Saturday, September 4, 2010

iPod Nano With Multi-Touch Technology


The newly designed iPod Nano got our attention from today’s big Apple announcements. This new iPod Nano is smaller and redesigned with Multi-Touch technology, 1.54-inch (diagonal) color TFT display at 240 x 240 pixel resolution (220 ppi) and Accelerometer Sensor System.

The new iPod Nano still supported audio formats AAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV and FM radio and can show digital photograph. The size 37.5 x 40.9 x 8.78 mm, weight 21.1 g. beside, still can convenient in portable with the clip nips at rear
iPod nano, produce 6 colors (white, gray, blue, green, yellow and pink) besides, still have red special. iPod nano, there is the capacity 8GB or 16GB flash drive
Regards one technology top connection from iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Designers: Apple

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Kad Hari Raya Percuma!!!!

Assalammualaikum dan salam 1 Malaysia...hehe sekarang anda semua tengah mood rayakan,yelah tinggal beberapa hari lagikan untuk umat islam meraikan hari raya dan semestinya setiap tahun kad raya akan menjadi penghubung antara satu sama lain.Pada hari raya inilah kita dapat berkumpul dengan kawan-kawan,sedara-sedara dan juga orang tersayang.Apakata anda semua luahkan perasaan anda pada orang yang tersayang,ataupun untuk meminta maaf atas segala kesilapan yang anda lakukan dengan melalui kad raya.

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Friday, September 3, 2010

Fluid Wearable SmartPhone

Fluid reminds me of Nokia Morph. It’s a smartphone that uses flexible "OLED" technology. Fluid provides mobility and ease in handling its duties. You can wear Fluid as one of your fashion accessories, this wearable gadget is certainly won’t take space in your pocket, you can wear it as a bracelet. Unfortunately there’s no further information regarding this phone design.

Designer: Dinard da Mata

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Audiobook Review: Aenarion by Gav Thorpe




A hero corrupted by the power he relies upon to defeat the enemies of his people, driven by the deaths of the ones he loves family, he will fall even further so long as his descent means no one else will have to suffer. This is the story of Aenarion, elf warrior of the Warhammer fantasy fiction line.

This was my first foray into Warhammer’s fantasy line, having only read or listened to works from their WH40K science fiction universe prior to this, but I found it to be an easy transition. Perhaps part of it was the fact that this tale of Aenarion seems like a prequel to a series – like the prologue voice over at the beginning of Fellowship of the Ring. Some of it is also because of the use of Chaos – only this time instead of it being used to power starships, here it’s tapped into as the form of “magic” these characters can wield - as well as the common theme of it being the origin of many of the mystical creatures who’ve come from beyond to do battle.

Aenarion is an elf warrior who’s had many victories over these creatures, married the queen of his people, and gone on to have a family. But those creatures keep coming, the war seems neverending, and he has started to grow weary. Yet he doesn’t listen when one of his advisors suggests that perhaps their use of Chaos magic is what feeds the creatures, keeps them returning, and that all they might have to do is give up it’s use and the enemy may no longer have a reason to fight. And then when he discovers that the most recent battle he fought was a distraction – keeping his army away from his home, where the Chaos creatures have razed all in their path, killing his family – Aenarion decides it’s time to call upon a final solution of sorts.

He is going to retrieve a sword, one said to be forged by the gods, and one that can only be used by the gods – and once unleashed, it will not allow its user to stop until everything, everywhere, is destroyed. As Aenerion flys upon his Dragon to the far north to retrieve the blade, he is confronted by all manner of demons and spirits – but can even the plea of his deceased wife convince him of the folly to which he has committed himself?

