Imeem for Android Will Rock Your G1

Imeem for Android is a music application from Imeem.com available for free at the Android Market.

This application caught my eye as one of the early front-runners in popularity at the Android Market. I’ve been using it for about a month, and I listen just about daily.

As a music app, it’s faster and easier to use than the music player that’s built into the G1 handset. If you’re more in the mood for a genre than for a specific song or artist, it’s a better choice. One of the application’s strengths is its buffering capabilities. You won’t get any hiccups or skips in songs — even in an elevator. I’ve had songs restart on me once or twice after a few seconds of playing, but Imeem definitely got streaming right with this application.

Local Favorites
One of the fun features is a station that plays the songs that are currently hot in your area. One recent visit to the “Los Angeles” channel served up some fresh new Britney Spears, Kanye West and even Paris Hilton; it definitely didn’t offer any music I’d actually want to listen to.

Imeem claims to customize its music feed based on your preferences. The interface on the G1 does include a “heart” button that allows you to tell it that you like the song you’re hearing. But what does pushing that button do?

Imeem lacks a clear indication of how the user’s input influences the music selection going forward. If I push the “heart” button, does that mean the system is learning my preferences and using that to create a better mix of music for me? I’d like to think so, but I still end up hearing roughly the same mix of music on each of the stations I listen to.

Perhaps the input is being used in a more macro fashion, such as to link bands and music styles to each other, but I want a little more.

Where’s My Station?
The Imeem Android app offers the option to create a separate station based on my favorite artists, but when I go to that station, nothing plays.

This kind of feature seems to exist on the Web version of Imeem, but it hasn’t translated effectively to the Android client just yet. One other thing I’ve noticed is that artists I set as favorites on my phone don’t necessarily show up as such on the Web site.

So, while Imeem says its Android app “seamlessly integrates with features on imeem.com,” I would say the seams are showing.

Still, for the way I use it — as Web radio on the go — Imeem is a worthwhile application that mixes in some new bands and additional familiar music along with the music it already knows you like.

Windows 7 Beta

Microsoft releases the first official beta version of its highly-anticipated new operating system: Windows 7.
Microsoft’s new OS includes a bunch of new features that try to make the computer easier and more enjoyable to use.

please note
The Beta will expire on August 1, 2009
 ,The Beta is available in 32-bit and 64-bit edition and available for download as an .ISO file
. Only 2.5 million downloads for the beta will be issued for a limited time from the Microsoft servers.
 Windows 7 Beta can only be upgraded from Windows Vista SP1. Make sure you have Service Pack 1 installed.

Source : http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/

Requirements: Windows XP,Windows Vista
File Size: 2.4 GB
Software Version:Beta

Minimum recommended specs call for:

• 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor
• 1 GB of system memory
• 16 GB of available disk space
• Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB memory (to enable the Aero theme)
• DVD-R/W Drive
• Internet access (to download the Beta and get updates)

Click here to download 32 Bit and 64 Bit Version

Direct Download Link 32 Bit – Click Here

Have Fun

“Flesh Fault” on tennis courts

AUSTRALIAN Open referees will double as fashion police to stamp out skimpy outfits at the Melbourne event.

Open officials have threatened fines of up to $2000 for any player caught flouting its strict dress code after French player Alize Cornet caused a stir at the Hopman Cup last week.

The teenager wore a short skirt and revealing, see-through top during a doubles match at the tournament in Perth (see above).

One of game’s great players, Margaret Court, condemned her attire last night, saying it pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable.

And Open officials said they would review the rising star’s outfits ahead of the tournament from January 19 to February 1.

Tennis officials have also cracked down on trumpets, flares and other anti-social items at Melbourne Park.

Court, Australia’s greatest female player, said the revealing outfits of today’s female players made them “look like they should be on the beach”.

“I just don’t think the tennis court is the place to be everything clingy and showing everything,” she said.

Court, a three-time Wimbledon champion and winner of 62 Grand Slam events, said fashion had gone overboard.

“Women don’t need to expose themselves so much,” she said.

“You’re good at something, you do it well, you can look so nice without needing to reveal everything.

“If they think everybody’s looking at their body and they’ve got see-through and no bra (outfits), it would have to affect your game.”

Australian Open referee Wayne McKewen said player’s outfits would be scrutinised in Melbourne.

“They should be dressed in what we say is tennis attire,” he said. “The girls do know that they have to present themselves in a professional manner.”

Australian Family Association Victorian president Angela Conway said athletes should be conscious of the influence their choice of clothing had on children.

