Written By Lingkar Dunia on Thursday, June 30, 2011 | 9:57 PM
Family Spat Goes Viral
“It is high time someone explained to you about good manners.”
Thus began an email from Heidi Withers’ future mother-in-law after what seems to have been a highly unfortunate visit to the family of her fiancé, Freddie Bourne, with whom Ms Withers lives (though she may well have moved out, considering the circumstances).
Freddie’s stepmother, Carolyn Bourne, was not the only one horrified by Heidi’s behaviour during the visit – the family dog, Bomber, was traumatised. Heidi committed several cardinal sins, it seems, staying in bed too late, cracking tasteless jokes in the wrong company, and forgetting to send a thankyou card.
Unfortunately, Mrs. Bourne listed her well-meant (?) advice in an email, which Heidi forwarded to a few choice friends. And from there it went viral.
Red faces all around. It is too easy to forget the power of the internet.
PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT designers score again
Sixteen years after winning an Oscar for their colourful costumes for the gloriously camp Aussie movie, “Priscilla Queen of the Desert,” designers Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner have won in Canada, scoring the best Costume Design award for their costumes for “Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical.”
Editor-in-chief Tina Brown, one-time friend of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, published a feature story imagining what the royal diva would be like today. The cover was equally imaginative, photoshopping Diana strolling alongside Kate, née Middleton, the daughter-in-law she will never meet this side of the cosmic curtain.
The journalistic feat met global derision. Vanity Fair came up with a wonderful parody, “James II at 310,” and discussing, tongue in cheek, the romance that never happened – between King James Two and Pippa, “the love that might have been.”
Utopian novelist with close links to Victorian New Zealand
I was intrigued recently to see the online Oxford Dictionary of Biography feature Samuel Butler as one of its lives of the week, mostly because Butler also featured in lessons back in my school days.
Born in Nottinhamshire in December 1835, Butler began his life of self-questioning as a lay preacher at St James's, Piccadilly, where he got fed up with patriarchal Victorian hypocrisy, and expressed his views in a novel, The Way of All Flesh.
Then he aspired to become an artist, despite the disgust of his father, who declared to him that following such a course would "throw you into very dangerous company." So, he headed off for New Zealand, the most distant British colony, with four thousand pounds from his father, who approved of the idea, believing that the rough real world downunder would knock all that artistic nonsense out of his head.
Butler, therefore, boarded the Roman Emperor at Gravesend (September 30, 1859) with his father's blessing. After arriving in Canterbury, he set up as a sheep farmer, that kind of occupation being a popular one in that place at that time. He wrote lots of letters home describing his new life, and his father was so impressed with them that he collected them together and had them published as A First Year in Canterbury Settlement, in 1863, with a preface written by himself.
An energetic young man, Samuel Butler engaged himself in the cultural life of the colony, wrote a utopian novel, organized the first art exhibitions at the Canterbury Club, and had essays published in the Christchurch Press. The most famous of these is an amusing piece called "Darwin among the machines," where he imagines the consequences of the newly published Origin of Species.
In 1864, having amassed a tidy profit, he returned to London and his early ambition of being a painter. He enrolled in art schools, produced some quite wellknown works ("Family Prayers" -- reproduced above -- being one), and dabbled in the new art of photography. He was fated to become more famous as a writer, though -- in 1872, he finally published the utopian novel he had written back in New Zealand. Called Erewhon, (an anagram of "nowhere"), and without his name on the title page or jacket, it received considerable acclaim -- and was fated, as I might have mentioned earlier, to feature in literature lessons in New Zealand schools.
Should he beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and get to the men's singles final, Novak Djokovic will become number one in the world rankings. That, he says, is his ambition. But to actually win the Wimbledon title, he adds, is something different - it's his dream.
Whether ambition will be fulfilled and the dream will come true depends on whether the 24-year-old Serb can improve his career record against the burly Frenchman, who is one of the few men who could go into a match with Djokovic right now with reason to feel confident.
The man from Le Mans leads the Belgrade native 5-2 in the career head-to-head. What's even more resounding is that Tsonga has won the last five of those contests.
