Category: Live Crunch — live crunch @ 1:48 am — Comments (0)

Phones are changing every day with new extra tools and for some phone geeks or business people is hard to keep up. But Blackberry Ex-9000 has it all. Here is small review on Black Berry ex-9000 (bold)

BB ex-9000 just got released and it will be available by AT&T for sure due to capability of 3G network but maybe T-Mobile users will be able to get it too.

It is about time for T-Mobile to produce a nice cell phone that is not just another Blackberry like curve or 8000-8800.

You will be able to buy Berry ex-9000 for $300-$400 that is under contract otherwise you are looking at $600-$700 without contract.

What is most amazing is that it has 320×480 resolution just like Apples iPhone! with 65,000 colors yet screen is smaller.

Blackberry ex-9000 will also have awesome 802.11a/b/g wifi and better that is enhanced GPS nothing we saw yet on other phones!.

It has 2.0MP camera and it will support 16gb of additional storage ! (Side-loading MicroSD/SDHC)

Pictures credit: Business Week

Category: Live Crunch — live crunch @ 5:28 am — Comments (0)

Last week I was on Technorati looking up some Top 100 blogs and for a change noticed on 10th place I Can Has CheezBurger. At fist I thought who would come up with such domain name yet is 10th on popular 100 technorati.

Out of interest I had to click on it and since the first page I must admit that is one site that even if your day was like crap will make you laugh and you will scroll pages and pages to see more and more funny pictures of animals.

So if you have time at work or home go visit I Can Has CheezBurger

Funny thing is that site is only one year old but and so popular among blogshpere. I can say that blog reminds me a lot of Perez Hilton blog just 100000 better

Humorous Pictures

Category: Live Crunch — live crunch @ 7:19 pm — Comments (1)

Awesome chart by CNET News.com about Microsoft past Acquisitions in last 11 years.

Company Year Estimated cost
Fast 2008 $1.2 billion
Aquantive 2007 $6 billion
Tellme 2007 $800 million
Navision 2002 $1.33 billion
Great Plains 2001 $1.1 billion
Visio 1999 $1.3 billion
Hotmail 1998 $400 million
WebTV 1997 $425 million
Source: CNET News.com

Category: Live Crunch — live crunch @ 6:12 pm — Comments (0)

Facebook gone wild this month with all kind of news about them. Well today I read few articles on Facebook removing the 5000 friends limit. See I am not that popular like Tila Tequila who got her things just because of the MySpace account yet has nothing better to do then take naked picture or creating sex tape like any other young wanna be celeb.

Back to Facebook before I blow up here.

Facebook should be limited to 1000 friends, who has MORE then 300 friends, can you even remember their name? Except marketing people and commission based bitches.

I understand that “Fans” like to add people as “Friends” but why doesen’t Facebook or MySpace come up with something that MyBlogLog already did , where you have an option to add member as:

I think that MySpace and Facebook people that have a lot of so called “Friends” are using the profiles just to advertise products, and there is nothing wrong with that.

But it’s wrong if I go to MySpace and find out that 70 new people added me, where 15 of them are already deleted, 40 of them are spammers and 5 people i just know via othe friends and other 10 people that I am friend with every day.

Category: Live Crunch — SimSema @ 5:36 pm — Comments (0)

The iPhone is one of the hottest new things out there, but why is the iPhone so popular. The iPhone which runs anywhere from $499 to about $699 depending on size of storage is Apples baby . The iPhone sells extremely well disregarding the fact it costs a fortune. So why pay so much for an iPhone?

There are a few phones that look similar to the iPhone and have almost the same functions and features of it, but it’s not Apple manufactured which lowers the popularity standard. People this is not a beauty contest, it is a phone and why not get something similar to the iPhone for two to three times cheaper?

Let me introduce you to the HiPhone, a few functions and features that you can compare to the iPhone.

