This is one of the best guitar manufacturing processes I came across. Obviously Taylor is one of the most expensive and best brands in the Guitar industry.

Top Gear is one of my favorite and one of the best motor shows in the world. They have the main show in the UK and two others in the USA and Australia. I’m not quite sure the Australian Top Gear is still continued because I haven’t seen much new episodes. Anyway very recently one of the Top Gear USA hosts, Tanner Foust breaks the Indoor Speed Record by 87 MPH in a Ford Fiesta rally car. This was in Top Gear USA season two episode seven. Tanner is a professional racing driver and fantastic TV host. He is very popular for drifting.

Rewinding little bit; Tanner first break this record in an Audi R8 and again do using his Ford Fiesta.

http://www.topgear.com

Google has an extended level of security which can protect your Google account against malicious threats. This is called 2-Step Verification. It works with a secondary password/numeric value which is generated using a Google mobile application which can be installed in your Android phone. Whenever you login into a Google application using your email address and password, the secondary verification value is requested. This verification code should be generated using the Google mobile authentication application and entered to login. As I noticed this generated value has some relation to the current time. Therefore it is only valid for certain time period. This technology is very much similar to HSBC internet banking token authentication system.

As it is always said in computer security, additional security measures in software applications introduce more hassle for the user. Similarly when Google 2-Step Verification is enabled you will need to generate application specific passwords for each Google application you use in various devices. The reason for this is that for some applications they need to have your credentials saved to work in the background (Ex: GMail in Android). However applications like Google Chrome let you save 2-Step Verification Code for a month. What happens if you lose your phone? A good question, Google generates you another set of passwords which should be written down some where safe to recover your account in case if you lose your phone.

This is fascinating! Thomas Suarez is a 6th grade student at a middle school in the South Bay of Los Angeles. This a talk he did at TEDx on his current work and future plans on mobile applications development.

 Today is 2011 November 11th and it is written as 11 11 11. So there are two kodak moments for the day.

1. 11 11 11 - 11 11 11 AM

2. 11 11 11 - 11 11 11 PM

It's all there!! Steve on stage, at work, at home and key people he loved. You may read your self.

http://allaboutstevejobs.com

This is a private web site written by Romain Moisescot and has no affiliation with any of Steve's companies. A great job Romain!

Just one thing to think about. If you just look at his pictures page, you will see a series of his photographs shown on the top from his younger days to the days just before he died. For me this shows the ultimate truth of life.

The Sony Bravia CX520 does not play HD video files in MKV format. May be there is no codec in the TV. However there is a fix for this. What you need is a network router, host pc , network cables and Serviio DLNA media server.

Solution:

Connect the TV and the PC to the network router and install Serviio DLNA media server in the PC. Serviio is one of the best free DLNA servers available. It seems like that even Sony recommends Serviio. Once this is done start the Serviio service and the console in the PC. Then share your MKV files via the media library in the Serviio console and enable Transcoding. This feature will stream you HD MKV video content to the TV in a playable format. That's it, just browse the media server in the TV and enjoy your media content.

This is simply amazing. TrackID is an online service provided by Gracenote (formerly called CDDB and has acquired by Sony in 2009) which can identify songs just by listening to part of it. This application comes with Sony mobile phones, latest TV sets and many other entertainment products.

Whenever your device is playing a song (may be on radio in your mobile phone or on TV) you can ask TrackID to track it. It sends a sample (or may be several samples) of the audio to the online service and returns a list of songs that matches the audio clip. The accuracy of the predicted song list is very high. Pretty amazing, this process happens within seconds.

According to Sony, Gracenote currently has more than 2.5 million songs in its database. The concern is, how can TrackID traverse through 2.5 million songs and match a song within few seconds? May be with a cloud with high computing power.

The Amazon EC2 .NET SDK can be used to access Openstack. However the current version (1.3.13.1) has a bug. It does not consider the port when preparing the Signature for the request. Therefore you may see the request being failed in the Openstack cloud controller with a signature mismatch error.

There is a patch released to fix this problem. Basically what it does is, include the custom port number if the IsDefaultPort property is set to false when preparing the signature based on the parameters.

How to apply this patch:

1. Download source files of the EC2 SDK from http://aws.amazon.com/sdkfornet/

2. Open the project in Visual Studio.

3. Open the AWSSDKUtils.cs file found in Amazon.Util folder. 

4. Add the below code block just after data.Append(endpoint.Host); line in CalculateStringToSignV2() method.

if (!endpoint.IsDefaultPort)
{
    data.Append(":" + endpoint.Port);
}

One of the visionaries of our time passed away on 5th October 2011. 

"Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple."

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

This shows how much Steve has done for Apple and the rest of the world.