Of course, none of those matches were in this calendar year, as Djokovic has proved - with only one exception - unbeatable in 2011, with 46 wins out of 47 matches played.
Even so, Djokovic is cautious about his prospects, particularly given that the Frenchman is coming off the back of a huge win against the only man to have beaten the Serb this year: Djokovic says: "He is very dangerous. He had an amazing comeback against Federer, he served well and played well, and he's been playing great in the grass court season so far.
"We are both baseliners so a lot will depend on our serves. I need to serve well because that's something that he's going to do. His game depends on that serve. If he starts missing first serves then I will have more chance in the rallies. But I expect a very, very even match."
The statistics underline what Djokovic means. So far Tsonga has landed 96 aces in five matches compared to Djokovic's 49 and has come to the net far more frequently. Also, as the second seed points out, Tsonga takes to the grass surface more readily than he does. "But I still know I can play on it," says the man who has reached two other Wimbledon semi-finals in the last four years.
None of this would have happened if Novak's parents had not scraped together the money to send their son to a tennis academy in Germany when he was 13. "If I had stayed in Serbia I don't think you would have heard of me," he says.
No matter what else he achieves in the sport, he is assured of hero status in Serbia. When he helped his country to win the Davis Cup for the first time against France in Belgrade last December, half the country's population tuned it to watch on TV.
That sensational victory proved the launchpad for Djokovic's sprint towards the world number one ranking.
By then he had already decided to "start being myself again", putting behind him unexplained rough times in his private life. Taking Rafael Nadal's behaviour on and off court as an example, he says he decided "it was more important for me to be a good person than a good tennis player."
The tennis part was by no means overlooked, however, and towards that end he built around him a team which is regarded as the best in the business.
The former Slovakian player Marjan Vajda had been his coach since 2005 and, after Djokovic briefly employed the American Todd Martin to help improve his serving, he went back to Vajda. Also in Team Djokovic are his physical trainer Milan Amanovic, and Igor Cetojevic, a nutritionist who has been travelling with the team since March. "I have unreserved faith in their instructions and trust them completely," he says.
Improving the serve has been the main Djokovic target, adding speed and spite and ironing out the motion until it has become one of the most consistent in tennis. He has also copied Nadal's aggressive style so well that he has beaten Rafa in all four of their meetings this year.
Perhaps he will make it five if they meet in the final, but first Djokovic has to surmount that massive hurdle of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
The men's semi-final draw almost feels misshapen in the absence of Roger Federer but Novak Djokovic is acutely aware that the top four players walk a more precarious path than most believe.
Djokovic benefits most immediately from Federer's absence, given that he faces the Swiss's conqueror, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, tomorrow in a match he will be expected to win and progress to his firstWimbledon final. A position of favouritism is something to which Djokovic, the No2 seed, has become accustomed to while cementing his place among the elite quartet in the game.
Something is supposedly amiss should Djokovic, Federer, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray not all feature in the latter stages of a Grand Slam, as the level of tennis they produce continues to prompt debate as to whether this current crop is the greatest generation of them all.
The awesome foursome comprised the semi-final line up at the French Open last month but that was the only occasion in the last five years when the top four seeds have lived up to their ranking.
Federer's exit sent shockwaves across SW19 but Djokovic reflected on the remarkable consistency required to dominate a sport perhaps at its strongest. "That result shows how fine the margins are at the top of the game," he said. "It's not only about the top four players.
"There are other players who are able to play great tennis and Tsonga proved it yesterday. It is all very close at this level, especially in the second week of a Grand Slam."
Djokovic could have been forgiven for losing sight of such sentiment, given his astonishing record this year. The 24-year-old Serbian has won 46 matches and lost just once - to Federer in the semi-finals at Roland Garros - and is one victory away from being confirmed as No1 in the world for the first time in his career.
But despite his remarkable statistics, Djokovic has not been entirely comfortable during these championships, even in securing a four-set victory over Australian Bernard Tomic yesterday. "I need to work on my game," he said. "That's what matters the most, regardless of who is across the net. Tsonga came back from two sets down against Roger and it was amazing. He played well at Queen's and is beating top players. So he is very dangerous.
