Blogger sells blog for a cool 95,000 dollars

The blogger at http://momgadget.com/ has sold their blog for a reported $ 95,000 to an undisclosed buyer. The blog that was sold however was also undisclosed in accordance with a clause in the sales agreement. CritiSite understands that this wind-fall arrived at a time of need and financial crisis. Proving one-again the rising value of blogs, this sale gives us all a look into how valuable our blogs maybe or may become. CritiSite wishes them all the best for a bright future of blogging.

CyberTrix 2.0 ~ CritiSite BETA

Us over at CyberTrix have decided to move on from mobile and tchno news and tips to a more varied approach to help you find your place on the net. We’ll start with th re-name…..CritiSite sounded good to us since we hope to review a lot of the new Internet and Web 2.0 technology thats been popping up lately, stuff from blogs to sites, technologies to apps, etc. Let’s see what happens!

Enjoy!

Windows 7 will ship January 2010

Microsoft will ship Windows 7 sometime in or near Jan. 2010,
according to a letter company senior vice president Bill Veghte sent to
Microsoft customers Tuesday.

The letter, sent to enterprise and business customers, will eventually be publicly posted on Microsoft’s Web site.

In
the letter sent to “Windows Customers” and titled “An Update on the
Windows Roadmap,” Veghte said “our plan is to deliver Windows 7
approximately three years after the January 2007 general availability
launch date of Windows Vista.”

Vista has been slowly gaining steam, but is still drawing fire from critics who say it has not lived up to promises.

Veghte
went further in addressing customer concerns over application
compatibility, which had been a problem shortly after Vista’s release.

“You’ve
also let us know you don’t want to face the kinds of incompatibility
challenges with the next version of Windows you might have experienced
early with Windows Vista. As a result, our approach with Windows 7 is
to build off the same core architecture as Windows Vista so the
investments you and our partners have made in Windows Vista will
continue to pay off with Windows 7. Our goal is to ensure the migration
process from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is straightforward.”

-TweakXP

5 Reasons to Buy the Apple iPhone 3G

1. Price
The original iPhone was innovative and groundbreaking. It also was an
expensive toy. Sure, around the country both technophiles and the
masses lined up to procure the original iPhone, but at $599 and $699
for the 8GB and 16GB models, respectively, the audience remained
somewhat limited. As time passed, as the models’ prices dropped, and as
the device’s reputation spread, the iPhone picked up more steam. But
even Jobs himself admitted that about 50 percent of people surveyed who
didn’t buy an iPhone said that they didn’t because of price.

With Apple’s iPhone price drop, announced today, you pay significantly
less money up front at the time of purchase: The 8GB iPhone will sell
for $199, just one-third the price that the 4GB iPhone sold for at
launch a year ago. The 16GB model will sell for $299.

Those prices put Apple’s smart phone into the reach of more consumers
than ever before. Only four handsets on our current Top 10 smart phones
chart–Palm’s Centro ($100 with a Sprint contract, $200 with an
AT&T contract), T-Mobile’s Shadow ($200 with contract) and Dash
($150 with contract), and RIM’s BlackBerry Pearl ($150 with a T-Mobile
contract)–cost less than the least expensive iPhone. And the iPhone
3G, with its integrated audio and video player, Web browsing, and GPS,
offers far more versatility than any of those competing phones

2. 3G Browsing Speed
One of the biggest drawbacks of using a mobile phone for Web activities
is the lag time. Much as point-and-shoot digital cameras frustrate
their users with seemingly interminable shutter lag, cell phone users
roll their eyes at how long it can take for a Web page to load.

The first-gen iPhone notably omitted 3G wireless in favor of the more
widely available–and significantly slower–EDGE connectivity. A year
later, 3G seems even more necessary than before, as Web pages grow more
graphically intensive.