  • 3.5″ Large Screen
  • Touch Screen PDA ,Flown Touch screen
  • 2.0 Megapixel Camera with Auto Focus (1.3 Effective)
  • MP3 Player
  • MP4 Player
  • Video Recorder
  • Multi-function SmartPhone
  • WAP, GPRS, SMS, MMS, Voice Mail
  • Bluetooth
  • Dual sim support
  • Support up to 2GB External Memory
  • 512MB Memory included

These are just a few specifications and guess what folks this phone is available for a whopping $150, I might sound like I am advertising this phone but all I am really doing is making you aware of other great things that are out there for less. So please do some research the next time you want to buy a cute phone just because it’s popular, be unique and have something different and brag about how much less you bought it for.

Category: Live Crunch — SimSema @ 3:33 pm — Comments (0)

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg founder and CEO of Facebook whose networth is $1.5 billion and rising is not only in it for the money but for the love of social networking. Facebook today has roughly 70 million users and is still going strong as the second biggest social networking website. Facebook is competing against MySpace who have 200 million users. Anyways, before I get off track there is much more I could mention about Facebook and their glory to fame, but todays topic is focused on child safety with Facebook.

Before, only Ivy League college students were connected to Facebook because it started of with Harvard University and has spread along the coast which eventually has become available to 2000 colleges and universities all over America. Since college students were the only once using Facebook there was no problem regarding explicit and inappropriate material, but now the popular social networking website is available to anybody who registers.

Now that everybody is able to view Facebook it faces a problem that potential convicted sex offenders and other criminals or creeps may view the site. Children at young ages may be in harm with explicit and inappropriate material which is not the best thing for them.

So, to all parents and worried adults Facebook is adding new programs and software to keep such people out and make the website a safer site and environment for the future. Not only that but it will go back to only letting adults sign in at the age of 18.

If you have any more questions and concerns please feel free to comment and I will be more than happy to answer them.

Category: Windows — SimSema @ 5:25 pm — Comments (0)

Was there any particular reason for Microsoft to upgrade their software? I don’t think so…Of course it’s fun to see new features on occasion as we have come a long way from the early 90’s.

Microsoft brands its name on the highest quality of production and they have literally done everything to give the consumer what they want. But why change a perfectly good software for a new one. Windows XP has been working properly and different service packs have came out since, which improved it even more.

Microsoft acknowledged the fact that Vista in its first year did not do so hot even though sales were made. Today Microsoft wants to shut down XP and continue with Vista even though the customers disagree with their theory. Vista is cool at first due to the add-ons, but a person well known to the previous softwares would have to re-learn simple steps because the image has changed drastically.

A head-to-head technology comparison has been made and declares Vista is nothing less then a skinny guy pumped on steroids speaking metaphorically.

So if you have any other thoughts check out these related articles.

Category: Live Crunch — live crunch @ 11:09 am — Comments (1)

This morning I open Firefox and Zemanta 0.2.1update popped up. Only thing I wish I would know is that what changes have been made in each Zemanta release.

In case you don’t know what zemanta is please check Zemanta Cool Firefox Plugin For Wordpress

Here are updates on Zemanta Changelog:

Image and articles browsing with history
Improved tool-tips
LiveJournal support
Firefox Extension is now properly signed

Provided by Jure!

Category: Live Crunch — live crunch @ 12:30 am — Comments (4)

SoBCon 2008 is something I missed this year and I regret it. But I am happy that there is always going to be next one SoBCon 2009. Main reason why I wanted to attend SoBCon08 is because I wanted to meet Chris Garrett in person and have my Problogger Book Signed!