"Grass is not my favourite surface but I can play well on it and do better."
Djokovic will need to given Tsonga's mood, which will be boosted by a head-to-head record that comes down 5-2 in the Frenchman's favour.Tsonga, who lost the Queen's final against Murray, believes yesterday's result is proof his mental strength has improved in big matches.
"It is difficult to play Federer because you don't know exactly what he's thinking," said Tsonga. "You don't know if he's scared or not.
"I felt really strong because I never panicked. I have improved a lot mentally. I try to stay focused, just breathe and stay quiet. I feel good with this. I like these big moments, so I hope I will have some more."
The most popular game of all time for Smartphones and Mobile devices name "Angry Birds" is now available for Windows Phone 7 users too. Now Windows Phone users can also play world�s most popular game Angry Birds on their devices. The game Angry Birds has launch with the collaboration of Rovio Mobile and Microsoft Studios. The game was first made originally only for Apple iOS, then Android and many other platforms including the web through Google Chrome, and finally it has made its debut on Microsoft�s latest mobile OS.
According to the Microsoft Studio's;
Angry Birds is coming to Windows Phone! The survival of the angry birds is at stake. Dish out revenge on the green pigs who stole the birds� eggs. Use the unique destructive powers of the angry birds to lay waste to the pigs� fortified castles. Each of the 165 levels requires logic, skill and brute force to crush the enemy.
Windows Phone version of Angry Birds is fully featured and loaded as their iOS/Android counterparts; however falls slightly short on the level count, as the Windows Phone 7 version only has 165 levels in comparison to the 255 available on Android currently. This is made up for with full Xbox LIVE integration, as you�d expect from a Microsoft Studio�s published games.
Angry Birds is now available for the price of USD 2.99$ at the Marketplace. We know this price is higher than other mobile platforms, but still it's great to see the famous Angry Birds make its way on Windows Phone 7, but if you don�t want to spend the money right now, don�t worry, you can also try a free trial version if you want to test out the game before you buy it. You can get Angry Birds for Windows Phone 7 now via the Marketplace here.
Sixteen-year-old Ted O’Connor is a rather odd teenager, who had extremely odd parents. His entire world was made up of work at the family pet shop (including the animal waifs and strays his mother adopted) and being bullied at school for being “different.” That world fell apart when his parents died in a fiery car crash.
No money was left to sustain him, so Ted is left to the tender mercies of clumsy social workers and semi-psycho foster parents. His fellow foster kids, C.W. and Astin, look almost normal, compared to the middle-aged couple that is caring for them. They also provide the first friendly company Ted has experienced in many a long month.
Ted has one saving grace – well, it saves his sanity on occasion, though it doesn’t help make him look any less different. He can converse with animals. He has really interesting and reassuring conversations with cats, dogs, and lions, often studded with wryly amusing observations on life.
This truly original and remarkable book is not a cute fantasy in the Dr. Doolittle mould, but the story of a boy’s transition from a lonely affinity with animals to the complexities, gains, and losses that come from rediscovering his humanity.
Though classed as a children’s book, Strays has a message for all ages. Thoroughly recommended.
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | 2:55 PM
Aussie and Kiwi teenagers among the world’s best at digital reading skills
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has graded Australasian 15-year-olds second-best at digital reading skills in the world. Top ranking is Korea, with Australia and New Zealand equal second.
The tests are just like the old ones in print, but the students use screens and mouses (mice?) instead of pen and paper.
Google has just introduced its new Social Network concept named "Google+", may be a new competitor of Facebook. Google announced a new social project, but not like its previous releases of Google Waves, Google Buzz etc, but now Google is very serious with its new social project called Google+. Google+ provides the opportunity to Google users to connect and interact with people who are in their contacts with more social way. It will take all your Google contacts and adds a level of sharing and organization that makes the Google experience more social than ever.
