The Downward Spiral

We look innocent:

Meagan


Claire

But don't be fooled.

Yesterday, as we were deciding where to go to brunch, Meagan spoke these legendary words:

"I don't care where we go as long as they have champagne."

So we started at La Note, a classy little French cafe in downtown Berkeley, and sat in a window seat over brunch and mimosas (we ordered a bottle).


After we left La Note, we decided to walk down the street to Jupiter. After all, nothing wrong with sitting outside at a brewery on a beautiful summer sunshiney day, right?


Three or four beers (each) later, we figured it was time to go home. But all that changed when we walked past Beckett's Irish Pub on our way down the street (don't worry; we walked to La Note, so neither of us was driving).


And that's where the magic began to happen . . . and then was immediately truncated when I picked a fight with a guy who worked there and got us kicked out of the bar. What a scrappy drunk I am.

But that didn't stop us! We then took a bus (not sure how we ended up on the right bus) back to my house, where Meagan proceeded to drink sweet tea vodka, while I decided it was a perfect time to pop open a bottle of wine. At which point my phone rang--it was a good friend of the family's who was in town on business. Come on over!

Needless to say, Ciaran arrived to two very sloppy girls. But he claims he still had fun.

And that, my friends, is the reason for my latest break from booze. Tomorrow I will be drinking wheatgrass shots and eating raw vegetables.

Torça pelo Hexa com o aplicativo da vuvuzela para smartphones Nokia‏


São Paulo, 30 de junho de 2010 - Você não foi para o Mundial na Africa do Sul, mas queria torcer com a polêmica vuvuzela? Com um aparelho Nokia você pode! Para torcer pelo Brasil e se divertir com esse aplicativo, baixe-o gratuitamente na Ovi Loja (nokia.com.br/oviloja). Para baixar o aplicativo, acesse:

http://store.ovi.com/content/44420.

O Vuvuzela Brasil está disponível para aparelhos Nokia com sistema operacional Symbian S60 5ª edição: Nokia 5530, Nokia 5230, Nokia 5235, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia 5800 Comes With Music e Nokia X6. Em breve uma versão em inglês também estará disponível. Além disso, também está disponível uma versão em inglês (http://store.ovi.com/content/45228), para que os fãs do mundo todo possam torcer com um Nokia.

Utilizar a aplicação não tem segredos. Para que o Vuvuzela Brasil emita o famoso som, basta pressionar a imagem da corneta, na tela do aplicativo. Depois é só fazer muito barulho e torcer para a Seleção Brasileira trazer o Hexa, sem ter que, de fato, comprar uma corneta e ficar sem fôlego.

Atualize o software de seu celular em nokia.com.br/suporte-e-software para um melhor desempenho.

The Sagem Cosyphone for Senior Citizens

Sagem Wireless, a cell phone manufacturer introduced a mobile phone for the 50's market earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The device is called the Cosyphone and is designed to cater to the needs of consumers who are 50 and older.

Let's take a closer look a this new cell phone for senior citizens.

The Sagem Cosyphone combines a simple yet elegant design and easy-to-navigate user interface with the latest technology innovations. Somehow, this resulted in a device that can answer the specific lifestyle needs of an older generation of mobile phone user.

One of the key features of this mobile phone for seniors is a technology called NFC or near-field communications. This technology allows users to access the features of the device without scrolling through menus.

This senior friendly cell phones sports an elegant yet simple design. It sports a large keypad with raised and separated number keys. The width of the key surface area makes text input and dialling easy. The buttons are also rounded on the top which provides better tactile awareness. The Sagem Cosyphone also features micro-vibration feedback which gives the user assurance they have pressed the right key.

This cell phone for seniors also sports a large color display. The fonts are very legible in various lighting conditions so users with weak eyesight need not worry.

The availability and pricing information for the Sagem Cosyphone was not revealed but it is expected to be sold through operators.

That's it for this new cell phone for the elderly. Stay tuned for more senior-friendly mobile phones and related news.

The Sagem Cosyphone for Senior Citizens

Sagem Wireless, a cell phone manufacturer introduced a mobile phone for the 50's market earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The device is called the Cosyphone and is designed to cater to the needs of consumers who are 50 and older.

Let's take a closer look a this new cell phone for senior citizens.

The Sagem Cosyphone combines a simple yet elegant design and easy-to-navigate user interface with the latest technology innovations. Somehow, this resulted in a device that can answer the specific lifestyle needs of an older generation of mobile phone user.

One of the key features of this mobile phone for seniors is a technology called NFC or near-field communications. This technology allows users to access the features of the device without scrolling through menus.

