Sharp VGA resolution fingerprinting mobile phone display announced

The first mobile handset manufacturer to put a VGA screen on a mobile phone was a little company named Sharp — Sharp included the screen in its Vodafone Sharp 904SH clamshell, and the ladies loved it. Now, Sharp is once again trendsetting by making their VGA screen into a touchscreen that doubles as a fingerprint reader — meaning we can finally ID ourselves with our own phone.

Google Apps - Missing the picture?

Google’s recent announcement of its Google Apps for Domains service. Prompted us to go ahead and complete the setup of a test domain that we had setup a few months ago to see how we could use the Apps platform to create and maintain some websites that we own.

First let us take a look at what the service offers, before we go into reasons why we think that Google is missing out on an opportunity — a huge opportunity.

Ning Launches Social Networking Platform

Ning, a company that has an illustrious management team has just launched a new social networking platform. Platform? Well, sort of. While the primary focus of the site seems to be similar to what we’ve seen with other social networks like mySpace / LinkedIn, one of the key differences with what they’re doing is offering premium services to those who want to use their own domain names and run their own advertising on a private label site.

Eh?

Cell Phone Credit Cards in Future

Cell phones are used as navigational systems, internet browsers, Mp3 and video players, and even child leashes — so it’s only natural that in a year or so we’ll be seeing cell phones that double as credit cards. That’s right, the US is finally catching up to Asia, as a meeting today between the leading cell phone companies along with Hewlett Packard and marketing giant Publicis aims to standardize a barcode system in America — and barcodes couldn’t be more excited.

HDMI usage increasing in computers

HDMI Licensing, the group that handles the licensing of the technology specifications to manufacturers has just announced that over 50 PC products that support HDMI are currently in the market.

HDMI is the current standard for connecting HD components to each other, specially HDTVs. With the introduction of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray based drives, growing popularity of high definition IPTV and HD Camcorders that support HDMI, it is no surprise that computer manufacturers are increasingly looking at HDMI over DVI based interfaces.

GadgetTrak Protects Valuable Gadgets

The only thing more fun than having your own nifty gadget is having someone else’s nifty gadget that you stole days before — because, hey, it’s cheaper. Unfortunately, GadgetTheft recovery service is stepping up efforts to protect users from the rising number of gadget thieves with a software called GadgetTrak — which, besides being useful and making you feel a little bit like a detective, is also free.

Bittorrent Entertainment Network Announced

Much to everyone’s surprise, Bram Cohen (not related to Sasha Cohen of Borat Fame) has accepted restrictions placed by the studios, to move ahead with the bigger deal — the BitTorrent Entertainment Network.

According the New York Times, Hollywood studios like Fox, Paramount, Warner and MGM have signed up with the Bittorrent Entertainment Network (BEN) to distribute over 3000 new and old movies.

Uninstall Flash in IE7 and Reinstall - Fixes Crash Issues

Following up on several complaints from users on GeoExpat.Com and other sites that we run, we followed up with Adobe Support to take a look at what could be causing the problems.

While Adobe remains fairly non-committal about the existence of this problem, we have been able to isolate this issue down a couple of areas, so some of the items posted here are pure speculation, despite the fact that the end result is that the crashes have been reduced.

Keep in mind that this is not the official solution — neither Microsoft or Adobe acknowledge that IE7 crashes under several situations when it comes across a site that uses Flash — like MySpace, YouTube or well, even GeoExpat which has a number of Flash banners.

Flash9 and IE7 - Crash Fest

Looks like Adobe and Microsoft have a potentially huge problem in the making. Turns out, if you have Internet Explorer 7 and or MSN Live Messenger, which was installed in the last few weeks — some how an update from either of those two packages results in Flash 9 being installed on your system.

Microsoft calls this an “essential upgrade” with MSN Live Messenger, if you have animated backgrounds or use some of the smileys or winks that are prepackaged with it.

Alarm Clock Cooks Bacon

Just when you thought they had gone as far as they possibly could with alarm clocks, someone had to go and make one that also cooks bacon. The Wake n’ Bacon alarm clock does exactly what its name implies, specifically — it’s both a cute, pig-shaped (and kind of gigantic) alarm clock that will make sure to have your bacon cooked as soon as you wake up. And while it isn’t kosher, it is delicious.

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