According to the Official Google Blog, Google+ is basically provides the sharing idea known as Circles. Circles is a drag and drop interface for organizing friends into groups, and from the interactive tour on the site, seems to understand that this should be smooth, quick and painless ordeal, instead of a chore. Hangout is an area where you can digitally �hang out� with your contacts that are online, via, chat, voice or video and you can join other groups of people that are hanging out as well (if they want you to, of course). Huddle seems to be a more structured and tactual version of Hangout, allowing you to consolidate multiple chat sessions into one shared session. Instant Upload is going to drive the mobile side of this new network, whereby every picture and video you take from your Android phone will automatically sync with your Google+ account, and will be shared to whomever you specify. Google+ Circles is an attempt to address that challenge. The HTML5 system allows users to drag-and-drop their friends into different social circles for friends, family, classmates, co-workers and other custom groups. Users can drag groups of friends in and out of these circles.
Google has already start testing its new design interface for many of its products like Google Search, Google Adwords, Google Maps etc to match with Google Plus. The company has started overhauling its other web services with its new interface. So far, we've seen a new global black navigation bar, Google.com and maps today, with more to come. According to the Google Blog, the new interface will provide their services in line with a common interface. Google says that the project focused on three main design principles; focus, elasticity, and effortlessness.
Watch Google+ Plus Video Introduction:
Now we all have to wait and see what impact cause by a new Social Network Google+ Plus in near future Or will Google+ effects Facebook popularity in future? What you guys have to say about this? Give Comments!
Did not get to watch any of the match as I was at work but I had it on the radio. It did not sound like a pretty match but Novak managed to fight it out in 4.
Match reports:
The Indepedent
k Djokovic survived some scary moments to book his place in the Wimbledon semi-finals, beating teenage Australian Bernard Tomic 6-2 3-6 6-3 7-5 on Court One... Full story here
ATP
Novak Djokovic has reached his fifth straight Grand Slam championship semi-final and should he advance to The Championships final on Sunday he will become the new No. 1 in the South African Airways 2011 ATP Rankings..... Full Story here
Sky Sports
Second seed Novak Djokovic needed four sets to quell the challenge of Australian teenager Bernard Tomic in their Wimbledon quarter-final..... Full story here
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 9:12 PM
The full review
Tupaia: the Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator. Random House NZ: $55
Muster roll of the Endeavour April 18, 1769, when Tupaia -- "Tobia" -- joined the crew.
Reviewed by Paul Little
Tupaia is the noble Tahitian priest who facilitated contact with early European explorers of the Pacific. Today, we would call him a skilled networker. He was certainly a skilled politician, linguist and, above all, navigator.
Tupaia and Tahiti first encountered Europeans in the form of the 1767 Dolphin expedition. Like that of the Captain Cook's Endeavour a short time later, it followed the all too familiar first-contact sequence of culture clash, gunfire and death.
There is a lot that will be familiar to readers of Anne Salmond's masterpiece The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, which covers much of this territory in considerably less detail. Both books, for instance, provide head-spinning accounts of the intricacies of Tahitian society and politics, which make day-to-day affairs in Byzantium look like a Playcentre committee meeting.
History, of course, is often about retelling tales and it's contending interpretations rather than narratives that have to slug it out. Druett has a very different view of Tupaia from Salmond's. In particular, as her title suggests, she emphasises his skill at navigation, which was largely spurned by Cook when the Tahitian joined the Endeavour to sail from Tahiti to New Zealand and Australia. We are often told what great navigators ancient Polynesians were but we've seldom had it demonstrated so convincingly or with such clarity.
Druett also accuses Cook of fudging details of Tupaia's death because he was determined to go down in history as the captain who kept his crew alive. This charge is not made by Salmond, whose work tends to apotheosise the explorer.
This is a stimulating read, and challenging in a good way. And additional pleasure is the inclusion of several of Tupaia's own watercolours, some familiar, representing several key events, from Joseph Banks attempting to trade a lobster to a battle between Tahitians at sea and Aboriginals fishing. This addition to Tupaia's other undoubted skills emphasises the tragedy of his premature death on Batavia.
A Facebook page calling for the boycott of a forthcoming book about the deaths of the Kahui twins is going viral.
Back in 2006 three-month-old twins Chris and Cru Kahui died of battering by person or persons unknown. Right from day one, the families of the teenaged parents closed ranks and refused to talk. Now the twins’ mother, Macsyna King, has cooperated with a journalist to produce a book with a version of the tragedy – and a call has gone out for people to boycott it.
