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The Apple keynotes was this week as most of you may know, and I found it very boring because there was nothing too exciting. Sure the Mac Air (the new skinny mac that can easily fit into a yellow envelope) is one of a kind, but for $1700? There’s no way I would want to buy something like this, even if it had a CD drive. And the movie rentals? Sure they are cool, but I don’t want to be rushed too much to watch a movie. We should be able to set the time and pay for that; instead, a petty 24 hours from pressing play. I mean, what if I fell asleep in the middle of the movie? Now what happened to Austin Powers when he was being attacked by that fat guy?

To kick off the new year, Google has added a few new features:

There has already been people playing music on video sites like YouTube, but what about that superstar favorite of yours? He/she wouldn’t play on a silly site like that where you get no money. But how about Deep Rock Drive? As boring as the name sounds, it’s actually a pretty awesome idea. Get 1000 people to sign a petition for a particular band or artist and then the site gets the band to come over to their studios and give a over the web live concert. Here’s how it works, the band goes into this studio with cameras surrounding them and two huge screens. The surrounding cameras allow any user who is watching to pick the view they crave. One of the huge screens are actually to show the band what the viewers are saying. Yes. You can actually ask your favorite band to play your favorite song. The last screen is the background screen. You know, the ones that you see in any top notch concert. The tickets only cost about $6.00.

(Note: “music” is now added as a category and “movies” has been changed to “videos”)

Happy New Years Everyone!

This year is going to change; more technical advances, and a new president.

We’ve seen a lot this year; good and bad, but now we need to look to the future.

Here’s what I want to get this year: A LaCie 500 GB External Hard Drive, The Android (gPhone), and a LiveScribe Smart Pen. What do you guys want to buy?

Ender’s Game, based on a book, is the movie I most want to see that’s coming out this year. What do you want to see this year?

Well, gotta go celebrate.

(NOTE: Category, Movies, added)

In the past, creating flash websites or Flash greeting cards meant you had to be an advanced technoguy and use programs such as Adobe’s Flash, but Wix has a better option for the more simple minded and cheaper people. Using Flash themselves, Wix allows users to seamlessly drag photos and videos across the page, add effects and backgrounds to create your own world. Then you can easily embed your flash greetings or websites into your favorite social network or your website. My computer’s not fast at all and yet this website allows me to move fast in creating something special. As I have not yet finished my website (a project on Global Warming) here is an example of what you can do with these tools that Wix can give you. Right now, the website just slipped into private beta and I can see many bugs that they will have to iron out, so it may be quite a while before the site goes public. What can you do to ensure that you will get access at some point in the beta stage or at least be notified when it goes public? Sign Up Now!

(EDITORS NOTE : As I see more flash startups in the future, I have created a Flash Category.)

That’s what APC says might happen in one of their recent articles. The Mobile World Congress expo, a convention where all companies in  the phone business show off their new goodies, is presenting again on February 11th in Barcelona. Has Google bought a stand? Yes. Not one, but two. I wonder what the second stand is for…

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Hey guys, Sorry about the two week break, but I had some work to get done. Now the holiday brake is coming and I’ll have more time to post. www.spokeo.com gives you a news feed, just like Facebook, that finds your friends on places you didn’t even know they were. It seems a bit creepy, but the news on the feed is accessible to you already, you just didn’t know where they were. For this, we are opening up a new category called “social.”

Gizmodo got a hold of the Android prototype. It doesn’t look too good in a pic, but hey, it’s just a homemade pic. 

Today is a beautiful day. The birds are chirping, the wind is burping, and above all, aim is now on gmail. Of course, it has fewer features than the regular AIM messenger has, but it still talks to your friends, right? Right. I’ve been waiting for this feature for months. it is so useful to me because I have many friends who don’t use Gmail, but AIM. I don’t always find time for AIM in fact, I haven’t been on it for three months. Thanks to this, I will be on AIM while checking my emails.

Thanks Google!

P.S. And no, you can’t have my screenname.

Freewebs has finally (after over a year of waiting) introduced fotowhoosh a site where you can transfer your old 2d pics into glamorous 3d photos. Right now, you cannot upload to the website, but you can use your facebook photos in this application. It takes a pretty long time to render (5 to 15 minutes to be exact). However, it does not make you wait. You can go back to do what you do on facebook, come back, and view it. Make no mistake, the 3d photos do not make pictures look authentic, but they do magnify objects and give one the sense of traveling into your photo. It is another great feature of the web.

I just received a private beta invite from Docsyncer. It is freakin awesome. You synch your documents with Google Docs and Docsyncer’s servers and then you can go anywhere in the world and not have to worry about printing your documents out, or forgetting them at home. All it takes is a download a small program and Bam! You are worry free. The program works in the background so that whenever you edit a document, the site uploads it. Docsyncer also has a time line, so you can view how your documents looked in the past. The site is working on a way to let you upload a document from another computer and send it to your computer so that the document will be open on your computer when you return home.