This senior friendly cell phones sports an elegant yet simple design. It sports a large keypad with raised and separated number keys. The width of the key surface area makes text input and dialling easy. The buttons are also rounded on the top which provides better tactile awareness. The Sagem Cosyphone also features micro-vibration feedback which gives the user assurance they have pressed the right key.

This cell phone for seniors also sports a large color display. The fonts are very legible in various lighting conditions so users with weak eyesight need not worry.

The availability and pricing information for the Sagem Cosyphone was not revealed but it is expected to be sold through operators.

That's it for this new cell phone for the elderly. Stay tuned for more senior-friendly mobile phones and related news.

Quick tools to test your internet speed

Many of the ISPs (Internet Service Providers) continue to describe their services in terms of kilobits (kbps), rather than using kilobytes (KBps) or megabytes (MBps).

This makes it easy for potential customers to compare transfer rates against their existing dial-up modems.

A dial-up modem is capable of speeds close to 56 kbps, line noise, network traffic and other interference can cut data transfer speed significantly. Under the best circumstances, a 56 kbps modem will generally operate at about 53 kbps or 6 KB/sec. Below are some conversions that might help when looking at high-speed ISP.


Understanding kbps will no doubt become handy in determining the best value for your money when switching ISPs.

Also there are some new quick tools which could help to check your actual connection speed. Testing your connection will tell you if you are getting the speed promised by your Internet service provider.

1. SpeedTest.net : This is a free broadband speed analysis tool that allows anyone to test their Internet connection. During an online speed test the website will send your computer a file and then measure how long it takes to download. It performs three key measurements checks to determine the overall quality and performance of your Internet connection. Click here to open the html page.

2. Pingtest.net : Use Pingtest.net to determine the quality of your broadband Internet connection. Streaming media, voice, video communications, and online gaming require more than just raw speed. Test your connection now to get your Pingtest.net rating and share the result with others.

Motorola Charm

Motorola prepares Android phone Motoblur similar to that already changed. Motorola Charm candybar-style shaped like a BlackBerry. The most distinct feature of Charm is offered by Motorola is a stylish candybar phone like a brick with a full Qwerty keyboard below the screen.

Motorola Charm layout similar to that used some of the most popular BlackBerry models.

The images reveal leaked by Engadget's mobile phone named Charm Motoblur have a new version which is the "skin" made by Motorola, to change the standard features of Android.

Charm Motorola's focus on social networking and personal communication.

With the new Motoblur, users will be able to change the screen size of their widgets. While Facebook and Twitter widget will get the increased functionality, and there will be seven different screen.

Charm Motorola will also fully support the Android 2.1.

Motorola is one of the most productive of hardware support for Android. The company was officially announced Motorola Droid last week, Motorola Android device whose sales are currently the best on the market.

Blackberry Storm 3 Specification

RIM will present the latest generation of Storm, Blackberry Storm 3. This information was obtained from a reliable source of Salomondrin. If true, RIM has demonstrated a serious attitude to develop a touchscreen BlackBerry in addition to the physical QWERTY keyboard.

Blackberry Storm's third prototype is being tested by the team reportedly exclusively with few members, this is done to prevent the early leak of this phone. Even the order and body also made exactly the same as the Blackberry Storm 2 to maintain when the prototype is missing on photo.

Blackberry Storm 3 will get various enhancements, such as:

* The screen supports a new input method, but still use different Sure Press Storm 2 (still unclear)
* Processor speed 1GHz
* 8GB Internal Memory
* Flash Memory 1 GB (previously rumored to 512MB)
* Special OS which is completely different, not OS 6.0
* Able to support the widget and change the display according to taste
* 5MP Camera
* Support networks LTE (Long Term Evolution)

Specifications are far above the other Blackberry that has been circulating today, it can still change, but not far from the Blackberry Storm 3 Specification given.

Blackberry Storm 3 is also expected to be coupled by Verizon. When will be announced? only some people know today. Just wait for news of this development.

Nokia 1280 is cheapest mobile from Nokia

Keeping in mind the needs and requirements of the rural world of especially the developing countries like India, Nokia has released new entry-level phone, Nokia 1280.
Nokia 1280 is designed especially for the remote rural areas. Its highlight, certainly, is in built Nokia Life Tools in it. The service is meant to guide the users in areas of Agriculture, Education and Entertainment. The data is delivered through SMS, so need for GPRS is decimated. The service, though, may work in selected markets only.

Nokia 1280

Nokia 1280 is a dual-band GSM with monochrome display and S30 User Interface. It also has a dust and scratch resistant keypad. Its battery has been made robust to let the handset work for longer without recharging the battery as in cases of power failure. It gives 22 days of standby and up to 8 hours and 30 minutes of talk time, besides a built-in flashlight.

