Keith Thompson offers a great portfolio in general, but the vehicles section is really mindblowing. His pieces of art range from futuristic spaceships via dark and creepy carriages over to steam punk assault devices.

Strange and frightening the Zero atomic blossom.

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Here is an interesting opportunity to get your advertisement displayed on ten differents blogs for free:The AdSpace Contest

The idea is simple: Get as many entries as you can (very easy to do) before October 15th. The more entries you get, the better chance you have of winning! Shortly after the 15th, they’ll announce the winner.

The prize?

A 125×125 pixel ad spot (above the fold) on at least TEN DIFFERENT BLOGS that will run for one month. That’s at least a $100 value! Last month’s prize grew to be ad spots on 45 blogs!

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Officially unlocked iPhone at the Apple Store HK
The Hongkong Apple Store has the legally, officially, hakkx-free unlocked iPhone 3G! The unlocked iPhone 3G purchased at the Apple Online Store can be activated with any wireless carrier. Simply insert the SIM from your current phone into iPhone 3G and connect to iTunes 8 to complete activation. About $700 will get you an unlocked 8GB version, and the 16GB is just $800.

Even James Bond would be desperately lost, if Q would not provide him with his genious masterpieces of technikal gadgets. Same as Double-O, those amoung you who have to cut their own path through the street jungle without a license to kill will inestimably value to be able to conjure up the right tool at the right time.

So here’re some neat stuff, that might represent the the slight difference between hero and zero, pimp your individual style or could simply work as a life-saver:

• Porsche challenges Tesla Motors
  Alternative drives get hip, so Porsche tuning specialist Ruf constructs an electric version of the Porsche Cayman claiming to have more torque than the Tesla Roadster
• T-Mobile G1 running Google Android
  For the early adopters. Google’s attempt to set foot on the mobile OS market

• Table Football - style edition
  This one should not be hidden in a dark, shady corner of a bar, here come a real eye-catcher!
• Classic retro telephone handsets
  Still remember the time, when teleohones had dial plates and huuuge handsets? Here’s your ticket into the past!
• Super Mario Brothers metallic graphic Belt Buckle
  Video games geeks behold! This shows you’re a seriously gaming addict
• Solar powered iPhone case
  Ok, it ain’t a real beauty, but definitely might come in handy sometimes.

Interesting study about the usage and the behaviour of social media platform users from over 29 countries from webguild.org:

A new study by Universal McCann called When did we start trusting strangers? found that rather than being passive, consumers have taken not only active, but also creative roles in consumerism. In fact, consumers have become true “consum’actors.” The study was base on 17,000 Internet users from 29 countries.

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Pretty cool! The new features, like application filters, contact categories and und subscription management of the “secret” test version one could try out via beta.friendfeed.com now are implemented on the main stage.

Just see: friendfeed.com/mrmojorisin

This is really neat and definitely will make friendfeed even more informative and addictive!

Nice job!

News aggregators:

friendfeed.com
Friendfeed works as a feed of your social community activities, one adds services like flickr, picasa, twitter, google reader, digg, stumbleupon, del.icio.us, youtube, fast.fm and of course own blogs sharing the own post/messages/links with other people and commenting the interesting stuff from others. Seriously good source of hot news right from the streets!

toluu.com
A service to share and tag rss feeds and to find people of the same interest.
Quite new, one still needs an invite code - if you need one drop me a message.

delicious.com
Social bookmarking site, which recently launched a new, fresh layout, for sharing, tagging links, creating networks with friends/users of the same interest.

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Google is passing the next logical milestone towards complete internet domination in a determined way, they are releasing their very own browser. Denied since years the gauntlet shall be slapped on Microsoft today at 20:00 GMT and Chrome should be available for download in over 100 countries.

The own browser closes an important gap in the Google web portfolio, offering already email and office applications, online advertisement, analysis tools, a feed reader, an instant messenger, blog software, online photo albums, translators and not to forget the different websearches.

So it’ll be interesting, what exactly they will deliver…

But as Michael Arrington from Techchrunch said, one should think about whether we really want Google to know everything we do online.

(Btw, Techchrunch.com seems to be offline, any coincidence with their critic…?)

For customizing Firefox to your personal needs and for maximum performance by using the options menue, close limits are set. But there is more:
By typing “about:config” into the address bar and hitting “Enter” you will access a vast list of parameters handling the behavior of your Fox. Using Firefox. 2.x you will access this list without a explanation about the risks, Firefox 3.x demands you to confirm, that you will be careful, once you done that, the fun may begin…

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Micro$oft presents the next generation of their browser compensatory Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, claiming as usual, having made is faster, better, easier and more secure…

One of the problably most discussed features is “InPrivate”, sarcastically baptised the “porn mode” due to is most striking operation field. But this function is simply an automatism for a standart procedure, which are already offered by several other competitors on the browser market, i.e. “Clear private data” function in Firefox.
By concealing the browsing behavior and thus avoiding the data mining by webpages, this function cuts off targeted advertising, which will not be appreciated by the marketing companies.

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