Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Backup Blog Incrementally - Blogger Backup Utility Free


If your blog has too much post and blogger is long time to export or you are not able to export your blogger posts then here is the solution for that. Greg Duncan has created a free blogger backup software that's extremely easy-to-use and gives lot of control over the backup process

Blogger Backup is a small open-source Windows tool that, well, backups the posts and comments from a Blogger blog. The Blogger Backup utility is intended to be a simple utility to backup to local disk your Blogger posts. Click here to download page
In this tool you can also specify following details:

  • You want to back up all posts in to single file or one file per post.
  • Set of duration for which you want to back up the posts
  • Do you want to backup comments or not?
  • Limit on number of posts per file
  • Get all posts or get only selected number of recent posts


Once you have all these files on your computer, you could write a tool that imports them to a database or use Blogger's API to recreate the blog. In fact, this tool also uses Blogger's API to get the feeds. You can also use backup xml file to import posts using "Import Blog" at "Settings -> Basic".



Also Please check following shell script to back up your blog in to 100 posts per file:

#!/bin/sh
# backup script for new blogger
URL=http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=100
for x in 1 101 201 301 401; do
curl -m 300 -s "$URL&start-index=$x" > $1-$x-atom
gzip $1-$x-atom
sleep 10
done

#If you have fewer than 500 posts at the moment... If you have more posts then just modify the line "for x in 1 101 201 301 401 501 601 701; do" and so on for more posts also you can increase the number of posts per page by changing this line "URL=http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=100"
specify any number instead of 100

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Lenovo Dual Screen Laptop


Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds Dual Screen Laptop

Wow ho, two screens lappie. This is the Thinkpad W700ds, it comes with choice of Intel Core 2 Quad processors and combined with the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M GPU. It support up to 8GB ram and a total 960GB of SSD / HDD storage. You will get a 17-inch screen and it also comes with an integrated WACOM digitizer.

Why two screens? Most people are using two monitors at their desktop. So we wanted to give them all the things they are used to on their desk,” said Wes Williams, worldwide product marketing manager for ThinkPads.This dual screen lappie price starts at $3,600. More pictures after the break.

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Friday, December 12, 2008

Million Dollar Motorcycles



By Stephen Milioti
Japanese artists are renowned for their Zen-like patience, but spending 7,500 hours hand-crafting a motorcycle would seem to push that to absurd lengths - until you see the motorcycle. Then you wonder how Chicara Nagata managed to build something so stunning in so little time.
Nagata's award-winning motorcycles are breathtaking works of art, so it is fitting that three of them are featured in an exhibit at New York's Ippodo Gallery and the Contemporary Asian Art Fair. The bikes are as meticulously crafted as they are stunningly detailed, blending vintage parts with modern design to create motorcycles that are simultaneously retro and futuristic.
Nagata's art pays tribute to the very machines that almost killed him, and to the people who saved him. "There are many ways a man can express himself, but there are not many things I can do," he writes in the notes accompanying his exhibit. "I have found something on which I will pour my life."
Nagata, 46, was 16 when a motorcycle accident nearly killed him. He endured eight months of intensive therapy and several blood transfusions during his recovery, all the while wondering why he should survive so horrible an accident when so many others haven't. Nagata, whose name means "power," decided to honor those who had died, and those who saved him, by creating art. He became a graphic designer in 1982 and launched his own studio a decade later.
His love affair with motorcycles was rekindled in 1993 when he started building his first custom. It took him seven years. Whereas most motorcycle "builders" do little more than open the Fat Book parts catalog and start ordering parts they simply bolt together in a week or two, Nagata hand-crafts everything but the drivetrains. The frames, the suspension components, even the throttle assemblies and hand controls are designed and made by Nagata.
He's built 13 bikes so far. Nagata won the grand prize in the 2006 AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building for Chicara Art I, a sleek retro-ride powered by a 1939 Harley-Davidson U motor. He took second place last year with Chicara Art II, which features a 1942 Harley WLA motor. The three bikes featured at Ippodo can be had for $1 million apiece which, given the level of workmanship, strikes us as a bargain.
Photos courtesy Ippodo Gallery. Be sure to check out Nagata's work on his Web site.


