Meez

AtMeez, the mission is to make digital interactions more expressive. More visual. And more fun.

That's why we created a website that enables you to create your own 3D self - your Meez.

Create.
Meez are about you expressing yourself online - and having fun doing it. Go ahead. Select a skin tone. Add a hairstyle. Go wild with different outfits and accessories. Meez gives you millions of potential combinations, so you can create a look that shows off your unique style.

Animate.
Meez characters are 3D, and they've got moves. So strum a guitar. Kick a soccer ball. Or just lounge on the couch. Whatever you're into.

Export.
Once you've created your Meez, it's time to get out there and show your digital self to the rest of the world. Use it as your personal I.D. when you're on IM or messaging in your favorite online community. Place it in your blog. You can use your Meez on any site or program that accepts digital images.

Windose Template

I was just wondering that Vivek always helps me out whenever I need something, when I wanna understand something or anything else. So I decided to give him a surprise by making a super-cool template for his blog. The blog is titled A Dose of Windose knowhow. The template that I made for him is totally inspired the the Windows XP user-interface. You know how a notepad file opens and you know thw sidebar when you open My Computer. Those are the places from where I have taken the idea of the template. You can check it out on Vivek's Blog

If you want you can also download the template for yourself. It is Internet Explorer 6 and FireFox 1.x complaint I dont know about Opera or Safari.

Rajeev Bajaj - Geek Rythms

This guy named Rajeev Baja who used to live in Delhi, passed out of BHU in 1989 and then done is Ph.D from University of Texas, is out to do something which is well quite unique, and according to me a bit freaky too. He says, that in the US the geeks are on one corner and all the hip students are on the other. So, to remove this gap he has produced a music album called Geek Rythms.

This album is Rap/Hip-Hop and the lyrics are related to science or computers in some way. Some of the songs are -

• Free Energy


• Enjoy the Ride


• Metamorphisis


• Geek Dreams


• Mr. Mechanical

He has been successful in selling around 2000 CD's which is a good number. You can check out a sample of Enjoy the Ride at the IEEE Spectrum website. You can buy the whole album from the iTune's Music Store. You can also check out his blog.

MySpace!

Arizona: A 22-year old woman was arrested after authorities said that she tried to hire someone to kill another woman whose photo appeared on her boyfriend's MySpace.com web page

Heather Michelle Kane was booked on Tuesday for incestigation of conspiracy to commit murder, Mesa detective Jery Gissel said.

Kane was arrested after she met with an undercover police detective at a grocery store, authorities said. Court records show Kane offered to pay 1000$, to have the woman killed - 500$ up front and $500 after the job was completed.

The records say Kane gave the undercover officer photographs taken from her boyfriend's social networking Web page of the woman she wanted killed

She also requested of the womans's dead body, he added

It wasn't clear if the boyfriend and the targeted woman were romantically involved, Gissel said further

Copyright: AP

The new iPod

I have lost it. Check this out people. Apple has just launched a new range of iPod. They look completely different and they are approximately the same price as the old ones. Let us take a look at them one at a time. And Apple released a new version of iTunes today.

iPod Shuffle

You know what they say about good things and small packages. But when something 1.62 inches long and about half an ounce holds up to 240 songs, “good” and “small” don’t quite cut it. Especially when you can listen to your music for up to 12 continuous hours.(2) In fact, iPod shuffle just may be the biggest thing in small

Ready to wear
Clip it to your coin pocket. Clip it to your bag. No matter where you clip your skip-free iPod shuffle, you’ll have instant access to music. And iPod shuffle’s anodized aluminum enclosure goes with absolutely everything. Put it on, turn it up, and turn some heads.