The “Boycott the Macsyna King book” Facebook group ballooned to 1500 likes in the first 24 hours.
Novak Djokovic says he will play will for Serbia in its upcoming Davis Cup quarterfinal in Halmstad, Sweden. Top Swede Robin Soderling has decided not to play, which will make defending champion Serbia a heavy favorite. Djokovic did not play in Serbia�s win over India in the first round.
"I am on the team," Djokovic said. "But for Soderling, I've heard, yes, that he has pulled out. I mean, regardless if he's playing or not, we will come as the strongest team, the team that has won the Davis Cup title last year, because we are aware that we are going away from home. I wouldn't be surprised if Robin still plays on that match. He's not in the tournament [Wimbledon]. He has still chance to be in the team. But we are not looking at their squad. We are just trying to be the best squad we can."
Juan Martin del Potro will also return to Davis Cup when Argentina faces Kazakhstan in a World Group quarterfinal in Buenos Aires. Roger Federer will be part of the Swiss team that plays Portugal next month in Berne, in Europe/Africa Group I play. Federer has not played Davis Cup since 2009. Rafael Nadal has opted out of Spain�s quarterfinal tie against the United States in Austin, Texas.
Novak Djokovic thinks he could face the toughest challenge of his Wimbledon campaign yet when he takes on teenage practice partner Bernard Tomic in Wednesday's quarter-final.
Two days after a scare against Marcos Baghdatis, Djokovic looked back to his imperious best as he swatted aside 19th seed Michael Llodra in a 6-3 6-3 6-3 win.
But to reach the last four Djokovic will first have to beat Tomic, who claimed the prize scalp of fifth seed Robin Soderling to set up a victory over Xavier Malisse. The Serbian said: "We have had many opportunities to practise with each other over the last few years so we know each other's game well."
He added: "He can be very dangerous because he doesn't have anything to lose really. He's in quarter-finals, and I'm sure he's going to step into the court willing to win.
"He believes that he can win against the top players, and he has been doing that very comfortably in last couple of rounds here in Wimbledon."
Tomic, born in Germany to Bosnian and Croatian parents, moved to Australia when he was two and started playing when he was seven.
Djokovic spotted Tomic's talent while he was playing on the juniors circuit three years ago and believes that the youngster is a star of the future.
"He has great potential, a great talent and he's showing that right now," Djokovic said.
"He is a qualifier so he has a lot of games on grass under his belt. He loves playing on this surface.
"If you analyse his game, you can see that he loves playing on the fast surfaces. He just has these flat shots. He doesn't give you a lot of time and he serves really well. He doesn't make many unforced errors so it's going to be exciting match."
In the store where I bought it, this handsomely produced little hardback was classified as a novel for children. Nothing could be farther from the mark. The Ghosts of Kerfol is an engrossing, evocative, well-written collection of short stories – that I would never give to a child to read.
Or maybe standards have changed since I bought books for my own progeny. I know it would have given me nightmares as a child, and am pretty sure that the son who was addicted to cowering behind the settee while he watched Dr Who would have been scared, too. For adults and young adults, however, it is heartily recommended.
It is also very clever. The author confesses in a note that she is inspired by her favourite ghost story, Edith Wharton’s “Kerfol”. This is the chilling tale of a beautiful young Frenchwoman, Anne de Barrigan, who was convicted of murdering her brutally jealous elderly husband, Yves de Cornault, who was found mauled to death by dogs . . . though there were no dogs on his estate, named Kerfol.
Noyes sets a series of short stories at Kerfol, playing fancifully with the original characters, portrayed as ghosts in all but the first, and progressing forward in time. The first is told from the point of view of Anne’s sympathetic maid, Perrette, and then the tales move on through the eyes of a young artist tortured by memories of the French Revolution, a hard-drinking party girl of Prohibition years, a young American couple on their OE, and a profoundly deaf restorer of old gardens.
Though very different people, in different times and circumstances, they are linked by the ghostly revival of long-dead passions, and the continuing evolution of dreadful events of the distant past. A collection to be kept, re-read, thought about deeply, and remembered.