Photo Above: Chicara Art I. Finished 2006. It's powered by a 1939 Harley Davidson flathead "U" motor displacing 1,200cc.

Photo above: Engine detail shot of Chicara III showing the 1950 Meguro racing motor and 1950 Triumph transmission. As with all of Nagata's bikes, all parts -- hand controls, foot controls, throttle and clutch linkages, everything -- but the engine and drivetrain are hand-crafted. The bike was completed this year.

Photo above: Engine detail shot of Chicara III showing the 1950 Meguro racing motor and 1950 Triumph transmission. As with all of Nagata's bikes, all parts -- hand controls, foot controls, throttle and clutch linkages, everything -- but the engine and drivetrain are hand-crafted. The bike was completed this year.
Via : Source

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Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Nokia Test Labs


Ever wondered how the mobile phone companies test the mobile phones? In Nokia test labs, you will see bunch of machines used to test the mobile phones ~ bend, bake, humidify, spray, poke and drop phones. The picture above is showing the mobile phone getting poked million times. Check out the rest of the torturing machines after the break.

Humidity


Various liquids, creams and gels…

Bending Test, Ouch!

Dust Test

Those are hard and sharp plastic for scratch test.

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Thursday, December 04, 2008

Nokia N97


Nokia has just announced its Nokia N97 at Nokia World 2008 convention at Barcelona, Spain. It is claimed as the world’s most advanced mobile computer, designed for the needs of Internet-savvy consumers. The whole thing looks shiny and it has both touchscreen and QWERTY as some of us are sucks at touchscreen.

Nokia’s flagship Nseries device introduces leading technology - including multiple sensors, memory, processing power and connection speeds - for people to create a personal Internet and share their ’social location.’
It has 5.0-megapixel camera with high-quality Carl Zeiss optics, 16:9 and DVD quality video capture, and support for services like Share on Ovi for immediate sharing over HSDPA and WLAN. Well, 5.0-megapixel is kinda common now. The craziest part will be its memory storage, the Nokia N97 can support up to 48GB storage, including its 32GB onboard memory.
The Nokia N97 will be available in the first half of 2009 with an estimated retail price of EUR 550 before tax and subsidies.
More pictures after the break.
The Nokia N97 introduces the concept of ’social location’ also known as the So-Lo. With integrated A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass, the Nokia N97 intuitively understands where it is. The Nokia N97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving approved friends the ability to update their ’status’ and share their ’social location’ as well as related pictures or videos.

As you can see there are four callers icon at the desktop, those are shortcuts to call them, set to those who you called regularly


Press Release

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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Fighter Motorcycle at Neiman Marcus


The holiday season is around the corner and as expected, Neiman Marcus has a range of “Wow Gifts” in their latest Christmas Book for the super rich, including the stunning, limited edition Fighter Motorcycle, which we have covered earlier too. This beast from Confederate Motor Company packs 190 mph of terrific performance into its avant-garde carbon fiber, titanium and aluminum chassis. Attention has been paid to every detail and the finest of the materials have been used in the making. Only 45 units have been put into production and 39 only will be available before the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book is closed. Priced at $110,000, the limited edition Fighter Motorcycle gives stiff competition to Chicara Nagata’s handmade million dollar motorcycles.




Via: Luxist/BookofJoe

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Blackberry Bold 9000 (unlocked)



Are you getting a Blackberry Bold 9000? Alright, the Blackberry Bold was announced back in May this year. This Smartphone is powered by 624MHz Intel PXA270/Marvell Tavor PXA930 CPU and running on BlackBerry OS 4.6. It comes with 128MB of flash plus 1GB of onboard memory, Half VGA resolution 480 x 320 pixel color display, 2.0-megapixel camera with flash, built-in GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi support, Media player, 3.5mm stereo headset input and a microSD expansion slot. Bold supports UMTS: 2100 / 1900 / 850MHz, GSM: 1900 / 1800 / 900 / 850 MHz, GPRS, EDGE and HDSPA networks. You can get the unlocked Blackberry Bold for $722. More pictures after the break.
The media player - DivX 4, Div X 56 are partially supported, XviD is partially supported, H.263, H.264 and WMV3; Audio Support - .3gp, MP3, WMA9 (.wma/.asf), WMA9 Pro/WMA 10, MIDI, AMR-NB, Professional AAC/AAC+/eAAC+.