Now that a 3G-capable iPhone has been unveiled, it’s hard to imagine
going back to not having 3G. According to Apple, Web pages will load up
to 2.8 times faster. That’s a compelling argument: I’ve waited for what
felt like hours for a PC World Shopping price-comparison page to load
on my old EDGE-based Treo when I’ve been shopping in a store, for
example. I’d much rather get the information I want sooner, rather than
twiddling my thumbs and reaching for a cup of coffee.

Unfortunately, 3G wireless service on AT&T has one catch: AT&T
Wireless’s service plans for the iPhone 3G will follow the company’s
standard pricing structure, which means that you’ll be paying for
whatever pricing plan you choose plus AT&T’s unlimited 3G data
services ($30 a month for personal use, $45 a month for business use).
Individual users will see their iPhone bill jump by $10.

3. Greater International Support
From a multilingual keyboard that you can change out on the fly to a
user-removable SIM card (a SIM-card ejector comes with the iPhone 3G),
new features in this model make it much more viable for international
use. Whether you need to access the Web while overseas, or you want to
swap out your SIM card (presumably, after an unspecified period of
time, AT&T will let its customers unlock the phone for
international use, as the company has allowed with its more standard
phones), this model is better than the original.

4. Applications Galore
Based on what I saw at the WWDC Keynote, Apple’s approach to
application development may pay off in spades. Developing applications
appears simple, limited only by the constraints of developers’
imaginations. Distributing the software through iTunes is
genius–turning to a single repository to procure content is far easier
than scouring the Web for random Symbian, Palm, Windows Mobile, or
BlackBerry apps you may want to download.

I see tremendous potential for useful–and downright fun–applications
to come out of the development process now that the iPhone software
developer’s kit is available. The potential for future apps, coupled
with the iPhone’s existing programs–its iPod video and audio
capabilities, its photo album, its easy e-mail, its Google Maps and
YouTube apps–makes the iPhone 3G a unique offering in the mobile arena.

5. iPhone: Still at the Head of the Class

A funny thing happened in the past year: For all the hoopla, for all
the assertions that the iPhone was a game-changer, the truth is, not
much has changed in the landscape of the cell phone universe in the
past year. It’s almost as if Apple is so far ahead in its innovation
and thinking that it has a seemingly insurmountable lead over its
competitors, and is in a realm of its own as a result.

The reality is, none of the so-called iPhone killers have come close to
challenging the iPhone’s media handling and ease of use. That could
change in the coming months as more cell phone vendors introduce
updates to their lines (RIM, for example, is rumored to be working on a
touch-screen interface, though its next flagship model, the BlackBerry
Bold, does not have a touch screen). In the meantime, however, Apple
will just be building on its solid head start.

Admittedly, not everyone will want–or need–to buy an iPhone 3G. For
one thing, the much-anticipated iPhone 2.0 software upgrade that will
enable the App Store for downloading applications, announced earlier
this year, will be free to all first-generation-iPhone owners.

Furthermore, some people may want to hold out for a more substantial
hardware upgrade, such as additional storage, a better camera, or other
heretofore unimagined hardware bonuses.

I may queue up for an iPhone 3G. Or I may be patient and wait for the
next big thing–which for me would be inclusion of features like 32GB
of memory.

Firefox 3 RC3 Released

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3 is available in more than 45 languages as
a public preview release intended for developer testing and community
feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to
performance, memory usage and speed.

[DOWNLOAD]

Use your iPhone or iTouch as a remote for your Mac or PC

With the announcement of the new iPhone, we figure there will be some
new interest in this bit of software that’s been around for a while: Do
you have a computer without one of those newfangled infrared spots and
a remote control? Do you still want to be able to change tracks on
iTunes or pause a movie from across the room? As long as you have an
iPod or an iPod Touch laying around, Signal
is the app for you. Its interface is almost indistinguishable from the
regular iTunes player on those devices, which makes it a breeze to use.

Here’s how it works: download Signal and open it up, then input
the IP address it gives you into your iPhone or iPod. Boom! You can
access all your iTunes media from your device. Signal lets you change
speakers, adjust volume, turn on shuffle or repeat, and pretty much
anything else you could do from within iTunes.

