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We all heard about the tragedy. So please act now to help them in whatever ways you can.
P.S. You may click on the above photo and find a list of ways to making donations or finding more information about the earthquake.
Please Donate for Japan Earthquake
Label(s): donation, Earthquake, Japan
'Post-PC' World
Please read this before continuing:
Editorial: It's Apple's 'post-PC' world -- we're all just living in it via engadget
Yes. Apple has been defining the new world. That's how it achieved the great success in recent years. Defining "best" to be yourself is really much more effective than being the best in existing standards... Apply is really clever and doing well in marketing...
And I totally agree that "Quality of Experiences" is the winning key nowadays. However, I am sure that Apple is not the only one know this, its competitors do know this key too.
Is Apple providing the best quality of experience? Definitely NOT. It might be one of the best, but still far from being the only best. Its products do have some bad designs/implementations too. However, there is no doubt that Apple is really doing excellently in setting customer's expectation, This can actually explain why there are so many die hard fans/followers accepting all the defects in the apple products: they've already gotten what they expected from the products, the brand of the company, and their own image built up via using the product :)
Last but not least, "Quality of Experiences" based very much on the "Quality of the product". Apple focused on the Quality of experiences so they are trying to improve the quality of their products, while the other companies are improving the qualities of their products so as to improve the quality of the experiences. They are literally the same. Again, the only difference is only about how you package the own things and present to your customers :)
So, let's see.
P.S. Wish SJ get well soon. Apple would be in danger losing the spiritual leader at this world of competitions.
Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) SDK Upgrade Issues
Label(s): Android, Development, Honeycomb, Issues
Android 3.0 SDK Preview was released some days ago. I didn't have time play with it until just now.
A folder failed to be renamed or moved. On Windows this typically means that a program is using that folder (for example Windows Explorer.) Please close all running programs that may be locking the directory 'D:\Android\android-sdk-windows\tools' and try again.
- manually rename the tools folder to tools.old
- CD into the tools.old folder
- run the command: android.bat update sdk
if "%1 %2"=="update sdk" goto StartUi
if not "%1"=="" goto EndTempCopy
echo [INFO] Starting Android SDK and AVD Manager
rem We're now going to create a temp dir to hold all the Jar files needed
rem to run the android tool, copy them in the temp dir and finally execute
rem from that path. We do this only when the launcher is run without
rem arguments, to display the SDK Updater UI. This allows the updater to
rem update the tools directory where the updater itself is located.
set tmp_dir=%TEMP%\temp-android-tool
xcopy %swt_path% %tmp_dir%\%swt_path% /I /E /C /G /R /Y /Q > nul
copy /B /D /Y lib\androidprefs.jar %tmp_dir%\lib\ > nul
copy /B /D /Y lib\org.eclipse.* %tmp_dir%\lib\ > nul
copy /B /D /Y lib\sdk* %tmp_dir%\lib\ > nul
copy /B /D /Y lib\commons-compress* %tmp_dir%\lib\ > nul
rem jar_path and swt_path are relative to PWD so we don't need to adjust them, just change dirs.
set tools_dir=%cd%
cd %tmp_dir%
Downloading SDK Platform Android Honeycomb Preview, revision 1http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/android-3.0_pre_r01-linux.zip
Facebook Hacker Cup
Label(s): Contest, Facebook, HackerCup, Programming
The Qualification round of Facebook Hacker Cup is happening now.
The Facebook Hacker Cup is an annual worldwide programming competition where hackers compete against each other for fame, fortune, glory and a shot at the coveted Hacker Cup.
I joined the contest. I do not aim at any of the fame, fortune, nor the glory from this event. Instead, I fight for the event t-shirt :)
- Instructions were not clear enough. First of all is the event time, they were mentioned in different part of the event page but they are inconsistence to each other. And Facebook doesn't handle timezone very well as usual. Secondly, the contest rules is only available in the FAQs page of the event. Many of the important information (e.g. the important 6-min time limits, scoring, what to be submitted as answer) are indeed documented there. Yet the participants have responsibility to read that FAQ page before the contest begins, I guess not many of them really did. The page is not obvious enough for most of the participants to find out. I think Facebook should do a little favor by linking this page from the question pages.
Update (2011-01-09 02:14 GMT+8): OK I missed something important here. And I admit my fault saying that no clarification was made. The organizer replied to one of their own post and did clarify one important fact:
This is completely inconsistent with the FAQ page which said that you have to "submit the output (along with your source code)". So this implies that the participants are supposed to filter all the SPAMssssssssss and spot this important clarification in the official pages! Probably this is part of the challenge too!!! WOW!!!
- Slowness of the contest system. Well, I really think Facebook should be considerate to those with slow (or not fast) Internet connection, and they should also estimate the huge load it might have on the contest system during the game. Many have reported that after they successfully get the download file, they only have little time left in that 6-min time limit for submitting the answer. Although
- The event page was basically unmanaged. I don't see any official responses or clarifications regarding to user's the from Facebook after the game started. There were tons of SPAMssssssssssssssss on event page, well, might be the organizing team would like to be align with their corporate image -yes, Facebook is always full of SPAM.