There are five different phonebooks, FM radio, a 3.5mm audio jack, handsfree, calendar and an alarm/clock that speaks in the local languages.
The Nokia 1280 price is around 1500 INR.

“Lava B5” new dual SIM QWERTY business mobile

The latest “Lava B5” is a full QWERTY business series mobile phone which is laid with some great features. It has good features incorporated in it and can be fetched at some really affordable price that is Rs.4000.

Lava B5

It has chic multimedia features like 2 megapixel camera and 3.5mm audio-jack and double speakers for quality music. FM radio with recording is embedded in it and MP3 , MP4, AVI, 3GP, MIDI and AMR formats are supported. Audio and video recording is enabled on Lava B5.

On its 2.2-inches, 262K TFT high resolution display screen, one can browse with Opera mini browser and WAP2.0 and chat via Nimbuzz multi-chat. Its battery capacity is robust as it is 1400 mAh.

Lava B5

The internal memory stands at RAM 64 MB that can be expanded up to 8GB using a MicroSD card. Messaging features like SMS, EMS & MMS are enabled on the phone.The local connectivity is conferred via a Bluetooth. Contacts Backup, Auto answer, call recorder, conference call & auto redial are its other specialized features.

Google Nexus One to soon on sale in India

Google Nexus One will soon be launched in India and users shall receive the Android 2.2 (code named Froyo) software update on it for some great new features like portable hotspot and support for Adobe Flash within the browser. This sleek smartphone, a joint venture of HTC and Google is just 11.5mm thick and weighs just 130g.It is available in dashing brown colour.

HTC Google Nexus One

Its capacitive AMOLED screen is 3.7” with resolution of 480X800 pixels. Its specialized display pattern incorporates multi-touch input method, accelerometer sensor, touch sensitive controls and a trackball for smooth navigation.Its 5 MP camera has all the advanced features like LED flash, geotagging and gives 2560х1920 pixels resolution. Video recording happens at D1 (720x480 pixels)@min. 20fps.

It has great data transfer and connectivity options which includes Wi Fi, 3G in 802.11 a/b/g and HSDPA 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps configuration respectively. Its battery is robust being 1400 mAh battery and memory can be expanded to upto 32GB via a microSD card.

The Simple Alcatel OT-E206a Candybar

Alcatel is a mobile phone manufacturer that does not have a large presence n the US. However, his company has produced a number of handsets that can for the needs of senior citizens. Let's look at a cell phone for seniors from Alcatel.

The simple Alcatel OT-E206a candybar is an elegant handset even though it would be considered a basic phone in this era. This mobile phone for seniors landed in the US market via Locus Telecom's prepaid O2 Wireless brand.

The Alcatel OT-E206a sports a 65K colour screen which is a bit small (only 1.3 inches) for seniors but ts bright and vibrant. It also offers an user-friendly keypad for easy SMS with large buttons that are raised about the phones surface.

This mobile phone for seniors is lightweight at only 69 g and compact with a body measuring just 98 x 42.5 x 18.5 mm.

Here are the rest of the details for this simple cell phone for the elderly.
  • GSM 850/1900 MHz
  • 8-tone polyphonic melodies
  • SMS with predictive input T9
  • SMS capacity up to 250
  • Phonebook up to 255
  • Calculator
  • Date & Clock
  • Alarm clock with multiple ring tones
  • Games
  • Li-Ion 720mAh Battery: Stand-by time up to 250h, Talk time up to 5h
That's it for this quick look on the Alcatel OT-E206a. Drop by often to get more info on cell phones for senior citizens.

The Simple Alcatel OT-E206a Candybar

Alcatel is a mobile phone manufacturer that does not have a large presence n the US. However, his company has produced a number of handsets that can for the needs of senior citizens. Let's look at a cell phone for seniors from Alcatel.

The simple Alcatel OT-E206a candybar is an elegant handset even though it would be considered a basic phone in this era. This mobile phone for seniors landed in the US market via Locus Telecom's prepaid O2 Wireless brand.

The Alcatel OT-E206a sports a 65K colour screen which is a bit small (only 1.3 inches) for seniors but ts bright and vibrant. It also offers an user-friendly keypad for easy SMS with large buttons that are raised about the phones surface.

This mobile phone for seniors is lightweight at only 69 g and compact with a body measuring just 98 x 42.5 x 18.5 mm.

Here are the rest of the details for this simple cell phone for the elderly.
  • GSM 850/1900 MHz
  • 8-tone polyphonic melodies
  • SMS with predictive input T9
  • SMS capacity up to 250
  • Phonebook up to 255
  • Calculator
  • Date & Clock
  • Alarm clock with multiple ring tones
  • Games
  • Li-Ion 720mAh Battery: Stand-by time up to 250h, Talk time up to 5h
That's it for this quick look on the Alcatel OT-E206a. Drop by often to get more info on cell phones for senior citizens.

