Noah Edelstein stopped by and gave Channel 10 a first look at the Mac client for Live Mesh, so now if you've got some electro-diversity in your home ecosphere, you can drag & drop, share & push all your files to your other machines just like the I'm a PC folks. If you're already a Live Mesh user, this will be a familiar look for you, although some of the UI has been tweaked to conform with Mac norms. If you're dying to get your Mesh on your Mac, head over to mesh.com and sign-up, so that you'll be ready to be a part of this limited release once it goes live later today.

First Look: Live Mesh Client for Mac

Ori and some other folks from the mesh team decked out his car with a custom display and PC, controlled with touch, voice, a Griffin Powermate and Live Mesh! Because his car is 'on the Mesh', Ori can sync his music automatically, and even send an invite to his mechanic to view his telemetry and diagnostics in real time. With the built in navigation he can even share his location with people through Mesh.

Ori Amiga's MeshMobile - Very Cool!

According to this post on the Windows Live Dev Team blog, starting today, Windows Live ID is publicly committing to support the OpenID digital identity framework - GREAT! OpenID, in case you don’t know, is a decentralized framework for authenticating users across the web. For sites that support OpenID, users can choose to log in with their OpenID instead of having to create yet another account and then have to remember a username and password. With OpenID, instead, there’s only one thing to remember: your OpenID.

To get an OpenID, there are already a ton of mainstream channels you can use. For example, if you have an account at one of the following services, you already have an OpenID:

AOL - openid.aol.com/screenname

Blogger - username.blogger.com

Bloglines - d.bloglines.com/username

Flickr - www.flickr.com/photos/username

LiveDoor - profile.livedoor.com/username

LiveJournal - username.livejournal.com

Vox - member.vox.com

Yahoo - http://openid.yahoo.com

WordPress.com - username.wordpress.com

There are many others, too, and even if you don’t have an account at any of those services, there are a ton of places where you can sign up to get an OpenID of your own.

Now that Windows Live is supporting OpenID, you will soon be able to use your Windows Live ID as your OpenID!

Those interested in testing the new Windows Live ID Integration environment can do so here: https://login.live-int.com/beta/ManageOpenID.srf where you can set up your OpenID alias on a test account. However, it’s recommended that this is used for test purposes only. Users are encouraged to wait to set up their Live ID OpenIDs until the service goes into production.

A company called Celiocorp has launched a completely different take on the netbook phenomenon. Instead of offering a lightweight computer running either Linux or XP like today’s netbooks do, this notebook PC is entirely powered by a device you already own: your smartphone. Dubbed a “mobile companion,” the Redfly device has an 8-inch screen, a full-sized keyboard and touch pad, and is connected to your smartphone via a USB cable or Bluetooth.

To use the Redfly notebook, all you need to do is install the Redfly driver on your phone (see supported phones here). You can then use the netbook like any computer. Its bigger screen makes it easier to read documents, write emails, or surf the web. Redfly supports remote desktop, virtualization and other cloud-based environments like Citrix, GoToMyPC, LogMeIn, Microsoft’s Remote Desktop protocol, stoneware, inc., and others. The netbook also features a VGA connector so you can connect your Redfly netbook to a projector for presentations.

As you use the Redfly device, you can be charging your smartphone too, assuming it’s plugged in via the USB cable. The Redfly battery works for up to 8 hours, according to the company.

This is a very cool device!!

Nick.

TOKYO - A 43-year-old player in a virtual game world became so angry about her sudden divorce from her online husband that she logged on with his password and killed his digital persona, police said.

The woman, who has been jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his ID and password to log onto the popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out the virtual murder in May, a police official in the northern city of Sapporo said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of department policy.

"I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry," the official quoted her as telling investigators and admitting the allegations.

She has not yet been formally charged. If convicted, she could face up to five years in prison or a fine up to US$5,000.

Bizzar!! – Full article here.

Motorheads as well as those with a professional interest in cars are flocking to CarJam, the spare-time brainchild of two security software specialists.

CarJam is a vehicle information search engine for the New Zealand motorist, would be motorist hoping to buy a car or just the plan curious who want to see what mileage their old vehicle has been doing and generally research things starting simply with the rego.

