How the web went world wide

In a few short years the web has become so familiar that it is hard to think of life without it.

Along with that familiarity with browsers and bookmarks goes a little knowledge about the web's history.

Many users know that Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed the web at the Cern physics laboratory near Geneva.

But few will know the details of the world wide web's growth - not least because the definitive history of how that happened has yet to be written. So here's your chance to learn everything. Just read this > How the web went world wide

Revealing secrets of Archimedes

In this excellent coverage Revealing secrets of Archimedes by Lisa M. Krieger of San Jose Mercury News the reader can read in a non-scientific written article, that is in simple and understandable Enlish, all about the discovery which I think must be considered as one of the most important of this century. Not because it makes me proud being a Greek, but because mankind will be able to understand and appreciate Archimides’ work.

It is known that Archimides exclaimed the famous ”Eureka!” upon discovering how to measure volume while sitting in his bathtub.

The article includes some excellent pictures and graphics as well as a short history about medieval scripts.

IF YOU’RE INTERESTED

Curator’s Web site: www.archimedespalimpsest.org

• Today, 7 p.m., Cantor Museum, Stanford University: Stanford physicist Uwe Bergmann will explain how the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is used in reading the Archimedes text.

• Friday, 4 p.m.: Exploratorium Webcast: www.exploratorium.edu/archimedes/index.html

I highly recommend you to read the article. I’m sure you will agree with me. Here is the link > Revealing secrets of Archimedes

Sea coral designs branch into home furnishings

In some cultures, coral has been revered since early civilization. For the ancient Greeks, it was a symbol of rebirth based on the myth of the beheading of Medusa, when her gushing blood is said to have changed into coral on contact with the sea. The Chinese consider it a symbol of social status and wealth, and look to it for protection, happiness and even eternity. Coral is considered an amulet for a blissful marriage and for preventing fever, smallpox and failed pregnancy.

Myths, symbols and superstitions aside, there are other reasons to love coral's linear patterns and characteristic hues as well as its shapes. At its most vivid end of the orange-red spectrum, the color is electric, especially in neutral spaces. But it also may co-exist in startling combinations with other brights, such as cobalt blue or lime green.

Coral's organic roots, of course, are savored as design elements based in nature. The intrinsic twisting, branching form is intriguing, whether it is expressed in an all-over pattern or small sprays. Veining on white is almost startling, while some coral networks are more like tendrils on a vine.

Read the rest of this article > Sea coral designs branch into home furnishings

How to brand an animal for life

Theiss demonstrated the procedure. As with fire branding, at least in the best of worlds, the cattle to be branded should be restrained. Although the cattle and other animals do not react nearly as strongly to freeze branding as they do to fire branding, the irons must be held in place a little longer with freeze branding. > FROSTY WAY TO BRAND AN ANIMAL FOR LIFE

Historically, the origin of branding livestock dates from 2700 B.C., the year archeologists date paintings in Egyptian tombs that document branding oxen with hieroglyphics. Ancient Greeks and Romans marked livestock and slaves with a hot iron and, over on this side of the world, Hernando Cortez introduced branding from Spain to the New World in 1541.

People today use microchipping in their horses, but the chips travel around the horse’s body and offer no way for an owner looking for a lost animal to find that animal from afar, Theiss noted.

Aviation history is made by 'flapper'

For an aeronautical engineer it was the perfect day and a perfect end to a quest that has consumed his life for more than 30 years. > Aviation history is made by 'flapper'

Yesterday Dr. James DeLaurier, an aeronautical engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto's Institute for Aerospace Studies, fulfilled a lifelong dream, seeing his manned mechanical flapping-wing airplane, or ornithopter, fly — a dream first imagined by Leonardo da Vinci.

And with the successful flight DeLaurier has been lucky enough to touch what many describe as the Holy Grail of aeronautical design, achieving a place for himself, his team of volunteers and students in aviation history.

The flapper, as it's affectionately known, sustained flight over about a third of a kilometre for 14 seconds at about 10:20 a.m. before being hit by a crosswind and almost flipping over, damaging the nose and front wheel on the runway at Downsview Park.

Free New Nickvoice and Sound Effect Collection from Audio4fun

Audio4fun has enriched their sound effect and nickvoice collection for their Voice Changer Software users to free download http://www.audio4fun.com/nickvoices-effects.htm.

Long well-known as one of the first and top brands of media morphing applications, Audio4fun has incessantly improved their products and services. You can easily download free unique Audio4fun ringtones to make your cell phones fashionable. You are also updated with a lot of useful news about the information technology industry from Audio4fun Press Center. Last but not least, the collection of nickvoices and sound effects is really a cool freebie which specializes only for Voice Changer Software users.

The collection comprises two packages of Sound Effects and Nickvoices. If you are an owner of Voice Changer Software, you have a wide range of choices to enhance your current effect library. With the Xmas effect, you will be amused by the sound of Christmas bells and reindeers. The Halloween effect can threaten those who are weak-hearted by the voice of the witch or the howling in the midnight. The collection also introduces many effects that can alter your input audio file to serve your various needs such as reducing noise, filtering high bass, creating vibrato, etc.