- No feedback after submissions. Although the FAQ page says clearly that results would be known after 72 hours, they display a scoreboard showing only top 10. This might be the real score board used in the coming rounds. However for this qualification round it's almost meaningless. Ranks are not important (at least it is not said to be) to be qualified. We just need to answer at least one questions correctly. So, probably the most important information for us is whether we have submitted the question successfully. There was an entry showing our own rank before we did any submission, but was gone after we did any (probably because we are out of the top 10 rank). As the score was calculated based on the time elapsed from the contest start time, and totally unrelated to when you start the challenge, late player can never pass the first 10 submitting all the 10 questions.
- Bugs! Lots of bugs! There were lots of bug reports like submissions cannot be done, timer is going wrong, and etc. Someone even reported that the 6-min time limit can be somehow bypassed too (yet not confirmed). Personally I found some of pages never finish loading. Also I noticed that someone has made 4 submissions despite the fact that there were only 3 problems:
I have ever thought that it was a challenger for real hackers just like what the game was named, and planned to start finding the hidden 4th questions. However later I saw that the one doing the 4 submissions asked in the event page and I know it's a bug too...
Gmail's Download Attachment via Drag & Drop is not working recently
Label(s): [Lang=English], Gmail, Google Chrome, Issues
Gmail released a useful feature in August which allows user to drag and drop attachments out of the E-mail directly to the computer. As far as I know it supports only Google Chrome It was really handy and I use it nearly every day.
Finally, as confirmed by Google Employee on the support forum, the feature comes back again!!! Late better than none!!! Hurray!!!!


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I am not an egg lover! There--I said it. To eat eggs, they have to be disguised so as not to taste like--well, eggs! I've been trying all summer to eat better and especially eat a better breakfast. We have an upcoming wedding and we don't want to be the "chubby parents" in the photos. This has become one of my favorites. I absolutely LOVE Gruyere cheese and I could bathe in cilantro (well, maybe not really). You can make all sorts of substitutions for this sandwich--this recipe is definitely not rocket science!! I usually can't eat both of these--I give one to my husband! He LOVES eggs!!
Cooking spray
4 eggs
1 tbsp milk
Sea salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste
2 pieces of bread, toasted & buttered (I prefer 9 grain or or honey wheat)
1 tbsp milk
Sea salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste
2 pieces of bread, toasted & buttered (I prefer 9 grain or or honey wheat)
2 slices Gruyere cheese (or other cheese of your choice)
Avocado, sliced
Avocado, sliced
Heat the cooking spray in a skillet over medium heat. Whisk the eggs together with the milk, sea salt, and freshly cracked pepper, to taste.
Pour in the egg mixture. Constantly fold the egg mixture from the bottom of the pan to the top. This will keep it from overcooking and the middle section will stay soft and fluffy. Do this constantly for 1 or 2 minutes, or until the eggs are cooked to your liking.
Meanwhile, place your bread into the toaster and toast; butter the toast when finished. Immediately lay the slices of Gruyere cheese on the hot buttered bread slices. Slice the avocado into slices.
Layer the scrambled egg on top of the buttered toast and cheese followed by slices of avocado. Sprinkle with cilantro if you love it. Season with sea salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste. Serve immediately. Enjoy.

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The Green Office:
"It gives us, at Vorq Space, immense pleasure to have associated with the World Office Expo. World Office Expo being one of the largest platform for Commercial Office Spaces, Co-working Spaces & Office Technology in India. Our team, is looking to leverage on the event within all aspects including generation of new leads, acquiring new partners and creating a strong brand recall with our existing clients. Looking forward to a successful event."
- Akshit Mehta (Founder | Vorq Space)
"It is not very often that we see an industry event with such an eclectic mix of speakers, a well curated agenda and an expo with the best of brands being present. JLL India is proud to associate with World Office Expo as Knowledge Partner to bring this remarkable event to life. I am sure that the thought leadership and content will add tremendous value to the delegates, the partners & exhibitors. as well as provide a great opportunity to understand the key imperatives impacting the India Office Landscape. Looking forward to a high energy, power- packed event!"
- Shajai Jacob (Director & Head – Marketing | JLL India)
"World Office Expo is a renowned office solutions and business exhibition in India and we, at Smartworks, take great pride in being a part of the event. Being a high profile trade event in the shared and private office space industry, we aim to leverage World Office Expo to showcase our offerings, connect with our existing clients, and share experiences with businesses that are now aiming to move to futuristic office spaces like the ones that we offer. We look forward to a fruitful association and a successful event"
- Team (Smart Works)
"Flipspaces is a Virtual Reality Tech enabled Interior Designing Company. As a part of this industry, we saw the the process of interior visualization in the real estate space was extremely slow, difficult to use and not-immersive at all. The inspiration behind Flipspaces is to cater to these problems for the end customer and B2B stakeholders. The vision is to create a gamified application which a 10 year old child could self-learn and use to design his/her space in a manner of minutes. We are glad to to be associated with World Office Expo to showcase India's most advanced Tech tool for Interior Designing."
