Google has expanded their power of search into U.S Patent searching. The latest Google service - Google Patents search a total of 7 millions patents from the year of 1790 to the present.

The interface is similar to the earlier controversial Google Book Search. I love Google because they always bring up somethings new that other search engines have not think of it.

Jump from previous beta build 106 to 168. No changelog available from Microsoft yet.

English, Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Polish, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, Slovak, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Japanese, Hebrew, Greek, Korean, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified) or Chinese (Traditional).

Here is the link to download Google latest toolbar http://tools.google.com/firefox/toolbar/FT3/intl/en/.

The new features added which not yet seen on IE is the open Doc and Spreadsheet files (the extension of .doc, .rtf, .odt, .xls, .ods, .csv, .sxw). Besides some similar functions appeared previously on IE too, like the bookmark and also able send snippets from web page by email or sms.

See how Square Enix create this masterpiece!

The moral of the story tells us that when you walk up the staircase please mind your steps, even you are a robot.

After the Xbox360 for selling 100 bucks on Amazon, which have cause their server down, now the next best deal we think is the Zune! It is selling for at a limit volume of 1000 pieces at the price of $90. The retail price of Zune is $250, thus you will be saving $160 bucks.

Now Amazon has learn to be clever, they will select the winner randomly based on the voting

Come back on Tuesday (12:00 a.m. - 11:59 p.m. Pacific time) to find out whether you are among the customers randomly selected to purchase the item you voted for at the price shown here.

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Recently a search engine called MsDewey.com which powered by Microsoft Live.com. It is developed by MRM and EVB. Ms. Dewey is a fully animated search assistant who audibly comments on searched keywords in her own style.

But turns out this actress call Janina Gavankar did a movie called “Cup of My Blood“ at the earlier days, inside the movie which involve plenty of sex scene.

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Is there any thing bizzare watch around? Besides the previous post Litemare Watch: Really a Nightmare, now Lego is releasing the Lego watch, the unique feature is you are allow to customize your own waist belt color. This might be a good Xmas present for young children.

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The Ipod-ready Ski Cap is announced recently by iSoundCap. This acrylic fiber hat allows you to put your ipod nano into its water protective pocket while skiing. The Ski caps come in 4 colors, black, white, red and khaki. We prefer the white color one but we also expected more colors will be ready soon.

The order will be shipped on 18 Dec and the price is $22.95.

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Plugoo is a web service that allow users to embed instant messenger onto their web sites. It supports Gtalk, MSN and Yahoo messenger protocol. It totally have the feature similar to Meebo. Currently it is still in closed beta and only sending out limited invitation code. The last open registration was on 3rd Nov 06 and after that it went to closed beta again.

Maybe we shall find the lucky’s one to share the invitation code with us..

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Looking for a more innovative method to read the time on your watch? This pricey $149.95 watch to will take your time to read it. According to the product’s website, ‘The four small LEDs at the center represent the single minutes between each of the five-minute increments, and the two very small dots in the bottom center represent AM or PM.’

It is called lightmare, but I think its name due to the difficulty of figure out the actual time. Unless you have extra time and money for it, else this is just a fancy gadget which is not suitable for all.

Do you think it’s cool?

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Youtube is so hot, even the creator of Azureus, a P2P Bittorent client developer, also notice the power of video sharing on web. But something different from those video sharing web site, it is more appropriate to say it has brought Bittorent to another level. Because watching video from Zudeo is different, you will be prompted to install a Zudeo version of Azureus client whenever you want to watch a video. With that software, you can download, browse and upload your own video onto it.

Recently, Azureus has signed deals with 20 major TV and film studios to provide free programming, and the company also just got $12 million in funding from Redpoint Ventures and BV Capital. Thus, really can see Azureus is doing quite well.

Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips.

The latest version with the support of 18 new languages:
English-UK, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Finish, Danish, Norwegian, Polish, Turkish.

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Elecom introduces a small USB fingerprint reader with a sensor with a 1/10000000 precision!

It can carry out high definition fingerprint recognition and also to prevent theft, no data will be kept on the memory.

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