Eight smaller packages of preset nickvoices allow you to speak, talk, sing, and even laugh in many voices of your choice. Besides, you can color up your audio clips by modifying the original voice into the voice of animals, or characters in tales. With every downloaded nickvoice or effect, you are absolutely excited and eager to get more.

“We would always like to give our customers more than what they have paid for,” said Helen Le, Sale & Marketing Manager. “70% of our customers are young, thus very creative and keen on discovering the high-tech world. With this collection, hopefully we can provide a free valuable tool to encourage their creative competence.”

Download to see how cool the collection is at: http://www.audio4fun.com/nickvoices-effects.htm
The wide range of products of Audio4Fun is detailed on http://www.audio4fun.com.

Voice Changer Software for Female Online Game Players

Audio4Fun (Avnex Ltd based in Nicosia, Cyprus) has announced to bring a surprising gift to female online game players by releasing its new AV Voice Changer Software at http://mp3-player.audio4fun.com/dj-music.htm.

After conducting a marketing research on the combination between Voice Changer Software and Online Role Playing Games, Avnex found that the number of female online game players is not small. Many of them have reached the highest level of some very difficult games such as World of Warcraft (60th level), which is considered the game for men only. However, most women have a common concern about the long-lasting existence of “male chauvinism” in the world of online games. In considering this point, Voice Changer Software proves very helpful to solve the problem.

The new AV Voice Changer Software has preset nickvoices for female, which help female users easily change their voice into very manly voice. We all know that voice communication is highly important in online role playing games as it is the only feature that enables players to affirm their identities and play their roles smoothly in a game community. Many women find changing voice really necessary because most of them have failed to play together with a group of all men (of course, male partners can easily recognize female voices through voice chat application).

AV Voice Changer Software also allows users to create their own nickvoices by changing Pitch and Timbre to a suitable level and saving the setting as a preset for later use. Other features, such as Advanced Tune, Noise Reduction, etc. play a very important role in making the altered voice natural and authentic.

It is certain that AV Voice Changer Software is useful not only for women or for online games but also for other working and entertaining purposes (such as making voice-over, voice dubbing or simply changing voice for fun in chat rooms). However, AV Voice Changer Software is somehow a unique product for female online game players who want to prove that playing online games is not a pastime for men only, and that their talent can make male partners goggle.
Currently, AV Voice Changer Software features three editions: Voice Changer Software, Voice Changer Software Gold and Voice Changer Software Diamond. Please visit http://www.audio4fun.com/ for more information.

Contact: Website: http://www.audio4fun.com

AVnex Ltd > Company Description

Throughout many years of development, Audio4fun has been engaged with audio and video software technologies, specializing in three core areas:
Audio and Video Morphing Algorithms: These algorithms enable users to change voices, sounds, and images generated from digital devices on PCs and PC plug-ins in real time. These morphing algorithms include the Pitch-Timbre morpher, Frequency morpher, advanced tune, equalizer, and others.

Audio and Video Stream Interception: This technology provides the capability to hook together audio and video streams generated from different sources: record streams, playing streams, and capture streams. In other words, no matter what the source of the sound is — a microphone, media player, internet radio/video, voice chat, PC2Phone, or web cam — the sound will be hooked and processed.

Audio and Video Real Time Effecting:One of our greatest successes is making it possible to apply sound and picture effects in real time. This creates ways to change voices and images broadcast in chat rooms and internet conversations.

Download Audio4fun products at http://mp3-player.audio4fun.com/free-audio-software.htm.

Free New Nickvoice and Sound Effect Collection from Audio4fun

Nicosia, Cyprus based Audio4fun has enriched their sound effect and nickvoice collection for their Voice Changer Software users to free download http://www.audio4fun.com/nickvoices-effects.htm.

Long well-known as one of the first and top brands of media morphing applications, Audio4fun has incessantly improved their products and services. You can easily download free unique Audio4fun ringtones to make your cell phones fashionable. You are also updated with a lot of useful news about the information technology industry from Audio4fun Press Center. Last but not least, the collection of nickvoices and sound effects is really a cool freebie which specializes only for Voice Changer Software users.

The collection comprises two packages of Sound Effects and Nickvoices. If you are an owner of Voice Changer Software, you have a wide range of choices to enhance your current effect library. With the Xmas effect, you will be amused by the sound of Christmas bells and reindeers.
The Halloween effect can threaten those who are weak-hearted by the voice of the witch or the howling in the midnight. The collection also introduces many effects that can alter your input audio file to serve your various needs such as reducing noise, filtering high bass, creating vibrato, etc.

Eight smaller packages of preset nickvoices allow you to speak, talk, sing, and even laugh in many voices of your choice. Besides, you can color up your audio clips by modifying the original voice into the voice of animals, or characters in tales. With every downloaded nickvoice or effect, you are absolutely excited and eager to get more.

