have been playing around with this thing recently and found it quite interesting. What is twitter?
u know the thing u have in facebook homepage where u type a short length of stuff and share..thats something copied over from twitter, or mayb the other way round. Anyway, its a place where u get connected with friends, then u write some stuff to keep everyone updated about whats happening with u. even the smallest daily life thing or your thoughts at any random moment.
some people call it micro-blogging, because it functions kind of like a blog where u write to let the world know whats happening with u, but limited to 140 words or so... and yea, it functions something like facebook, friendster, xiaonei or all the similar stuff - to keep you connected to people.
anyway, i found a video that explains it very well. in fact, these video makers are damn good at making videos that they explain everything really in the most simple easy to understand way.
Most of the title for their videos are something something in plain english. which really is. i think they will grow big...its like the dummies series, video version. and its free.
you should just check out commoncraft if you like the videos.
Recently came across this video about H20 car. A Special Car that can run solely on water. Of course, its by the japs AGAIN. The japs are damn good. The car is like a 4seater size with only 2 seats, because the backside of the car contain a DAMN HUGE box which is supposed to somehow someway extract the H from H2O to use it for power generation. But the car design still need some improvement lah.
Whats more interesting is it runs on ANY water. ALL KINDS of water. so scary, imagine even sea water can be used to power the car. Apparently 1 litre of water can power the car to run 80km/h for an hour. And they are planning to mass produce it.
If the technology can be transfered and use in other forms, that would bring a whole new world. Sea water can be used to power car, when why not other things?
IF sea water can be used to power things, the world would never be short of energy!
no more energy shortage discussion, no more alternative energy research, no more oil prices index. There wont be any war because of oil. Countries wont fight so hard over a piece of land which are not even visible during high tide.
I woke up about 11am the day before. and spend most of my time surfing the net, testing different thing on blogging, and trying to understand why there are a thousand ways to calculate Nusselt number.
Well, i have been doing quite well in the testing of different thing on the blog but not so for calculating Nusselt number. Not to mention i have no idea what is Grashof number, Peclet number, Prandtl, Rayleigh and so on so on so on...
Exams were horrible, bored, sleepy. here are some pictures if you are some lucky people who have no idea how exam looks like.
Anwyay, after surviving for over 24 hours without sleep, i went out to meet up with some friends for lunch at Jurong Point. Ah Cher, Zhi Cheng and Chien Lung are friends i met back in Kuan Moo Tuan 2005. Its basically a really cool trip to Taiwan, spending about 21 days for Round-the-Taiwan trip with a whole bus load of new friends. Ah Cher came all the way from Seremban and Zhi Cheng and Chien Lung are working and studying in Singapore. Anyway, we spent some time in Pizza hut talking crap and reviving memories, and of course, update each other with news. Pictures after i get it from Zhi Cheng.
So there goes about 5+ hours including all the travelling clocking my total hours to 30 hours without sleep.
I was watching a video of this guy converting a Wii remote to a theremin. I still had no idea what is a theremin when i watched this video and i decided to find out more after watching another video. The mario song video.
Well, what is a theremin? according to wiki, its one of the earliest electronic musical instrument. Its played without having to touch the instrument. Created back in 1919? i think its amazing. people create so high tech stuffs back then.
I was trying to figure out how do they control the thing and i found another video teaching basic theremin. Exactly the same thing in the video, there will be 2 antenna controlled by the left and right hand. The left control the volume and the right control the pitch.
And somehow the antenna are designed to detect how far your hand is from the instrument. For the left hand, the volume side, the further away ur hand is from the antenna the louder is the volume. For the right hand, the nearer is your hand from the antenna, the higher the pitch.
I think the hardest thing to control is the distance of ur fingers to the antenna. I wonder how those people actually move their fingers to the exact note.
Some guy in youtube even have a how to make a theremin video. but i dont think anyone will know how to make it even after the video, it was fast forwarded and in the end the only think i get is he actually made a theremin. But its a cool instrument isnt it. Just by the fact the russian sent the creator of this thing to a round the world trip to showoff the russian power back in that time shows how cool the thing is.
I wonder if anyone i knows played this before.
Oh, btw, I just realized google have started putting ads on youtube. When some people were wondering some years back youtube is providing a free platform for people to upload videos and watch videos, how does youtube make money? And some people were stunt when google bought youtube for god knows how much, now we see how this kind of free platform can bring in $$.
Being a free platform for so long, people totally liked youtube and now after they have upgraded youtube to widescreen, if you havent noticed, they start to put ads. imagine the amount of $$ that you have to pay if you put ads on the most popular video, its gonna be watched by millions of people for the most popular video, worldwide. And whats better is that it is to the targeted audience, just like you put a camera ad to all videos that are doing camera review = higher possibility the audience is looking for a camera. I think this is even better than tv commercials, considering nobody watch tv anymore because people stream/dl movies or dramas. not to mention most of the those who still watch tv go away during commercials, make a coffee, read newspaper or something.
Afterall, the youtube ads are not very irritating as u can easily click it off and still be able to watch your video.
Not like im a big google fan, but this news really attracted me. They just launched a new application which allows u to call a number and say what u wanna search for, and it will return u the searched results.
Sounds cool? prob even better when its with iPhone.
Sad that its ONLY with iPhone. Apparently its supposed to be out last friday but only came alive on Monday.
Cool stuffs, but as usual, tech stuffs always got negative reviews. some people were saying it doesnt work that well. But i guess if it works as well as the one shown in the video its good enough.
I wonder if it recognizes accent, especially weird accents. U know..we hear all sorts of accents in Singapore...prob be really difficult to come to singapore market. else they have to design the application to recognize singlish, chinglish, inglish, and anything under the sun that ends with -glish.
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