Simpy enter the registration details, and you can receive the following information -

HOLDEN COMMODORE 2002 (in Red)

Plate: Current Rego

• Make: HOLDEN
• Model: COMMODORE
• Year: 2002
• Submodel: ACCLAIM SEDAN AUTO
• Main colour: Red
• Vehicle type: Passenger Car/Van
• Body style: Saloon
• No of seats: 5
• CC rating: 3,791
• Fuel type: Petrol
• Power: 152kW
• Assembly type: Imported Built-Up
• Country of origin: Australia
• Imported damaged: Find out by purchasing the report
• Reported stolen: Find out by purchasing the report

Identification

• VIN: Find out by purchasing the report
• Plate: Current Rego
• Engine no: Engine Number

Economy, safety and pollution

• Transmission: 4-gear automatic

Ownership information

Find out by purchasing the report

Security interests

Find out by purchasing the report

Licence

• Licence expiry: 2008, October 31st (expires in 1 week)
• Latest licence issued on: 2007, November 5th at 09:31
• Licence type: Licence
• Continuous licence: Yes

Registration

• Registration status: Active
• Vehicle usage: Private Passenger
• Cause of latest registration: New
• Date of first registration in New Zealand: 2002, November 1st
• Date of last registration: 2002, November 1st
• Registered overseas: No

Plates history

Plate
Effective date

Current rego

2003, September 25th

Old rego
2002, November 1st

Warrant of fitness (WOF)

The WOF expires in 11 months (23rd September 2009). Last inspection was successful on 23rd September 2008.

Miscellaneous information

• Gross vehicle mass: 1,519kg
• Maximum rated towed mass: 1,200kg (for unbraked trailer) and 2,100kg (for braked trailer)
• No of axles: 2
• Front axle group rating: 1033
• Rear axle group rating: 1200

Odometer history

• Is odometer reliable?: Find out by purchasing the report
• Latest odometer reading: 72,829 Km (on 2008, September 23rd, source: WOF Inspection)
• Latest usage: 31.38 Km/day (11,422 Km/year)

Reading, Km
Date
Source or reason
Usage (avg), Km/day/year

72,829
2008, September 23rd
WOF inspection
31.38/11,422

etc

Well this could be a great job… or a damn scarey one! :-)

Domestic travellers leaving Melbourne Airport over the next six weeks will be asked to test new security scanners that can see through clothing.

The scanner uses a low energy X-ray to reveal any objects, metal or otherwise, under a person's clothing, including body features. The testing will be entirely voluntary during the trial, which is being undertaken to test how the new scanners would affect the flow of passengers through the security point.

Full article is here.

 

Remote Gaming: Play YOUR Xbox from anywhere in the world!

Imagine...you are on a trip to Yawnsville, USA and you find yourself bored in your hotel room. Wouldn't it be GREAT if you just had your 360 with you and you could finish that level in Dead Space? Well, Vircion is going to make that possible. With their new product called Sero- you can tap into your console at home and access all your media and games with just a regular internet connection. You'll be able to finish that game you were playing and even jump into an online game and play with friends.

The amazing WorldWide Telescope had a lot of hype pre-launch but we haven’t heard much about in recent days. Although now the WWT is being used by a number of astronomers, scientists, students, and space enthusiasts across the globe, the Microsoft Virtual Earth team decided to give it a little more exposure to the general public. To do so, they’re going to include a little WWT in Virtual Earth.  So, in latest release of the Virtual Earth 3D control, the Virtual Earth team has now included the accurate placement of stars in space. Cool - now we have Earth and Sky in Virtual Earth!

The upcoming My Movies plugin for Windows Home Server has a lot of people excited. Already available for Windows Media Center users, the plugin will soon allow Home Server users to organize their extensive movie collections and use their Home Server as more of a media server. According to a new post on the We Got Served blog, the plugin will function as a standard server for My Movies clients, will include an automated “Disc Copier,” will automatically monitor movie folders added to or located on a WHS share, and will function as a metadata provider without the need for a My Movies client for Microsoft DVD library, Niveus Movie Library, Open Media Library, Media Portal, and hopefully soon XBMC. The plugin isn’t available in its final form just yet, but if you just can’t wait to try it out, a pre-release version is now available for download from here.