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Thursday, October 23, 2008

PSP 2 by Tai Chiem


Designer Tai Chiem has come out with the PSP 2 design. This concept comes with OLED display that can be rolled up when not in use. It features an electric charge powering the display, stereo speakers on either side double as a jog wheel and camera control. Nice work but I’m sure that it is not going to happen, for PSP I mean, could be useful for other devices maybe to come in that shape. More pictures after the break.




Sony just barely updated the PSP but designer Tai Chiem is already thinking about the next iteration. His design calls for a flexible OLED display that can be conveniently rolled. An electric charge powering the display stiffens it while providing near bezeless prime real estate for gaming. Stereo speakers on either side double as a jog wheel and camera control. He also envisages Sony finally implementing two joysticks. Pipe dream or not, it’s sexy and lives up to its name; it don’t get any more portable than this.
Designer: Tai Chiem

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Thursday, October 09, 2008

Nikon Wifi-enable UP300x Headphone



Nikon Corporation in Japan has introduced their latest Media Port UP. It is a wifi-enabled multimedia playback headset device. Nikon combine the display screen, headphones, mobile A/V player, Wi-Fi capability, high-capacity memory, and power source in one compact device. The device is priced around $587, available in the high performance UP300x and the basic UP300.
The UP300x comes with built-in motion sensor that allows hands free operation (volume adjustment, etc…). It features up to 8GB of flash memory, Wi-Fi b/g, USB port, and two Sanyo eneloop rechargeable batteries and supporting the WMV9, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 video files, and MP3, AAC, WMA9 audio files. The unit is compatible with HTML 4.01, JavaScript, Flash Version 7, other media contents are downloadable from Nikon’s service.
Unfortunately, they are only available in Japan.
More pictures after the break.




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Friday, October 03, 2008

Samsung Pixon the 8.0 megapixel camera phone


Alright that day was just pre-announced in Russia, today Samsung has officially announced its Samsung Pixon 8 megapixel camera phone. The pixon has been claimed as the slimmest full-touch 8.0-megapixel camera phone. Measuring 13.8mm slim, and the 8.0-megapixel camera boasts 16x digital zoom, auto-focus, fast-shutter, face detection and geo-tagging. It will be available first in France in the mid-October and soon to most of European countries and Asian countries. Check out the specs after the break and more pictures.
Specifications:
  • Network: GSM/GPRS/ EDGE Quad Band (850/ 900/1800/1900 MHz)
  • HSDPA 7.2 Mbps (2100 MHz)
  • Display: 3.2? 240×400 262K WQVGA TFT LCD
  • Camera: 8-megapixel camera with Auto focus
  • Dual Power LED Flasho ASR (Advanced Shake Reduction) WDR (Wide Dynamic Range)
  • Face Detection, Smile Shot, Face Link (face tagging), Geo-tagging, Auto Panorama Shot, Photo memo
  • Photo Browser (Accelerometer Sensor, Tilt and flip, Sorting by Face/Time/Color/Folder)
  • Online Widget (News, weather, stock, etc)
  • Video recording & playing (MPEG4, WMV, DivX, XviD)
  • 30 fps D1 (720 x 480) & 120 fps(QGVA) high quality video recording
  • SRS (Surround Sound System) Virtual 5.1CH
  • Music Player (MP3, AAC, e-AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA)
  • FM Radio with RDS• DNSe (Digital Natural Sound engine)
  • Bluetooth v.2.0 / USB 2.0 HS
  • TV Out connection
  • Internal Memory: 200MB External Memory: Micro SD
  • Size: 107.9 x 54.6 x 13.8 mm, 121g
  • Battery: 1000 mAh
  • Talk time: 3h 40min
  • Standby time: 290h



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