Born in London in 1715, Frances had an interesting father, also named Francis -- Francis Hawes -- with the Francis spelled differently.
Francis (with an i) Hawes amassed a lot of money from his job as clerk to the treasurer of the navy, plus speculating in stocks and bonds, but he lost the lot after being exposed as the brain behind the South Sea Bubble. His wealth was confiscated, to be distributed to the disappointed shareholders, and so the family was reduced to poverty.
Frances (with an e) coped magnificently, however, partly because of her beauty, vivacious nature, and enviable bosom, but also because she was reputedly the finest minuet dancer in England. In May 1733, at the age of 18, she married Lord William Hamilton, second son of the Duke of Hamilton. Sadly, young Will passed away at his house in Pall Mall in July 1734. Within months, in May 1733, the vivacious teenager married the unfortunate Viscount Vane, who was a year younger than herself.
Why do I say unfortunate? Because the heart of William Holles, Viscount Vane, was lost on a disloyal doxy, whose contempt knew no bounds. She attempted repeatedly to elope with other men, and to separate from him legally, but he remained infatuated with his beautiful young wife.
In 1751, Frances published an account of her escapades, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality -- which may or may not have provided the material for chapter 88 of the novel, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, a book written by Tobias Smollett. Because of style and content, it is now considered that the chapter was indeed written by the naught Ms. Vane.
The Memoirs describe her relationship with William Hamilton as a youthful idyll, a romantic episode cruelly terminated by his death. They describe how her family pressured her into marrying Vane, who is portrayed as ugly and impotent -- slurs that are probably just excuses for her wild sexual escapades with a good selection of men from the current Burke's Peerage.
What everyone found so shocking about Frances was that she boasted about her adulterous alliances, instead of modestly veiling them from public view. Accordingly, fate caught up with her. Shunned by high society after the publication of her Memoir, Frances spent the last 20 years of her life as a bedridden invalid, before dying at her house in Mayfair in March 1788.
After Nokia and Microsoft partnership agreement to build a quality and innovative Smartphone's Nokia has really changes its way to build smartphone's with latest technology and design. A recently introduced Nokia N9 is the best example of that change. The Nokia N9 is the latest innovative smartphone device with Nokia's latest Operating System called "MeeGo", which we had already discussed in our blog before. The new Nokia N9 is the first MeeGo-powered OS smartphone from the Finns, and we really hopes that it won't be the last because it's actually a smart looking device from Nokia.
Today we are going to Review Nokia's N9 Smartphone with MeeGo Operating System. The look and body of Nokia's N9 is quite impressive and you will be pleased when you hold this beauty in your hands. The Nokia's N9 is smart, slim, stylish smartphone released by Nokia after unbelievable success of Symbian^3 and Symbian^1 OS9.5 Smartphones first time having ARM Cortex-A8 OMAP3630 1 Ghz, PowerVRSGX530 processor with 8MP autofocus camera with high performance Carl Zeiss optics.
The camera is positioned more centrally than many other smartphones on the market, which means it's easier to hold - in our brief tests, the pictures felt more like we were taking them on a normal compact, which is definitely a plus. However, there's no physical camera key, which is a real disappointment as Nokia usually loves them and we're real fans, as it means less camera wobble when you're taking a snap. Touch to focus is on offer to improve the quality of your shots, although we didn't see it making much of a difference when we tried it out. The back of the phone is 'pillowed' in the words of Nokia, which means it sits rather nicely in the palm of the hand. The dual-LED powered 8MP camera is covered in some natty Carl Zeiss optics, and features an f2.2 aperture which is better for low-light situations. With no microSD card slot on offer (Nokia says the N9 will come in 16GB and 64Gb variants) the only ports live on the top of the phone, with the headphone jack, a pop-up cover to the microUSB connector and a pop-up tray for the microSIM.
