the right direction – it’s also a very ‘tongue-in-cheek’ move by Yahoo; beating Google at their own game.
Do you feel like you need a website and you have no money to create one? And you are not a developer nor a web designer to do it yourself? Well I’m pretty sure that the your next step should with Moogoo.
Moogoo is the quick choice to take when it comes to design easy and very acceptable websites and it only takes a few moments to complete. You will have several options to add different type of functionality to your site, so it won’t be the same static content. Besides doing all the design work, you can find more features:
Free option available and with interesting features.
Payed option includes the completeme management of the website.
Registered domain names supported. That means if you have your own domain name, like mycompany.com, you will have support to migrate the website to your own domain without having any type of problems.
Features that you can use in your website: News, photo albums, blogs, events, quick polls, statistics, search engine, etc.
Web base e-mail option available.
To check on more features available, check this link.
As an important note, the payed versions are two: Personal ($4.99) and Business ($14.99). Not bad, right?
War is Boring, a political and wartime blog owned by David Axe (an experienced conflict reporter) just keeps getting better and better. It started up a few years ago as a small blog featuring a comic strip of the same name drawn by Matt Bors, based on David’s experiences as a war journalist. Since that time, the comic strips have taken a back seat with a more journalistic approach being adopted.
Microsoft it’s introducing a new way of marketing for their new home operating system, Windows 7 Home Premium. This version will the optional “Family Pack”, that represents the possibility, with a small fee, to include up to 3 computers from the same house to have this operating system installed.
At least once a week we hear an iPhone rumour, ranging from new updates, faults, releases and Apple news in general where the devices name is uttered as an afterthought. Now however, it seems that the latest rumours may hold water.
As we’ve announced a while ago, Microsoft and Zune are getting ready to take an important step: the 
Yes, I know, you probably didn’t even think about a walkman in a long time; and most likely it’s been a real while since you’ve seen one, but Sony’s is -NOT- celebrating the release of their first Walkman 30 years ago.
Advertising for the big companies look Google, Sony and Dell never stray far from the ‘Hello. We love you. Buy our stuff’ protocol that we all have come to recognize. However, old Billy Gates had another trick up his sleeve when it came to Internet Explorer 8.
If you are a geek blogger like me, you would know that the having a good ranking within the most important search engines it is a big deal if you are trying to promote your blog. 
Do you feel like you need a website and you have no money to create one? And you are not a developer nor a web designer to do it yourself? Well I’m pretty sure that the your next step should with 
