Blackle - A Black Version of Google to Save Energy

Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy.

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002.

Source: Blackle.com

Free Ipod Paper Version

For those who like to own a ipod but doesn't want to pay for the full price, you can try this link:

Free Paper iPod! Have fun!

Sign up for this Longest Email Address in the World

I laugh when I saw this website for you to sign up for the longest email address in the world. You can sign up for free and see if anybody will email you with this email address. Let me know.


All FREE Mailbox comes with:
6.0 MB Storage Capacity (Stores 6,000 messages)
Webmail Online Interface
The Longest Email Address in the Whole Wide World

Give it a try!

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Game maker comes out with new controllers for popular Wii

Game maker comes out with new controllers for popular Wii: [Watch video]

Sales of Nintendo's quirky Wii video game machine could top the legendary PlayStation 2, making it the biggest hit in the industry's history, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said on Thursday.

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Source: Globeandmail.com

Is Facebook a Potential IPO Candidate?

I saw an article titled "The future face of Facebook poses Web's latest billion-dollar question" from Globeandmail.com today. It is very interesting to see the how popular facebook has become in this past year. I was surprise how Facebook turn down a cash offer of $1-billion from Yahoo last year too.

Facebook does has its revenue stream as the site has seen its user base grow by more than 85 per cent in the past six months, according to estimates from comScore. I was how it attracted more than 1.5 billion page views a day.

I do visit facebook a lot these days and I could see that many advertisers will give facebook a look to advertise on facebook. If it goes well, I do see facebook social network website to be a success story. In the future, facebook must keep increase its usefullness on the site or else it will become another fast-growing social network namely Friendster goes flamed out.

Will Facebook become a Google-like stock market meteor?

Source: Globeandmail.com

Free Iced Coffee at Tim Hortons on July 19th

A sample of Iced Coffee will be giving out at Tim Hortons at July 19th.

I saw Iced Coffee on sale at some Tim Hortons' locations, wondering if it is better the Iced Cap that they are selling now.

Has anybody noticed that Tim's cold machines don't work most of the time?

Portfolio Update - June 2007

Have been quite busy and I added more dividend stock into my portfolio:

FTN.TO - 15 financial stocks into one ETF, pays around 6.2% annually on dividend.
BCE.TO - Sold twice before the takeout by Teachers' Pension.
Add 2 year BNS GIC on 4.8%

Holding:
ING Canada (IIC.TO) - Long term hold for me in insurance industry (pay around 2% dividend)
Telus (T.TO) - Up along with Rogers and BCE.
Evervest Diversified Income Trust (EIT-UN.TO)- Pays around 12% income annually.
Nokia (NOK) - Up ever since the news on RIM and APPL.
SMH - Booming time for wireless chips producers.

Any comments on my stock portfolio?

New version of PlayStation 3 and price drop

New version of PlayStation 3 to come with more capacity from 60 to 80 gigabytes.

Personally, I think Sony's move is a little too late. Most people who want to buy a Playstation 3 has already done it.

Those people who did not want it in the first place will not find this price drop too attractive.

For the first time gamers, they will likely already bought Wii which exceed its console forcast sales.

Source: ReportonBusiness.com