I bet Terminators used to look cute before they start putting humans on their crosshair….

Presenting the latest from Tomotaka Takahashi: Ropid!

Google, the end all know all of all search engines in the Internet, has struck again. This time with searching music. Not that it wasn’t able to do it before, but this time it’s able to show the result in style. Audibly in style. The new feature enables you to hear sound clips (sometimes of full songs) of the music you’re searching for along other features, and it even allows you to search by lyrics! Nice one, Google. Another major step to your rule-the-internet plan. Video after the links.

Read more: link1, link2

The other subject of the day is hardware dissection, commonly known within electro-nerds globally, teardowns. The article in the link shows an image gallery of people tearing down various kind of Sony gadgets from an old radio to a PS3 (what???). Read on! Ah…. that brings back memory….

Link3

When Burger King (Japan only unfortunately) decided to celebrate the release of Microsoft’s latest OS… this is how they do it……

Burger King's Windows 7 Burger

…on MS’s latest release. click here.

Last year I was on the heel on what I thought to be one of the most promising rival to Google, called Wolfram Alpha. On further research, it’s actually not quite a search engine. More appropriately, it should be called information analysis computational engine…

Well, apparently, it went on live back in May and the reason I heard of it again because Bing (apparently Google’s current biggest pain in the rear  contender) stroke a deal with WolframAlpha, incorporating it to its own search engine.

Maybe finally Google will get a worthy rival? Check out WolframAlpha yourself at www.wolframalpha.com. After testing a few searches, I understand why it can’t be compared to the likes of Google or Bing. It’s best describe probably as Wikipedia’s search engine, but instead of searching its own database, it searched the net. And I know I was very impressed. I may even just incorporate the link to this post!

Voila

Wired’s quick review: http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/pr_win7

Gizmodo’s complete guide: http://gizmodo.com/5150298/windows-7-the-complete-guide  (lotsa other links)

…and don’t forget the awesome hotkey guide: http://gizmodo.com/5139691/windows-7-tip-the-windows-key-is-actually-useful-now-with-tons-of-hotkey-shortcuts

…netted me a slo-mo video of freaky crazy japanese running, and a cat toy.

A dismembered, just-got-ran-over, cat toy.

Yeah.

Japanese are crazy, alright. That’s why I love them so much.

Short, but comprehensive review: http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/software/2009/10/22/microsoft-windows-7-review/1

Need to know more Win7 tricks? Check out: http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/50-seriously-useful-windows-7-tips-528483?artc_pg=1

In all honesty, personally, if I have an extra $150 lying around, it would be a no-brainer to pick a Win7 x64 copy today. Like, now. This minute. It’s what Vista should’ve been, and XP’s couldn’t even dream off. Unless you’re sticking with a Mac, (or flat-out broke like me) there’s no solid reason whatsoever that you shouldn’t be using Windows 7 in the very near future.

edit: Sold more in 8hr than Vista in its entire pre-order availability? Man, I should’ve bought some Microsoft stock options. Read: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2009/10/22/windows-7-more-popular-than-harry-potter/1

I can’t post alot about this at the moment, but I’ll update it later tonight or something…

MySQL’s fight to get away from Oracle: link1, link2

Office 2010 Suite and Sharepoint 2010 server: link1

Apple’s new Magic Mouse: link1

….well that was awkward…

anyway, here’s an interesting article on how the brain processes speeches: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/speaking-brain/

And here’s one to show that Olympic medals are made from recycled circuit board…. oh the irony (sport vs geeks?)

http://gizmodo.com/5383244/2010-olympic-medals-made-from-melted+down-circuit-boards

Google seems to finally jumpstart its much rumoured e-book store. Coming not only to the web, it will also be available to download to any e-book reader device (such as Amazon’s Kindle). Seriously, after the succesfull search engine, solid email, even a spunky browser among its biggest arsenal of services, (no, I won’t even mention the google phone)(guess I did…) now it’s going toe-to-toe with Amazon on reaching out to one of the most bandwidth-heavy-tech-savvy consumer based; the e-book readers. Nice. Should I buy some Google stocks now?

source: link1, link2

On another news, to much of the delight of Microsoft fans, Microsoft might be ready to open their physical store along with the launch of the eagerly waited Windows 7. Too bad it’ll be in US though… I would, just for the heck of it, drive and check it out if it’s somewhere in Canada   *pokeMicrosoft*

source: link1

I’m really sorry but I lost your much appreciated comments I was cleaning much spam comments and I spotted both of your comments on my post regarding your book, and I’m 99.99% sure I approved them and remove the rest.

Yet, I see no comments… lol…. Again, if you guys ever read this post, I would like to apologize and invite you to drop another comment or two

And again, their book, Culture Shock Jakarta is one of the most entertaining book I’ve ever read.

Wow! It’s really been a while, eh? I don’t have anything in mind at the moment (except for posting this, naturally), and I suppose to let the readers know I’m back and I’ll be posting more stuff.

Oh, and I just created a LinkedIn profile… it’s like Facebook for professionals…. it’s nice.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/dsoegiarto

oh and apparently I just found my name in a Financial Week publications out of the internal journal I had….

http://www.FinancialWeek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200661113007

neat…