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7
Apr

New RSS address! Please Update!

If you’re reading this in a RSS reader, you’re cool! No need to change anything else!

But if you’re reading this at joshlam.com, please update your RSS reader as we changed our feed address to:
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/joshlam

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5
Apr

New domain, New Look, New Josh’s Blog!

In case you haven’t noticed, Josh’s Blog is now located at:
http://www.joshlam.com

Instead of the previously ugly BlogSpot subdomain joshl2.blogspot.com

Also, I’ll like to tell you guys that a new design is coming in a few weeks time! Stay tuned, and if you haven’t susccribe to my feed below to keep up with the latest Tech News! I understand that there hasn’t been much news for some time, but that’s going to change right now.

Cheers,
Josh

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5
Apr

Dell roadmap LEAKED: High-end 720p Mini 10 and Mini 11!

Looks like there’s going to be a high end Dell Mini 10 coming, codenamed the Mini 1010 Tiger, with “purpose-built for the internet entertainment and mobility”. It’s coming with a higher end 1.8GHz Intel Atom Z processor, and a Magnesium Body “for Looks”. A 16:9 HD 720p ETE Display and HDMI completes this awesome high end netbook. Other Options include Touch pad with gestures, Integrated GPS and Mobile TV.

Another thing would be the new Mini 11, coming sometime in Q3 in 2009. Check out the slides below. Thanks to netbooknews.de for the leak.

Josh’s Verdict: Wow, a netbook with HDMI? No way. I can’t wait to see it!

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5
Apr

Second Microsoft Laptop Hunters Ad: Giampaulo



Well, so much for the redhead Lauren. Here comes Giampaulo: a tech savvy guy who calls Macs “so sexy”, except in the end, he rejects Macs calling them “all aesthetics and brand with no computing power”. Anyways, once again, just like Lauren, he picked an HP with a $1,500 budget. He picked the HP HDX 16 with 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB drive, which would cost him $2,499 from Apple. Check out the video here: 

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2
Apr

WebHostingChoice.com: Your Guide to Web Hosting!

I just found a great site I felt like sharing: it’s called Web Hosting Choice. They offer an awesome guide to popular web hosting services, which includes reviews and easy to read comparison charts. 
Have you ever wondered with web hosting to choose? With the number of hosting companies these days, it’s quite hard to pick the right plan for the right price. Well, Web Hosting Choice makes it easy to pick a web host. On their front page, they show a frequently updated table for the top 10 web hosts, based on a number of criterias. Currently, the Top Web Host is JustHost, with only a cost of $3.95 per month and comes with a free domain, Unlimited Space and Data Transfer. That to me, sounds like a great deal. The  Top 10 web host is shown below:
If you are more specific and picky about each individual web host, you can try their Advance Search feature, which allows you to pick a web host depending on a particular feature a web host, might have, for example, payment by PayPal or support for C++.  This can be seen below. 
Josh’s Verdict: Overall, a great site to begin finding your first Web Host! Good Luck!

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30
Mar

Is this the new MacBook mini?

A Russian magazine has just showed a picture of the new, so called MacBook mini, aka Apple’s netbook. Of course, I can’t read a single bit of Russian so I can’t tell you what it says.. but I can read the specs.. .. sounds pretty sweet to me :)
10.4″ WXGA display.
• 1280 x 768 pixel with LED backlighting.
• NVIDIA MCP79
• Intel Atom Z740 1.83GHz with 1MB L2 cache.
• 2GB DDR3-800.
• NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
• 64GB Solid State Drive.
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n
• 1 x USB 2.0
• 1 x Mini Display Port
• Battery Li-Ion 5100mA


So how does this differ to the MacBook Air, you ask? Well here’s a comparsion shot: 


Josh’s Verdict: Some Russian Photoshopper? Maybe. But according to the magazine, it’ll be released in 2009 for a cool $899.


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23
Mar

Where’s the TECH NEWS??

I’m sorry guys. I’m currently on my Geography field trip studying Rivers and Development. This, obviously, doesn’t give me much time to blog, if any time at all. The field trip data collected will then be used for my coursework, which is pretty important as it’s 25% of my final grade.

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17
Mar

Twitter’s OAuth now in Public Beta!

Sick of malicious apps? Sick of typing in your Twitter passwords to third party apps and not even knowing what they are going to do with it? Welcome to OAuth, the token based authentication system, now available as a public beta for Twitter Apps! This was just announced (via Twitter, naturally) by Alex Payne, Twitter API’s lead.

An example of the authentication process is seen above, with TipJoy.

Josh;s Verdict: Simple, no password required. Now we’ll just have for other Apps to use this, to reduce abuse.

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16
Mar

WTF: The worst ad for a missile EVER!


Seriously. I’m going to buy a Rafael missile after watching this ad. But on the serious side, Rafael, an Israeli defense company, displayed this ad at Aero India 2009 at Bangalore, trying to increase their business in India. Did it work? Who knows.

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16
Mar

Kevin Rose: Copy/Paste for iPhone!

Kevin Rose on Diggnation just stated that iPhone 3.0 software will have copy and paste, as well as other Palm Pre features. Kevin says that the interface is much like the magnifying glass – you use two fingers to select the text you want, and then you can cut or copy. Oh, by the ways, he said there won’t be any background apps support :(





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