The story has echoes of other tales I’ve enjoyed, like the aforementioned Lord of the Rings and Star Wars themes. Frankly, at first I was put off by the kind of “history lesson” prologue feel – there was a lot of telling me what Aenarion had done and not a lot of me actually feeling like I was a witness to it. But things turned around quickly, the battle against the Chaos creatures was well done; a feeling of overwhelming enemy numbers against a small but nearly invincible group of elf warriors. And that set up worked well for what was to come, Aenarion’s journey and the trials he must endure along the way. I almost understood why he was choosing to go down this path, even if it must surely lead to his own destruction.

And as always with these audio dramas from The Black Library (whoops, forgot to mention that part, didn’t I?) the voice acting, music, sound effects and so on are all top notch. I absolutely love these, and would gladly see them do all of their stories in audio form - not that there’s anything wrong with their written stories. Frankly, these audio dramas live up to the high quality I’ve seen so far out of books I’ve read from them. With writing this good and audio work this well produced, it’s a pleasure any time I get the chance to listen to one of these. Highly recommended.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

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Giveaway! "The Reapers Are the Angels" by Alden Bell (3 copies-- U.S. entries only)

I'm very excited! I really, really loved "The Reapers Are the Angels" by Alden Bell, and was hoping I would have a chance to be able to offer a copy for giveaway. And thanks to MacMillan Books (Henry Holt and Co.) I have 3 copies to offer for a few lucky winners! (U.S. entries) Just head over to my giveaway page TO ENTER.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Book Review: "The Reapers Are the Angels" by Alden Bell


Seeing the beauty of a rough world is a rare gift at the best of times, and it's especially tough when faced with death and decay. But Temple, the heroine of Alden Bell's fantastic new book The Reapers Are the Angels, finds wonder and strange blessings in a time when others are struggling to just go on.

It has been twenty-odd years since the world changed forever and the dead started coming back and feeding on the living and fifteen-year-old Temple has never known another world. Temple has a wandering soul and a toughness of spirit that is finely matched to her deadly fighting skills. Drifting from human enclaves in big cities to remote island paradises, Temple doesn't just fight to stay alive, she greets each day determined to see God's blessings however they present themselves. But God, as she says, is a slick God and His grace doesn't come easy when the dangers a young woman faces aren't just of the undead kind.

As dangerous as the undead are, the living pose their own hazards as Temple knows only too well. The few communities that still stand have their own temptations and Temple, despite her solitary inclinations, often seeks the brief contact that keeps her in touch with humanity. But a deadly confrontation sets Temple at odds against a man who, while a kindred spirit, will follow her to the ends of the earth to settle a debt for a dead brother.

"The Reapers Are the Angels" is a book that defies expectations in a good way. It's a book set in a dystopian future in which zombies--meatskins and slugs to Temple-- devastate the modern world, but it also delivers one of the finest heroines I've ever had the pleasure to meet. It's a story that offers finely-tuned suspense balanced with a terrific philosophical sensibility. It is, without a doubt, the best book I've read this year so far.

Zombie books are all the rage right now and it would be easy to overlook an unassuming book of only 225 pages, but this one deserves to be noticed. I've enjoyed zombie-themed books over the last couple of years (and raved about "Boneshaker" by Cherie Priest) but this one stands in a class all by itself. It's stylistically unique, reminding me of the quiet intensity of a movie like No Country For Old Men, and there are moments that take me back to the feeling I had when watching that film and appreciating how a well crafted scene can deliver a potent, but understated power.

Bell is a clever writer too. Temple often muses about the character of God as she struggles with the conflicting emotions that bubble up due to her drive to survive and her need to appreciate the simple gift of living. But Bell doesn't demand that we believe in God. There's no proselytizing. It's Temple's belief that matters as she tries to reconcile a guilty conscience and a need to interact with society as she invariably causes disruption as she passes through. Somehow Bell even works in the violent, often strange, moments you would expect from zombie-themed fiction seamlessly with it's reflective nature. It's just masterfully done.

"The Reapers Are the Angels" is a such a well written book that if you don't find yourself reading it and wondering whether you appreciate your own life enough, then you just don't have a soul. I'd give this book a rare (for me) but well deserved 5/5 stars.