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Apple's next iPhone has finally been re-revealed. It's called iPhone 4 and it's just about everything we'd expected. Here are the best bits of news and information—aside from Steve Jobs' WWDC meltdown:

Space elevator...LOL...ok, but seriously 05/20/2010

So i was on youtube today and came across a video about this, the first time i heard about it was on a comic (not surprising, right??). It wasn't just ANY comic, it was the infamous xkcd (if you are wondering what that is...click here . But if you know what i'm talking about then you'd have already known that they were making fun of it. So seeing this video made me laugh just at the title itself. But seriously, it is some awesome technology.

Firefox 4: fast, powerful, and empowering 05/12/2010

Almost one year ago we got a glimpse of the next major iteration of firefox, or at least its gorgeous new visuals.More recently, Mozilla’s Mike Beltzner shared a presentation that reveals quite detailed plans for Firefox 4. HTML5 and CSS support are among the new features, as well as faster operation, a greater focus on security and stability, new developer tools and a lot of personalization options. From the screenshots embedded in the presentation, we can see that the visuals from one year ago haven’t changed much, although most menu items (like the home button, for example) are positioned differently.

The plans, embedded below, sound fantastic, but Mozilla warns once again that they could change before Firefox 4 is finalized.

Presentations here:

Below a sneak preview of it.

Linux Guitar, a rocking toy 05/10/2010

If you are looking for a Linux toy that really rocks, your search ends here. This is a stringless digital guitar and it's powered by Linux

This is what is called a "digital guitar" by it's designer. So it's not a electrical guitar but a device for creating digital music.
The Misa guitar runs Gentoo Linux on an AMD Geode processor and it has MIDI and Ethernet ports for connectivity.

Replace Tomboy with gnote 05/08/2010

For anyone who uses gnome and uses the note taking applications must've come across sticky notes and tomboy. Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X. But if you want something that uses less resources you should try gnote.
Gnote is a port of tomboy to C++, it includes features such as:

Highlighting text
Inline spelll checking
Auto-linking web & email addresses
Undo/redo
Font styling & sizing
Bulleted lists.
And much more.

Download gnote here: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnote/

Here's gnote in action (sorry i couldn't find a video in english but you get the idea):

Openoffice.org 3.2 02/11/2010

Tonight while bored looking over some sites, i came across this link about the release on openoffice.org 3.2. I am a linux user, and frankly most times the office suites aren't exactly top notch stuff. So mostly i use Microsoft 2007 office suite with wine.(I haven't completely abandoned openoffice.org, i still have it installed). So i decided to install the new version, the support documentation said that i don't have to uninstall the previous version but i had to due to some problems with the installation. Once i finished the install and ran it, it was awesome, i opened a .docx file and it was displayed PERFECTLY. The guys at openoffice.org have done a wonderful job. Goodbye office 2007, hello openoffice.org :)

Here's the installation link: http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US

Please let me know what you think of the release

Firefox on mobile released 02/04/2010

One of the greatest web browsers in now available for mobile devices. Firefox 1.0 for Maemo-based phones was released on 28 January 2010. The browser doesn't work on iphone mobile devices but it is compatible with the Nokia N810 and the N900 and a couple of other mobile platforms. See the list of supported devices here.
The browser is packed with the following features to ensure an incredible browsing experience:

A clean interface with with minimal on-screen controls for better viewing of web content, bookmarking and an awesome bar which enables fast searching.
It is equipped with HTML5, CSS2.1, CSS3, SVG, Canvas and other cutting-edge features available in desktop browsers.
A download manager, password manager, tabs browsing, search engine integration, spell checking, offline browsing, pop-up blocker and much more.
It comes with Mozilla weave which enables synchronization of bookmarks and other settings with your browser on your desktop.
Automated updates, add-on support and customization.

The browser can also be used on a desktop in Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. More on this browser here

PortableApps.com: Carry it everywhere you go. 02/04/2010

i usually find myself using a PC that doesn't have applications that i need. This might be because the university i go to does a complete restore everyday and whatever is installed is lost leaving me to start downloading a browser of my choice and a few other applications that i would need. But since i came across PortableApps.com; i don't need to do that, all i have to do is install the apps i need on a pendrive and i'll always have them on the go, here's more