The Kekey to your Summer wardrobe...

Hawaiian beauty Keke Lindgard takes high fashion to a skate park in this hot editorial for the July issue of Vogue Germany. Striking the perfect balance between couture and street style, Keke channels her inner punk and pulls off one of our favourite shoots of the Summer, the perfect antidote to beachwear... clearly somebody has finally realised we don’t all spend our Summer lounging around in bikinis and need some inspiration for sizzling city looks to see us through the season.

Mercedes-Benz launches global pre-owned cars business in India

German based luxury car manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz has recently launched its global pre-owned car business for India: “Proven Exclusivity”. This program utilizes specific global benchmarks for vehicle evaluation, quality and warranty to offer Mercedes-Benz certified pre-owned cars to Aulbur, Managing Director, and CEO of Mercedes-Benz India elaborated: “Comprehensive evaluation and refurbishment criteria, scientific tools for audit and inspection as well as manufacturer backed warranty go into the making of a certified ‘Proven Exclusivity’ vehicle. The dream of owning a Mercedes-Benz thus becomes even more achievable. At the same time customers can also drive in their existing vehicles and drive out with their new Mercedes-Benz cars by utilizing the trade-in route under ‘Proven Exclusivity’”.

Mercedes-Benz launches global pre-owned cars business in India

The pre-owned cars will be offered for sale through the authorized Mercedes-Benz dealerships where the customer will receive additional support in areas such as financing, documentation and delivery. Mercedes-Benz Pre-owned cars program has been in existence since 2009 and operates across 35 countries presently. Mercedes-Benz as a brand and a company has enjoyed a very strong equity in the market. Its legendary build, quality and reliability as well as engineering and craftsmanship guarantees a favourable residual value and strong demand in the pre-owned car market. At the same time, for over 15 years with its presence in India, the company sold approx 30,000 vehicles thereby creating a significant potential for the Mercedes-Benz pre-owned car market in India. The pre-owned car market in India is estimated at approx 10-15% of current new car sales in 2010 and estimated to substantially grow for the next couple of years. On the other hand, Skoda Yeti, Tata Aria, Nissan Micra and Volkswagen Vento are the upcoming cars in India.

“Nokia C series” are latest and best cheap mobile phones

Nokia C series are the best and latest cheap mobile phones with some really advanced features like dual SIM’s.

Nokia C1-02

The Nokia C1-00, Nokia C1-01, Nokia C1-02 and the Nokia C2 will be priced between Rs.1,700 to 2,500.These are pretty economical and laid with good features as well. These will be launched soon in Indian mobile market, most probably by next quarter of 2010.

Nokia C1-00 is a basic entry-level dual-SIM phone that weighs around 72.9 grams. Its battery is robust with 6 weeks on standby and around 13 hours of talk time.It works on Symbian Series 3 OS

Its other cool features includes 0.3 Megapixel VGA Camera with video recording, MP3 Player and FM Radio. It supports Dual-band GSM 900/1800 MHz.

Nokia C1-00

Nokia C1-01 is another low cost feature phone with an estimated retail price of Rs.2,250. This candybar phone runs on similar OS and enjoys similar features The add on features includes Nokia’s Ovi Life tools which gives quick access to information pertaining to educational tools and entertainment news, besides a new feature called as Nokia Money which enables Mobile Banking.

Nokia C1-02 priced at Rs.2,050 is even more affordable but misses a camera in it. Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat are enabled on it.

Nokia C2 is candybar dual-SIM phone from Nokia.One can receive calls from both SIM cards at the same time and the second SIM is hot-swappable. Nokia C2 also enables a wide range Nokia’s Ovi Life Tools. It will be priced at Rs.2,600.

It is expected to launch a little late and will be available in Q4, 2010.

Sony XPeria X10 mini pro to soon on sale in India

Although, the official price of Sony XPeria X10 mini pro is not yet revealed, it is anticipated that it will cost around 400 US dollars and will go on sale in India very soon.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini pro

It is the latest XPERIA family mobile phone based on Android and shall start shipping and will be available for retail in the coming days.
It has a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard, comes in a compact and elegant shell. the XPERIA X10 pro is a great choice for people who want a functional no-nonsense smartphone though a bit thick.

This is almost 100 bucks more expensive than Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini, unlike that one it has a QWERTY keypad but the rest of the specs are too similar to justify such difference.

Stay tuned for more information on the Sony XPeria X10 mini pro.

