Google reformed its picture searching system

As the chief of the internet search engine - Google, Google Picture Search is one of my favorite and recent site to go with, especially when I am preparing kind of presenations or assignments. Those stunning pictures just quickly and accurately revealed after the relevent key words is addressed. But things just come better and better, if you are the guys who same with me, I can sure you already found out that Google had reformed its picture searching system to the another higher realm which provides the more convenient, more accurate system to deal with.


The first sight showed to me about the new Google picture searching system its just quite alike with Mac iPhoto's style. XD Alright, make a try for it better than just know the theory, Check it out now!

The Oldest Manmade Objects in Space

Tethys and Dione Voyager 1 photographed Saturn and two of its moons, Tethys (shown here) and Dione in November 1980. Shadows from Saturn’s three bright rings and Tethys can be seen on the cloud tops on Saturn. NASA/JPL

Next time you're marveling at the fact that Spirit and Opportunity have been roving Mars for over six years now, ponder this: the two Voyager spacecraft have been hurtling through our solar system for nearly 33 years. Today, Voyager 1 hits a mission milestone of operating continuously for 12,000 days. The spacecraft launched on September 5, 1977, while Jimmy Carter was president, and has now traveled 14 billion miles.

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Voyager 1 made its closest approach to Jupiter in March 1979, coming to within about 217,000 miles of the planet's center and making detailed observations of Jupiter's moons. During its flyby of Saturn in November 1980, the spacecraft's cameras and remote sensing instruments revealed stunning images and information about Saturn's rings and atmosphere, as well as its giant moon Titan. In early 1990, Voyager 1 captured the now-famous image known as "Pale Blue Dot." As the spacecraft was on its way out of the solar system, astronomer Carl Sagan commanded it to turn its camera and take a picture of planet Earth dangling in the vastness of space.

By early 2005, Voyager 1 was about 94 times farther from the Sun than Earth is. Within the next five years, the spacecraft will enter interstellar space, where it will study the boundaries of the solar system, including the Kuiper Belt. Long-life nuclear batteries are expected to power Voyager 1 until at least 2020, when it will be more than 13 billion miles from Earth.

Voyager 2, which completed observations of Uranus and Neptune in addition to Saturn and Jupiter, reached its 12,000-day milestone on June 28. The two space probes are the most distant human-made objects in the universe.

Source: Popular Science

TED Global 2010 is happening this week in Oxford!

A lineup of amazing speakers, performers and attendees have gathered for four days of TED in Oxford, England. TED Global 2010 is bringing you talks from the conference and throughout the year -- Yes folks, boundless idea and inspiration are going to unveil to the world!!

Don't hesitate, check it out! Dig into the TEDGlobal 2010 conference site now!

Imagine Cup 2010 Finals: Malaysian Teams Are En Route to Victory

It might have took them lots of efforts to reach there but we are pretty sure that every single of those sacrifices are totally worth it. Our own Team HDC of APIIT- UCTI are currently in the running to win top honors and cash prizes worth thousands of Ringgit after being chosen as one of the grand finalist in Software Design category of the annual Microsoft-sponsored Imagine Cup 2010 Finals in Warsaw, Poland.

They were not alone though as other Malaysian teams that accompanied them to Warsaw have also been doing quite well in a number of Imagine Cup-related events. One of them is Team Hypo of TAR College who has managed to secure 3rd place in Windows Phone 7 “Rockstar” Award while another one, Team TEC4Life of USM is one of the six finalist of the Envisioning 2020 Award.

Team HDC will be presenting creation - a health and dietary application called Project Apple - for the last time this coming Thursday, in front of a live audience at Warsaw Opera House which will determine their final standings at the event. I would like to wish them good luck and all the best! Really desire to be one of them! I will strive for it next year! Imagine Cup 2010, wait for me!! :D