Since I’ve been blogging rarely recently. I thought I’d collect and post some nonsense memes/surveys. I’ll probably be posting more of these so my Blog wont rot. Read More
An apple a day…
No, this isn’t about Apple Inc. Instead this is some text copied verbatim from this article. Pretty interesting.
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away”… but why? Do you really know what makes an apple so special? Why is it that we never hear an orange or a banana a day keeps the doctor away? Apples have properties that no other fruit have and its benefits have been proven overtime. You will be able to get the benefits of these properties individually with other fruits, but an apple combines everything and makes it simpler. It has been shown over and over that if it’s not simple, easy and fast, people won’t take care of their health.
Deathly Hallows leaked
For you download savvy users out there, fire up your torrent clients. A PDF of the last installment of Harry Potter has been making rounds and it seems like the real deal this time. See for yourself:
That’s what the 70MB+ PDF contains; camera shots of pairs of pages at a time. Honestly, given that the book is coming out in 3 days anyway – it would be wiser to just wait for it, lest you rather destroy your eyes trying to read from the images.
If anyone finds a text only version, just make sure that the first chapter is called “The Dark Lord Ascending” and gimme a holler 🙂 I only got the first ten chapters in fulltext.
Pseudo iPhone
It’s official, nobody outside the US needs to be envious of any iPhone owner. The phone is bolted down on a network and OS level too much, that unless you’re really just using it for it’s advertised features, you’ll probably going to be disappointed once you’ve got over the whole “nice and shiny” exterior and UI.
But I will state for the record. The actual phone, as far as technology goes, has so much potential if they only open it up – which I believe will be inevitable once they got the technology down pat. The responsiveness of the interface just shows how far [and fast] a phone could go visually when you implement a “proper” kernel on it. Despite what it lacks, it is still probably the biggest capacity phone ever built. It does fairly little at this point, but what it does, it does better than anything else out on the market.
So I’ll probably be getting one come the asian release; I foresee that generation to be so much better than what the US has now. In the meantime, I’ll do the next best thing, make my smartphone look like one.
Might as well talk about the iPhone too
Since there’s not getting around the fact that all the talk in the coming days/weeks/months will be all about the iPhone, might as well put in my 2 cents on the matter based on what I’ve read in the internet.
Here’s a press release from Apple
iPhone will feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback.* In addition, iPhone will feature up to 250 hours—more than 10 days—of standby time. Apple also announced that the entire top surface of iPhone, including its stunning 3.5-inch display, has been upgraded from plastic to optical-quality glass to achieve a superior level of scratch resistance and optical clarity.
If this is true, then damn, that’s awesome! The use of glass is a brilliant idea – I just hope it doesn’t make the phone fragile and less resilient to [unwanted] physical impact.
As amazing as these specs sound, there are also some other “feature concerns” the iPhone reportedly has. I’m not sure as to the accuracy of the data on the list below, as it was posted from a Windows Mobile-centric forum. But assuming they are true and not just an attempt at sour-graping, here are my thoughts on the matter.