Sony Ericsson Spiro to launch soon by next quarter of 2010

Sony Ericsson Spiro is a slider Walkman Series mobile handset equipped with great features like 2MP Camera, Social Networking accesibility, 3.5mm Audio. The physical parameters of this handset reveals that it is a thick mobile 92.0mm long, 48.0mm wide and 16.75 mm thick. It is light in weight at 90 g . Its TFT screen displays 262K colour with 240x320 pixel resolution.

Sony Ericsson Spiro

The connectivity options are awesome. There is Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP), Web browser - Obigo™ Q7 and USB support. The handset is also JAVA enabled.

The 5MB internal memory is expandable to 16 GB via a microSD card and battery is robust as it gives 4 h 30 min of talk time and 476 h of stand by time. Its cool multimedia and social networking features make it stand out of crowd. It has an Intuitive Walkman® player interface and Track ID for music recognition. The 3.5mm audio jack enhances the music effect. There is also a built in stereo FM Radio inside it. Its camera is 2MP camera with 2x digital zoom.

Thanksgiving, a few months early

My dear bloggy friend Faiza has a blog that she calls a "gratitude journal," which is just as lovely as it sounds. I get so excited when I see a new blog post from her; inevitably, I feel better after I read her posts, no matter what my mood was prior. Faiza recently did a guest post at The Perfect Compilation Tape in which she highlighted five things she's grateful for, and encouraged everyone to play along. Here is Faiza's original post (read it, seriously, this woman inspires me!), and here is my own version:

Five Things I'm Grateful For:

5. Summer is Here!
I've always loved summer, and living in California has only nurtured my love for beach season. Being a teacher (and a teacher with a second job, at that!), I'm so busy during the school year that I rarely have time for relaxation in the months between September and May. Thus, June, July, and August are all about languor, and I love it! Plus, my birthday's in August. I share a birthday with this legend:


So far my summer's been about visiting family and friends, lounging by the pool, waking up slow, and drinking good coffee (plus ambushing City Hall to give me my job back, but that's circumstantial!). On the horizon: days at the beach, drinking beer on patios with friends, summer playlists, reading & writing.

4. Blog Friends
When I started this blog on January 1, it never occurred to me that anyone I didn't know would read it, or that I'd become attached to girls across the country (and the world!) whose blogs I love to read. It's pretty amazing how that happens, and some of the connections with lovely women I've made are incredible! Here are some of my very favorite blogs to read . . . with the disclaimer that you already know that I love my long-time-friends-from-childhood, Lesley at Homemade Grits and Christina at Down & Out Chic:

Micaela at Dolce Vita
Marianne at Royal Mail
Hope at Hope Chella
and you know who is so nice? Jeanette at Everton Terrace

There are plenty more that I will continue to share with you, but that's a pretty good preliminary list. Please go check out those blogs! They're all wonderful, entertaining, and beautiful.

3. Music
My current obsession?


I love summertime playlists! More to come on that front.

2. Forgiveness
I'm really not talking about any one specific situation here, but I have been thinking a lot about forgiveness--how we forgive others, and perhaps most importantly, how we forgive ourselves. This is one area in which I'm definitely working on myself . . . trying to be all about compassion, understand why others (and I) behave the way they/we do, and forgiving. I think it leads to happiness! I've spent far too much of my life feeling hurt by others--seems if I can just cloak myself in compassion and understanding, I'll be able to breathe, forgive, and be happy and peaceful. Maybe all this is coming from working with prisoners--a population who, sometimes, society neglects to forgive.

1. Family & Friends
(There's too much cross-over for these to be two separate categories)! At the beginning of the summer, I got to visit my family in Georgia (and some of my oldest friends), and there's just nothing like that feeling of being home. No sooner had I gotten back to San Francisco was I down in southern California visiting my dear friend Amy!


Newport Beach, y'all

And on that note, I'm off to meet another bff for a champagne brunch in Berkeley. Big toast to gratitude!!

MinimalWall, Wallpaper minimalisti e di classe


Questo post solo per segnalare un bel sito in cui trovare e scaricare liberamente, una discreta collezione di wallpaper minimalisti con colori e disegni "essenziali" ma proprio per questo assolutamente di classe (almeno per i miei gusti...sia chiaro).

Questo il link al sito.



HTC Desire and HTC Wildfire may be launched together soon

The HTC Desire was about to be launched in India in May 2010 but the buzz now is that it will be made available with HTC Wildfire in Q3 of 2010. The HTC Desire price will be around Rs.25000-30000 and the HTC Wildfire might fall in Rs.15000-20000. Black, Brown, White, Red colors will be available in HTC Wildfire and has Android v2.1 operating system.

