Harsh J

Now that you all know iPhone has launched finally, after days of catching your breaths and saving up for it. Here, cool yourself down by watching some of this.

Oh, no worries, its pure Swedish too. Click the box below to begin the unwrapping of the mighty iPhone. Much to a purchaser’s dismay.

Ps. Actual link was at - http://stream.ifixit.com/

Note that the actual post was about the unwrapping of an iPhone itself! To see what all chips it had used, its real value and other things. Things like the locked bluetooth chip, and other things which made the iPhone even more exciting. It was technical porno, inlcuding disassembly, scratching and all, heh.

Edited for fun

Microsoft has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the operators of “Longhorn Reloaded,” a project that was dedicated to reviving an earlier beta of Windows Vista from before the company removed certain features, such as WinFS. The operator of the site has since posted a message saying that he had removed the download link, and this was followed up by a statement from Jean-Marie Houvenaghel??”the founder of the web site Joejoe.org and supervisor of the Longhorn Reloaded project??”that the project was officially discontinued.

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Google launched its new Desktop Search software for Linux and it looks like the widget below.

It searches only a few kind of files as of now, but then, Google Desktop never was the best in searching. But it sure gives a handy application to search the web quickly.

Download as [ DEB ] or [ RPM ]

Or if you wish to add Google’s Linux Software repository to your OS, look here.

But the thing with me is, I never really needed a search in my daily OS use. Over the past five years I’ve learned how to manage your files side by side as I work. Sure it was difficult at first, but when some friend of yours dumps about 500 songs on your HDD, you realize how painful tagging is. Yeah, I tagged them all manually (Right Click - Properties, Google for info) on Windows and then after I finished the 3 day work and arranged them well, with Album Art and all, I discovered that MusicBrainz did the same. Only, automatically. Haha, I felt like deleting the entire collection after I discovered the software.

It might be that I don’t really keep a lot of files, like documents and all. And even if I do, not for a long time. The only thing I start the Search applet or software of an OS is to find a system file or something hidden deep under the User Profile folders. But otherwise, I always know where my files are and never really have hassles searching them out.

Sorting music is now much easier, thanks to both Amarok and Windows Media Player 11 coming with automatic file tagging and Album Art downloads. My music folder is arranged in the Artist - Album - Files and Art way. Like the breadcrumb view below:

And though its arranged in such a way, its still obsolete cause these modern player libraries are beautifully sorted and very easy to use if your files are well tagged.

I don’t think anyone these days actually goes through the File Explorer and selects something to play. Its way easier in a library or a manager, can be sorted in a hundred different ways and all your files are accessible from your player itself, thus making playlists from them a cake.

So what am I getting at? Nothing, just saying that once tagged and categorized, your files are way easier to navigate through. But don’t categorize like /home/name/Documents/Office/June1 and /home/name/Documents/Office/June2 and so on. That’s just stupid and makes it more difficult to browse through. Instead just stop at the Office sub category and dump all files with proper descriptive names in it.

No one really listens to all this crap but if you actually keep categorizing and spending that extra few seconds in placing the saved file in the right folder with the right name, it makes retrieval way easier, and completely reduces your need on the search module of the OS which usually gives you a hard and dumb time searching. I mean, how innovative can a search get and be helpful to you when you simply don’t know what and where you seek.

And after the long off-topic blabber, I just wanna say that this GDS tool is quite heavy, just like Beagle is.

Microsoft must’ve just found out that the amount of people driving their cars all the way to Redmond, in order to file complaints on their new OS - Windows Vista for was growing too huge to handle .. and park.

So, in order to show their customer that they really really care about their concerns, they’ve started digging out a huge space to provide parking to 5000 such people, underground (Yeah, so they can trap them inside).

Here’s more on the super massive trapdoor which Microsoft’s constructing:

Microsoft is digging for a solution to the parking crunch on its growing Redmond campus.

The software giant is excavating a giant pit for an underground parking garage with the capacity for some 5,000 vehicles. It will cover the equivalent of six downtown city blocks and go four stories deep. The underground garage, on the west side of Highway 520 near the Northeast 40th Street exit, is scheduled to be completed by mid-2008. In 2006, the company announced a three-year plan to expand the campus by about one-third, or 3.1 million square feet, at a cost of roughly $1.3 billion.

Microsoft Garage

Plus, a gloat extract from the same:

The new garage “will go a long way to helping out with that crunch that we feel,” Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos said. “You’re going to see a net gain here of quite a few thousand spaces.”

“When this is done, I think people will look to that area as the center of campus,” Gellos said. “It’s being designed and built that way,” with open space, a plaza, and other architectural and artistic touches planned to make the area pedestrian friendly.

Lou Gellos

Psst .. There’s an even more sinister part in this. Inside information tells me that they will definitely have an ‘emergency trapdoor system in case of .. emergency‘ to trap down the parked people inside and deploy Microsoft Surface units to brainwash them into buying it. A nice formula of selling more on people’s terrified moods.

Kids’ WB! has announced a new Spider-Man animated series, starting early 2008. I can has a w00t please? Thank you. w000000t!

Its called The Spectacular Spider-Man: Animated Series. The 6th Animated series of Spider-Man that am gonna watch now

But I do hope the animation’s way better than this image they’ve shown us. I’d love it even more if its animation is like ‘Spider-Man: The New Animated Series‘ which was partially 3D and very modern and cool in its story arc.

And as this image shows, its the same villains as ever, I can recognize The Vulture’s shadow, Dr. Octopus’ tentacles, Sandman’s fist and the smoke of Green Goblin’s glider. What’s the radioactive liquid like thing?

Oh wait, that ain’t smoke, its just metal obstructing the camera shot .. Thanks Karthik for this.