Creative Friday - Wind Up Lamp



I often read/blog/youtube/watch movie in bed and fall asleep and forget to turn off the light. If you are like me, you may find this product useful =)

Wind-up to turn the light on before you go to bed. The light will stay on until the key winds back. You will come to know how many times you need to wind-up. Its main source of power comes from its powerful spring-driven generator. As the high carbon tensile steel spring unwinds, power is transferred to a small dynamo electric generator which produces enough electricity to power of the light.

Love it ! I can totally imagine myself using it. It will also be useful for people who can’t sleep without the light !

Looking for off-the-shelf eCommerce solution ...



I was looking around for off-the-shelf eCommerce solution recently for my friend who wants to start an online store. Being an owner of a small business, his needs can be summarized as following:


1) Cheap, cheap and cheap
2) A quick and dirty solution just to get the products online to test the water
3) Website + Shopping Cart + Payment all-in-one solution
4) No time to code himself
5) Product inventory system (nice to have)

So we came across solution like Amazon Store, Payment Checkout and also some sites offer integrated shopping cart solutions. But the cost is still too much for a small business who just wants to test the water (plus their transaction fee is not low either, e.g. Amazon has a 7% transaction fee).

As we see more, we are actually looking for something along the line of aShop Commerce, it is a provider of shopping cart software and complete solution for merchants to sell online. So you can do store setup, customize layout, product inventory, payment method, shipping, checkout all in once place. They also got pretty good demo on their sites as well. Only concern of course, is still the cost, so I guess we'll still shop around. If anyone of you got some past experience or recommendation, please let me know. Thanks !

Running any iPhone hack or unlock ? Bye-Bye Warranty.



CUPERTINO, Calif., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone's software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed. Apple plans to release the next iPhone software update, containing many new features including the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store (www.itunes.com), later this week. Apple strongly discourages users from installing unauthorized unlocking programs on their iPhones. Users who make unauthorized modifications to the software on their iPhone violate their iPhone software license agreement and void their warranty. The permanent inability to use an iPhone due to installing unlocking software is not covered under the iPhone's warranty.

"The Art of Evangelism" Web conference

Guy Kawasaki is holding a free online WebEx seminar called “The Art of Evangelism.” During this seminar, Guy will explain the strategies and tactics of evangelism for products and services. For those who doesn't know Guy, he is a managing director of Garage an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Forbes.com. Previously, he was the chief evangelist of Apple Computer, Inc., and an Apple Fellow. His name is synonymous with evangelism as a secular business technique, and motorcycles.

I had registered, thought some of you may be interested as well.

Tuesday, September 25th
11:00 am Pacific
You can register here

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Apparently, this is a test of the emergency broadcast systems. You should remain calm, these kinds of things happen all the time. The “four oh four error” by Poropoptrt.com.

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Watch the final Gmail Collaborative Video =)

Goggle did a fun promotion inviting Gmail users to show how Gmail messages "really" travels around the world. They asked Gmail users to submit their own video clips that passed the Gmail logo from left to right on the camera. Gmail fans from more than 65 countries submitted more than 1,100 videos and Google has compiled many of them into this final clip.

Have fun watching it ! =)

Pay per post ...

I have signed up for payperpost recenlty after reading some of its reviews. More important, I read the news that they announced it has completed a $7 million second round investment led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an investor in the company’s Series A and one of the world’s leading high-technology venture capital firms. The financing brings the total amount of capital raised by PayPerPost to over $10 million. Mmmm .. that's a lot of money to spend, so they must have paid their posties well in order to grow their business.

PayPerPost is one among the various paid-to-review blog network in existence. The principle behind this is to connect advertisers and bloggers to write about services, products or events on their blogs and get paid for doing so.You can make any where between $5 and $2,500 for a post, depending on the advertiser and your blogs PR ranking. There is quite a huge selection of opportunities to post on and can, no doubt, find opportunities that are suited for your blog and that you can feel good about posting.
I have so far been paid a few bucks here and there (e.g. this post is worth $10), hopefully that will turn into a nice little extra income ... mmm ...
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