HTC Desire

The HTC Wildfire is a 3.2” TFT, 16M capacitive touchscreen phone with Java features like Digital compass, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter integration, Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration. It is 3G enabled in HSDPA 900/2100 configuration. It is sleek and stylish as its dimensions fall in 106.8 x 60.4 x 12 mm.

HTC Wildfire

Wildfire will be endowed with Stereo FM radio and will play audio in MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA9 and MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV9 formats. It also has an awesome 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash camera with geotagging and smile detection features. Its storage capacity is fine and connectivity options are superb. It has Class 10 GPRS and EDGE and stereo Bluetooth.

Sony Ericsson Zylo 3G slider to come by Q3 of 2010

The Sony Ericsson Zylo is an attractive 3G slider phone that comes complete with 2.6 inches TFT display, 240 x 320 pixels resolution that can display up to 256K colors. In addition to it, this chic mobile phone is available in Jazz Black, Chacha Silver, Swing Pink colors. This sleek and stylish phone, just 103 x 52 x 11.5 mm long, wide and thick. It has accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate and scratch-resistant surface.

Sony Ericsson Zylo

This Walkman Series mobile phone has chic multimedia functionality. It has a 3.15 MP camera with 2048x1536 pixels resolution and geotagging and video calling features. It caters to excellent social networking needs of youth as well. Its motion based downloadable games are another highlight. Zylo offers social networking on Facebook, Twitter and also Bluetooth and FM Radio.

There is a microSD card to expand memory up to 16GB for music collection and the music player supports MP3, AAC and WMA as well as FLAC. Sony Ericsson Zylo may be launched in third quarter of 2010.

Finder, trick per la funzione "elementi recenti"


Su Mac, cliccando sull'icona della mela, in alto a sinistra della Barra dei Menu, tra le altre voci è presente anche quella relativa agli "Elementi recenti" la quale ci permette di aprire con un solo clic, applicazioni e documenti utilizzati ultimamente.

Quando visualizziamo questo menu basterà però premere il tasto cmd per far si che ci venga mostrata la posizione in cui risiedono queste applicazioni o documenti, senza aprirli.





Russia: CB Gold Reserve - Réserve d'or de la banque centrale

Source: beursduivel.be

Acer beTouch E120 and beTouch E130

Acer, the giant manufacturer of computer and cellular phone, introduced two variants of the latest smartphone with Android operating system basis is beTouch E120 and beTouch E130.

Nothing too fancy, beTouch E120 and beTouch E130 only adopt Android v1.6 (Donut), compared to most other vendors have released products based Android v2.0/2.1 (eclair) and is currently preparing the base Android smartphone with v2.2 (Froyo ).

However, the Taiwanese vendors that add additional features such as Acer Spinlets, applications for accessing or sharing media content, and UrFooz, social networking applications.

In addition, beTouch E120 and beTouch E130 has a capable 3.2 megapixel camera, Ericsson 416MHz ST processor, 256MB RAM, 512MB ROM, and Wi-Fi, 3G, GPS, Bluetooth, FM radio, and audio jacks 3.5 mm.

However beTouch E120 and beTouch E130 clearly look different because beTouch E120 brings touch-screen technology with accelerometer sensor for auto rotation (auto-rotate), while the beTouch E130 emerged with a landscape QVGA display of 2.6 inches and Qwerty keyboard

Acer will be released beTouch E120 and beTouch E130 this year with two versions, such as black and white. If the eTouch E120 scheduled to be released by mid July 2010, projected beTouch E130 will be marketed starting in August. However, Acer has not been willing to mention the price for both products

Safari 5, come cambiare facilmente aspetto alla "Progress Bar"

Apple, con il nuovo Safari 5, oltre a tutti i miglioramenti e correzioni ha ripristinato anche la "vecchia" Progress Bar, ovvero la barra che indica lo stato di caricamento di un sito web.
Come tutti sappiamo il suo classico colore è l'azzurro Aqua, ma da oggi, grazie a un Package creato dall'amico Tiashi (a cui rinnovo i complimenti) e messo a disposizione di tutti, possiamo facilmente cambiarne il colore.

Vediamo come fare.


In realtà è tutto molto semplice.

Iniziamo ovviamente con lo scaricare il Pkg. (il link per il download a fine Post).



Apriamolo e all'interno troveremo altri 5 Pack che suddividono le varie tonalità di colore, per un totale di 40.


Scegliamone una di nostro gradimento facendo doppio clic su un Pack di quelli messi a disposizione così da visualizzarne una piccola preview.


Fatta la nostra scelta clicchiamo su Continua nell'Installer, riavviamo Safari 5 e godiamoci la nostra nuova Progress Bar.