Nokia N9 Features and Specification Details:
Processor Speed and Memory:
ARM Cortex-A8 OMAP3630 1 Ghz, PowerVRSGX530 powerful processor
Supports Internal Memory
1024MB RAM, 16GB/64GB storage
Integrated MeeGo OS, v1.2 Harmattan
Unlimited Photo Call Records save upto 30 days
Unlimited Contacts Phone Book
Camera and Display:
8MP autofocus camera with high performance Carl Zeiss optics having 3264�2448 pixels Resolution with Auto focus, Video, Geo tagging, LED Video light, Face & Smile detection VGA.
Secondary Camera for Video call with Dual LEd flash
4 inches Screen Display 360�640 pixels
Super AMOLED Capasitive Touch Screen with 16M color
Special Features:
Slim and Smart QWERTY Keyboard with T9
Supports Meego OS
Accelerometer Auto rotate sensor (Auto-rotate)
Proximity auto turn off sensor
Touch sensitive controls
HDMI Dolby Digital Plus ResultsTv output Via Composite & HDMI Cables
Hard Anodized aluminum casing
Input Multi-touch method
Save for Scratch-resistant surface
Voice Command, Document Viewer
Photo & Video easy editor supports Flash Lite v4.0
Recorder and Player for Audio, Video files
Extended MP3, MP4 player
MP3, WAV Ring tones, Vibration supported
3.5 mm Head Phone Jack
Speaker Phone, Downloadable Games
Stereo FM radio with RDS & FM Transmitter
Messages Support:
SMS, MMS, Email, Quick Push Email
Instant Messaging
T9 Words Input Method
Internet / Web Connectivity:
Connect via Bluetooth v3.0, Micro USB v2.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and GPS
Data connect Modes via 3G, GPRS, EDGE, WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds Internet Browsing
Battery Power:
Standard Li-Ion 1450 mAh (BV-5JW) Battery
Stand-by time upto 380 hrs (2G) and upto 450 hrs (3G)
Talk time upto 11 hrs (2G) and upto 7 hrs (3G)
Music play time upto 50 hrs
Mobile Size and Appeal:
480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches Size
135 grams Weight
116.5 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm, 76 cc
Available in various Body Colors
Video Review of Nokia N9 Smartphone:
The Price and Release Date of Nokia N9 are still undisclosed by Nokia. We will post the Price and Release Date of Nokia N9 as soon as we get any information officially.
Facebook has frequently change its homepage design in last one year and now we have heard from Facebook sources that Facebook might change its homepage again with newly tested design and also possibly the photo viewer. Facebook tested every new feature and updates on daily basis so you might feel some changes every day so beta tests of new layouts or designs is simply business as usual for the social network.
So the big news is Facebook has recently started testing a new user homepage design that allows the News Feed to be scrolled separately from the rest of the webpage. This allows ads, app bookmarks, and the top navigation bar to remain visible regardless of what part of the News Feed you are looking at. Currently, once you scroll down past about six News Feed stories, you cannot see ads, bookmarks, nor the navigation bar. The good news is that, new redesign might help advertisers and publisher to get more clicks from Facebook users. The new design might increase click through rates for advertisers, improve user retention for applications, and save you the hassle of scrolling back to the top of the page, according to Inside Facebook.
"Bricks and mortar stores are taking a lot of bullets and there's a limit to how mnay bullets we can take," said Roxanne Coady, owner of the wonderful R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, Connecticut (where I once had a memorable signing).
Jon Howells, spokesman for Britain's Waterstone chain, said that Harry Potter launches "have become the stuff of legend ... We're therefore disappointed that, having been a key factor in the growth of the Harry Potter phenomenon since the first book was published, the book trade is effectively banned from selling the long-awaited eBook editions."
So what is the problem? That JKR has raced everyone else to the 21st century, it seems. She announced last week that her interactive website http://www.pottermore.com will be the exclusive seller of the eBook edtions of her Harry Potter series. As Rick Spilman commented on an earlier post, she has cut out all the other eBook distributors, such as B&N and Amazon and Waterstones. And this, it seems, impacts on the more than 200 independent American bookstores that sell eBooks through Google.
JKR is impenitent. She is proud of the bond she has created with fans online, and said she was "phenomenally lucky in that I have the resources to do it myself and there I got to do it, I think, right."
