Brand new electric bike from Yamaha
Yamaha Motor released their brand new electric bike called PAS Brace. This model equipped with an assistance system to adopt the gear position and driver’s running speed. Total of 8 gears and able to adjust the level of electric assistance whenever you shift gears or change your current speed. PAS Brace electric bike is available in black, red & white colors for $1,150.
Adobe releases Photoshop Lightroom 2
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Mac and Windows lets professional photographers import, manage and present large numbers of digital photographs. Its foundation is Adobe’s own Camera Raw technology, with support provided for a vast array of native raw file formats, as well as JPEG and TIFF. Imported files can be converted to Digital Negative specification (DNG) format or renamed and sorted by folder or date. It also provides presentation capabilities for showcasing images in print or via dynamic slideshows and interactive web galleries.
Photoshop Lightroom 2 has been available as an open beta since April of this year, following an approach begun with version 1. Version 2 provides a large jump in functionality and performance, and is touted by Adobe as being its first application to support 64-bit for Mac OS X 10.5 Macintosh and the 64-bit version of Windows Vista, which in both cases can lead to improved memory performance when dealing with large images.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 can be purchased on the Adobe site for $299, with demo versions also available for download. [Graphics.com]
Cuil: World’s Biggest, Faster and Smartest Search Engine?
An Internet start-up led by former star Google engineers has unveiled a new web search service that sells itself as the world’s biggest search engine. It aims to outdo Google in size, although it faces an uphill battle changing surfing habits. Cuil (pronounced “cool”) is offering a service at cuil.com that it says can index - faster and more cheaply - a far larger portion of the web than Google.
The Google rival says its service goes beyond usual search techniques that focus on web links and traffic patterns. Instead it analyses the context of each page and users’ requests. Cuil was founded by search pioneers, including Mr. Tom Costello and wife, Anna Patterson.
Nokia 5800 Tube from the Dark Knight film
Have you seen the Nokia Tube phone from the blockbuster film The Dark Knight? The upcoming touchscreen S60 Nokia phone with 3.2 inches screen size with 640×360 resolution sounds. Check out the specifications.
- Measurements: 111 × 52 × 14.5 mm, and weighs only 104 grams.
- 16 million color TFT LCD
- 640 × 360 pixel resolution
- 16:9 display mode
- Fifth edition of Symbian S60.
- finger touch operation will provide vibration feedback function.
- 3.2 megapixel Carl Zeiss optical lens with autofocus
- Dual LED flash
- Built-in GPS
- 140 MB RAM
- GSM / GPRS / EDGE / WCDMA / HSDPA / WLAN wireless networking and Bluetooth technology.
- 3.5 mm Headset interface
- TV-out interface
The Nokia 5800 Tube is scheduled to release in the first half of 2009.
The Spam King Edward Davidson escaped
The notorious e-mail spammer Edward “Eddie” Davidson who was senteced to jail time in April has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson made a run when his wife visited him last Sunday.
Davidson was housed in a minimum security facility. Minimum security institutions, also known as Federal Prison Camps (FPCs), have dormitory housing, a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio, and are work and program-oriented. FPCs are generally located adjacent to larger institutions, where inmates help serve the labor needs of the larger institution.
On April 28, 2008, Davidson was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger to serve 21 months (just under 2 years) in federal prison. Judge Krieger also ordered him to pay $714,139 in restitution to the IRS. As part of the restitution, Davis has agreed to forfeit property he purchased, including gold coins (which the IRS is selling today), with the ill gotten proceeds of his offense.
Ely Buendia confirms Eraserheads Reunion Concert this August
Former E-heads lead singer Ely Buendia confirms the Eraserheads Reunion Concert this coming August 30. The said concert will be held at CCP Open Ground and the ticket will be available absolutely free. The tickets can be downloaded as what he said on GMA 7 Chikka Minute interview but still no official announcement on where to get it. I read on the other weblog that you can get the ticket on the Marlboro website but note yet confirmed.
The Dark Night arrested for assaulting mom and sis
Batman actor Christian Bale, 34, was arrested after his mother and sister reported him to police for alleged assaulting them. His mother Jenny, 61, and sister Sharon, 40, are said to have gone to a police station in Hampshire to make the claim, which was later referred to the Metropolitan police.
Bale, in London to attend the European premiere on Monday night of superhero blockbuster, The Dark Knight, was apprehended at the up market Dorchester Hotel.
The Welsh actor had been staying there when he alleged incident took place.
A Met Police spokesman said: “A 34-year-old man attended a London police station on Tuesday by appointment and was arrested in connection with an allegation of assault. He currently remains in custody.”
He is alleged out at his mother and sister on Sunday at the Dorchester, Britain press reports said.
Police allowed Bale to attend Monday night’s premiere, where there was no sign of the family drama.
The movie has become a monster hit in the United States, Singapore and other countries
World’s famous hacker Kevin Mitnick now has a book deal
Kevin Mitnick has signed a book deal with Little, Brown and Company, giving him the opportunity to refute the outrageous claims made against him—really, he could start a nuclear war by whistling into a telephone?—while making a few dollars in the process. A tell-all, if you will.
Mitnick, who was released in 2001 after serving five years in jail, announced that he has a contract to write his life story and showed a preview for a reality-based TV series in development in which he would test corporate networks by trying to break into them. As part of his plea agreement, he was banned from writing a tell-all until 2007. He also runs a security consulting firm and lectures.
Mitnick, if you don’t already know and didn’t bother to watch the movie, is probably the most famous “hacker” out there, imprisoned in 1999 for destroy the Western World for all time. So we were led to believe, that is. Watch the documentary Freedom Downtime on Google Video.
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