Back in the day, Polaroid was the king of on-the-go photo printing. Now the company is poised to make a comeback with the PoGo Instant Mobile Printer, an 8-ounce rechargeable printer that can print via PictBridge or by syncing with Bluetooth devices.

The PoGo produces 2×3 inch borderless photo with peel-off layer covering a sticky back. While the color quality leaves something to be desired, it’s good enough for casual use. In addition, the photos are water and scratch resistant. By using ZINK (Zero Ink) technology, which embeds clear dye crystals underneath a clear polymer overcoat and uses heat to activate color in the crystals.

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Google Chrome is now live!

From my first impression, the Google Chrome looks very great. The web pages loads almost the same speed as firefox (chrome maybe faster).

Home (Default)

The default home page (can be change at settings) is pretty cool, it will list your most visited pages and bookmarks.

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The latest internet browser named Google Chrome, put the challenges between current popular internet browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

The Chrome browser was designed to match the future generation of internet web browser with enhance graphic and multimedia support was announced in a Google Blog Yesterday.

At first, it will launch for Windows Operating System in 100 countries and the Mac and Linux versions will released after that. You can download the windows version here.

The Google Chrome is free to download. Besides that, the source code is open source so it can be modify by anyone.

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What is RSS Feeds?

Really Simple Syndication or RSS is a XML based file used to broadcasting website content such as latest news, blog post and other kind of website updates. RSS feeds can be download and read by RSS reader application. There are many RSS reader around but the most popular is NewzCrawler, FeedDemon, and Feedreader.

What is MagpieRSS?

MagpieRSS or usually called Magpie is a PHP class that can be used to parse or read RSS and Atom feeds from PHP application. Its currently supports RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0, Atom 0.3 and other most popular RSS format.

MagpieRSS works by fetching the content of RSS by specified url and saves the result to a file (called cache). The PHP programs then read the RSS content from the cache.

How can I use MagpieRSS with PHP and display it at my website?

In this post, I’ll explain two example scripts to read RSS feeds using PHP and and MagpieRSS. The first example is to read the latest news from http://www.reuters.com/ and the second example is to read the weather feed from http://weather.msn.com/.

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For about 20 years, most product store around the world is still using a single piece of paper to display their product price, weight or quantity. They used it because it was easy to use and affordable with cheap price. This is definitely not professional for the large store that has a big number of products and store owner needs extra labor for labeling purpose.

What is Electronic Shelf Labels?

Electronic Shelf Labels or ESL is a technology that is used to display price tags. It equipped with wireless technology allowing transfer the price and promotion information around the supermarket.

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