That's right. Microsoft will sell a stripped down version of Windows for only $3. But only in Brazil. According to Red Herring, Brazillians love open source everything and IBM Linux already has a presence there. Microsoft hopes to turn the tide by offering Windows for cheap.
Now on public beta, pc users can now use Apple Safari. This latest move by Apple has come as a surprise even to die-hard Safari users. There's still no word from Jobs why. Is it to help promote the upcoming iPhone as some analysts say or to simply win over more converts? I'm actually more interested on whether Safari will eat into Firefox's browser share. Firefox is becoming more bloated with each new release. Job's timing is right on the money.
(found my old Portishead and PJ Harvey CDs) Listening to PJ Harvey made me realized that I'm still missing in my collection the very song that introduced me to her in the first place. "Hardly Wait" is from her demo track that Juliet Lewis covered in the 1995 flick, "Strange Days." I remember waiting for the credits to roll to find out who wrote it. And since iTunes sucks, I once again turned to Amazon.com.
My 7 year old T21 needed some repair. It has a cracked palm rest, scratches and dings on the cover, and a dimmed out lcd. eBay has all the parts that I needed, but it took time to get everything at the price I wanted. Keyboard ($10.58 normally $30+ ), Lcd Lid ($12.99), Screws ($8.00), Palm Rest ($22.90)
Old T21 800MHZ / 256MB /40GB
And as you can see, it's in a pretty bad shape.
Putting a new twist on an old technology, Hamburg based SkySails has produced (patent pending) a towing kite wind propulsion system for superyatchs and cargo vessels. A containership equipped with Skysails' humongous kite and navigation system can add an additional 4,000 horse power and slash fuel cost by to up 30 percent.
