Archive for May, 2009
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