Vi garantisco che l'effetto finale è veramente stupendo. L'immagine non rende assolutamente bene l'idea.
Tenete presente che questo software non installa nessun programma e nessun codice, sostituisce solo le immagini che utilizza Safari per comporre la Loading Bar e inoltre in ogni pacchetto è presente il Pack contenente quella di default (Aqua), nel caso un domani volessimo ripristinarla.
Eccellente!
Per il Download partiamo direttamente dal sito dello sviluppatoresito dello sviluppatore Tiashi Mechanics

Summer Stay-cation

Have I mentioned how much I adore these people?

JJ & Cari

Milo & Judebug

I met the Freitags a year and a half ago when I started babysitting for their then six-month-old son, Milo (the mischievous blonde pictured above). In that time, they've become some of my best friends in California--not only do I adore their (now two) boys, but Cari and JJ are one of my favorite couples in the world. They are funny and kind and generous and some of the friendliest people I know, and I am so grateful to have them in my life. Plus, I'm getting VERY EXCITED about the upcoming Jackson Browne concert Cari and I are going to!!

The Freitags live in Marin County (a stone's throw from San Quentin), in a beautiful neighborhood right on a . . . lake? river? inlet? In any case, it's on water, and their amazing back patio overlooks the water and Mount Tamalpais. Also in their neighborhood? A POOL! Which they graciously shared with me this week as they've been out of town. I didn't take any pics, but suffice to say it was AMAZING and I am happily sun-tired and a little bit red. :)

My dear friends Anna and Rebecca had birthdays Thursday and Friday respectively, and while a bunch of us were out getting celebratory cocktails at the Paragon Bar on Thursday night, we decided that Friday afternoon at the pool would be a perfect continuation of birthday weekend, so we all headed up to San Rafael on Friday and had a day/night of pool time, wine drinking, game playing, and girl talk. It was incredible! A perfect birthday/bachelorette experience (Rebecca's getting married next month!).

The timing of our little stay-cation couldn't have been better. My rugby player and I pretty much called it quits on Tuesday night, so a mini getaway with the girls was most definitely in order. Seems like I'm becoming an expert at break-ups. :( So over it! Nothing like good friends, a pink bikini, and some wine to yank you right out of a breakup slump, though!

Hope your weekends have been just as fun! xoxo

Tata Motors provides complete Transport Solution to Queen's Baton Relay 2010 Delhi

Tata Motors is happy to announce that it is providing complete transport solution to the Queen’s Baton Relay, as part of Commonwealth Games 2010. The Baton came from Pakistan today at the Wagah Border. On its 100-day national tour, the baton will visit the capital of each state and union territory, and many other cities along the way, covering more than 20,000 km. By the end of its journey, the baton will have traversed over 190,000 km in 340 days, making the Queen’s Baton Relay 2010 Delhi one of the longest relays in the history of the Commonwealth Games.

Tata Motors

As part of transport solution, Tata Motors is supporting with 17 Sumo Grandes, one Land Rover Discovery 4, three Buses, three covered body trucks and one media vehicle. Tata Motors is also providing fuel, drivers and routine maintenance for these vehicles. The Land Rover is the gold standard in the world of 4x4s. Land Rover has best in class engines which is the heart of any automobile. The power, combined with the responsive chassis and suspension to take on any surface and Landmark Terrain response technology which is a unique to Land Rover, effortlessly propels the vehicle on any kind of terrain. Besides this, the Grande Mark II is the most rugged and safe vehicle of its class. Designed like a mean machine, with all the comforts of a family car, the new Grande Mark II is a whole lot more than meets the eye. Designed to make heads turn, from its macho stance to its rugged good looks, each and every styling detail has helped to lend the Grande Mark II with a truly unforgettable look.

First C series mobile, "Nokia C5" is out in Indian mobile market

Nokia C5 is the first Nokia C series mobile phone to come out and get launched in the Indian mobile market. Sized at 2.2", its QVGA screen gives a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. It is capable of displaying upto 16.7 million colours.

Nokia C5

This Monoblock handest has sleek and stylish dimensions in range of 112 x 46 x 12.3 mm and weighs as less as 89.3gms.Its customizable homescreen shows many color themes and various types of ringtones can be used on the phone which is available in warm grey and black colors.

The navigation on this phone is smooth with use of 5 way Navi key and two soft keys. It has Call, End, Clear and other application keys on its alpha numeric keypad. Its robust battery of BL-5CT 860 mAh Li-Ion gives efficient Talk time of 12 h on GSM and 4.9h on WCDMA. Its standby time on GSM is 630 h and on WCDMA is 670 h.

The sleek Nokia C5 phone is an awesome phone for messaging and connectivity. It is convenient, modern and full of surprises. It gives direct access to social networking sites, Nokia messaging services like Ovi mail etc.Music can be listened on its FM Radio and music player. Many songs can be downloaded and stored in its 16GB storage capacity.

