I was browsing around the net looking for interesting things to blog about and I stumbled upon this website which allowed me to create this cool Dummies book cover.

“How To Become Tony Cai”, I know you guys just can’t wait to dig your nose into this one. LOL! You’ll never know, it may one day be available! I’ll be glad to autographs, haha.

At Smoke420, you can create this and many other customizable graphics. Ideal for your MySpace or website! You know what I always wanted? A Cambell’s Chicken Noodle Soup can that I can customize. I’m a big fan of Andy Warhol!

You can customize your own Dummies book cover here!

Yet another use for your hand helds! A new service offered by Perooz.com allows you to download videos, music and HOT magazines straight to your Apple iPod’s, Sony PSP’s, Microsoft Zune’s, Palm Treo’s and Blackberry’s, Creative Zen’s and MORE!. So whats the big jiffy? Well these devices can play music and videos but none of them are able to view full colored magazines optimized for their devices until now.

No software or new installations are required for this service. This is basically some image scans of the magazines and using your devices image viewer, you can view them. So who needs a periodical on the train when you have your cool hand held devices. The site looks to be HOT and well maintained!

Start downloading today from HOT magazine sources here!

During Steve Jobs’s keynote at MacWorld in San Francisco last week, he featured the iPhone as we know. In his keynote he made the iPhone play it’s ring tone. How did it get out to the public? Well apparently someone attending the keynote had it recorded and went home and edited out the sound of the many hundreds who were yelling in amazement. So how the ring tone got out was a very difficult process, thanks to the Anonymous user at Gizmodo.

P.S: Steve Jobs, please don’t unleash your lawyers at me. Steve, your such an angel!

So without furtheradue, I present you the short iPhone ringtone:
[audio:http://litstudies.org/iphonering.mp3]

Web 2.0, a term coined in 2004 by Tim O’Reily [O'Reily Media] but what does it really mean? Does it mean flashy graphics and cool logo’s, does it mean user interaction, social bookmarking, programmable applications via browser [AJAX]? In fact it’s all of those and more. Some of the CEO’s of the biggest Web 2.0 companies don’t have an exact definition of it because Web 2.0 keeps changing and growing. This comes after the 2001 dot com bubble burst which changed how the world interacts on the internet.

How is from “Web 1.0″? A Simple Chart Shows You

How The CEO’s of Big Web 2.0 Companies See It: (TechCrunch)

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Is there a Bubble for Web 2.0?

I personally as a experienced blogger don’t think so, programming on the web is as good as it gets. Any newer technologies are years from now. Web 1.0 lasted 7 years but with Web 2.0, the possibilities are endless and if anything theres 7 more years till it bursts. Web 2.0 just began! Muhaha.

Take a look at Web 2.0 companies here!

How about a New York song for the I LOVE NY fans!
[audio:http://litstudies.org/newyork.mp3]

So as I previously blogged about media not being on CD’s anymore, refer to my post about installing Windows Vista without using any CD disc media. The world of technology is changing fast, as we know bandwidth are getting larger and that allows us to download a vast number of things easily and quickly. Especially with competition and services like Verizon FiOS [Fiber to the Premises] and Optimum Boost, Americans are getting a lot faster connections for a more affordable price. I still can’t say it compares to the broadband services like the UK or Japan offers but we’re slowly getting there.

Now back to my original topic, YES!, Netflix is going IPTV, soon [as in this week] you can rent movies online by downloading them, however, this isn’t UNLIMITED downloads as long as you pay a subscription fee like the snail mail service that Netflix provides, wouldn’t that be great! LOL. But you pay by the number of hours of video you download. The quality of the downloads are going to be close to DVD quality, Netflix has setup the service for up to 6 million subscribers as of now but is expecting 250,000 initial subscribes in their first month.

Snail Mail NetFlix:

NetFlix IPTV:

Since people stopped renting video cassettes from stores and started to switch to CD media, Blockbuster had lost a lot of business. In the past few years, Blockbuster has been struggling to keep up with NetFlix’s Snail Mail service, because we Americans are just too damn lazy to go out to the store. Will Blockbuster provide a similar service soon? We’ll wait and see!

As of now, unfortunately, it’s only available to PC users with the IE browser. We, Mac and Linux users are always being discriminated against, but we’ll show them who’s boss in a few more years!!

