via Broken Kode

Here are the new 7 wonders of the world based on an online vote. Even though the final seven are deserving of the title, I don’t know if an online vote is a real indicator of the 7 wonders of the world, especially when wonders like the pyramids of Egypt are missing.

Great Wall of China

PHOTO BY: Eugene Wei

Petra in Jordan

PHOTO BY: Luby Lu

Brazil’s statue of Christ the Redeemer

PHOTO BY: Daryl Sng

Peru’s Machu Picchu

PHOTO BY: Michael McDonough

Mexico’s Chichen Itza pyramid

PHOTO BY: Rafael Ludwig

The Colosseum in Rome

PHOTO BY: David Doyle

India’s Taj Mahal

PHOTO BY: Prakhar Amba

The way Google Reader sorts posts has been bothering me for a while now. When you set the sort order to newest, instead of sorting by either the post’s publish date or update date, Google Reader sorts the posts by the data and time when the posts were read from the feed. Maybe some people like to look at posts this way, but I prefer to see it sorted by published date, kind of like how email is sorted by sent date and time.

I wonder what the Google developers were thinking sorting the posts this way, I mean as a user do you really care when Google Reader read the feed? This seems like a basic feature, and many users have raised this issue in the forums, but looks like Google developers are either not listening or just slacking off!! I hope they will soon provide at least the option to sort by either post published date or updated date.

Apple Inc. sold about 525,000 iPhones at Apple and AT&T Inc. stores in the first weekend since its June 29 launch, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday, citing an analyst. - Reuters

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Well not really, I just wanted to say that! If you are thinking this post is about the iPhone I just bought after standing in a line for more than 12 hours, then it’s not. I just don’t have that urge or patience to be the first one to get my hands on something uber cool. Will I get one? Maybe, as long as I don’t have to switch to AT&T and a two year contract! In the short term, the only way that will be possible is if either someone finds a way to unlock the iPhone or Apple starts selling an unlocked iPhone.

If switching to AT&T is what’s preventing you form getting an iPhone, then you only need to worry if you are a T-Mobile customer. In the US, AT&T and T-Mobile are your primary GSM carriers, so if you are not with T-Mobile, then you might as well go ahead and get the iPhone. You really don’t have any other option. A CDMA iPhone will probably not happen for a while. I am sure the AT&T Apple contract probably has made sure this will not happen. So if you are a Verizon or Sprint customer, even an unlocked iPhone will not work for you.

In other iPhone news, Duncan Riley of TechCrunch thinks the iPhone does not use a SIM card, “However be aware that the iPhone does not support simcards”.

According to the spec, the iPhone is a quad-band GSM phone, so unless Apple came up with some new standard for GSM, I would expect the phone to use a SIM card.

Finally I leave you with, NADD and iPhone RDF

Photo By Kevin Wong

Via Flickr

In the blue corner, WebJackhole starts things off with this post about the lousy Kongregate’s forum design, I paid up the ass for HappyCog and all I got was this lousy forum. In the red corner, Jason Santa Maria, the Happy Cog designer behind the lousy design, shoots back this response:

Ahhh, blogs are so wonderful. Since it’s so easy, why don’t you send it to them. Surely that would have taken considerably less time than writing your lengthly diatribe above. It also would have been much more productive.

BumpTop, looks like the future of desktop, I will let the video do the talking. The Serious Version The Funny Version via cameronmoll

Sprint’s Talking Points Guide for Sales and Customer Care on how to tackle the iPhone craze that’s going to hit this Friday. Here is a sample of what’s in the Guide:

• Using the iPhone on the GSM/EDGE network maybe like having a really powerful computer on dial up.
• Any music phone from Sprint lets you download songs instantly – out of thin air.
• With the MotoQ, you can use the money you save to pay for the monthly service
• The iPhone is an Apple product and has some nice features. It also has a nice price. Do you really need all those features in one device?