List of 104 bloggers that attended SoBCon 2008:

  1. Cliff Atkinson
  2. Shashi Bellamkonda
  3. JJ Betts
  4. Chris Brown
  5. Chris Brogan
  6. Harry Brooks
  7. Anita Bruzzese
  8. Dave Bullock
  9. Mark Carter
  10. Brian Clark
  11. Tom Clifford
  12. Clay Collins
  13. Valerie Combs
  14. Chris Cree
  15. Lisa Cree
  16. Thomas Croghan
  17. Donna Cutting
  18. David Dalka
  19. Kevin Dixie
  20. Tim Draayer
  21. Monica Duncan
  22. Easton Ellsworth
  23. Kevin Ferrasci O’Malley
  24. Jonathan Fields
  25. Sarah Filipiak
  26. Mary-Lynn Foster
  27. Annie Galvin Teich
  28. Brian Gardner
  29. Chris Garrett
  30. Jon Gatrell
  31. Phil Gerbyshak
  32. Jared Goralnick
  33. Karen Hanrahan
  34. Joseph Hauckes
  35. Vicky Hennegan
  36. Scot Herrick
  37. John Hong
  38. Stephen Hopson
  39. Robert Hruzek
  40. Timothy Johnson
  41. Sara
  42. Pete Jones
  43. Todd Jordan
  44. Bob Kakoliris
  45. Christine Kane
  46. Adam Kayce
  47. Kristen King
  48. Scott Kolbe
  49. Jen Knoedl
  50. Stephen Koernig
  51. Bryan Kress
  52. George Krueger
  53. Amy L
  54. Tammy Lenski
  55. James G. Lindberg
  56. Eli Litscher
  57. Rick Mahn
  58. Sim Margolis
  59. Michael Martine
  60. Becky McCray
  61. Maria Meadows
  62. Cory Miller
  63. Ann Michael
  64. Dawud Miracle
  65. Debra Moorhead
  66. Matthew Murphy
  67. Paul O’Flaherty
  68. Tim Padar
  69. Jesse Petersen
  70. Melissa Pierce
  71. Wendy Piersall
  72. Sandra Ponce de Leon
  73. J. Erik Potter
  74. Karen Putz
  75. Susan R Quandt
  76. Levy Rivers
  77. Barbara Rozgonyi
  78. Jeff Sable
  79. Sheila Scarborough
  80. Mary Schmidt
  81. Derek Semmler
  82. Maria Sharon
  83. David Sherbow
  84. Steve Sherlock
  85. Brad Shorr
  86. Louise Silberman
  87. Sonia Simone-Rossney
  88. Julien Smith
  89. Stephen Smith
  90. Michael Snell
  91. Derrick Sorles
  92. Terry Starbucker
  93. Liz Strauss
  94. Jon Swanson
  95. Ruth M Sylte
  96. Windsor Tanner
  97. Michelle Vandepas
  98. Lorelle VanFossen
  99. Colleen Wainwright
  100. Denise Wakeman
  101. James D. Walton
  102. Randy Windsor
  103. Sandy Wrenshaw
  104. Joanna Young

List via SobCon 2008 Website

Category: Live Crunch — live crunch @ 11:14 pm — Comments (3)

So by few of my favorite bloggers I was told to use twhirl in order to keep up with all tweets and FriendFeed. At first I liked Twhirl it does everything I want it to do, send messages to friendfeeds updates FF with my RSS feeds and I keep up with all others that subscribed to FF as well AS TWIT..

Things I hate about Twhirl is that, person I follow does not follow me, obviously I can’t send them direct message unless they send me first correct?

Well it just happened that DoshDosh (Maki) sent me direct message and I can’t replay to him via twhirl while if I go on the web I can do that.

I also set time to 1-3 seconds to update me yet that thing updates me every few minutes so I constantly have to click on refresh button.

Even though my default browser is mozilla firefox twhirl ignores it and opens up everything in Internet Explorer.

This might look like I am crying about things that I really shouldn’t be , but lets be honest, if you create software that has such bugs I think software developers should consider fixing it. If I set my option for default browser to be FireFox then I really don’t want to have IE popping up on my screen I hate windows overall but I am forced to use it.

Is there anything you hate about Thwirl ? Like domain name or “name” you have to remember really hard core is it Twirl , Twhirl, Thwirl or Thirl ?

Over all I like the software and kudos to software developers for creating such program and making twitter and friendfeeds easy to read/follow/track ….