20 ways to attack shyness from Think Simple Now.
Socially, we tend to have the misconception that only introverts experience shyness, but that is not true. Shyness has more to do with being uncomfortable with one’s self, especially around other people.
Google has released a Media Server, which will stream video, photos, music and other media files from your PC to UPnP enabled devices like the Playstation 3. Requires Google Desktop and will play YouTube videos as well.
In the old days, we used to watch a simple device called a television. Nowadays, all the stuff worth watching and listening to tends to be stored on or accessed through a computer. To help remedy this, we are pleased to release the Google Media Server.
Skype has released Skype 4.0 Beta 1 for Windows. A new re-designed wider interface, targeted more towards video calling. This will take a little getting used to, so far looks good, except the default font is too small, and I can’t seem to find the option to change the font size.
See here for some of the available and missing functionality.
So what’s new then? We’ve given video calling the screen size it finally deserves, plus we’ve made it really simple to use. A single click on the Video call button and you’ll be seeing and talking. Video doesn’t start off really small anymore - it’s big and beautiful to begin with. You can also resize and move your own video window around the screen quite easily. Plus in one click, you can have an IM conversation alongside the video call.
Flickr cofounders, Caterina Fake (website) and Stewart Butterfield are leaving Flickr, and current director of product management, Kakul Srivastava (linkedin, blog) is going to take over as the general manager.
Anyone know the reason for this exodus?
The Firefox 3 Guinness World Record downloads attempt is underway. Check out the real-time counter for the latest number of total downloads and a break down by country. Download Firefox 3
If you are having trouble downloading, see @jordantbro
Reuters is reporting that, in light of possible sanctions, Iran has withdrawn $75 billion from Europe, and transferred to Asian Banks.
“About $75 billion of Iran’s foreign assets which were under threat of being blocked were wired back to Iran based on Ahmadinejad’s order,”
BMW’s new car design which uses flexible textile material as the skin, allowing for amazing flexibility in the shape of the car.
This is most evident in the GINA Light Visionary Model’s outer skin, which is made entirely out of textile fabric that’s pulled taut around a frame of metal and carbon fiber wires. The skeleton of the car is controlled by electro-hydraulic devices and can actually move and change shape beneath the fabric skin.
Abu Dhabi Investment Council is planning to buy a 75% stake in the Chrysler Building for estimated $800 million. America buys oil, Arabs buy America!
The Chrysler assets would be purchased from TMW - the German arm of an Atlanta-based investment fund that’s been eager to cash out of its Chrysler stake.
PHOTO CREDIT: Gerhard Bos
iPhone 3G will be available July 11th in 22 countries. 8GB for $199 and 16GB for $299. Other features include: GPS, support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, and new white color option.
Creativebits’ reviews the 13 new Gmail features available for user testing via Gmail Labs.
The only one I really care about and have been waiting for a long time is the ability to place signature before the quoted text.
Related: Introducing Gmail Labs
An in-depth icon design tutorial using Adobe Illustrator from Smashing Magazine.
“This article explains the process of designing a simple pencil icon, one of the icons of the icon set. The tutorial is very detailed and in-depth, so you will hopefully be able to follow each step without any problems.”
The pencil icon can be found in the free Mikly Icon Set.
Yahoo! Pipes now provides data feeds via serialized PHP.
To get this, go to your Pipe -> More options -> Get as PHP. Right click the “Get as PHP” link to copy link location
Oil prices shoot up to $138 a barrel, a gain of $11 in a single day, making it the biggest gains ever. This speculative rise is supposedly due to a 1% drop in value of the dollar, Israel’s transportation minister, Shaul Mofaz, stating an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites looked “unavoidable.”, and Wall Street forecasting that oil will hit $150 a barrel next month due to rising demand in Asia.
Looks more like speculators looking for any reason to keep bumping up the price of oil. I wonder at what price world economies will start crumbling!?
Jimmy Carter on the Obama-Clinton ticket, “the worst mistake that could be made”!
“If you take that 50 percent who just don’t want to vote for Clinton and add it to whatever element there might be who don’t think Obama is white enough or old enough or experienced enough or because he’s got a middle name that sounds Arab, you could have the worst of both worlds,”
If Clinton is more of the old, then she is not the change that Obama is looking for, so my guess is—he is not likely to choose Clinton as his running mate.
Data generation at 3GB/sec, 14 CPUs and 216 MP, Microsft’s Ultracam is insane! This is the camera behind the imagery on Virtual Earth.
“The results of this improved technology include: urban mapping with minimization of occlusions, Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) with no spikes or holes, ortho-photo production from only the most central image portions, and support of automated image analysis.”