Racy clothes are not the only things banned at the Open – whistles, trumpets, flares, fireworks, laser pointers, musical instruments and political and religious banners, T-shirts and flyers are also prohibited.

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“Paranoia is knowing all the facts.” – Woody Allen

Women smell male intentions

WASHINGTON: Women can really tell what’s on the male mind by the “scent of a man”. Researchers in the US say women respond to a man’s sexual perspiration differently than they do to his normal sweat.

Denise Chen, assistant professor of psychology at Rice University, looked at the process the female brain undergoes to encode the smell of sexual sweat from men. Researchers studied natural human sexual sweat using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Chen and her colleagues asked 20 heterosexual guys to stop wearing deodorant and scented products for a few days. Then they told the men to put small pads in their armpits as they watched pornographic videos and became aroused (the researchers confirmed, using electrodes, that the images did the job). Later, the guys were asked to exchange those pads for fresh pads to collect the sweat they produced when they weren’t aroused. Then the researchers recruited 19 brave women to smell the men’s pads while undergoing brain scans.

Sure enough, the women’s brains responded very differently depending on which sweat they sniffed. The sexual sweat, but not the normal sweat, activated the right orbitofrontal cortex and the right fusiform cortex, brain areas that help us recognize emotions and perceive things, respectively. Both regions are in the right hemisphere, which is generally involved in smell, social response, and emotion.

The findings bolster the idea that humans do communicate via subconscious chemical signals, notes Chen in her study, which was published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Our sexual intentions, in other words, may be a lot clearer than we ever intended them to be. That crush you have on your co-worker? She may already know — at least subconsciously.

President Obama:

Top 10 Dumbest Online Business Ideas That Made It Big Time.

1. Million Dollar Homepage

1000000 pixels, charge a dollar per pixel – that’s perhaps the dumbest idea for online business anyone could have possible come up with. Still, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old who came up with the idea, is now a millionaire.

2. SantaMail

Ok, how’s that for a brilliant idea. Get a postal address at North Pole, Alaska, pretend you are Santa Claus and charge parents 10 bucks for every letter you send to their kids? Well, Byron Reese sent over 200000 letters since the start of the business in 2001, which makes him a couple million dollars richer.

3. Doggles

Create goggles for dogs and sell them online? Boy, this IS the dumbest idea for a business. How in the world did they manage to become millionaires and have shops all over the world with that one? Beyond me.

4. LaserMonks

LaserMonks.com is a for-profit subsidiary of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank, an eight-monk monastery in the hills of Monroe County, 90 miles northwest of Madison. Yeah, real monks refilling your cartridges. Hallelujah! Their 2005 sales were $2.5 million! Praise the Lord.

5. AntennaBalls

You can’t sell antenna ball online. There is no way. And surely it wouldn’t make you rich. But this is exactly what Jason Wall did, and now he is now a millionaire.

6. FitDeck

Create a deck of cards featuring exercise routines, and sell it online for $18.95. Sounds like a disaster idea to me. But former Navy SEAL and fitness instructor Phil Black reported last year sales of $4.7 million. Surely beats what military pays.

7. PositivesDating.Com

How would you like to go on a date with an HIV positive person? Paul Graves and Brandon Koechlin thought that someone would, so they created a dating site for HIV positive folks last year. Projected 2006 sales are $110,000, and the two hope to have 50,000 members by their two-year mark.

8. Designer Diaper Bags

Christie Rein was tired of carrying diapers around in a freezer bag. The 34-year-old mother of three found herself constantly stuffing diapers for her infant son into freezer bags to keep them from getting scrunched up in her purse. Rein wanted something that was compact, sleek and stylish, so in November 2004, she sat down with her husband, Marcus, who helped her design a custom diaper bag that’s big enough to hold a travel pack of wipes and two to four diapers. With more than $180,000 in sales for 2005, Christie’s company, Diapees & Wipees, has bags in 22 different styles, available online and in 120 boutiques across the globe for $14.99.

9. TruGamerz

Faux-suede padded covers for game controllers and gel thumb pads for analog joysticks? No one will buy that. Forget it. The product proved to be so popular, it got picked up by Target.com and Walmart.com and annual sales new exceed half a million dollars.

10. Lucky Wishbone Co.

Fake wishbones. Now, this stupid idea is just destined to flop. Who in the world needs FAKE PLASTIC wishbones? A lot of people, it turns out. Now producing 30,000 wishbones daily (they retail for 3 bucks a pop) Ken Ahroni, the company founder, expects 2006 sales to reach $1 million.

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