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Icon Design – Flavour

Zack — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:19:50 +0000

Flavour Icon Set

Flavour icon set is designed by Oliver Twardowski, and released to use for free.

You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sublicensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use.

You can download it from:

Smashing Magazine: PNG, PSD

[via: Smashing Magazine]

Random Posts

Comparing HTC EVO 4G with Google Nexus One and Motorola Droid

Zack — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:58:41 +0000

Engadget made a full chart comparing HTC EVO 4G with Google Nexus One and Motorola Droid. You can easily find out what’s the difference among these 3 phones. As seen in the chart, HTC EVO 4G has the top specs, Android 2.1, 4.3-inch screen, 1GB internal storage, 8MP rear camera with LED flash and supporting HDMI output.

You can read the full chart from Engadget.

More HTC EVO 4G photos:

Google Shut Down Google Search in China

Zack — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:13:42 +0000

Google’s search website in China, Google.cn, has been shut down and is now redirecting to Google.com.hk. All Google search services, including web, news and images were moved Google Hong Kong.

As reported by some Chinese users, if you are using iGoogle, you will not be redirect to Google Hong Kong.

I was expecting Google can make some changes to Chinese web market, but what I’ve seen is Google being assimilated by the Chinese market. I’ve got to said Google didn’t understand web users in China. You know what, many Chinese people told me that they never used Google, some even said they never heard of Google, maybe it’s a right move for Google to leave China, but I can’t help feeling disappointed.

Here is the official post from Google:

On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence to suggest that the Gmail accounts of dozens of human rights activists connected with China were being routinely accessed by third parties, most likely via phishing scams or malware placed on their computers. We also made clear that these attacks and the surveillance they uncovered—combined with attempts over the last year to further limit free speech on the web in China including the persistent blocking of websites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Docs and Blogger—had led us to conclude that we could no longer continue censoring our results on Google.cn.

So earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong. Users in Hong Kong will continue to receive their existing uncensored, traditional Chinese service, also from Google.com.hk. Due to the increased load on our Hong Kong servers and the complicated nature of these changes, users may see some slowdown in service or find some products temporarily inaccessible as we switch everything over.

Figuring out how to make good on our promise to stop censoring search on Google.cn has been hard. We want as many people in the world as possible to have access to our services, including users in mainland China, yet the Chinese government has been crystal clear throughout our discussions that self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal requirement. We believe this new approach of providing uncensored search in simplified Chinese from Google.com.hk is a sensible solution to the challenges we’ve faced—it’s entirely legal and will meaningfully increase access to information for people in China. We very much hope that the Chinese government respects our decision, though we are well aware that it could at any time block access to our services. We will therefore be carefully monitoring access issues, and have created this new web page, which we will update regularly each day, so that everyone can see which Google services are available in China.

In terms of Google’s wider business operations, we intend to continue R&D work in China and also to maintain a sales presence there, though the size of the sales team will obviously be partially dependent on the ability of mainland Chinese users to access Google.com.hk. Finally, we would like to make clear that all these decisions have been driven and implemented by our executives in the United States, and that none of our employees in China can, or should, be held responsible for them. Despite all the uncertainty and difficulties they have faced since we made our announcement in January, they have continued to focus on serving our Chinese users and customers. We are immensely proud of them.

[via: TechCrunch | ReadWriteWeb | Mashable]

Google is Working on TV Set-Top Box

Zack — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:51:00 +0000

A lot of company had tried to bring web content to TV, but no one was really successful. Now we have Google joining this business. Google will partnered with Sony, Intel and Logitech to deliver web content to Android based TV Set-Top boxes. We will see the products in several months.

[via: Gizmodo | NYTimes | Engadget]

New Digg Coming Soon

Zack — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:37:17 +0000

Jay Adelson, Digg’s CEO, announced a lot of important changes to Digg, including a streamlined submission process, a personalized homepage, an unlimited amount of topic pages, a new commenting system and better curation tools.

The new Digg will be launched in a few weeks, you can test it on New.Digg.com.

[via: ReadWriteWeb | Mashable]

More News

The World’s Most Amazing Simulator for Racing Game

Zack — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:23:56 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

This may be the best simulator in the world for car racing game. I wish I could have one.

[via: CrunchGear | tafixe]

Easy Piano Brings 13 Keys to NDS

Iphone App in Real World: Fridge Magnets

Zack — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:35:57 +0000

Check out these little things, they are fridge magnets, look so cute, aren’t they? Now you can grab not just the iPhone in your hands, but also your iPhone apps.

[JailBreakToys via: MobileCrunch | Chip Chick]

Sony Unveiled Its Motion Controller: PlayStation Move

Zack — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:50:15 +0000

Sony Unveiled Its Motion Controller in the big Sony press conference, it’s called PlayStation Move, rather than the Gem or Arc as suspected. It comes with two controller, one with ball on the top. There are several colors of the ball(four colors as seen for now). The color balls look quite cute, but not really match with controllers, I can’t help thinking about what the balls are for.

[via: CrunchGear]

Amazing Paper Arts, 35 Masterpieces

Zack — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:18:57 +0000

I guess you can make paper plane, but do you know that is a kind of art, they called paper art. Here we collected some amazing paper arts, do you think you can do that?

Ingrid Siliakus

Su Blackwell

Chatsworth, Derbyshure ‘A Guide to’

The Story of Peter Pan: The Pirate Ship

Alice: Through the Looking Glass

The Old House

Bert Simons

Harry Hamelink (2007)

Mr. Ivo Opstelten

Bert Simons himself

On The Other Side

Looking back

The Short Distance Between Time and Shadow

Update: GrayLines Theme Updated 05/November/2009

Zack — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:59:51 +0000

I’ve done some modifications to GrayLines theme, here is the change log:
Chang Log:

05/Nov/2009:
Publish Date added to individual posts
New Blockquote Design
Fix a missing “l” in a
of sidebar
Codes of blog title and description been changed, better code style, looks no difference

14/Aug/2009: Control panel added.

21/Jul/2009: Upgrade to WordPress 2.8 (Supporting threaded (nested) comments, sticky-post and comment pages)

Because changes are very small, I am not going to upload it to Theme Directory of wordpress.org, you can download it here:

Download: Gray Line WordPress Themes

Let me know if you got some ideas about this theme.