.Asia can be registered now

New top-level domain ".asia" is available for registration. Registration and control are entrusted to nonprofit organization DotAsia Organization Limited which consist of members from China, India and Japan.

So far registration available  only for companies located in Asia-Pacific region which have registered trademarks and for government offices. Regular people will be able to register .asia domains only in February 2008.

Currently Asia has 400 million users(for example 253 million in North America).

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Toshiba recalls 142 000 DVD player AC adapters

Toshiba announce one more massive recall again, not a good sign for company.

AC Adapters sold with portable DVD players may overheat and even ignite when they fail, potentially threatening the user. This recall comes after two DVD players was burned, however, no injuries have been reported. You bought affected DVD player if it was between January 2005 and April 2006 at consumer electronics stores in US then and Your AC adapter has "ADPV16" mark. Don't use dangerous AC adapters and contact Toshiba service for replacement.

Affected AC adapter:

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Do You Want To Have Your Own Universe?

If you want to broadcast your messages to the whole world you can be builder of My PC Universe(or any another blog of MyUniverseRing). We are waiting for your contribution.

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Goog-411

Google started new service - Goog-411. This is search on the phone for US. You can call 1-800-GOOG-411, ask your query and operator will read the answer from Google. Of course this service is free.

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Vixta: Vista Look and Feel for Penguins

Vixta - new Linux distributive with very strange target audience. It is supposed to be used by Linux users impressed with Windows Vista and wanted to have similar-looking desktop.

Vista based on Fedora with customized KDE. It has widgets, main menu and taskbar in Vista style but inside it's still Linux. So in that a la Vista main menu you'll find Konqueror instead of Explorer, OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office etc.

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WiFi everywhere

New shirt from ThinkGeek has animated WiFi and shows signal level to everyone. Now you can to find best place for WiFi just walking around. Detector placed on the shirt with stickers so you can wash it without harming electronics. I think it would be very nice present for a friend with IT interests.

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Google gets Extra Large size

"Extra Large" option appeared in Google Image Search.  Now you can use it if you want to find really big pictures. For example querying "Ferrari" with that option you can get 3414 x 2968 photo found by Google. But I think it would be more interesting when Google implement feature that gives opportunity to set searching dimensions manually. Something like "300-500 wide and 200-250 height".

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