Now Google Earth with Features Rome Reborn 2.0

How did people live thousands of years ago? The University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities asked this exact same question. As a result, they decided to digitally rebuild the revolutionary city of Rome during the peak of its development (around A.D. 320 - the time of Constantine The Great). They figured this would be the best way to try and understand how humans lived so long ago.

The very first version of the Rome Reborn product went under construction 10 years ago, and finally the task had finished at last year. Included in it were 250 highly detailed structures, and a total of over 7,000 structures in all. They used a 1:250 scale model of Rome that took forty years to create (from 1933 to 1973). This smaller scale Rome was actually constructed out of Plaster of Paris. Using laser scanners they scanned the Plaster of Paris model and created the virtual model. The original use of this model was to be utilized in a theater at UCLA. Since last year the Rome Reborn Project has seen many faces, it’s most recent being Rome Reborn 2.0 which improved the detail significantly. Google had joined in and offered to include Rome Reborn in Google Earth.

With Rome Reborn in Google Earth, it’s the equivalent of a virtual time machine, which can be used to study the history of Rome and other great cities of the world. If you currently have Google Earth, you can enjoy touring ancient Rome. You can also go in them, and enter areas like the Colosseum and even the Roman Senate. With more time, more information will be added researches believe. They also hope that by pioneering this research into the past - other researchers will catch some inspiration and create 3D models of other forgotten cities.

Does Chrome Frame have a target audience?

Google launched Chrome Frame last week. It’s a browser plug in for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser that, if the website you’re visiting prefers so, turns it into Chrome. At first glance, this looked to me like a great solution and a well-deserved slap in the face for Internet Explorer, but then it hit me. Nobody will use this.

Recent versions of IE aren’t so bad. They’re slow, look a little silly and are still not as safe as the alternatives, but they render most pages OK enough. The real issue to us developers is the continued market share of IE6. If you’d add up all the money spent supporting IE6 in new, innovative web projects I’m sure you could save the economy of a small 3rd world country.

However IE6’s current user base is made up out of two types of users. Corporate employees who are not allowed to install or modify the software on their company computer, and people who don’t give a damn. If you care even a little and are allowed to upgrade your browser you have a better browser, if only for the tabs. Neither of these two groups will be likely to install Chrome Frame. Sad as it is, Frame offers no real solution to what is a very real problem.

10 Temporary Disposable Email Services

There are several free temporary disposable email services, however we will list the top 10 services, that allow you to create temporary disposable email services that you can use for a minimum of 10 minutes and a maximum of 24 hours.

MyTrashMail – Probably the most advanced temporary disposable email service provider, MyTrashMail allows you to create temporary email addresses, forward emails to your real inbox, get your emails as a RSS feed and use a toolbar for Firefox and Internet Explorer, to quickly create temporary disposable email addresses.

Temporary Inbox – Allows you to create a temporary disposable inbox with a email address ending with @temporaryinbox.com, the emails in your account will be deleted after 6 hours.

YOPMail – YOPMail is a unique disposable email service, where you can create email addresses without even visiting the site, simply use ‘anyusername’@yopmail.com while signing up at forums or websites and emails to your account will be received at a yopmail account. To view the emails visit yopmail.com and enter the username you used to check the emails in your temporary inbox. Make sure to choose a unique name, since all the emails can be accessed by practically anyone who types in the username into yopmail.com.

Spamgourmet – Spamgourmet allows you to create a shield above your actual email address, once you create a account, new emails allowing at your spamgourmet account will be forwarded to your actual email address.

10 Minute Mail – Like the name suggests, you will be able to create temporary disposable email addresses that will work for 10 minutes, pretty useful when you want to validate your forum account.

MintEmail - MintEmail.com gives you a three hour temporary email address, pretty useful when you want to validate your forum account.

MailCatch - MailCatch is an another disposable email service that allows you to create temporary disposable mailboxes, in a completely anonymous way.

MailExpire - Mailexpire is still the simplest, cleanest way for you to keep your inbox spam-free. Mailexpire allows you to create a free email alias for yourself. For a period you choose, from 12 hours to 3 months, anything sent to this email alias will be passed on to you at your actual email address.

NowMyMail – NowMyMail is another service which will allow you to create temporary disposable email addresses.

TempEmail – TempEMail is The place where you get a Free, Temporary, Disposable, Anonymous,

email address, keeping your own email address Spam and Virus Free.

Samsung Reveals First Google Android Phone

Samsung has now officially announced the i7500.


The phone all has support for most of the network bands out there. There is quad-band EDGE and dual-band HSDPA. On the memory front, we have an adequate (not colossal!) 8GB of capacity. The display is a largish 3.2-inch capacitive OLED one. On the imaging front, we have a well-equipped 5-megapixel camera. Apart from these, there are the usual stuff that includes WiFi, Bluetooth
and GPS.

As for the OS, it will feature the latest version of Android (cupcake!). A 528Mhz Qualcomm CPU does the number crunching inside. At 11.9 mm thick, the phone is compact and is lightweight. And yes, it is coming this June!

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SAYA- The world’s first Robo Teacher

SAYA is the world’s first robo teacher appointed in Japan in March 2009.

This robot is created by a science Professor Hiroshi Kopayashi. With a toiled work, the professor took 15 years to design this robot. The professor had already designed many robots such as ‘Face robots’, ‘Receptionist robots’ and so on. He had also published many journals on face robots and artificial muscles of robots.

This robos face is designed like a typical japanese girl. It also performs as a well trained receptionist in requirement. The students enjoy the class as it gives a new experience for them.

This robo not only takes class, but also registers the attendance. This robo can show the feelings like a human. It can exhibit happiness, fear, hatred, excitement, worry and anger. For exhibiting the feelings it is fixed with 18 motors. Instantly, the robot is made to work at a school in Tokyo for test. If it hits, the robot will be made to work as a full time teacher” – says the Japan researchers.

The humanoid was actually designed to replace a variety of workers, including secretaries, in a bid to allow firms to cut costs while still retaining some kind of human interaction.