“We would always like to give our customers more than what they have paid for,” said Helen Le, Sale & Marketing Manager. “70% of our customers are young, thus very creative and keen on discovering the high-tech world. With this collection, hopefully we can provide a free valuable tool to encourage their creative competence.”

Download to see how cool the collection is at: http://www.audio4fun.com/nickvoices-effects.htm
About Avnex Ltd.:
Throughout many years of development, Audio4fun has been promoting audio and video software technologies and specializing in three core areas: Audio and Video Morphing Algorithms, Audio and Video Stream Interception, Audio and Video Real Time Effecting.
The wide range of products of Audio4Fun is detailed on http://www.audio4fun.com

Contact Avnex Ltd:
PO Box 27057, Nicosia, Cyprus
Website: http://www.audio4fun.com

Free French, Greek language packs made for iPod

Coolgorilla has announced the release of their two most recent iPod language packs, French and Greek. Developed in coordination with Lastminute.com, the new language packs join an already released pack in German, and are free downloads.

Read the article here > Free French, Greek language packs made for iPod

Graphics cards open new Windows

BBC Click looks at the role of graphics cards in the new world of Microsoft's Vista operating system. > Graphics cards open new Windows

Microsoft's new operating system, Vista, which is due to go on widespread release in January 2007 will make big demands of your computer's graphics capabilities. For PC users that has all changed, the world is full colour and funky is now the watch word.

Welcome to the world of the computer gamer where you get a new graphics card and concept every six months or so.

But the not so good news is that not everyone will have a PC that will be compatible. But of course if you buy a card yourselves you will be fine.

Microsoft to challenge iPod with wireless device

Microsoft to challenge iPod with wireless device > Microsoft seen having iPod rival out by Christmas

Microsoft Corp. is talking up a planned wireless digital music and video player to record companies, and will be sending them prototypes in the near future, with a strategy to roll out the iPod rival by the winter holiday season, according to Reuters.

Microsoft did not comment on the report.

Google Trends offers look at search patterns

Google Trends offers look at search patterns: The Internet Knows What You'll Do Next

Google Trends, a new feature that allows any Web user to track the popularity of search terms, could change the business of marketing by giving companies immediate feedback on the popularity of products and services, according this analysis.

Google, consumers benefit from new Checkout

Google, consumers benefit from new Checkout: Google service that could click with users

Google's latest venture, Google Checkout, helps expedite user-transactions and allows Google to see exactly what happens when users click ads on its site.

Google builds from the ground up

Google builds from the ground up: A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor

When people think of Google, they think of search, killer apps and a soaring market valuation, but as Garner Group analyst Martin Reynolds told The New York Times: "Google is as much about infrastructure as it is about the search engine. They are building an enormous computing resource on a scale that is almost unimaginable."

The diary as resume

The diary as resume >

The Diary of a somebody for recruiters, blogs offer a unique window into job candidates: Successful, enterprising bloggers who have already monetized their sites can be an attractive catch for employers, but bloggers who wade in the seamier side of the blogosphere can damage their prospects.

Mobile Web may be far from reality in U.S.

Mobile Web may be far from reality in U.S. in Real Time

For all of the Internet's benefits, the medium's major crutch in the U.S. is that it's not mobile, says Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Fry. The problem, Fry says, is that wireless carriers wield too much control over what software customers can download.

Google scares rivals, but why?

Google scares rivals, but why? Is it because So Much Fanfare, So Few Hits?

Despite its unquestioned dominance in the field of online search and search engine advertising, Google's forays into other Web sectors have not produced a long list of market leaders.

Though its maps and online e-mail offerings are widely used, they are still outmatched by rivals in terms of usage. Other niche offerings like its finance site and blog search are less popular.

E-mail versus RSS

E-mail versus RSS > A World Without Spam? Can't believe it though.

While Real Simple Syndication feeds offer some advantages that e-mail lacks, including the ability for marketers to push updated information without worrying about spam filters or other delivery issues, it is not without its downsides.

RSS is relatively easy and inexpensive, but is less useful than e-mail in terms of targeting likely prospects and offering personalization, writes OMMA Magazine's Lynn Russo.

Pending broadband legislation

Pending broadband legislation Congress' broadband battles

Congress is in the midst of its first overhaul of telecommunications legislation since 1996. CNET provides a quick and easy guide to what the pending changes could mean, focusing on the big issues of Net neutrality, broadcast flags, municipal broadband and more.

Companies seize podcast opportunity for marketing

Companies seize podcast opportunity for marketing > Companies Tap Podcast Buzz To Sell Contact Lenses, Appliances

Such companies as Johnson & Johnson, General Motors Corp. and Whirlpool Corp. have been tapping into the podcast buzz to target specific consumers.

Corporate programs on podcasts, or free audio programs for downloading onto portable music players or computers, are said to be responsible for boosting brand awareness of products such as Johnson & Johnson's Acuvue brand contact lenses, according to Naomi Kelman, president of the J&J unit responsible for Acuvue.