Mario’s World

I came across this on the BBC news blogs section. For those who would like to create their own news websites or even blogs the article and slideshow give a good idea of what areas need a lot more attention to detail. I think its great of them to share this new functional design document.

I was planning on buying a Segway. Guess I’ll wait till this baby comes out. The Honda U3-X is way more compact and you don’t have to stand during the whole ride.

The Nokia netbooklet 3G is the neatest looking netbook I’ve seen. Its also the most expensive @ KWD 259/-. BIM received this unit from Nokia for testing and review and I went over to check it out. It’s got an amazing 12 hour batter life, a sim card slot for 3G net access, its got [...]

Tim swung by the office on Thursday carrying this hi-tech bag. Those shiny tiles on the front of the bag are solar panels. Seems the bag works great and he has his iPad and phone recharging off the internal battery. The bag is manufactured by Voltaic. They have other models including one called the Generator [...]

Augmented Reality (AR) looks like a great new way to play games. Especially good for taking non-smoking breaks at the office. Just print-out the game board, lay it on a table and switch on your touch screen cell phones. I’d like to see some nice multi-player games with this technology. Should be fun… especially when [...]

This is going to come as a shocker to a whole bunch of companies (mine included) that moved (or tried to) from Google Apps to a Microsoft platform . Yes I’m smiling about it cause I’m pro-hosted and pro-web apps. Also, Outlook sucks. Below is an extract from Lauren’s blog. REDMOND, Wash., April 1 /PRNewzwire/ [...]

This was the first computer game I got addicted to back in 1985 with my first MSX computer. Found a MSX emulator for the N900 and immediately remembered this game. I found this video on YouTube with a funny documentary on the game.

Apps on Facebook have been around for a while now and one of the more popular apps I’ve seen my friends and office colleagues on is Farmville. Everybody is trying to be a farmer. I was least interested in this app but about 10 days back I decided to check this out and created my [...]

If you have a barcode scanning software on your cell phone, point the camera at the image above and click. Its actually a link to my blog. This is an amazing barcode. You can create you own at this link. The idea of this barcode is to have it on t-shirts, posters, magazine where people [...]

The N900 from Nokia is termed as an Internet Tablet with phone capabilities. Wide-screen, touch-screen (finger and stylus), sliding QWERTY keyboard, GPS, Wifi, FM transmitter and receiver, 5MP camera with a Zeiss lens, TV out, 600Mhz processor, OpenGL graphics support, 1 GB ram, 32 GB storage, app store, email client, FireFox browser and it runs [...]