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After news from all the neighboring country (like India or Singapore) it seems that Hong Kong will “finally” get an official Iphone distribution according to Bloomberg.

Apparently Apple has made a deal with Hutchinson to sell the Iphone in Hong Kong, which mean that the phone is likely to be distributed by Three. Although this is really nice, there’s no time frame mentioned nor precision concerning the exclusivity (or not) of that contract.

More news about the details of that distibution will certainly come as we get closer to the release date of the Iphone. Wait and See…

Alex

People have been using tattoo for a long time, and for a lot of purposes. It could be for religious, decorative, identification, or even medical purposes. Depending on time and culture, tattoo have been more of less popular. Some tattoo are pretty famous like for the famous Yakuza.

But despite the long history of tattoos, there’s always been a few regions of the body that could not be tattooed. Well as you can see here, the limit has been pushed back as Pauly Unstoppable from Canada got the world’s first Eye Tattoo.

So what’s left now ? …

Alex.

Today at All Things D conference, Steve Balmer and Bill Gates unveiled the first sneak peek at Windows 7 new interface. The successor of Windows Vista is still far away from its release, as Steve Balmer hammered a 3 years time frame during the conference. Here’s a small video of it :

Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7

Although there’s not much details, it seems that multi touch interface are quickly becoming a must in future interfaces, Surface was only the premise of a technology. Microsoft teams have decided to bring the still rather expensive technology as a standard part of the future OS.

We can bet that multitouch interface will probably become as common as our good old Mouse in the near Future.

Alex

Social networks and more particularly social bookmarks are everywhere nowadays. Any blog or site you see around is likely to be linked through that kind of network. There’s a flurry of sites, among them we can mention Del.icio.us, or Digg, but there’s many many other. Each of your reader can have his favorite network so there’s no need to really try to force him to use one or another. Furthermore, there’s so many that it can be cumbersome to list add links to all of them.

So to me the easiest is just to provide that choice to your reader. Thanks to nifty script available here and there on the net it is very easy to give the choice to your reader

So far i’ve selected two that are (there’s plenty of other but you have to make a choice):

• MadKast
• AddThis

Those two seem to me the most famous/used one, and they are quite easy to install.

As for Blogger this one is the easiest to install. First you can go to MadKast site. Be sure that you’re already identified to on your blog site. There you will be ask to provide you email. After that you can click that magic ‘Get widget’ button that will take you back to your blog administration page :

You don’t really have to give it a name, just click on it and Voila! the new widget is added to your site. Now you have a nice button on your posts.

The other one AddThis is a bit more tricky, but i find it much lighter than madcast. You can go the the site page and automatically add it as widget to your site, but it’ll be added as a plugin in the side bar, but note at the end of each post.

Now if you want to have it display at the end of each post (or anywhere else you want) it’s a little more complicated. You will need to edit you template. Here’s simple steps to do this :

1. First go here, and grab the script code for addthis. Select the look and feel of the button you like, then select next to "Where do want to put the button" select "On Blog" and finally "Blogger" for the plateform (other plateform are also available)
2. Press on "Get Your Free Button" the code should look like this :
   
   
<div><script type=’text/javascript’>addthis_url=’<data:post.url/>’; addthis_title=’<data:post.title/>’; addthis_pub=’YourUserName’;</script><script src=’http://s7.addthis.com/js/addthis_widget.php?v=12′ type=’text/javascript’></script></div>

3. Then back to your blog, go to you Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML.
4. At the top of the page you should see a link called "Download Full Template". Click on it in order to save it somewhere on your disk.

1. Now is the tricky part. Click in the text zone labelled (3) and search for Go to where you save the template and open it with you favorite Text editor, and search for some code like :

   <div class=’post-body entry-content’>    <p><data:post.body/></p>    <div style=’clear: both;‘/> <!– clear for photos floats –></div>

2. Paste the code you got previously just after the "–>". Now Click on "Save Template"

Now you should have a nice button at the end of your blog post.

Alex.

Where did it all begun ? Well at the beginning of all things there was a little spark then a huge explosion :

Wait … I’m sure we can go a little further in history and  get straight to the point.. Why this blog ?

Well the answer is quite simple. I’ve been reading other’s blogs for a long time, following various information, some could say I’m feeding on information. Well that is true. I like to know what is happening. I’m particularly interested in all the technological and geeky stuff flying around. If you read this blog you’re likely to see quite a lot on posts on that subject.

I also happen to be fond of all the little things, scripts and tips that can simplify your life. There should be quite a few post on that too tossed as the time goes.

Finally I’ll probably throw in tidbit’s of science, thoughts and anything I deem interesting.

That being said, Happy reading.