Do you think today’s Netbooks like the Asus Eee PC, MSI Wind or Acer Aspire One are small? Then check out the iMovio iKIT! It’s a complete Netbook at the size of an iPod classic.

The iKIT is a mixture between notebook and messenger, has a size of only 95 x 65 x 15 mm, uses a 2.8″ display with 320×240 pixels and has a weight of only 113g including it’s 1050mAh battery. Inside, an Marvell PXA270 processor (312 MHz), 64 MB RAM and a memory card with 128 MB are doing the computing. Through the microSD-slot, it can be extended with an 8 GB memory card.

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Geode is a new plugin made by Mozilla labs for Firefox to determine your exact geographical location. You may download it here. On the welcome website, it says:

“Geode provides a rudimentary implementation of geolocation for the current version of Firefox uses a single hard-coded location provider to enable Wifi-based positioning conforming to the W3C Geolocation specification so that developers can begin experimenting with enabling location-aware experiences today.”

Since there are many upcoming web services using geotagging, Mozilla serves Firefox users with the first experimental browser plugin for geolocation determination.

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The T-Mobile G1 phone, also known as the “Google phone”, will be released soon. It is the HTC Dream phone, running Google’s new mobile phone operating system “Android“. Google founded the Open Handset Alliance in 2007 with other big companies like HTC, Samsung, Nvidia and T-Mobile, in order to develop an open source platform and applications for mobile devices. Android is an open-source project, based on the Linux kernel, which can easily be extend it with open source applications.

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After being in the testing phase for quite a while, Microsoft released it’s new application “Photosynth” – a software which can assemble 3D words of a photographed object. Using pattern recognition techniques, Photosynth can find similarities in the different images, create matching points and thus make a point cloud of all the images.

A small plugin available for Firefox and Internet Explorer lets you see the “synths” created in your browser. With another small program you can create and upload your own synths.

The official website describes Photosynth as the following:

Imagine being able to share the places and things you love using the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a video game, and the mind-blowing detail of the real world. With nothing more than a bunch of photos, Photosynth creates an amazing new experience.

Here you can see an example of some images fitted perfectly together and their point cloud:

  

There are many nice examples on the Photosynth website, try it (http://photosynth.net/) or just create your own synths!

Google’s new browser Chrome: innovative, fast, safe, the perfect all-round browser. But is it really as great as it sounds? It has got many new features, including the new V8 JavaScript engine, dynamic tabs, crash control, incognito mode, and so on.

But many people criticize the new “box for everything”, as Google calls its adress bar. As you type, it suggests websites from your history or favorites, but also websites which match your search criteria. This is realized by sending whatever you type to Google, including a unique browser ID. Using this browser ID, Google can track your internet activity all the time. There are ways to disable this tracking, but who really knows about this trick?

Now there is a German Company who used gaps in Google’s BSD license to create a full version of Chrome without any personal data transmitted to Google using the open source code of Chromium (the code on which Chrome is based) and reverse-engineering of the original Chrome browser.
The result is called “SRWare Iron”. You might try it anyway, here’s the link:

German: http://www.srware.net/software_srware_iron_download.php

English: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php

Regarding to Google, “Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier”. Unfortunately, each Google Chrome installation contains a unique ID that allowing identifying its user. Google doesn’t make it an easy job to remove this ID.

But luckily there are nice guys out there who help you to use Chrome anonymously! You can download a little tool called UnChrome, which makes your browser clean with just one click!

Download it here

Hey guys,

Just yesterday I started a new site with the best receipes for milkshakes and cocktails. I write it only in German, but the Google Translation isn’t that bad actually. I hope you like it and enjoy the drinks!

Original (German) site: http://www.multimolti.com/rezepte/

English Google Translation: Link

If you always want to have the latest stuff from my blog on your iGoogle page, just click here! You will see this page:

When you added it, it should look something like this on your iGoogle page:

Enjoy it!

Ever wanted to download the new song of your favourite band or singer? Or a new movie? You don’t have to pay a lot of money or use illegal methods like filesharing with Peer 2 Peer and torrent downloads.

Google, as usual, has an easy solution for this.

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Today I’ll show you how to find lots of webcams in the internet that are easily accessible and sometimes show very interesting and private content.
You don’t need any hacking or other internet skills, just use the tools google provides for you. There is a search parameter called “inurl:”, with it you can find all the websites that have a specific term in their URL.

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