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For women, nothing’s like the smell of men’s sweat

February 19, 2007 · Filed Under Uncategorized · 1 Comment 

I guess this must one of the many reasons why I should not bath… ever again.

WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters Life!) - For women, apparently there’s nothing like the smell of a man’s sweat. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley said women who sniffed a chemical found in male sweat experienced elevated levels of an important hormone, along with higher sexual arousal, faster heart rate and other effects.

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Hard Drive vs Flash Drive

February 19, 2007 · Filed Under Computer Gadgets & Hardware · 1 Comment 

Toshiba’s Tiny HD

Here is the world’s smallest and lightest hard drive at 2grams, it has 8gb of storage space. With better flash drives becoming cheaper and faster, does it really matter? We can’t really say mini hard drive is becoming an obsolete technology in the face of flash drives. Flash drive may be cheaper as time goes by but reliability wise a typical hard drive out perform flash drive, hard drive can be rewritten for thousand of times. What we need are reliability and Toshiba’s Hard Drive has it, for example laptops and video camera recorder will be sticking to HD technology for quite sometime.

Big Brother Is Watching You!

February 16, 2007 · Filed Under Computer Gadgets & Hardware · Comment 

hitachi RFID tag future

Minority Report is one of the best movie ever about the future, and just like in the movie, tag that are almost invisible to the naked eye are now made available by Hitachi. The RFID tag on the left image is at 0.05 square and that is actually 64 times smaller than the Hitachi chip on the right. Hitachi plans to bring this to market within 2 to 3 years.

Paying for Gmail Beta

February 15, 2007 · Filed Under Web Application · 2 Comments 

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Google has lifted the invitation-only restriction on Gmail but it is still in Beta mode. The latest feature would be a additional storage space for heavy user for a small sum of fees per year, which makes me wonder who needs a 2GB ++ storage space for emails? I have no idea, anyone kind enough to enlighten me with some facts on why do we need email storage more than 1GB? Let alone 2GB?

Now that Google has more computing muscle, (Google co-founder Sergey) Brin said the company will start selling additional storage capacity to e-mail users with extraordinary needs. Google still hasn’t figured out the specifics, but Brin indicated the e-mail storage and fees to be introduced later this year would be similar to Google’s photo-hosting service that charges $25 annually for 6.25 gigabytes and $500 annually for 250 gigabytes. - AP Press

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