Opera house Sydney image Blur in Googlemap
As some of us might already know, APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Australia 2007 year will culminate in the Sydney CBD on 8-9 September with the APEC Economic Leaders Meeting (AELM), bringing together the leaders of all major regional economies as well as thousands of delegates, support personnel and the international media, and is one of the most important annual meetings of world leaders.
And this morning i read a news in smh newspaper that the googlemap photo of sydney opera house has been fuzzed out. Not sure though if this is something to do with the APEC. Maybe because of security reason, the image has been fuzzed out to minimise the risk of a terrorist attack during the APEC September summit. I print screen some image from google map so you guys can check the image here as well.
Pligg sites up for sale
Pligg, one of my favorite open source CMS for building Digg clone website is up for sale on sedo. The reason of the sale is because pligg has grown very fast and well beyond the developer expectations, and it is getting difficult for the developers to manage the business side of Pligg on a daily basis without slowing down development. Which consists mainly of advertising, support, and community management. Pligg owner believe that by allowing more seasoned professionals take over the day to day management of Pligg, it will allow Pligg to flourish into realm’s that they never thought possible. As far as i know, Pligg content management system is quite popular because it give the ability for user to create digg clone website. And i’ve seen many developer selling pligg custom templates and modules recently, so it proves that there quite a lot of pligg user in the market. I also have one website which is using pligg engine, its an Australian Bargain website. I would say pligg is one the best CMS to make website like digg, but the loading time is a bit slow in my opinion.
Just for fun, I actually just tried to bid on sedo to find out how much pligg site is up for sale. The minimum so far is us$25,000, So if you got us$25,000 and interested in buying the pligg site, be quick to bid on sedo website before it sold out.
Stripy Speaker Review
Finally i received my stripy speaker this morning. The packaging box is very cool, and the size of the speaker is very small. Much smaller than i thought before. I open the box straight away, try it on using my dell notebook to find out how is the sound quality.
Here is my review of stripy speaker :
Sound quality is good enough for such a tiny speaker. It also have bass and treble setting. I also like the concept of simple design for the operation such as adjusting the sounds, bass, and treble by using only one flashy pink button. You also can turn the speaker 180 degrees so you can adjust the sounds direction easily. It looks cool and very portable. Only one thing make me a bit disappointed is because the power cable is not long enough, so when i tried to plug it in to my desktop pc, i cant find a good position because the power cable is not long enough. So i think i will just keep using it for my laptop.
But overall , i would say this stripy speaker is a good looking speaker with good sounds quality speaker and is best choice if you are looking for speaker which is portable.
Key Features
- High efficiency Class-D Amplifier.
- Volume control 40dB range.
- Bass control 20dB range.
- Treble control 20dB range.
- LED Encoder function designation.
- Power Standby.
- Stereo Analog Audio Input.
Specifications
- Total Output Power: 9 watts RMS into 4 ohms at 1 kHz / 10% THD (Total Harmonic Distortion)
- Max power for the amplifier: 13 watts into 4 ohms
- Distortion: Better than 0.5% at 1 watt RMS
The Bulletin Magazine Special offer for $25
Just wanna share this special offer from bulletin magazine, where you can subscribe for just only $25 for 25 issue. That’s only cost you $1 each, and already including delivery. Cover retail price is A$6.25 per issue. So for sure it’s a very good offer. Btw, the Offer ends by 30 October 2007. So be hurry if you want to get this deal.
You can get this offer from magshop by follow this link to grab this offer: Bulletin Magazine Special Offer
Bag of pooki deal from catchofthedeal
I finally decided to give it a go to find out what can i get in the bag of pooki deal from catchofthedeal website. Bag Pooki is basically a random assortment of 10 objects, goodies and just general stuff from catchoftheday warehouse. I grab this offer for $19.95 with $7.95 delivery fee. I Can’t wait till i find out what kind of stuff inside the bag. I will post it here again once i receive the stuff already from them.
By the way, on 1st of august i also bought this Stripy Music Studio Speaker for $49 from catchoftheday. The reason why i bought this speaker is because it looks very cool and very compact. And from what i read from other user review from other site, the sound quality is good as well, so its time for me to change my old creative speaker at home.