Cosmos is an operating system that is done entirely in C#.Microsoft has a similar research project called Singularity, Singularity is not made publicly available (I thought the project was dead but the project website states version 1 is completed and is available for a small number of universities).Although an OS written in pure C# is cool, I am awaiting to see the real word examples to solve real world situations.

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The photo is captured by the Hubble Space Telescope way back in March 2005. It is an image of V838 Monocerotis star which lies near the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy. The same photo is overlaid with a familiar logo, an the fits in nicely!!! Actually, I think Internet Explorer logo can fit in too. It does look like a big 'e' as well.Source: Firefox Logo Spied In Deep Space

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An article by PC World - you can read it at here.

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Check out the keyboards here. I wonder how to use some of the keyboards.

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Even though the blog post is more relevant to website design, I still learned a couple of fundamental design concepts there.

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According to TechCrunch, more people are using Yahoo! mail than GMail in 2007. If GMail maintains its current growth rate, GMail will catch up by year 2010. But expecting GMail to maintain such linear growth rate does not sound practical to me.

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Morph is Nokia's current research on nano-technologies.

Several characteristics of this concept phone:-

• The surface is dirt repellent - good for careless users
• Able to recharge from solar energy - if it runs out off power middle of the day, just expose it to sunlight
• Detachable and stretchable - expand it to reveal mini-keyboard, fold it back into normal phone, wear it as a watch.....
• Buttons on the keypad are transparent in colour - you can see through it
  
• Sensing - I can't see the usefulness of this feature, does the phone change colour according to surrounding or what?
• Context dependent 3D keypad buttons - the physical buttons are embossed on the surface - not 3D graphics showing on the screen. The most interesting is the buttons change according to context - e.g. button is flatten to disable users from selecting it.

It is hard to predict how long this concept will come true. One thing we can predict is, the price will be very expensive when it hits the market.

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There is a free online service available to achieve this purpose: htm2pdf.

One important note, your converted files are published at htm2pdf website which are publicly available for anyone. So, in case you want to convert a confidential file, this service is not for you. In addition, sometimes the conversion failed but there is no reason given.

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Oddcast 3D Videostar is offering an impressive technology that allow users to import their faces into movie clips and replace those of movie stars. No word on when the service will be available, but the samples available at Oddcast website look fantastic. If this service is open to the public and is easy to use, I guess there will be many interesting video collages appear on YouTube soon.

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Viscosity is the winner of Best Art Award at this year's SXSW festival. Viscosity is an online abstract art application, and it took years of efforts to develop it. I just checked it out, it is easy to use, it is fun, it is beautiful and it is free!! Here are few samples I took from Viscosity's gallery...

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