Microsoft released recently a Harry Potter theme for Windows 7 and is completely free for download; take a look in this link.
The end of the incredibly popular Harry Potter saga is coming to the end with the first part of the final movies: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1. And Microsoft is offering for all those fans the complete theme pack of the movie with wallpapers, sounds, icons, pointers, etc.
Download it directly from here (4.6 MB).
Angeles Duran, 49 year-old woman from Spain, said to daily El Mundo that she registered the Sun as her property last week, with the presence of notary.
And how this woman came with the idea for claiming the sun? Well, when she read that in last September there was a guy who registered the Moon and other planets the idea came to her head. And additionally to that, there’s an international agreement which states that no country may claim ownership of a planet or star, but it says nothing about individuals.
“There was no snag, I backed my claim legally, I am not stupid, I know the law. I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first.” said Angeles.
The official document where Duran is taking ownership of the Sun, declares the person as: “owner of the Sun, a star of spectral type G2, located in the center of the solar system, located at an average distance from Earth of about 149,600,000 kilometers.”
And after this, of course, she’ll be charging to anyone who uses the Sun. But wait, not all the money will be for her, she’ll spend only 10% of the funds for herself.
The good news is that I guess we now have someone to sue about skin cancer.
TeamViewer developed recently the version 6 for their popular remote access software, they’ve included the mobile version as well and now the Android app is available to download.
TeamViewer is one of the most know applications we can use to access computers remotely, their free version is quite complete and with no complexity for installing nor using it. The mobile versions represent a great tool if we need some quick access to remote machines, that’s why they’ve developed the apps for iPhone, iPad and now Android (beta).
Here are some of the features:
You can download the free app for iPhone, free app for iPad and the Android app (which is fully functional until January 11 of 2011).
GameLoft developed a project that seems very interesting, “Shadow Guardian”. Which seems a game quite similar than the one of the most popular in the last years, “Uncharted”.
Here’s a short video about it:
Even though we can never compare iPod/iPad games with PlayStation 3 or XBOX, since that GameLoft completed a good game.
What do you say? Is this game you would play in your iPhone/iPad?
LastPass is known to be one of the most used applications to maintain our passwords in browsers and computers, and now they are offering the extension for Opera browser.
LastPass extension existed to all other popular browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome; and now they will be available for Opera.
Opera is providing a new beta version (Opera 11) for a browser which will support extensions, and fortunately combining browsing with some nice extensions will be possible.
LastPass is a nice a simple tool and very recommendable if you have several passwords to remember and you need to maintain those synchronized.
You can download the Opera extension from this link: https://addons.labs.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/lastpass/
Adidas Superstars represents one of the most popular models of the German company; and also is one of the most used today as vintage models of shoes. And now, for their 35 anniversary, they are preparing the Facebook and Twitter models.
Honestly I’m not quite convinced about all the “Facebook” included in this model, sounds a bit too much. On the inside they’ve also included the following “Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you” and “Making the world open and connected”.
The Twitter model seems a bit better; they’ve included the Twitter bird logo and the original color used by the micro-blogging web app.
PercentMobile is a tool to monitor the traffic of your website in the same way as Google Analytics, but focused 100% on mobile traffic.
PercentMobile provides a simple UI to view the reports and also very complete information about the mobile traffic in our site: Devices involved (including different models of the same manufacturer); operating system used; country; pages per visit; bounce rate; etc.
This web app appears in two versions: starter and professional editions. The starter is completely free and you can take up to 100K events (page views) per month. More info about plans in this site: http://percentmobile.com/page/436/plans-pricing-for-mobile-analytics-by-percentmobile.
From scores.org comes a very well explained infographic about the raise and fall of Yahoo! From good all times where each Yahoo! share cost was U$S125 to the GeoCities deal which had a cost of U$S4 billion and then closed down.
Glassdoor, company which collects information about employees in different companies anonymously and voluntarily, presented a report saying that people working in Facebook are not only paid more but also the social network offers a better work environment.
Here’s the rating for most important companies salaries in the software engineer category:
Google offers an average annual salary of $98K and Facebook for the same jobs is giving $110K, making this the most important salary around all companies; Cisco, Yahoo and Apple appears right after Facebook.
But that’s not all, work climate is an important factor in every job; and Facebook makes a difference in this area as well.
Based upon a 5-point scale, Facebook scores 4.6 as the top company in work environment; Google appears third with 3.9 (AOL and Apple appear fourth and fifth). And, surprisingly or not, HP offers the “worst” work climate raked with 2.7.
LeanBack it’s an open source project for a HTML5 video player which you can use, completely free of course, in any of your websites and with the characteristic that supports subtitles.
This is definitely not the first open source project for HTML5, but is the first which includes the support for subtitles in their videos. This is a nice feature for HTML5 videos, which are taking large steps to replace Adobe Flash as the preferred platform in websites.
LeanBack has several interesting features as weel, take a look:
