I got suprise. The basic tattoo machine was invented by Thomas Edison. He made autographic printer, which was intended as an engraving device. Later, Samuel O’Reilly found Edison’s machine could be modified to introduce ink into skin, and patented the tube and needle system, which is still in use today.
If you want to know more about tattoo gun, why don’t you go to Wikipedia.
Well, web-based translator evolution just starts. Actually, the whole web is being evolved by AJAX.
I found this AJAX translator made by Joel parish. You should check it. This program is very interesting as it translates while you are typing. I don’t know the accuracy of this program because I don’t know any languages other than English.
Wow! Technology is amazing. It’s evolving everyday.
Visit RedTaction.com, you will be amazed that your body will sooner become transmitting medium. I don’t know how it will be, but it’s quite unbelievable to hear that.
RedTacton is a new Human Area Networking technology that uses the surface of the human body as a safe, high speed network transmission path.
- RedTacton uses the minute electric fieldemitted on the surface of the human body. Technically, it is completely distinct from wireless and infrared.
- A transmission path is formed at the moment a part of the human body comes in contact with a RedTacton transceiver. Physically separating ends the contact and thus ends communication.
- Using RedTacton, communication starts when terminals carried by the user or embedded in devices are linked in various combinations according to the user’s natural, physical movements.
- Communication is possible using any body surfaces, such as the hands, fingers, arms, feet, face, legs or torso. RedTacton works through shoes and clothing as well.
Well, well, once again, the same story repeats. Just like Gmail invites, now Windows Live Messenger invites got a way to eBay. Some ask for US$ 9.50 for one invite.
I would love to get an invite to the Windows Live Messenger MSN 8 beta, but I’m not desperate enough to pay my $$ for one. If you have extra invites and want to invite me, I would be really happppppppyy.
Updated: I just got a link to download MSN Messenger 8. Here is the link or here.
After you download it and install, you can’t sign in yet if you don’t have official invite. You need to download a patch to trick the MSN service into thinking you’re running Messenger 7.5 if your account hasn’t been enabled for the beta. Here is the link(site1, site2, site3) for the patch. Use at your own risk, I am not responsible for anything that may happen.
If you install and run these beta, you are exposing yourself to spyware and viruses for a version of Messenger 8 that is not even fully functional. I recommend you to be patient and wait for your beta invite.
For me, tuning a guitar takes three to five minutes when finished, the final result is not very good.
I wish there is a guitar that would tune itself. Now my dream come true! Transperformance self-tuning guitar is on the way.
These people will love the Transperformance self-tuning guitar which takes less than a second to lock into perfect tune. While most guitars will only ever see standard tuning (EADGBE), a goodly proportion of popular music is played with alternate tunings. Just as each guitar sounds different, musicians will change the tune of a guitar to create the sound they require and that’s one of the reasons you often see a dozen or more guitars on stage at a rock concert. The Transperformance guitar has the additional advantage of being able to change from one custom tuning to another (it holds 240 custom tunings) which can be selected from the face of the guitar or toggled with a foot pedal.
Maybe you might have heard it already. But I wrote this for some of you probably have not heard about it. This is my Christmas present.
You can use the google translate feature to visit webpages that are blocked by your company or isp. For example, if your company bans www.somesite.com, you could use this feature to visit that site.
This technique is very simple, use the following address:
http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.somesite.com
Change somesite.com to the site you desire and it will display.
Tips: Use this to bypass only your isp or company proxy server, if you are banned from somesite.com, you won´t be able to visit that site.
I needed to run a web browser on computer that I couldn’t get admin rights, so I can’t access any entries in the registry file. I felt a lot of headache for that. Fortunately, I found Opera@USB, which is a small download of 3.81 MB and can be run of a USB-memory. You don’t need to install at all. Just download and unzip to usb drive. That’s it!
You want to use all opera features mobile – no problem !
- there are no unwanted effects on IE or other browsers
- existing opera versions are also not affected
- make no entries to the registry
- leave no data on the guestcomputer
What do i need for Opera@USB ?
- a computer with an internet connection
- a USB-Stick / USB Flashdrive with about 6 MB space left
In November 2004, the world’s largest bittorrent site got shut down permanently. There where a lot of rumours about what happened, but any official statement never came. Tonight, the owner of Suprnova.org has published the whole story. Read here
In case that site shut down, I copied original post.
For a year now, there have been many rumors why SuprNova.org was taken offline. Some have said that it was because of legal issues, some said it was because I sold out to eXeem project, or because I became a millionaire and did not want to bother with the site anymore, and the rumors go on.
Today, on the exact day, when SuprNova.org went offline, I decided that it is time for everybody to know the truth and that it is time for me to stop pretending like nothing ever happened.
On November 2004, I received a call from my ISP saying that all of my servers had been raided by the police. I received nothing from the police before or after the raid, nobody told me what was going on.
In early December, Reuters did an article on me, and many Slovenian newspapers jumped on the story. So I ended up reading about myself in Slovenian newspapers. And right about that time, I had a feeling something was wrong. I do not really know what the feeling was or where it was coming from, but I decided it was time to take SuprNova.org offline.
About a month later, after SuprNova.org had been taken offline, there was a door bell at 6:30 in the morning, saying it’s the police. Actually I was not expecting anything anymore, since SuprNova.org had been taken offline long before that. They showed me a court order to search my place and they did so. They took as far as I remember, two of my computers and lots of documents.
About a month or so later, I was called to the police, so that we or actually they, did a list of all the files that were on all of the computers that they took from my home and from the ISP.
Another month later, I was called to the police for my hearing. I and my lawyer decided, we wouldnt answer any questions. After this was over, the police told us they will give this to the prosecutor and he will continue the procedure. My lawyer told me, that I should expect a letter from the prosecutor after the summer holidays.
And that was true, nothing happened during the summer holidays and I had quite a wonderful time. Very relaxed.
And just when I was hoping that the prosecutor would forget about my case I received another letter. When I received the paper, that I had to go pick up the envelope at the post, I became completely depressed and sad. But anyway, I went to the post and picked up the document. It was from the prosecutor, saying by the law blah blah and blah blah the denunciation against Andrej Preston has been dropped. And I received all the CD’s and computers that they took from me. This happened on 18th October 2005.
Since then nothing happened, and I hope it stays that way. This has been a huge pressure on me and I think it left some permanent marks on me. I hope none of you will ever have to go through something like this.
What is written above is just a short story of everything that went on during last year. I also do not want to give out too much information, since it wouldn’t be wise.
Thanks to all of the friends that knew about this and supported me as much as they could! Its been a hard year for all of us.
This is a good big list of domain name sold for big prices:
- business.com sold for $7.5 million
- asseenontv.com sold for $5 million
- altavista.com sold for $3.3 million
- loans.com sold for $3 million
- CreditCards.com sold for $2.75 million
- autos.com sold for $2.2 million
- Men.com sold for $1.3 million
- wallstreet.com sold for $1.03 million
- forsalebyowner.com sold for $835,000
- drugs.com sold for $825,000
- cinema.com sold for $700,000
- Me.com sold for $460,000
- art.com sold for $450,000
- engineering.org sold for $199,000
- fruits.com sold for $160,000
- perfect.com sold for $94,000
Not only that big list, some other domain are selling too. eBay.com recently featured actual bids for as little as $400 for “netmotors.com” and $500 for “golegs.com” to as much as $20,000 for “arlington.com” and $25,000 for “drpepper.net” — and thousands more hovering anywhere in between.
Why? Why do these people pay that much just for a domain name? This is because more and more people would love to skip search engines and their plethora of irrelevant, misleading links to find exactly what they want. People try to guess where they want to go on the web when they no longer have the time for searching the Internet.
For example, let’s say you own a children book store on the Internet. On which of the following URLs would you click :
1. http://www.freehostexample.com/yourname/~childrens_books,
2. http://www.your-books-store-for-children-online.com,
3. http://www.YourChildrensBookStoreCompanyName.com
4. Or simply http://Childrenbook.com
Just think which one would you choose?
Over 23 million “.com” names have been registered, and over 22 thousand are being purchased every day. It means that you’re more likely to win the lottery than find a good domain name.
Nevertheless, a good domain name can help an online business become more visible, credible and accessible. And it can also help a person make a fortune. While finding one was very prohibitive, you can be a part of the gold rush, too.
In the final analysis, remember that your domain is the thing upon which you will build your online business. And like real estate, the location is just as important — being accessible.
Blogster.com was bought by Tony Colan and Ed Harrison, for $100,000, making it the highest sold domain in 2005.
Tony and Ed claim to have a new and enhanced blogging software with better user-interface, superior hosting, and many templates, pretty much a knock-off of Blogger if you ask me, hope they know who they are competing with. Also I applaud them on their purchase of a domain name with a below average suffix, -ster, What the hell is that really supposed to mean? At least Blogger represents a person who is blogging, but Blogster, what is it supposed to stem from mobster or something?
Is Blogster really that good of a name…I mean $100,000…Blogster…What the hell?