The Danesh Project

Twitter Tees By Threadless

Twitter has partnered with Threadless to come out with “Twitter Tees by Threadless“. Twitter powered Tees where the design is decided by your Tweets.

This is cool,  The Threadless community actually votes for it’s favourite Tweets. The popular Tweets then end up on Tees. This is something other Tee shirt companies don’t quite do yet.

3 simple steps to get your Tweet onto a Tee;

First,  Submit or nominate a Tweet. Make sure you have a Twitter account to sign in with. You can submit your own Tweets, Tweets from your friends, Your favourite Tweets or finally through Twitter search.

Next, let the community vote. Don’t forget to vote for your submissions.

The last step is to count the votes. This is where the magic happens. The winning Tweet gets on to a Tee.  Check them out.

I submited 3 Tweets myself. Tweets I would love to see on my Tees.

I hate #streamyx

time to balik rumah!!

sleepy!

Vote for the Tweet you like. It just might end up on a tee.

Install Amarok 1.4 on Ubuntu 9.04

Been using Jaunty since it came out. Loving the speed, simplicity and estatics!!

Everything works well except for Amarok 2 which ships default with Jaunty. I’ve been an Amarok 1.4 user for a long time now, moving to Amarok 2 is not something I fancy doing right now. Fortunately getting Amarok 1.4 onto Ubuntu is easy. Here’s how;

Create a new source file in “/etc/apt/sources.list.d/” and call it “amarok14.list”.

root@jackal:/# touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amarok14.list

Add these 2 lines to the source file. You can either copy & paste or run the echo command seen below.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

root@jackal:/# echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amarok14.list
root@jackal:/# echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amarok14.list

Make sure to register the PPA GPG key.

root@jackal:/# sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x1d7e9dd033e89ba781e32a24b9f1c432ae74ae63

Update your sources.

root@jackal:/# apt-get update

Remove any old instance of Amarok

root@jackal:/# apt-get remove amarok

Install Amarok 1.4

root@jackal:/# apt-get install amarok14

That’s it. Buzz me if it doesn’t work.

P1W1MAX modem now with WIFI

P1 rolled out a new WIMAX modem (DV 230) this week.

The new modem comes with VOIP and WIFI support. The look and feel is still the same except for the addition USB WIFI dongle and extra LEDs.

Actually, there’s nothing to go hoo haa about. It’s just WIFI but I think the WIFI modem’s gonna do well. General users won’t need to get additonal wifi routers anymore just to enjoy wifi, which simplifies the whole setup and also eliminates extra cabling. I guess it’s “internet in a box”.

I would love to know if users finally have access to the modem configs? How else would they configure the WFI?

I don’t know anyone using the new modem yet. Are you?

Check out the plans for the new WIFI modem.

Google and Goats

Having grass issues at home? Don’t want to throw cash away maintaining your lawn?

Google had the same problem at their Mountain View headquarters. They had fields that needed maintenance and wanted to low carbon solution.

Well, GOATS!! Yup, you heard me, GOATS!!

Google got 200 goats and a border collie to manage them. The goats took 2 weeks to trim the fields while fertilizing at the same time. The goats were taken from California Grazing.

I’m actually thinkin of getting maybe one goat now to mow my lawn. Actually, there might be a market for this here. What ya think?

Source: Google

Another Malaysian URL shrinker, lynx.my

Previously, I covered xs.my . Today it’s lynx.my ,  another Malaysian based URL shortening service. Check it out.

However, unlike xs.my, lynx.my does not generate a random URL string for you. Instead, you have to provide your own shortened string. While this is good, I see it coming back to bite it’s users when they discover that their string had already been used. This alone might motivate users to move to other services which automatically generate random URL string.