And next week, the finale of the season! Will they save the world? I can't wait!! PS: The covers above can actually join up. Cool..

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MediaCorp Publishing launches Vanilla, its first women's magazine
SINGAPORE: If you have a taste for the latest trends and finds, then MediaCorp Publishing's new women's magazine "Vanilla" could hit the sweet spot.Available at newsstands from July 16, its editorial team says the magazine is focused on an enriching and inspired living.Launched on Friday, some key features of "Vanilla" include the latest in food and lifestyle, family tips, social trends, technology and wellness updates.The magazine costs S$4 and industry players believe it has a place in the women's magazine market.The editorial team's target market is, what it calls, the "Generation X" women."She's really a woman who has come into her own financially, economically, socially and the Generation X woman is the one who's been the inspiration for this magazine," says Juleen Shaw, Group Editor, MediaCorp Publishing."I think women have had to respond to their multi-faceted life, there's the career, she's a mother, she wants to balance her life with leisure, hobby, Me-time. So I think it's fabulous that we have a magazine that helps her get the maximum out of life. I think the market place is ready for such a title," says Grace Ban, Managing Director, Estee Lauder Cosmetics. - CNA/yy
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There is still space for women lifestyle magazine? Are you kidding me? the market is practically drowning with it. Why can't they just target a new market like..the gay population or something..now THAT'S a group of people thats not tapped to it full potential yet.

GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium that enables you to save and retrieve files directly from inside Windows Explorer. It literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.

For PC only: GMail Drive

There is a software for the mac users as well.

For Mac only: gDisk

The past few weeks, life has been a whirlwind.
News of us of us being transfered to the mothership hit hard among us, being unknown of what is to come. Back then with only a few weeks till our departure, the feeling of uncertainty kept glooming above us in the midst of us still rushing around with 4 magazine still in production and only finally having the last few days to pack our stuff to be moved with minutes to spare. It can be alittle daunting, coming from a small cosy publishing company to a devouring intimidating structure of business. A few day prior to the move, they welcomed us with open arms and assured us of the move, allowing us to settle down slowly as not to shock our system. We had our doubts around but we got around it well enough. For me at least. Within a week, my cubicle walls are littered with designer stuff and movie posters as deco, computer all customed fit to my needs and knowing the way around the building (although there are still some nooks and cracks i have yet to discover..). Although i do need a few cupboard for storage, I've quietly slipped in the system and settled in. I count my blessing though that i had this great opportunity which may come to a surprise, managed with ease. I'm just afraid that with all the good luck I'm getting, the bad ones might just flank me and give me a surprise attack.

Some of my colleagues however are not filling in as well as expected. New superiority or change of environment maybe the cause of it but having the sinking feeling that they won't last long saddens me most. Its been 2 1/2 year of building a brand, seeing people come and go, seeing the product grow has made me attached to its name. A sense of familiarity comforts me most, even at the most adversative situation, there is nothing i can't handle even though i almost did quit sometime ago ( another story but my closeness to the people and product made me stay).

Anyway, its already been 2 weeks and the amount of work is sufficient enough to keep on driving and swing back into action (pun intended, if you know which 2 title i do in the publishing world..) of cos without compromising of who i am and not get too caught up with multilevel structure of whatnots.


Its a brand new day. Time to get cracking and stop dwelling in the past. If we can't fit their culture in our life, we'll fit our culture into their lives instead.

...and i see that already happening . *smiles..

Now, let’s begin the tutorial :

1. Go to Google
2. Now enter the following query into the Search box.
   

   ?intitle:index.of? mp3 [artist] [title]

   Replace [artist] with the artist/singer/band you’re looking for and [title] with the song title. Just one of them also fine. For example:

   ?intitle:index.of? mp3 coldplay
   ?intitle:index.of? mp3 “simple plan”
   ?intitle:index.of? mp3 “simple plan” untitled
   ?intitle:index.of? mp3 “welcome to my life”

3. Sample search result below.

   

   If you click one of them (in this sample, I click the link inside the red rectangle), here’s what you get.

   

   Now you only need to save the file using the usual Right Click - Save As method.

HAVE FUN!

Its not everyday you'll find ads as creative as the ones above. Scary Ideas is a heaven for creative product placement or just to get a message across to the masses. Check out more here.

NO, i'm not selling out to join some occult religion.
Recently i found a web-comic site thats so f-up funny+weird that i just had to share. Check them out here.

I try often to be in an elevator at my home alone and so that i could sing my heart out as soon as the door closes.

Its like singing in a Karaoke but without the embarrassment. And best of all its got great acoustic.

Latest trailer for Transformers.

I. Can't. Wait.

My music collection was getting old and i wanted new frequencies to intune my everyday life.

Timbaland is widely known in the music industry for its remixes and creations with popular artist like Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado. Although he has came out with albums before, this one takes the cake.

In my true fanboy self - this album is bad-ass! The beat and tempo is wicked and i can see some of its songs to be an anthem in local clubs.

Below are some hightlights that are worth mentioning:

Way I Are (Feat. Keri Hilson - D.O.E.)
Hard pumping. Danceable. Sure hit in clubs. Love love love it



Give It To Me (Feat. Nelly Furtado - Justin_Timberlake)
Very "Freak on" vibe. Slow groove that grows on you.
Bounce (Feat. Dr. Dre, Missy_Elliott, Justin Timberlake)
Apocalyptic freaky missy elliot setting. Party goth vibe.
Apologize (Feat. One Republic)
A very surprising entry. Some might argue that the original by One Republic version was much better but i think this one adds more soul and levels of emotions. Endearing little ballad.
One Only (Feat. Fallout Boy)
Very Fallout Boy series for the fans of the band.
Throw It On Me (Feat. The Hives)
Arguably one of the least liked song...but i like it..i think its catchy. What do you expect of rock and hip hop?

Theres more on the album which were listenable and might grow on you over time. So definately, this compilation is da bomb. Go out there and get it!