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Probably the most beautiful (powerful) web apps I have seen.  It looks and acts just like a desktop app.  This is the future of apps.  I have said it before and I will say it again, operating systems will not be needed for many things even in the near future.  To a remedial extent, this is true today.

What about Scrybe?  It is a calendar, list, and power notepad that allows off-line access and automatic syncing when you are online.  It ease of user interface is only paralleled by its designer’s foresight for thinking of the smallest details.

Welcome to Scrybe

Are all major newscasters retarded?  How can I be more blunt?  You are all dumb and actually degrade other’s intelligence.

Lately, there has been hype all around Amazon Ubox and Apple iTunes for their new, movie / TV download / rental service.  I am not even going to link to their websites.

This quote from Bill Car of Amazon sums up most of what is being said is most major articles that I have seen.

“This makes us the destination for film and TV lovers online,” Carr said. “No one else offers this.”

http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/09/08/amazon.reut/index.html

No one else?  Are F***ing crazy?  You ignorant sluts!  Considering I watched a DVD from a direct competitor (for the same or less price and just as good if not better interface) over a month ago makes me a little sick to my stomach.

Are big companies that self-involved and financially secure that they do not need to do market research anymore or is it the fact that they do not want to acknowledge these better services?  I desperately want YOU to decide!

Let me just name a couple of the ORIGINAL services:

CinemaNow
Movielink

My plea:  Please, major news sites, don’t be ignorant when reporting just because another large company has copied a great service from a small company doesn’t mean you have to help perpetuate the problem.

Photosynth looks like photo stitch on steroids! Wow, freaking cool.

It will take a bunch of your photos and stitch them together into a…get this…3-d world! That is sweet. You can then fly through gigapixels of images in your 3-d world.

After watching the tour video I feel like I have just seen the future of the computing. Could this be the way we navigate everything and everywhere? I am simply awestruck.

Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth

Wal-Mart has taken the initiative to create experimental stores that boast such things as wind & solar power, recycled asphalt, little/no water landscape, and more!

I love this idea.  I used to work for Wal-Mart and have always found them to be a great company.  I know many people think otherwise, but I have yet to be convinced of their arguments.

Follow the link below to find out more of what this “bad” company is doing to while others only talk about it.  Hurray Wal-Mart!

Wal-Mart Experimental Stores

I used to be a little worried about Adobe because often it seemed as though they were trying to suck everyone into their way of doing things and making things inflexible and ‘their way or the highway’.  Lately I get the feeling that I was wrong.  I like being wrong when it comes to things such as this.

Checking out the Labs section of Adobe you will see some very cool, innovative ideas and technologies.  I am especially interested in the Lightroom project.  It seems to be a very powerful photo library management and editing tool.  Currently the beta is available only for Mac users but will soon be available for windows.  Check out the video on the Lightroom page to get more details on the power of the app.

Adobe Labs - Technologies

From what I can see every article is showing that Wii is kicking hardcore ass while the PS3 is shivering because the wind has just made that pee on it legs feel very cold. I am sold on the possible price spread alone with Wii ranging in at around $200 - $300 while the PS3 has been reported at $800.

It has been found that white blood cells that occurred in a mouse destroy all types of cancer all the time.  This is obviously a huge breakthrough.  They original mouse is long gone but its offspring have the same white blood cells.  These cells seek and destroy all types of cancer in other mice and kills no matter what.  Next step is to figure how to use it with humans and of course cure all the lab mice of cancer. 

ScienceDaily: White Blood Cells From Cancer-resistant Mice Cure Cancers In Ordinary Mice

Fresh Creation - Toyota And BMW Park Themselves

This is pretty damn cool. Check out the video on the link provided above.

Oh my gosh! That is all I can muster. Riya is amazing!

I was recently granted access to Riya after persistant begging and pleading. Thank you!

After finally getting some time to check it out I have found myself stuck to it! I have never tried out an application quite like it. It is exciting knowing that such a great app is still just in alpha stage.

Ok first for those who don't know (wake the hell up!), Riya is a photo album site that uses face recognition techniques to search your photos for individuals.

I uploaded around 100 photos and tagged my family in about 30 minutes (including upload time using Riya's separate uploader software). From there it searched the rest of my photos finding my family members. From here on out whenever I upload photos with their faces in them Riya will automatically find them and tag them.

This process of having your photos sorted by date, album, name, and etc… will save you time and energy that you didn't even realize you were wasting. I am sold. Thanks Riya.

Being as Riya is in alpha stage I will not say much more because they already know that they nead to get the cloth out and start polishing. A couple of key quirks I will mention for the reader's sake is that fact that I couldn't rotate my image once uploaded, tagging on the fly seemed buggy, and navigation of the various features was somewhat combersome.

Google go for it! Integrate it into Picasa. I am sure you didn't need my approval but none the less you have it.

p.s. did i mention this dominates any other photo organizer out there and its still in alpha?

No its just due to Mr Tanaka’s machine. This new machine claims to turn any cheap young wine into a finely aged wine that would cost twice that if aged the old fashioned way (you know…measured by the rotations of the earth and earth around the sun!).

Well I am sure that the wine tasters of the world and I have differing opinions on this because all I care about is getting great taste for little money where I am sure there is snob factor with some people who buy really expensive wine.

Article here.