Make-up trends 2010

Interview with Mac top make-up artist Gordon Espinet

Adversus meets Mac top make-up artist Gordon Espinet during the Fashion Week SS 2010 in Milano. Espinet explains us the main make-up trends and moods for spring/summer 2010. The make-up is going to be 'cool and effortless'. (Photo: Backstage Fashion Show Ermanno Scervino Summer 2010)

Effortless make-up
'I think that there is a sense of make-up for the coming season that looks 'effortless'. It is not about a lot of make-up but it's all about a lot of impact.' Last season we saw a lot of smokey eyes, well defined lips and constructed looks. 'This season it is more like having one single product that stands out', explains Espinet.

Cool and simple
Effortless make-up with a strong impact. To reach this effect we focus on one element in the face. 'Whether it is a bright lip or a strong eye, or a liner. The idea of make-up being glamorous at all costs is gone. It is more make-up with the focus on cool, on simplicity. The make-up for 2010 is cool but strong', says Espinet.

'It's weird', adds Espinet, 'that Milan this season seems to be the city of lips. I say weird because when I think of Milan, I think of it as the city of eyes. Everybody usually uses dark make-up in the Italian fashion capital. But there has been something going on. A lot of designers focused on lips this season.'

Strong women, strong faces
Lips or eyes, at the end it's all about a mix of impact. 'I think of the women in Helmut Newton's photographs. They are tough and strong, but not really made-up. But they stand out because they have great lips, intense eyes. Or think of the photographs of Steve Hiett in the 80's. It is really about leaving the girls look like themselves with this element of something going on on their face...

2010 Hair Mode

Contemporary

This piece still rely layer technique (coated). Hair length is only the tip of the neck, the hair cut around the face tapering to produce the impression 'fall' and random. Add the wax so that the layer is clearly visible. This piece fits to streamline face shape.
Retro style 60's
Remember the super-thin model Twiggy? Bob style irregular length under the jaw is characteristic. The essence of this piece is cut shorter and shorter hair near neck. This style is suitable for your straight hair or hair to add volume.
Trendyretro
Haircut is cut flat your hair around the neck, and increase the volume on the head. Bangs trimmed just above the eyebrows.
Mad
This piece resembles the style of punk kids. With a layer that does not irregular, long hair on the back, besides a very short, and long bangs to cover some of the face. This piece is very opposed to conventional style of a beautiful arrangement. You need extra confident with this haircut.
Rock
It accommodates haircut for curly hair. Short pieces by Layer technique, easy to set up, simply use the wax, and trim them by hand to get the impression that the natural curls. (Female First)

The first browser for mobile phones from mozilla

Mozilla has been steadily creeping toward its goal of releasing the first Firefox browser for mobile phones. On Friday, Firefox 1.0 for Nokia's Maemo--previously code-named Fennec--arrived.

Firefox for the Maemo 5 platform has a few interesting conceits that set it apart from other mobile browsers, like Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. Mozilla is banking on the uniqueness of its claim to fame--third-party, customizable browser extensions--to help its browser win mobile market share. Add-ons, after all, helped make Firefox the top browser alternative to Internet Explorer in the desktop space. To punctuate the importance of add-ons for Firefox's mobile browser, Mozilla also pushed out on Friday the general release of its bookmark and history-syncing extension, Weave Sync 1.0, for both desktop and mobile.

Mozilla's accomplishment with a mobile version of Firefox is a mixed one, and not only because Maemo is a platform relatively few people have heard of. Nokia's open-source, Linux-based Maemo operating system supports mobile Firefox on just two devices--the N900 and the N810, an Internet tablet. To make matters more limited, just two days ago Mozilla unveiled a third release candidate with a last-minute decision to pull wholesale support for Adobe's Flash plug-in from the build, citing unhappiness with the overall standard of quality. As an aside, this is apparently a sore spot for Adobe, who became miffed with Apple for excluding Flash in its new iPad device about the same time that Mozilla made its comment about degraded performance when visiting Flash sites.

