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The internet crashed during Steve Jobs keynote, which didn’t even happen during Bill Gate’s last speech a week ago. Big service provider websites have crashed during the keynote such as Twitter, StumbleUpon and CrunchGears. They couldn’t handle weight of all Apple fans trying to know the latest from Apple and as soon as possible.

Apple announced the new MacBook Air, an uber ultra-portable notebook. But the problem people are bitching about all over the blogosphere is the battery built-in(Up to 5 hours), you have to hand over your MacBook to Apple to replace the battery if anything happened to it. However, Macbook Air supports multi-touch pad, bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, and 802.11n WiFi. Ultimately, it will only cost $120 to change the battery but I don’t think people would like to hand over their laptop and not using it for few days, especially with all these geeks out there wanting to touch it! This beauty machine will cost around $1,800 and add like $20 for extra add-ons. I think it is cheap for an environment-friendly laptop with mercury free LCD! totally recyclable. Actually, there are different prices for different options, you can preorder it at Apple Store.

I’m sure you all heard, I think, that Bill Gates is stepping down this July from being a Microsoft CEO to a retired IT Ninja. Anyway, in his last keynote speech, at CES 2008, he introduced Microsoft Surface, a new cutting-edge surface computing. Amazingly designed user interface and way too stunning, at least for me as I love technology, with hilarious most-eye bubbling, I don’t make sense anymore, and I can’t wait to have one of these computer surfaces to study in it rather than studying in my boring woodish desk.

Technology has gone too far as the surface computer was able to recognize physical objects and interact with it. As demonstrated in the website, you can put your cell phone in the surface and a circular menu around the cell phone pops up that interacts with fingers. The video also shows how you can shuffle easily through countless photos, music, movies… by the tip of your finger!

If you are a web developer you’ll know how important WYSIWYG text editors for anyone’s website. Usually based on JavaScript — call it Ajax or DHTML it doesn’t matter — you can have a text box in where the user enter whatever to submit and he/she can edit the font color and style, add pictures, and insert a link without writing the HTML code for it. In addition, you can see what you did in real time just like word processing program! This technique is ‘kinda’ old but these WYSIWYG is getting more complex lately. The UI of WYSIWYG is much better now than how it used to look like few years back.

Deziner Folio published a new article that shows a variety of WYSIWYG applications for Drupal CMS.

P.S: WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get.
UI = User Interface, lately is being called UX which refers to User Experience.

Now it’s the 1st of Mu-Harram, 1429 AH and since Mu-Harram is the first month of the Islamic Hijri Lunar Calendar guess what?… It’s an Islamic New Year! God bless you all. So the busy days of Ashura has started and I still have a final exam to take, presentation to present, and a project to turn on.

Bill Gate asking to be a candidate mate! I wonder if he will run for president in 2012!

RedmondDeveloper News has recently published an interview with James Gosling, the creator of the Java programming language. He talks about JavaFX, the technology that will compete Flash and Silverlight. He is in the developer team of JavaFX and in his perspective:

If you look at something like Flash, when you get to the much more advanced stuff — with richer interfaces, more complex network protocols, more complex APIs — it really falls short.

I can’t say if I agree or not. I haven’t worked with JavaFX yet, it’s not even out yet.

Vegas today is so smelly with BOs and sweats from all those people attending CES 2008 and the web is floating with new products and news from CES. Engadget is taking the lead to provide all the latest from CES 2008 in their blog. Let’s fasten the seat belt and check out all the waves of new unveiled gadgets at CES 2008. Geeks!

Bill Gates will give the opening keynote speech for the International Consumer Electronics Show within few hours from now. It is expect that this speech will be last speech for Bill Gates since he is going to step down from the CEO role at Microsoft later this year. Holy cow!

For more information check it out here.

Note: I did a post before this. I totally forgot about the Silence Day.