Infected Computer! xiwat.com?
So I finally decided to use Google Chrome. Bad idea. My first search in Google Chrome was "What is a good PageRank?". I clicked a few links and one of them ended up infecting my computer. The odd thing was that Google Chrome fully loaded and displayed the website and a few seconds later popped up with a warning message that this site may harm my computer. What the hell is up with that?
Now this malware infected my Firefox so whenever I browse, it redirects me randomly to some site called "xiwat.com". I looked online and this seems to be a fairly new infection spreading. Here's the first link of "xiwat.com" search result on google. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic278918.html
Follow it!
Wishlist for the iPod touch.
Here's a doodle I wrote after the new iPods were announced this year. Didn't really finish it but here it is:
During Apple's latest keynote, I noticed that Steve Jobs specifically stated that App updates are NOT part of the billion download count of the App Store which felt like a response to myaccusation for Apple artificially expanding their download count. Now I have this eerie feeling that Steve Jobs is reading my blog. Well if you truly are reading, here's my wishlist for the iPod.
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Separate multi-touch pad
Description: You cannot call a device a gaming device without dedicated controls. A big problem with the iPod touch is screen real estate. Add in the accelerometer to tilt the device (tilting almost to the point where you can't see the screen), and you are losing a lot from the visual experience. The iPod touch has great graphics, don't sacrifice visuals for control. All I'm presenting here is the problem, finding a solution to this will be difficult. Perhaps add a multi-touch pad found on the Macbooks to a slideout of the iPod Touch. This will coincide with the promise that people will not miss the physical keyboard and solve this solution.
Advantage: What is the biggest selling point of the iPod Touch to iPhone customers? There isn't any and eventually this will be a problem. Of course, the original goal may have been to lure iPod Touch customers to eventually buy an iPhone, but sooner or later that needs to change if you plan on keeping the iPod Touch line. A dedicated multi-touchpad may be a good choice since iPhone customers probably do not feel left out since the only purpose I can see for a multi-touchpad is for games.
Disadvantage: This may divide application compatibility even further. You already split the App Store in half with the updated graphics on the newer iPhone/iPod Touch devices, but adding dedicated controls may split it into quarters. Though apps are able to adapt better to two control schemes than to support two different graphics chips.
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Home Screen Folders
Description: At the current state, there's not a single good method for organizing your apps on the home screen. When you have 100 apps to flip through, it doesn't make sense to have them all laid out in front of you across 10 pages. Even worse is navigating to page 8 must be done by traversing through a single page manner. I'll give anyone $10 right now if they can name exactly what's on page 8 of their home screen right now. What I am proposing is simply add custom folders. Do not make it complicated (for example, do not seperate their apps automatically into folders such as games -> puzzle -> tetris). Let the users have the option of creating folders. If they don't want to, that's fine. It's just always nice to give them the option to do so.
Video featured on Engadget + Part 2!
Looks like my debunking video made it to the Engadget site:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/iphone-3gs-emulates-n64-blows-minds-in-the-process/ (first video)
Here's part 2:
Infusion – All Night Sun Light (International Edition)
iTunes seems to be missing a couple of tracks at the moment.
Beatport is missing the Personal Jesus cover track.