It offers connectivity via GPRS/EGPRS MSC32 class B at maximum speed up to 298/178.8 kbps (UL/DL) and HSDPA, 10.2 Mbps and HSUPA, 2 Mbps.

Samsung Galaxy Q

Samsung South Korean mobile phone vendor has reportedly set up a new mobile phone named Galaxy Q. The phone is reportedly an extension line of the Samsung Galaxy family. If Samsung Galaxy S with full touch screen type is more like the iPhone, the Samsung Galaxy Q would challenge the BlackBerry.

Of course, for the sake of mission, the design of the Galaxy Q also must be different with the Galaxy S. According to a source close to Samsung, the Galaxy Q will carry a full qwerty keyboard, while using the Android operating system.

"Samsung Q launch date is still not final. Samsung is still negotiating with the carrier AT & T and Verizon Wireless. However, these phones will exist in the US market late next year," said a source from the Korea Times.

These sources say that Samsung is still believed by Qwerty cell phone charm is still popular in the North American market. For those users found it easier to manage their electronic mail while doing the activity in social networking.

"Samsung is expected Galaxy Q to be the Qwerty Samsung increased market share in North America because during this time was still dominated by Canadian vendor (Research In Motion as the manufacturer of the BlackBerry),"

Sony Ericsson’s Aspen to be launched in July 2010 in India

Sony Ericsson had announced the launch of its latest business phone based on WinMo 6.5.3 Operating system in the market by July, 2010. Aspen belongs to the GreenHeart banner of eco-friendly phones by Sony Ericsson.

Sony Ericsson Aspen


Sony Ericsson Aspen
is bar-shaped QWERTY keyboard mobile phone with similar User Interface as X1 and X2 mobiles. Aspen will have a 2.4inch TFT touch screen, with QVGA resolution. Aspen also has quad-band connectivity in two versions, 900/2100 MHz and 850/900/2100 MHz.Aspen will have it all, it is endowed with unique and awesome features like the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mini USB, 3.5mm microSD slot and a 4 GB card.The camera will be a 3.2 MP resolution camera with Fixed-Focus and will be available in Iconic Black and White Silver.

Sony Ericsson Aspen price has not been revealed as yet.

Denisa Dvorakova does Denim!

We are in awe of the beautiful Denisa Dvorakova here at Elite, and we'd be shocked if you weren't too. Yet another winner of the Elite Model Look competition, Denisa has been hugely successful and in the past few months alone has graced the covers of Spanish Vogue as well as French Marie Claire - in a stunning demin bikini - and has even been the face of the latest Givenchy campaign.



We aren't suprised by her success at all, this girls looks and talent paired with her determination and willingness to work means that she has been constantly busy. Not many people can make a demin bikini and hat look good together, but that's why we love Denisa so much. She can pull off what so many others can't! So be brave when you choose your new bikinis this summer and try something a touch unconventional.

Motorola ES400 EDA Enterprise Digital Assistant

Although its main function is communication, this gadget is not called as a cellular phone, but was named "Enterprise Digital Assistant" (EDA). Motorola ES400 is designed as a standalone business or enterprise, and Motorola ES400 will be the first device that uses Windows Embedded Hanheld, platform from Microsoft which is developed for enterprise applications.

Like what Motorola ES400 is launching simultaneously with the release of Windows Embedded Hanheld ? In addition to a dedicated platform for business, Motorola ES400 body is also designed with immunity from exposure to extreme temperatures or rain water through the vinyl coating

Motorola ES400 body strength was made with the intent that under any circumstances, users can keep in touch with colleagues, or access the company's data base through the device. Business activities can still run.

Another thing that makes Motorola ES400 more special, is the support for the two networks at once, both CDMA and GSM. This allows the consumer to be able to operate anywhere in the world.

EDA from Motorola device uses Windows Mobile operating system 6.5.3 Professional, 3-inch resistive touch screen with VGA resolution, 600MHz processor, 256 megabyte RAM memory (MB) and ROM 1 gigabytes (GB) and microSDHC card slot. For the security of data usage, Motorola ES400 also features a biometric fingerprint reader, so only the owner can operate.

Motorola ES400 also features HSDPA, Wi-Fi (802.11 a / b / g) and Bluetooth, and packaged with a built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS. Has a resolution of 3 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, capable of scanning a barcode.

Standard battery, Li-Ion 1540mAh, and 3080mAh versions also available in order to have longer endurance. Users will also get the warranty to three years.

Motorola ES400 will be marketed later this year through Sprint and other Motorola partners. How much for a gadget that will become a friend of the businessman's this?