- Kunal Sharma (Founder | Flipspaces)
"PrintStop is a one-stop solution for Enterprise customers for all their business printing needs. We leverage technology to simplify the complex & unorganised print procurement process. World Office Expo gives us a platform to showcase our solutions, share our customer success stories & best practices with other enterprise customers. It is a privilege for us to partner with them."
- Milap Shah (Co-Founder | PrintStop)
"Fantastic Innovation and Initiative by Team World Office Expo in bringing the coworking fraternity on one platform. Pleasure to be associated as Outreach Partner for the event. Wishing all the success for the event."
- Mr. Ajay Rakheja (CEO | CRE INDIA)
"We at Qdesq are delighted to continue our association with World office expo & Coworking India. The event is an unique and one of a kind in India which helps occupiers to find the suitable office spaces . We are looking forward to have a great event this year."
- Paras Arora (Founder | Qdesq)
"World Office Expo is the most awaited co-working conference in India and we look forward to showcasing ODOCO there for the rest of the country to see!"
- Neville Patel (Founder | ODOCO)
"World office expo is a brilliant platform for developers like ourselves to showcase their esteemed products. We at Kamdhenu Realities take great pride in sharing the fact that our expertise and quality with regards to commercial and residential projects in Navi Mumbai is unparalleled. World Office expo is creating awareness about the growing phenomenon that is 'Co-working spaces'. We as the commercial partners would like to dive in the deep end of this concept because we are sure of it's glorious future as it creates a more sustainable environment for the growth of start-ups and small businesses."
- Roshni Sabhlok (Kamdhenu Realities)
"It is with great pleasure that we will be participating in the World Office Expo After their successful launch last year with the participation of such a variety of experts, providing the potential for introduction of new models and innovative solutions in the field of commercial office spaces"
"Without a doubt World Office Expo is the best and has the potential to rival all. 'It just goes to show, what can be done, when a team of dedicated people get together in a single endeavor…. You should all be proud of yourselves!'"
- Rajat Parakh (Director | Tankaria Access Floors)


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Parking in Manhattan is enough to give the Queen of Pop a headache.
Madonna posted homemade "No Parking" signs around her property on the Upper East Side to keep delinquent drivers from blocking her driveway.
A few of the signs outside the apartment at Lexington Avenue and East 81st Street read "Tenant Parking Only" and "Unauthorized Vehicles Will Be Towed Away." The words "No Parking" were embossed on the sidewalk in front of her garage, and it appears she had painted the curb yellow along the stretch.
The signs caught the attention of several news outlets -- and the city's Transportation Department.The New York Post reports that a neighbor complained to the city, which issued a "letter of defacement" to the star.
People who live and work in the area say they understand why Madonna resorted to the non-sanctioned signs and yellow paint. The search for parking there is so tough that contractor Sam Santana says he has someone stationed in his van every day to move it.
"It's impossible to find parking here," said neighbor Sue Leonard.
"She's not the only one," Gino Civici added of Madonna's tactics to beat people trying to park in front of her home. "But they always pick on the famous people."
Sandra Weiksmer pointed out, "The neighbors down there have put in yellow in the past, but when it's faded people come and park. I don't think it's legal. It's good to let them know."
The Material Girl responded to the citation on her Instagram, with a photo from the Daily Mail's story on the signs.
"Yes Bishes I am Madonna and that is my driveway and if people park in front of it i cant drive in my driveway! So sorry the city doesn't like the color yellow! We will paint a nice dull grey to keep our neighbors happy! Sorry! Im saying 3 extra Hail Mary's this Easter for this transgression," Madonna wrote.
Madonna bought her New York pad for a reported $40 million in 2008. The potential fine she faces for the signs and painted curb: $250.


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SUPER MARIO: Gotze clinches World Cup for Germany
1:05pm Monday 14th July 2014
GERMANY were crowned world champions for the fourth time thanks to a stunning extra-time winner from super-sub Mario Gotze.
Argentina reach World Cup final after penalty shootout win over Holland
10:29am Thursday 10th July 2014
ARGENTINA are just 90 minutes away from lifting the World Cup in the Maracana after they edged past Holland on penalties in Wednesday's semi-final at the Arena Corinthians.
Germany obliterate hosts Brazil
10:00am Wednesday 9th July 2014
BRAZIL'S dreams of making a return to a World Cup final in the Maracana were shattered in the most agonising manner as Germany inflicted on the hosts one of the most remarkable defeats in the 84-year history of this competition.
Holland break Costa Rican hearts on penalties
11:24am Monday 7th July 2014
HOLLAND'S substitute goalkeeper Tim Krul dramatically made two saves in a penalty shoot-out against Costa Rica to carry his side into the semi-finals of the World Cup.
Argentina ease into World Cup semi-finals
11:22am Monday 7th July 2014
ARGENTINA eased into the World Cup semi-finals as a disappointing Belgium side made a low-key exit from the tournament.
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