The Nexus 5 is here. One of the most anticipated phones of the year. Some of its specs and a quick unboxing below.
Android 4.4 KitKat
Snapdragon 800, 2.26GHz processor
2GB RAM
Dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4G/5G)
2G/3G/4G LTE
69.17 x 137.84 x 8.59 mm
4.59 ounces (130g)
4.95” 1920×1080 display (445 ppi)
1.3MP front facing camera
8MP rear facing camera with Optical Image Stabilization
2300 mAh battery
PearlMountain have previously offered giveaways for many of their software here on RGdot. They have a promotion to celebrate Valentine’s Day and asked if I could mention it here:
To celebrate the world’s most romantic Valentine’s Day, we’d love to offer ColageIt Pro on Windows and Mac, originally priced at $ 29.90, at 50% off. Besides, anyone buying CollageIt Pro for Windows can get PearlMountain Image Converter for free, saving you up to $55.90. The deadline for this deal is February 15, 2013.
Highlighted Features:
Get CollageIt Pro for Windows plus the Free PearlMountain Image Converter here: http://www.collageitfree.com/
Get CollageIt Pro for Mac here: http://www.collageitfree.com/
Watching TV two items or products have attracted my attention, and not really in a good way. These two items that became available for sale in 2012 surely are some of the most bizarre ever.
They are Tooth Tunes and WaxVac. They market themselves as
the only toothbrush with music in your mouth technology
and
the safe & effective way to clean and dry your ear
respectively.
Corporate board rooms are filled with either genius innovators or utterly bored people. You make the call!
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Backstit.ch – in beta – is a personal start page site with a clean interface that may be a good option for those who will miss the soon to be retired iGoogle or those using My Yahoo and others. At least based on initial and first impressions Backstit.ch is different from the usual and familiar start page. The potential for a cluttered look seems less likely with Backstit.ch where the pages seem cleaner.
Backstit.ch also makes it easy to view more than just news sources or rss feeds by adding a social aspect with twitter streams, facebook timelines and others that at this (beta) period includes Instagram, Linkedin, App.net, tumblr, Readabilitiy and Instapaper.
Creating a page starts by using the Catalog. The Catalog has a ready made collection available for one click additions. These are divided into featured and other categories like news and travel. The available selection includes TechCrunch, Tanga Deals, CNN and others including more specific social feeds like ‘Photos shared on Facebook’ and ‘Popular photos on Instagram’.
If a site is not featured or available click on the feed search link and then type the site name – not the full url! – to find and add a site to your start page.
With Backstit.ch the start page where everything exists is called Patterns. A ‘See all’ button on the top right of each item is like a maximizer for that feed or item. The Threads page on the other hand displays everything in its category – news, social and others – by date and time instead of by site.
The cleanest and perhaps most useful part of Backstit.ch is that when an item is clicked the full version of the article is presented on its own on a clean and no frills page.
Backstit.ch has potential because it is feels different and focuses on reading and viewing more than anything else.
I first learnt about Backstit.ch from this ghacks post and got a prompt reply from its cofounder (Jordan) when I encountered an error adding a twitter feed. In the second screenshot the facebook feed has failed to load but I am confident this will be addressed as Backstit.ch works its way through the beta period.
As a fan of WordPress (who isn’t?) I was excited to hear about Instant WordPress via this wpmu.org post. Instant WordPress is billed as a “complete standalone, portable WordPress development environment” and “The easiest and quickest way to install WordPress!” The 54MB download installs a portable and completely self contained copy of WordPress on a PC. There is no need to go through more time consuming methods like installing wampserver , XAMPP or others if the exclusive or main use of using MySQL and php is to work with WordPress on a PC.
After installing Instant WordPress on a XP desktop I was disappointed to see that it would not start, it did generate an error (see above image) but the error was obscured by the program’s splash image. The error dialog was not movable using either the mouse or keyboard. I looked in the program’s folder, found the splash image (splash.png) and decided to resize it to a smaller size image so that the error would come into view.
The error in question was “%1 is not a valid Win32 application.” (see above image). That particular error is often associated with Windows not reading or liking a blank space in some configuration (in many cases a batch file) of the program in question. I decided to move the Instant WordPress folder from the desktop – whose “Documents and Settings” path contains spaces – to c:\ and as expected it worked (see below image).
Instant WordPress is the easiest method yet to play with WordPress and it comes with a few dummy posts and pages. As of this post it is bundled with WordPress 3.2, MySQL 5.1.46-community-nt with phpMyAdmin, Apache 2.2.15, and PHP 5.3.2.
Howard Zinn 1922-2010, RIP.
Howard Zinn was most importantly anti-war. Author of the important A People’s History of the United States.
http://howardzinn.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn
Long interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMt7cFFKPeM
Shorter segment from The Real News channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mebqz79O6AA
December 10 is recognized as international Human Rights Day. It marks the date when the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) (Read more here).
Struggles and human rights violations still exist, even 61 years after it was voted for by countries big and small. Many of those same countries – and those which abstained or didn’t vote at all – have been involved in questionable conduct and some that clearly violate the declaration.
There are many who have suffered, who have decided to take action or who have just realized the need to do their part. Ordinary people and more known ones have spent and are spending time and even life times working for the betterment of all human life and deserve recognition. One such example – which may not be a household name – is Jack Healey and his Human Rights Action Center. Few others can be read about as the recipients of the Martin Ennals Award. Even more, as individuals, promoting the cause any way possible such as One Day for Human Rights.
Here’s hoping for a free, bright and peaceful future.
As you may have noticed I have a ‘Green’ category set up here. My intention is to not post about software only but also to add my thoughts about the environment and may be even politics sometimes. This site may or may not seem like a personal blog as opposed to a tech or software review blog. If you have any thoughts on this please leave a comment. I hope that this site or blog will evolve into something interesting for most.
Welcome. I am planning to start something new here. See you soon!