Inhabitat' Halloween in Green of October

Halloween is coming! When I am so upset about what should to bring out for everybody visit my blog, I just find this equipment from Inhabitat. I can bring you some of the most bizarre and dark eco products. So hold on your breath, this pin hole skull camera crafted by sculpture artist Wayne Martin Bleger. The piece, entitled Third Eye, is part of a small collection of eerie photography equipment made from metal, precious stones, and human skull with 150-year-old!

The device works by briefly exposing film inside the skull. And just like other pin hole cameras, there are no lenses, battery powered flashes, or any ability to zoom in on a subject. Bleger says he prefers this low-tech photo capturing method, because it’s the most “true representation of a segment of light and time – a pure reflection of what is at that moment.” I think this device is really so creepy. Maybe you want to own one in your Halloween. But what a pity! It’s not for sale even though you own $1 billion. About $1 billion, if you own so much money, what will you do? Do you want to spend all of them on a family home?

A $1 billion family home was completed in Mumbai, India and shaked me for a long time! The Greenest of all Buildings, Antilia house which unveiled its first renderings just over two-years ago has become a frightening reality, egregiously boasting 27 stories at 568 feet high, with a total area of over 398,000 square feet of living space. This kind of building is unprecedented and right now it appears in India­ — a country which constructed within estimated to have one-third of the world’s poorest population. The Antilia truly exemplifies the disease of excessive consumption, extreme wastefulness, and unsustainable living that is permeating today’s society.

Compare to such damn thing, a massive astral power tower is much better. This design just won the 2010 Moon Capital International Design Challenge. Designed by Bryna Anderson, a graduate student from Columbia University, the concept is based on American physicist Dr. David Criswell’s proposal for a Lunar Solar Power System. It works by collecting energy on the lunar surface using photovoltaic converters and then transmitting it to Earth via microwave generators.

This design combines Dr. Criswell’s ideas with an approach towards creating Earth-normal gravity on the lunar surface using a massive rotating torus. Both concepts are hypothetically feasible, but unfortunately, far from achievable in the present day. So, this kind of building still be a theory and just a design.

Review of Best Blu-ray to DVD Converter Software in Top 10 in 2011

We are very proud to announce today that one of our featured products – Leawo Blu-ray Ripper, was selected to be the best blu-ray to DVD converter software by a third-party software evaluation and recommendation website toptenreviews.com.

There are 10 programs in total in this competition and Leawo Blu-ray Ripper outranks all of others due to its excellent functionalities and modifiable features regarding video customization. Besides, do not forget its pricing, totally affordable and worthy.

This program is definitely the best choice for those who do not have blu-ray drive and the best replacement as well for those who have it but do not want to damage it, to enjoy the high-quality blu-ray video conveniently on other media devices.

Review of the best Blu-ray software in 2010 with TopTenREVIEWS

Blu-ray as a disc format which will supersede the HD DVD soon or later absolutely, is the last optical format to emerge in media. It boasts five times the storage capacity of conventional DVD, but the price is also much more experience and the suitable devices include Blu-ray player and HD TV are both not easy. But I want to watch HD video on my poor TV with my old-fashion DVD Player, what I should do?

Do you know Blu-ray to DVD converter software? It’s a kind of software which ensure you to create standard DVDs from BDs so can watch them on regular DVD players, or convert to the HD video with various formats so that play with your computer. Moreover, the software is an ideal backup solution; you can make inexpensive DVD copies to safeguard your investment of pricey Blu-ray discs.

Recently, the famous website TopTenREVIEWS had searched for the best Blu-ray to DVD software in 2010. They searched and assessed all of this type of softwares with 4 parts: Features, quality of converted video, ease of use and Technical support. At last, Leawo Blu-ray Ripper with almost excellent performance defeats all of the competitors and achieve to top. So, let’s review this first rated software from the result of search.   

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At first, one thing to note here is paying attention to the copyright protection of the Blu-ray DVD movies. If you do not retain possession of those movies, what you make cannot be used in commercial purpose.

Can't miss such an Opportunity: Convert DVD or Video to iPhone for free

With the worldwide spread of iPhone 4, more and more people are obsessed with this cute and powerful mobile phone as well as its tens of thousands of Apple Apps which just like adding wings to a supremacy tiger. As we all know, iPhone is also a smart multimedia device with which we can view photos, movies, PDF, listen to music anytime anywhere. On the other hands, DVD is also reliable and stable holder to storing many music and movie files. Many movie fans cannot help purchasing the hot movie disks when they are released. Calling your friends to your home to watching a nice film together is a meaningful thing, while watching a literary film all by yourself while lying on the couch is rather appealing.

However, maybe some movie is too long, for example the time of the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings is around ten hours, and you cannot watch them at a time but you cannot stay in front of TV set or your laptop all the way. On this occasion, watching the remaining part of the movie via a portable device, such as iPhone, is a good idea.

Perfectionism: Delete Useless Icons in Notification Area of Windows 7 easily

In Windows 7, some applications will display the icons in notification area of taskbar to tell you that they are executing. You can customize which icon should display and not, but you must notice that whether the application you’re using or had been uninstalled, you can always meet those icons in the notification area when you customize them. Maybe it’s not a big deal and you can just let it go. But when the day that you feel so upset to meet those useless icons comes, you just need to review this article and resolve this trivial matter easily.

OK, let’s find an easy way to delete those useless application icons.
Step 1, click “start” and input “Regedit” to search box, and click “Enter”.
Step 2, Find this file - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify. In this step, I suggest you to backup this file in case the mistaken delete you made and result the system’s collapse.  
Step 3, find those 2 keys: “IconStreams” and “PastIconsStream” and delete. Press F5 to refresh the Regedit and close it.
Step 4, Restart your computer and run Task Manager, end the progress of “explorer.exe”. Just wait a moment, and then click “file” on Task Manager and “new tasks”, input “explorer” and OK.

Now the Task bar will appear and those useless icons in the notification area will not forever.

Oops!... I'm using Windows7 SP2!

Some people always ask: why does my Windows 7 update to sp2? I thought it must be a joke when I saw this question at the first time, but more and more people find the words — Service Pack 2 in the System Properties. So did Microsoft have released the SP2 for Windows 7 in secret?

As we known, Microsoft hasn’t released the final version of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7, how the SP2 appeared frequently? Actually the version of SP which displays in System Properties is controlled by a key from system registry. The real Service Pack, some computer games’ patch or even some malware will change this key when they are installing. It’s just a key was changed but will result some software can’t be installed. So if your Windows 7 was updated to SP2 unaccountably, you’d better to change it back by yourself because you can do it easily!