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Bir zaman önce sarkaçlı dev duvar saaatleri tüm salonların demirbaş dekorasyon öğeleri arasındaydı. Finli tasarımcı Ari Kanerva bu saatleri unutmamamış olacak ki onların minimal -ve biraz da grotesk- bir versiyonu olan Tiuku’yu yaratmış. Öyle görünüyor ki bit pazarında her zaman yaratıcı fikirler çok ucuza satılıyor, tabii ki değerlendirmesini bilenlere… - vijay

“The dirty little secret about simple: It’s actually hard to do” - How Chipotle, Pinkberry, and others win big by doing just a few things well - (37signals) - vijay

Google tonight announced that it was drastically slashing prices while at the same time offering more storage pricing options for users of its services. - vijay

one of my fav albums EVER. love. it. - vijay

"Zheng Dexun, a Chinese farmer from Langzhong, had the shock of his life recently when he pulled out a man-shaped knotweed plant from amongst his crops. Stretching out to 62 centimeters, this particular plant consisted of a knobby head joined to a slender body that tapered down. The head itself had protruding bits for the eyes and nose area. As for the body, there were distinguishable arms and legs as well as a bumpy little package. The bemused farmer is not sure if he should count his blessings or be wary of impending bad luck. Zheng said: “I don’t know whether it is good or bad to dig out a Chinese knotweed that looks like a human. I’d better put it back in the earth!” This is not the first time someone has dug out a strangely shaped fleeceflower variety in their garden. In December 2008, a browsing customer stumbled upon a knotweed ‘couple’ in China’s Shandong. This root consisted of two human-shaped bits where one resembled a female with its defined upper torso and the other looked masculine with its dangling member. This particular specimen was nabbed by an enterprising customer for 600 yuan whereby he has set up a viewing spot in his home for eager visitors." - vijay

Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, First Look, App Review Novelty and social applications are a big hit on the iPhone. A new one from the folks of Taptivate is sure to be a big hit when it is released in the near future. Voices for iPhone is touted as an "audio recorder with a twist" and even a "social voicemail" utility. With Voices, you're given tools to manipulate your own voice in many fun and odd ways. Whether you'd like to transform into Darth Vader or a chipmunk, you're good to go with Voices. Sporting a unique and very pretty user interface, the application boasts a lot of cool extras sure to show you how hard the developers have worked on it. The app has a home screen-like selection window where you can choose the way in which you want your voice manipulated. A stack of your recordings can also be accessed with just a tap. After initially seeing this app when it was in early beta, it has come a long way since then. With numerous bug fixes, a tweaked UI and the... - vijay

Twitter's newest feature won't let you add or edit your retweets. Seriously? - vijay

Workers removed the tarps this morning, as opening day draws closer. Pic courtesy of reader, David, who quips: "It's taken something like 14 months to create this place out of a Victoria's Secret. The Empire State building went up quicker." - vijay

Windows 7's Aero Snap is a pretty neat feature, allowing for easy side-by-side window sizing of any application. You can get a similar effect in Ubuntu by tweaking your Compiz configuration settings. Getting a half-size, Aero-Snap-like window when dragged to the edge of a window is easier than it might seem—assuming you've got the right commands to enter into the CompizConfig-Settings-Manager app, like the OMG! UBUNTU! blog has. Make a quick installation of Compiz's settings manager, if you haven't already, and enter the commands and variables recommended at the link. Now when you drag a window to the screen edge, you'll get a half-size window to stack up. Two caveats apply to this trick, though. One is that you seem to lose the ability to drag windows horizontally into your next workspace. The other is that, depending on how you set it up, a dual monitor setup might not give properly sized windows. I can live with the first issue, as I only use one workspace, but my TwinView setup... - vijay

Scientists have found that acidic ozone water can deactivate H1N1 viruses very effectively, offering a promising disinfectant for the millions of people trying to avoid the disease. - vijay

Record industry trying to fight ability of music fans to make private digital copies of physical CDs. The German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe recently upheld provision 53 of that country’s copyright law against a legal challenge by the record industry whom have against the provision for allowing digital copying of CDs for private use. - vijay

The world’s most lethal ping-pong gun has been brought to life. The contraption was made by Denver artist/inventor Ron Kessinger and uses compressed air to shoot water-filled ping-pong balls so hard that they smash through particle board. - vijay

My brothers are already working on replicating this. - Alex Scrivener

:D - vijay

Filed under: Software TechCrunch, among other news outlets, reports that Adobe is cutting 680 employees as part of a restructuring plan. This is roughly 9 percent of the company's workforce. The news comes on the heels of Electronic Arts' decision to layoff 1,500 workers and a reduction of 600 from Adobe back in December. Adobe had purchased Omniture in September and reduced its workforce by 9 percent at that time. The cost of restructuring for Adobe will total between $65 and $71 million, the TechCrunch article says. The layoffs come just after Adobe announced that Flash Professional CS5 will be able to turn Flash projects into iPhone apps. The company has also recently released a version of its Photoshop.com Mobile app for the iPhone [iTunes link]. TUAWAdobe layoffs strike home, 680 to lose jobs originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments - vijay

LOVE tweetdeck. Best iPhone twitter app ever. - vijay

Need to support friendfeed ! - David Foucher

Friendfeed is a dead end. no more development will happen. And people have already begun their migration to other services. Based on this I wouldn't expect FF integration. They do have Facebook support though and since Friendfeed so shamelessly sold out to them, having fb support is in a way like having ff(symbolically). - vijay

In Japan, being thin is the law! People there are fighting fat to comply with a government-imposed waistline standard, as well as to ward off dreaded "metabolic syndrome" -- a combination of health risks including stomach flab, high blood pressure and high cholesterol that can lead to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. - vijay

yet to see a fat japanese. their samurai ways of discipline and no excess are still on. frickin amazing set of folks - vijay