Titan is a fantastic theme, now available on WordPress.com. It’s a highly readable, clean theme, with lots of options: four widget areas, a customizable header, and more.
Titan
An enticing color scheme and loads of customization make Titan a wonderful theme for you blog. To start things off the header has some nice social networking and RSS links, making it easy for users to keep up with your blog.
Right below the title is a highly customizable header. There are options to turn on and off categories and pages, allowing you to choose how users navigate your blog.
Titan's Header Options
Aiding in even more customization are four widget areas, including a nice footer widget area.
Titan's Footer Widget Area
Titan was designed by Drew Strojny and is available in the WordPress.org Themes Directory.
"The Sumatran montane rain forests are home to both Amorphophallus titanum, which grows on a stalk that measures more than 2 meters (m) tall, and the parasitic Rafflesia arnoldii, which produces the largest flower in the world (up to 1 m wide). Sumatra's montane forests are also home to some of the most endangered species in the Indo-Pacific region. The Sumatran rhinoceros, tiger, and Sumatran rabbit all inhabit these forests."
- Kamilah GillI've never seen a Titan Arum blooming, but my wife and older 2 girls have: http://ourdoings.com/brlewis/2004-07-08
- Bruce LewisThat's really cool, Bruce :)
- Kamilah GillDue to potential problems in brake pedal pins and fuel-gauge components, Nissan is recalling 540,000 cars, 179,000 of which are in the US. The recall affects Titan, Armada, Quest and Infiniti QX56 vehicles built between 2008 and 2010. Nissan said there were three cases of of brake pedal pins partially disengaging but "no accidents or injuries have been reported". [BBC]
The Asus PG276 massive 3D monitor marks the Taiwanese titan’s next big step into the next dimension. It’s already got a 3D laptop on the market, but later this year you’ll be able to bag a 3D, full HD 27-inch display that’ll put your expensive iMac screen to shame. Read on for what we know so far.
Asus has been cranking out new goodies at a relentless pace this week at CeBIT, and the latest lustworthy gizmo off the factory line is the Asus PG276: a 27-inch monitor with NVIDIA 3D Vision support. It may not look quite as tasty as Asus’ out there Designo MS display, but its dual link DVI connection will allow for full HD at 60 frames per second, so you won’t notice any stutter with the goggles on.
Asus eee PC 1018P aluminium netbook official!
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Despite no reported accidents or injuries, here's everything you need to know about the big Nissan recall announced today.
540,000 cars have been recalled by Nissan Motor over faulty brake pedal issues that may also affect the fuel gauge.
As the AFP reports this morning, the recall covers "the Titan, Armada and Infiniti QX56 built from 2005 to 2008, and the Frontier, Pathfinder and Xterra produced between January and March 2006 and between October 2007 and January 2008." The brake pedals could have faulty components that can cause the pedals to wobble, AFP reported.
The WSJ notes that the move comes on the heels of Nissan recalling more than 70,00 vehicles in Japan over engine electric cables. The vast majority of vehicles, some 418,865, are U.S. models.
Here's more from the AFP: "Vehicles at higher mileage levels may have fuel gauges which incorrectly indicate the amount of fuel in the tank. This may result in the vehicle running out of fuel while the gauge reads greater than empty."
Nissan said the problem were caused by its suppliers.
I caught this press release and thought of you, dear reader.
Well, maybe not you… but there are, I guess, hundreds of Transformers fans reading Mobile Industry Review. I kid ye not. I think it’s a generational thing. I’ll give you an idea of just how fanatical some of you are about Transformers: About 2 years ago, I was in Tesco with some readers. I won’t bore you with *why* I was in Tesco, I just was. One of the chaps with me spied a toy on display out of the corner of his eye. It was a Transformers AutoBot. A piece of plastic.
“Errr,” he said, “I, errr…” and he picked it up.
I looked at him for some kind of explanation.
“I’m, errr, I’m just a big fan,” he said. He bought the toy and then proceeded to educate me in the ways of Transformers. Although it’s ostensibly the subject of a children’s toy range and television programme, there’s apparently a huge backstory that is of significant appeal to science fiction fans around the planet.
So it’s with no small amount of delight, Transformers fans, that I tell you Titan Publishing has released the first of it’s super-smart Comics for iPhone. In this first edition, Transformers author, Simon Furman, gives the exclusive background to the characters in the blockbuster movie, detailing Optimus Prime’s desperate battle with Megatron’s forces.
You remember now, right? Optimus Prime is the goodie. Megatron’s the baddie.
Some screenshots:
And the direct link to the iPhone App Store: Transformers UK
The app is unfortunately only available in the UK and Ireland — plus if you’ve got anything other than an iPhone/iPod (and possibly a Sony PSP), you’re totally and utterly screwed because the developer, like most, is iFascist — i.e. doesn’t care about other mobile platforms. Hopefully that will change in time.