Refer to my previous posting about NO CD’s:
http://www.tonycai.com/2007/01/08/ahh-screw-the-cds/

This is my first reported problem since using the great service that OpenDNS provides, some of the sites that I visit from Digg and including my own website today did not resolve. Strange so I checked the DNS name servers to see if my host was down, it wasn’t that. I doubled checked by using a online cgi proxy and the site showed up without a problem so the problem had to be with OpenDNS. Meanwhile I have switched back to my Optimum Online DNS service to post this problem on my blog.

I checked with OpenDNS’s status page, all their servers seem to be up at the moment, looks like others are having this same problem too. If anything like this happens to you where OpenDNS are having problems, simple take out the DNS settings on your router by following the same directions on OpenDNS.com and restore them back to 0.0.0.0 or default blank.

However, once they fix the problem I’ll switch back because their service has really made my online browsing experience faster! Take a look at their 2007 plans.

Defiantly give them a try, I blogged about OpenDNS twice already.

WordPress 2.07 just came out 2 hours ago and I have grabbed the script and upgraded it from WordPress 2.06, there aren’t any surprises to the upgrade, everything went smoothly. They fixed a Feedburner bug as well as other smaller details.

When upgrading your WordPress engine, be sure never to delete these files:

• wp-config.php file;
• wp-content folder; Special Exception: the wp-content/cache folder should be deleted.
• wp-images folder;
• wp-includes/languages/ folder–if you are using a language file do not delete that folder;
• .htaccess file–if you have added custom rules to your .htaccess, do not delete it;
• robots.txt file–if your blog lives in the root of your site (ie. the blog is the site) and you have created such a file, do not delete it.

At the time of this post, they have not released the change log:
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Versions

Affected files from WordPress 2.06:

• wp-admin/inline-uploading.php
• wp-admin/post.php
• wp-includes/classes.php
• wp-includes/functions.php
• wp-settings.php
• wp-includes/version.php

Things they fixed in this release:

• Security fix for wp_unregister_GLOBALS() to work around the zend_hash_del_key_or_index bug in PHP 4 versions less than 4.4.3 and PHP 5 versions less than 5.1.4 with register_globals set to “On.”
• Feeds now properly serve 304 Not Modified headers instead of mismatched 200/304 headers (a.k.a. the FeedBurner bug).
• Backport of another 304 Not Modified fix from WordPress 2.1
• Deleting WordPress Pages no longer gives an “Are You Sure?” prompt.
• After deleting a WordPress Page, you are now properly redirected to the Edit Pages screen.
• Sending an image at original size in Internet Explorer no longer adds an incorrect “height” attribute.

Good luck on upgrading your copy of WordPress, remember to backup your database and your wp-content files before beginning! You shouldn’t see any problems.

Song of the day for the new fix! YAY!
[audio:http://litstudies.org/proofs.mp3]

Yes this is true, for those of you who were waiting for a Nintendo Wii and could not find it this Christmas, Toys-R-Us just received shipments of it today, it will sell out by today if not early tomorrow. Go out of there and get it! My good friend Richard just went to Times Square 42nd Street and got his, he just called me to got out to get one!

If you don’t want to play with it, you can also resell it on eBay and make a good $60 bucks. It’s up to you but I’m thinking about it because I’m off to college soon and I won’t be able to play it so I probably won’t get it. My loss is your gain because I’m 1 less person buying it and theres 1 more out there for you! LOL!

Yep, it’s that time again, time to return for another semester at Stony Brook. One thing I learned in previous semesters is to buy the teachers edition of text books instead of the regular student text books. Why? You can usually get them at a cheaper price believe it or not and the teachers text books have answers in them [this can help if you suck at math like i do]. It can really help when it comes to homework and when your professor is strict about getting answers right! But, please do you research before jumping in and buying it because sometimes it may be so different from the students text book, that, it’s worthless for studying.

Always: Don’t purchase books from the school’s bookstore if you don’t have to, they friggin overcharge [damn Barns and Nobles and fuck Stony Books]. Use services like eBay or Half.com or just buy it though a friend.

Buy books Web 2.0 Style here!

Tell my how stupid this is. This guy which I’m not going to mention is trying to sell his Windows XP license keys online but he takes a picture of it fully exposing the key. Whats the point in selling that if he already showed it to the world for free? I really feel bad for the AGAIN, dumbass who are bidding on it. People already know you key. LOL! Then I go tell my friend Andrew that there is a free CD Key online, he goes and tries to copy it on a post it! DUMBASS! just right click and save the picture! LMAO!! Btw, are OEM license keys even transferable?!

Windows XP Home Edition:
XH7PY-H4TQK-KX469-7824D-9CJ9M
RYFJF-C72Q7-F6R2H-2MMJD-76YGW

Click here to enlarge and save the license key for yourself!