Sync to fit

The first step to wearing 240 songs on your iPod shuffle is downloading iTunes — free. Then you can download 99¢ songs from the iTunes Store or import music from your CDs. When it’s time to sync, plug the included dock into your Mac or PC’s USB port and transfer your music from iTunes just by docking iPod shuffle.

iPod Nano

Look like a rockstar
Your music says a lot about you. So should your iPod nano. A super-slim design says you always have room for music — up to 2,000 songs, in fact. Durable anodized aluminum says you won’t let the rough and tumble of everyday life ruin your groove. And one of five colors says whatever you want. Choose your hue and make a statement.

8 GB

Choose a 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB iPod nano and add a soundtrack to your life. Just use iTunes to import your CDs, shop for 99¢ songs on the iTunes Store, then sync them to iPod nano. Possibly the world’s coolest photo album, iPod nano holds up to 25,000 snapshots.(2) iPod nano plays audiobooks and podcasts from the iTunes Store, too.

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Play more encores
Imagine what you could do in a day. Fly around the world. Watch two sunsets. Listen to your iPod nano. Up to 24 hours of battery life(3) means the hits just keep on coming. Whether you’re exercising, commuting, or rocking a road trip, iPod nano may just outplay you.

Also now iPod is also available in 80GB and the 60GB model is now officially obsolete.

Funny...

Artist: Frederick Deligne

WikiPedia rip off

While I was searching Google to find some stupid philisophy to put in the "Think About it!!" section of the blog in the sidebar I found this webiste. It is a totaly rip off of WikiPedia. It has the exact same user interface as WikiPedia but all the articles in it are very very very very stupid. This is an excerpt from the article titled Computer -

Computers are stupid.
You are using a computer right now to look at this! A computer may also be used to interact with other internet web sites on the world wide web. These other web sites are most likely porn.
This article is stupid. You can help by rewriting it

I mean totally stupid but kinda fun to read. You can check out this website to at this link.

The 9

You might be wondering what I mean when I say "The 9" am I talking about the 9 o'clock news or am I talking about "The 9" most wanted criminals. Well I dont mean any of that. By saying "The 9"(yet again) I am reffering to Yahoo's new service called well yeah you guessed it "The 9". It is stil in BETA testing but I think that the concept is great. It allows you to -

Be in-the-know with a daily countdown of the Web's weirdest, funniest and most
talked about stories and videos.

When you first open the website you see a huge blank space in the middle where the video will load. And on the right side you see a bar with links to wierd or funny websites. These website are called Today's The 9 . If you allow the video to play the host Maria Sansone tells you about the several website that are on the sidebar. You can check out the website - which are pretty nice by the way and then vote for them. The sites are fun. Marao Sansone is hot. So the website is overall great. But the video quality is pretty bad which maybe because I have a bad internet connection. 8 out of 10.

P.S.: I found I do Dog tricks on The 9

I do Dog Trix

Sorry I wasnt blogging for a long time now. It wasn't that I did not have time, the thing was that I could not get myself to sit on one win window and write something. Well I have found some things that I could blog about. So here goes.
I found this site somewhere and found it to be very amusing. It is not very elaborate but is good if you want some fun. The URL is http://www.idodogtricks.com/index_flash.html. In this a flash movie loads. And then there is a small text box to enter commands. And whatever you write the dog does. Some of the commangs that I tried and worked are -

• Jump
• Rollover
• Stand
• Lick
• Bark

If you write something that it does not understand then it gives a witty reply and barks. It is completely useless but is a little bit of fun. So do check it out.

Picasa Web Albums

I signed on on Google Picasa Web Albums(BETA) a few days ago. I tried it today so I am blogging about it. It is pretty nice, though you need to sign up and then wait for them to approve your request. Images are uploaded pretty quickly much faster as compared to Yahoo! Photos. The only downside with Google Picasa Web Albums is that it allows you to upload photos of only 250 MB which I believe that they will increase once it is open to everyone and is out of BETA testing. Uploading photos is very quick and easy. It changes the size of the photos automatically so it does not take as much space on there servers as they taking on your Hard Drive. Overall I would give it 8/10 I would have given it 9.5 but only 250 MB .... Come on Google