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What happened to Transmeta Crusoe?

I have an old Fujitsu LifeBook P2120 which I used now as a DVD player by connecting the S-video out to my TV. While was using it to play CSI today, I noticed the Transmeta Crusoe chip decal. I almost forgotten all about that.

Remember the secretive launch of Transmeta, much like the stealth Web 2.0 startups these day? Even Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, was on board.

Linus eventually left in 2003 and in 2005 announced they are getting out of chip business.

Is Transmeta out? Not quite. They were working on a secret project again, this time for Microsoft. The idea behind the project itself is very interesting.

7 years.

Donation this Month: cwRsync

In keeping with my plan to make donation from my online earnings to opensource softwares that I use,  this month donation goes to  cwRsync.

cwRsync is a packaged rsync client and server for Windows. Rsync is an open source utility that provides incremental file transfer.You may not be familiar with this application as it is not featured widely. I only found out about it last month as well.

For the last 1 month I had been using it in the background and am very happy with the result. cwRsync solves part of the backup solution that I had been looking for.

This project deserve more attention. I’m doing my little to give it a small donation and promotion. Check it out!

Would you use an abkey?

abkey keyboard layout (click to enlarge)

A new keyboard layout from abKey.

The idea is not new. It is common knowledge that the QWERTY keyboard layout is meant to be slow! Over the years many attempts had been launched but none had much success.

Would abKey succeed where others fail?

Supporting another freeware: BlogDesk

Payday! Another Adsense check, another donation.

It feels good to be able to give back to projects and efforts that had helped me make my income. As promised it will be a regular thing.

This time I am making a small donation to BlogDesk.

BlogDesk is an offline blogging tool. It allows you to compose your blog offline and upload it to the server. Some of its most attractive featues includes

  • can manage multiple blogs
  • resize and upload images
  • templates

Look out for a full review on it in Free Biz Waresoon.

While BlogDesk may not be as feature packed as other blogging clients, it is lite and does the job for me.

BlogDesk is developed by Johannes Oppermann, a very helpful guy. I counted in my mailbox 50 email exchanges where he tried to help me with an upload problem. Truely he deserves your support.

If you are looking for offline blogging tools, definitely give BlogDesk a try.

My previous donations

My Solar Charging Ideas

I was so intrigued by the solar vest idea that I went further to look at the viability of some ideas based on this. It is relatively easy in China to get prototype done up by some factories.

Since I take my notebook around, I had the idea of solar charging for notebook.
The solar cell could go onto the notbook case ot even on the cover itself.

I did a quick mock up with my HP nc4000 and my ZeroShock cover.

Solar chargin HP nc4000 Solar charging Zero Shock notebook cover


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