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bustatech I saw some videos on how to build simple Homopolar Motor, and decide to build mine. It actually require only very simple component, Neodymium Magnet, AA battery, and single core wire. Please watch the video for the step by step on how to build the Simplest Homopolar AA Battery Motor.
Have a try!
Anyone using Windows Media Center to watch movie and listening to music? Well, I didn’t use much, but this application, MacroTube is really nice and useful for those who like Windows Media Center.
22 May 1980 is the date of the first released of Pac-Man arcade game in Japan (more info here). If you visit www.google.com today 22 May 2010 (Pac-Man 30th Anniversary), you will found out that the Google homepage theme for today is Pac-Man.
Found this nice website, http://listen.grooveshark.com/ where you can listen to free MP3 online, you don’t have to download, and no media player required, you can simply run in on the internet browser.
I am not sure what this feature is called under Google Chrome, I am going to call it as “Quick Search”. This is actually a very nice feature for Google Chrome, and I learn about this feature from a friend (thanks to him!). So, this Quick Search actually allow you to search on other page besides Google, at Google Chrome address bar quickly.
On the previous post, “Display a Webpage on Your Desktop (Window XP)”, I had show you how to display a webpage on your desktop using Active Desktop feature under Window XP. For Window Vista and Window 7, Microsoft has remove this feature, and replace it by Desktop Sidebar Gadget. Therefore, to display a webpage on your Window Vista or Window 7 desktop, you will need to use this gadget called ActiveDesktop. You can get the gadget at the ActiveDesktop page, or download it from the end of this post.
Today, I am going to show you how to change the Window 7 Logon Screen. The default Window 7 Logon Screen (I can’t get the print screen of my Logon Screen, I get this image from Google Image):
On this article, I will show a step by step guide to display a webpage on your desktop (only for Window XP).
Have you ever heard about Line Rider? Its a game where you can draw the tracks, and let the rider ride on the track you draw. You can play it for free at www.linerider.com.
I would say that there is a lot of comparison, between Android and Iphone, and a lot of points saying Android is better, or Iphone is better, bla bla bla.. But how about Android OS inside an Iphone hardware?
Recently, David Wong aka planetbeing from iphonelinux use OpeniBoot software to successfully dual boot Iphone OS and Android OS in an Iphone 2G. I believe he has done quite a lot of work migrating Android OS to Iphone hardware. If you look at the video, it seems like everything works out, and the dual boot seems interesting, you can have both OS inside your Iphone, and switch between them anytime you want.
According to planetbeing from http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/, the Android OS on Iphone hardware is still in Alpha stages, and it doesn’t work on some Iphone.
I am not an Iphone user, and I do not own an Iphone. But I really hope that one day a handphone maker, maybe HTC, Nokia, will launch a phone that support more than one type of OS, like maybe the user can choose between Window Mobile or Android, or even Iphone OS. The spec of handphone is increasing in terms of processing power and RAM, and another maybe is we will have Atom processor handphone, running Window 7, or a netbook running Iphone OS, just like Ipad.
Step by step guide on how to install Android on Iphone here