Picasa - How to transfer face tag informatoin to other computers

If you still did not try the lastest version of Picassa you probably don't know what I am talking about. If you did, this is probably useful in case you use multiple computers and like to have back up copies of your photo library.

clipped from www.google.com A: There are a few different ways to transfer your face tags: 1) You can perform a Backup of your photos and restore them on your new computer. This process will preserve your face tags. ("Tools" > "Backup Pictures") 2) You can copy your files *and* the .picasa.ini file from your hard drive to the new destination 3) Upload your face tag albums to Picasa Web Albums and download the album to the new destination on option 3: In order for your contact information to be preserved you'll need to make sure that your contacts associated with your face tags are marked as "Online Contacts."  This means that the person is synchronized with Google Contacts.  After copying the photos to the destination computer, make sure you are logged in to your Google user account so that Picasa can retrieve your Google Contacts and update your face tags with the corresponding information. See reference section for more info on syncing contacts. Name Tags : Name tags and Google Account contacts - Picasa Help(

Recharging using air waves...

This is really cool, use the wasted air waves energy to recharge your cell phone!

clipped from tech.yahoo.com Prototype Nokia phone recharges without wires Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:06PM EDT Holy Grails of technology: Wireless power. Nokia, however, has taken another baby step in that direction with the invention of a cell phone that recharges itself using a unique system: It harvests ambient radio waves from the air, and turns that energy into usable power. Enough, at least, to keep a cell phone from running out of juice. Mind you, harvesting ambient electromagnetic energy is never going to offer enough electricity to power your whole house or office, but it just might be enough to keep a cell phone alive and kicking. Currently Nokia is able to harvest all of 5 milliwatts from the air; the goal is to increase that to 20 milliwatts in the short term and 50 milliwatts down the line.

OpenSolaris for ARM

Now it is public.

OpenSolaris for ARM port was released. This was based on NEC's NaviEngine 1, a multicore ARM11 SoC that is primarily designed for car computers and portable navigation devices so if you want to have an idea on what a multicore SMP ARMM can do, please take a look at:
http://www.necel.com/magazine/en/vol_0075/vol_0075_1.html

If you are looking for practical use for this project see below:

clipped from arstechnica.com OpenSolaris 2009.06 released, new ARM port announced Sun has announced the availability of OpenSolaris 2009.06, the third major release of the operating system. An experimental ARM port has also been released. It is built to run on NEC's NaviEngine 1, a multicore ARM11 SoC that is primarily designed for car computers and portable navigation devices. clipped from www.necel.com NaviEngine® Multicore Platform and its role in the evolution of car navigation systems: The world's first (*1) system LSI chip for car navigation systems to be equipped with SMP technology clipped from techon.nikkeibp.co.jp Toyota's Approach to New Automotive Info Terminals The microcontroller prototyped by NEC Electronics uses the ARM11 MPCore multi-core processor core, and is provided with functions including global positioning system (GPS) and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Express interface. An image recognition processor is also included to support applications such as driving assistance based on camera imagery. clipped from techon.nikkeibp.co.jp

HighTec Temple

I am always amazed about how the Japanese can embrace the future without discarding their traditions, this is another example of that. If you read Japanese I think you can buy a vault space in this site: http://www.suishoden.jp/

clipped from www.japantoday.com Chief priest Genyu Daido walks in the Suishoden ossuary at Bansho-ji temple in Nagoya. Two thousand niches in a vault, which sell for between 525,000 yen and 7,350,000 yen, are illuminated by LEDs.

Good alternative to MS Office: OpenOffice.org 3.1 is out

Sam Dean on the blog below talks about major graphics enhancements. I still did not try this version but I can tell you that the former version already had all the features I needed at the right price=free so any enhancements are just upside!

clipped from ostatic.com OpenOffice Version 3.1 Arrives: Better Graphics, and All Apps Updated by Sam Dean - May. 07, 2009Comments (1) The new version 3.1 of the OpenOffice.org suite of open source productivity applications is now available for download. It appears to be a hot download today, too, because I experienced some wait times getting to the OpenOffice site. For this release, users of OpenOffice were asked to vote for their most desired new features, and the wish list helped dictate goals for version 3.1. There are enhanced on-screen graphics and improvements to all the applications in the suite. Here are details on what's under the hood. clipped from www.openoffice.org OpenOffice.org 3.1 is born The latest and greatest 3.1 release of OpenOffice.org is available on our download site. Read all about the new features in this release! Publish Post

Microsoft's Cloud Office

Google has a head start over MS on this one but has also another advantage, they understand the need to support all platform/browser combination. You can only use Office Live if you are running "major" OSs: Microsoft or Max OS, no Linux or Unix (Solaris) support.

clipped from networks.silicon.com Microsoft's cloud Office lands one million users That's one-tenth of Google Apps then... One million customers have signed up to Microsoft's Office Live Workspace online collaboration tool, six months after its beta launch. In comparison, Google's online collaboration technology, Google Apps, has secured 10 million active users two years after its release. clipped from home.officelive.com To use Microsoft Office Live, your computer must meet one of the following requirements: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8 running on Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista. You can download Internet Explorer from the Internet Explorer page. Mozilla Firefox running on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, or Mac OS X 10.2.x and later. You can download Firefox from the Firefox download page.

Phone Reverse Lookup

2nd clip on this topic, AnyWho (an AT&T company) showed my full name, address and phone number with a simple reverse lookup. They claim the source is Intelius but guess which one is my phone company, and internet provider, and wireless ....

clipped from www.anywho.com White Pages (Find a Person/Reverse Lookup) All listing information appears as it was provided by Intelius. If you feel that residential information you have found is inaccurate, it may be due to relocations or telephone number changes that occurred since the last update. These listings will be made current in our databases with the next scheduled update. For more information on updating listings, please see our FAQs. Non-published directory assistance records are not provided, and are not displayed. If you want your residential listing removed, you have a couple of options: To have your listing unpublished, please contact your local telephone company. To have your listing removed from AnyWho without obtaining a non-published telephone number, please follow the instructions provided in AnyWho Listing Removal and we will submit your listing for removal. Yellow Pages (Find a Business) If you need to update or remove a Yellow Pages business listing, please contact YELLOWPAGES.COM.