There’s a full
demo, so you might want to try it out before you shell out 25 bones,
but here are a couple of things to consider:. If you’re going to buy a
standard remote anyway (like the Apple Remote, for example), remember
that Signal will work with your iPhone or iTouch from anywhere your
network reaches, so you can use it to shoot around walls. Also consider
that Signal has both Mac and Windows versions, where some other remotes
only work with one platform.

Honlai’s QingBar MP101 iPhone projector makes us want more

Looks like Honlai had more than one mini-projector
on display at Computex. The MP101 is capable of throwing a 15- to
27-inch display form your iPhone or iPod touch in a 4:3 aspect ratio.
Unfortunately, we’re talking just 10-15 lumens and a 200:1 contrast.
Still, it’ll do for a quick and dirty LCoS jones. See a working
prototype after the break.

[Via AVING and DisplayBlog]

-Engadget

A Vista theme for iPhone? Yes, really

Does this logo look familiar?

(Credit: ModMyiFone)

The latest third-party iPhone app to draw blogosphere buzz this morning is most definitely not Apple-approved.

The object of hilarity and defamation is VistaPerfection 2.0, a theme by developer Spec-Works that plops the Windows Vista GUI onto the iPhone. To run it, you’ll need a jailbroken iPhone (see video), the SummerBoard app, and a wicked sense of humor.

Spec-Works reports that the application took “a couple days” to
create and includes more than 90 icons, wallpaper, and sounds,
including the Vista log-in and log-off chime and a revamped taskbar.

Your eyes do not deceive–Spec-Works has made iPhone Vista-friendly.

(Credit: ModMyiFone)

Quite a few tech bloggers have been happily jabbing away at the oxymoronic theme. Technabob,
for instance, recommends it for those who are “ready and willing to
deface [their] glorious chrome and glass iPhone with Microsoft’s
bloatware user interface.”

The general consensus excuses VistaPerfection as a hack created for its own sake, though Zach Epstein of The Boy Genius Report
charitably concedes that it might be useful for “a Vista addict [who
has] begrudgingly picked up an iPhone but always loathed its clean UI.”

It’s true that design currents carry the visual style of Apple products into third-party Windows themes and apps, like ReadAir, ObjectDock, and the Macfox
Firefox theme, and not the other way around. But that turning of tables
is what makes the theme so deliciously amusing. VistaPerfection 2.0
does not come bundled with an installer, and those who want to play
with the stuff of Steve Jobs’ nightmares should consult ModMyiFone for the installation guide and tips.

[Via The Boy Genius Report]

Originally posted at The Daily Download

Mozilla Firefox 3 RC2 Released

Mozilla has released a RC2 version of Firefox 3. This was earlier
available as a nightly build but now its been added to to their primary
download servers. It can be downloaded from the main Firefox 3 download
page. About the changes in this version, well there aren’t
much..just several bug fixes and stuff. So if you are installing this
keep in mind that the new version overwrites the previous RC1. You will
not loose your settings but some extensions might stop working until
there is an update for them.

Release notes can be found here

Download Mozilla Firefox 3 RC2

-dotNETwizard.net

Computer designed to read thoughts from brain scans

Frighteningly enough, this isn’t the first (or second)
time that we’ve seen scientists pat themselves on the back for creating
a mind-reading machine, but a dedicated team from Carnegie Mellon has
just announced a computer that “has been trained to read people’s minds
by looking at scans of their brains as they thought about specific
words.” In a completely unsurprising move, gurus familiar with the
development are suggesting that the breakthrough could be used to
better understand how the brain organizes knowledge, and eventually,
treat language disorders and learning disabilities more effectively.
That’s all gravy from here, but when this stuff starts passing as
evidence in court, you’ll know it’s time to seriously investigate a
relocation to Mars.

-Engadget