Washington.gov Goes Open-Source

Great day for open-source industry... US government website Whitehouse.gov has just been relaunched in Drupal!

See related story:
http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/whitehousegov-goes-drupal

Apple's and Google's Stock Trends Almost Similar

Interesting article from Wired.com:

Apple, Google Separated at Birth? Financial Results Suggest Yes

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/apple-google-similarity/

How Well Do You Know Steve Jobs!

Try the Ultimate Steve Jobs Quiz from HowStuffWorks...

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/other-gadgets/steve-jobs-quiz.htm


My score without the help of Google. But I have watched Pirates of the Silicon Valley though long long time ago...

Quiz:	the ultimate steve jobs quiz
Correct Answers:	7 out of 10
Wrong Answers:	3 out of 10
Your Average Correct:	70%

Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference 2009

(Photo courtesy of Gizmodo)

It's the start of Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference(WWDC), June 8-12 held at Moscone Center, San Francisco. And during the keynote, many great announcements were delivered:

- new MacBook Pro family now comes in 13", 15" and 17" sizes.
- 13" MacBook, rebranded as MacBook pro, with upgraded hardware specs and a price cutdown
- Apple updates MacBook Air with price cutdown
- Safari 4 is now released for Mac and Windows
- Snow Leopard (MacOSX 10.6) will start shipping on September with $29 upgrade license/$49 family pack upgrade license
- new iPhone 3G S in 16GB and 32GB

Google Widgets Galore

A new set of Google widgets called 'Web Elements' have been announced at their Google I/O conference today. These include some of their popular products like the Calendar, Search and Map, and new one called Conversations which will allow visitors to post comments at your site. Google Web Elements make the process of integrating these widgets much easier -- just copy and paste/embed the code and you're done.

http://www.google.com/webelements/

Wallpaper Clock for MacOSX

Want to spice up your wallpaper? Try Wallpaper Clock for Mac, a free application developed by VladStudio (www.vladstudio.com). This application displays a wallpaper clock in your deskptop which refreshes every minute to keep the date and time precise. The best thing about this is that the wallpapers have very cool designs. Pic above is a screenshot from my Mac wallpaper.

Obama's "Barack-Berry"

(Photo courtesy by TechCrunch)

Blackberry is a handheld device developed by RIM (Research in Motion). As a smartphone aimed at business users, it supports push e-mail, mobile phone, SMS, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless services. With its ability to read emails received anytime, anywhere, the Blackberry has been very addictive to some users, the most notable one is US-president Barack Obama.

Pres Obama has admitted that his blackberry played a crucial role in his life as a public servant and specifically during his election campaign period. Now that he's been elected and inaugurated as the new US president, is he going to give up his "barack-berry"? Protocol requires that all communications with a US president has to be secured, logged and done through proper channel.

NSA may have the right device - a smartphone designed by General Dynamics. It's called Sectera Edge and is worth $3,300. See the phone design here:

(Photo courtesy by ZDNet)

See related article:
NSA-approved smartphones leaves Obama with some ugly choices
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/nsa-approved-smartphones-leaves-obama-with-some-ugly-choices/

Obama's new BlackBerry: The NSA's secure PDA?
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-262060.html