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Most of us spend a large portion of our free time glued to our couches watching TV. With this in mind, it is rather surprising to see that in the last several decades, the biggest advancements in television technology has been limited to bigger screens, thinner dimensions, and higher resolutions. LCD, Plasma, HDTV are common household names and appliances, but has it really changed the way we experience video content? Not really, and this is why the recent development of 3D TVs by major TV manufacturers has really drawn a lot of interest.

3D TV

3D TV

3D imaging technology in fact, has been around for quite a while. The stereoscope is deemed to be the birth of the 3D revolution and that was invented all the way back in 1844. The 1950s saw the rising popularity of 3D films in theathers, but that interested died off when home TVs were produced allowing people to enjoy movies in their own homes. For several decades 3D seemingly disappeared off of the face of pop culture. If it wasn’t for IMAX, it could have even been considered extinct.

2010 is the year when 3D TV is set to make a comeback. In fact, Sony has such high hopes for the format that it is predicting that more than half of its Sony 3D TV sales in 2012 will be 3D Ready. Of course, Sony’s interest in the field could be deemd biased – with their Blu-Ray players already in place to provide 3D movies and its Playstation 3 gaming console also positioned to deliver games in 3D.

There are still alot of hurdles ahead for the adoption of 3D TVs. The price is currently way above the mass market levels, so the technology will need to be made cheaper. This is a problem that most innovative products face in their early stages, so it’s not exactly the main problem at this point. The bigger hurdle currently is the requisite of 3D glasses. These bulky and hard to tolerate glasses have been improved to create a better picture quality over the previous polarized cardboard glasses, but they are still there. 3D TVs not requiring glasses of any form are being developed, but that is still some time away.

In the end, 3D TV is a welcomed arrival and despite early hurdles is bound to do well – the only question is when?

Facebook quotes – Everyone Needs Ideas Sometimes. Right?

For some time I’ve be searching the internet, hubpages and so many place for funny and creative funny Facebook quotes ideas. I find great joy changing my status on Facebook and getting a laugh each time I do. I try to update my status about 4 times a day.

Facebook quotes

My research

There are tons of websites that offer pages of advice on how to write creative Facebook quotes. I decided to divide each of these ideas into a number of categories. In this article I will discuss three; the special character, statuses with puns or smart gags and more fun and inspiring special characters

Funny Facebook Status Ideas – Example number 1 – Stars and Stripes

Example ★★★★★★★★★★★ I’ve got the stars…. now where are the stripes?

In the USA people become very patriotic after 9/11 and from then on no one was every ashamed to show they cared about their home and the people who defend it for us all year long and beyond. Showing your friends that you care while still getting them to laugh is great. With all the important patriotic holidays it’s a great way to show you really do care. The American is known all over the world even someone who isn’t living in America will know just what you are talking about.

Example Number 2 – Reality Humor

Example : I can’t decide between the “starts tomorrow” diet and the “ see-food” diet… Any Ideas?

Almost everyone has been on a diet at some point in their life… It’s not easy. And like all things in life; humor makes it so much easier. Show the funny side of dieting. This can easily brighten the day of someone who is on a very strict diet due to health or anything.

Example number 3 – The Facebook status hoax

Example: Steve is uploading a virus ████████████ 83%

Because of the many famous YouTube hoax vidoes online that were replaced a few years back; many people enjoy tricking their friends. However I wouldn’t use this on people who are new to computers you might actually confuse them and they may end up very upset.

Now go come up with your own Facebook quotes!

MSN symbols are a new kind of emoticon which is sweeping the internet, and the irony is that it has been available to everyone for many years. These emoticons and special characters are available now to copy and paste into your MSN names, statuses and chats – and the best part is that you don’t need to download them or upload them, just copy and paste.

MSN symbols

What is an MSN symbol? Within the character map of Windows operating systems there are lots of cool letters and characters that you can use to leave messages to other people. These include smileys that represent a wide range of different things, included the regular happy faces, but also things like music note symbols and characters that can express different moods or feelings.

In the past, people who use MSN could simply use the emotes and smilies that were installed on their computers inside the Windows Live Messenger software, so why should we use these types of symbol? The answer is simple. There is a growing move away from the official software that Microsoft provides, and towards online chat services such as Meebo. These services can’t access the emoticons that you have previously uploaded to your client, and so you are stuck with plain old boring icons.

Not any more! Now if you go over to the MSN symbols website you can find a huge number of different types of special alt character, and you are not just limited to chats. You can also put them into your little status bar to pass on further information to your buddies. This info could be the song that you’re listening to (use a music note symbol), what you’re doing (use a chess character) or perhaps where you are right now (with an airplane symbol)!

There are a number of other resources for different social networks on the site, which you can browse at your leisure. These include different fonts, or ways of controlling what you type. One example is a way of getting bold and underline in your Facebook chat boxes. The good thing about the alt codes is that you can also use these icons in your Facebook status and chats!

The possibilities really are endless, so why not try to be creative? You can also combine characters to form larger pictures, and paste them into comments on blogs or put them on your Myspace page. Try out some symbols for MSN now and find your favourite!

One man’s obsession with changing his Facebook status almost got him in hot water at his office yesterday – and his Facebook quotes mania nearly cost him his job. David Perry, who works in a bank in Central London, was fined by his employer and warned that if he continues to change his Facebook status at work during office hours then he could face disciplinary action and dismissal.

Facebook quotes

In one of the strangest court cases in recent history, it turned out that the employee had been accessing Facebook from work, usually not an offence, but after the business installed a timer on the network to see how long people had been spending on different websites it became clear that he had been on the social network for more than 75% of his day.

When quizzed about it, he claimed that he had not been actively using Facebook chat or looking at people’s wall posts, but merely staying logged in so that he could change his Facebook quote to something funny or original. This led to a heated argument with his employer, and the subsequent legal action. The court found in favour of the company and warned Mr Perry that as an employee he had a duty to do whatever the IT policy of his company suggested, even if he didn’t agree with it.

Mr Perry was unavailable for comment late night Thursday, but his Facebook status update read that he would appeal against the verdict and said that everyone should have access to funny Facebook quotes whenever they wanted.

Here’s an early New Year’s present for all fans of the Firefox browser – their mobile software, which has been in development for more than a year, is on the verge of being released. A lot of the talk in the world of browsers recently has been about Google and their Chrome offering, and so it is interesting to see Mozilla try to wrestle the momentum back from the internet giant.

It’s been a crazy few weeks in the browser world, with the introduction of Google Chrome browser extensions, and the fanfare surrounding them. Mozilla has taken a back seat to Google in the race to become the de-facto #2 in the race (behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer), and so they’re trying to get back in the fight through the mobile product.

What can we expect from the Firefox mobile browser?

Mozilla want its users to have as close an experience to the desktop product as possible, and so they are trying to incorporate as many different options and settings as they can. This includes tabbed browsing (which up to this point has been sorely lacking in a vast number of mobile browsers, including RIM’s Blackberry software).

What will be similar about the mobile browser?

The tabs for the browser will be found on the left hand side of the screen, with easy access to a number of open pages. There has also been a promise from the Firefox development team that this will be fast software, and not a memory hog like some mobile addons and widgets can tend to be.

Look out for the Firefox mobile browser before the year is finished! That means within five days at the latest. Stay tuned for more browser news from RockNLoad in the future, including talk about the Google Chrome browser and its current war with Internet Explorer!