Design titan Karl Lagerfeld has partnered with German luxury safe maker Döttling, to create the ultimate safe to keep your designer possessions. The bespoke safe titled “Narcissus,” stands six-feet tall and less than a foot deep with stainless steel body, sheathed in high-gloss chrome-plated aluminum for an invincible build. And when activated the doors flung open to reveal interior cabinets containing watch winders and jewelry drawers. Only 30 models will be made to make it even more desirable, with a price tag of or $339,000, and the first one will be owned by the designer himself, giving his love for bespoke trunks, including his custom Louis Vuitton iPod carrying case trunk (below) that is designed to hold his collection of 20 iPods, one charger, JBL iPod speakers and a subwoofer.
Last night a glitch in Facebook caused a limited number of users to have their Facebook inbox exposed to other users. While a Facebook rep is quoted in the article as saying that their engineers already diagnosed the problem and are working on it, it begs the question of why such buggy code updates got through in the first place, as they violate users’ privacy.
The bug is said to only affect a small slice of early-adopter Facebook users who also attended Harvard University. Some users started receiving Facebook notifications in their regular email inboxes that were clearly not for them. At least one person received “hundreds” of notifications (as pictured in the image above which was posted to Twitpic).
Now, it’s no secret that Facebook pushes out multiple changes regularly. Sure, bugs do occasionally slip through the cracks, but when it’s of this nature, that’s not acceptable. Facebook likes to refer to its Engineering team, but as a veteran code developer myself, it makes me wonder how much engineering QA (Quality Assurance) is being done on these changes? Code that works doesn’t suddenly not work if you have proper “test suites” in place.
In comparison with 400+ million users, the number of affected users is certainly small, but is this sort of bug acceptable in a production system, especially when privacy violations are at issue? If Facebook does publish its rumored Titan email client, will this be acceptable? Is Facebook, with only about 1,000 staff members, pushing too hard with regular changes and thus cutting corners? Where are the various Product Managers in the QA process? This isn’t the first time that Facebook has had inbox issues.
The worst part about this bug: at least a few users were locked out of their Facebook accounts while engineers look at the problem. Then again, not accessing Facebook is probably better than having your inbox exposed. See Alley Insider for more information about the Facebook bug.
One thing about space science posters is they are usually not designed very well. You see them in high schools or universities and often use back-dated images from missions dating back 30 years… or worse… they are badly illustrated with no relation to what these bodies actually look like. For this reason, I had always thought it would be a great project to make some well-designed posters of the planets that feature the amazing images we now have of them from modern missions.
Sure enough someone comes along and knocks the whole system out in one fantastic series. They are each available for sale, but the funny thing about doing one for each planet is that you will not likely have too many takers for Uranus or even Pluto. However, the design on some of these makes it pretty tempting to grab them up just for the pretty.
I would be a rube to not include Saturn. But the exclusion of the Galileans at Jupiter, no Charon on the Pluto poster and the absence of Titan here on the Saturn poster has me wondering if there is a moon series in the works? If so, put me down for a copy of Io.
AFP - Google and opponents and supporters of its digital book project have sparred in court as the judge hearing the case pressed the Internet titan about its plan to offer millions of books online.
A new white paper, published by Merkle Inc., suggests that social media users are more likely to check their email inboxes than people who do not use social media. The study, conducted in Fall 2009, had several interesting findings. While many reports have suggested that Facebook and other social networks are replacements to email, this report would suggest that users are much more likely to use both products together.
As eMarketer suggests, some of the interesting findings of the report include:
The study suggests a few reasons why social networkers are actually checking their regular email inboxes more often, despite other reports indicating that social media is replacing email. One strong possibility is that social media account notifications are sent to regular inboxes. Most sites allow this to be turned off but often have it as a default setting. Another possibility has to do with the wider use of mobile email access amongst “younger” social media users, coupled with the fact that the same age group tends to be more active on social media sites than their older counterparts.
Could another possibility be the fact that most social networking sites, while offering some sort of “inbox,” are sorely lacking in important email features? Maybe this is something that Facebook changes with their rumored in-the-works Titan email client. It’ll be interesting to see how such a social media-based email client affects the use of regular email.
In a move that is either desperate or earth-shaking, Intel and Nokia are teaming up for their mobile operating system, taking the tablet-based UI of Nokia’s Maemo and attaching it to the foundation of Intel’s Moblin to form Omega Prime MeeGo.
Like its parents, MeeGo is an open source, Linux-based system designed for mobile computing, including tablets, netbooks, handhelds, in-vehicle devices, mobile TVs, and phones, as well as low-powered stationary devices like nettops. The app development environment is based on Qt and will be deployed through both Nokia’s Ovi Store and Intel’s AppUp center.
Obviously with such powerhouses backing the project, MeeGo is bound to shake up the mobile computing environment. On the other hand, it may take something this big just to keep either titan from being squeezed out of the mobile OS market. Mobile computing lately has been all about ARM, Android, and Apple. Intel and Nokia need a grand move to get into that lineup. We’ll have to wait and see if this will do it.