Yet what kind of mobile browser would Firefox be if users couldn't watch videos or adequately view Web sites that heavily rely on Flash? Not a browser anyone could take seriously.As a workaround, Mozilla has released an add-on called YouTube enabler, that early adopters can install to view YouTube videos. Mozilla is hoping to work out other solutions for those who are wary of optionally installing the Flash plug-in, but still want to see select Flash-based content.

Luckily for Mozilla, a relatively small sliver of the mobile phone-toting population actually has one of the two compatible devices, so there's time to smooth out Firefox before it matures on another mobile platform. Windows Mobile is slated to be next, with Android to follow. You can download Firefox 1.0 for Maemo here, and read more details in Mozilla's blog post.

firefox in the mobile

mozilla, recently has issued a mobile browsing. mozilla has confirmed that you can now get a mobile version of it's popular browser on Friday.

However, before you hunt for the download button on your phone, it's currently only available on the Maemo operating system found on the Nokia N900.

"Starting today, the Nokia N900 owners can enjoy many of the same Firefox features they know and love on the desktop on their mobile devices," said the foundation in a blog post.

Key features dedicated to the mobile offering accordig to mozilla include the lack of a need to type and the promise of seamless synchronization with desktop Firefox.

The browser is also the first mobile web browser to support add-ons allowing you to personalize the experience on your mobile as you would on your desktop. There are currently over 40 add-ons for the mobile version for Maemo.

The N900 Maemo version is available to download from Firefox.com / mobile

There is no confirmation as to when the foundation will be launching other variants of the software.

New Pocket Laptop 2010

All New Laptops Will Have In 2010

1. Solid state harddrive, or SSD
   It is already happening now, with new Apple Macbook Air laptop being sold with a choice of traditional HDD or new SSD harddrive. It is smaller, harder to damage, it takes less energy as there are no movable parts and it should also be cheaper to produce, once the market is saturated..
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2. Wireless USB
   Also already a reality, with Dell already selling its new XPS M1330 laptop with an option of wireless USB being built in. This means fewer cables, and fewer cables can only be a good thing..
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3. 3G/HSDPA wireless broadband card
   Internet anywhere, anytime? Oh yes, please. Understandably, it becomes more and more popular as the prices of mobile broadband fall each month. Most major laptop manufacturers are including them with new laptops already..
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4. External CD/DVD drive
   This one is not as straightforward as the previous three, since people still use CDs and watch DVD movies. Yet, CDs are big, subject to scratches and they need to be spinned, which needs energy and produces heat. There are two things that can kill a CD- the continuing rise of online downloads and the price of flash memory falling below the price of a blank CD. If this happens, nothing will save a CD from a place on a museum shelf, right next to the tape cassette..
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5. New body shape
   With solid state harddrive and no CD drive, new laptops can afford to become much thinner. There will be no movable parts, and together with new low energy processors this will help consume less energy and produce less heat, reducing the need and size of cooling pipes and fans. Laptop shape will change forever to a slimmer, lighter one, and old laptops will suddenly become as elegant as 19th century typewriters..
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This is of course just a wild prediction and, like all predictions, will most likely differ from the real thing. You are welcome to disagree, any feedback on the list will be greatly appreciated.

Nokia latest mobile phone which provides mobile GPS software

In these days, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have a good sense of orientation when you are driving. It is enough if you have one of those devices known as satellite navigators (aka automotive navigation systems or satnav) at hand.

But those gadgets are not cheap at all. Currently, the most inexpensive satellite navigator costs about $100, and the most sophisticated one costs about $400. Besides, if you need additional services such as traffic reports or suggestions about how to avoid traffic congestions, then you have to pay a monthly subscription.

However, all of this might change soon. Satellite navigation is moving more toward the mobile phones market. And now, Nokia has launched a free satnav service, which is called OVI Maps. This service does not even require an Internet connection in order to operate.

In sharp contrast with other similar services, the OVI Maps users won’t have to update the maps themselves or download several updates from Internet. Instead, Nokia stores those maps directly (and automatically) on mobile phones.

mobile battery of nuclear materials

A recent University of Missuri has developed a battery of nuclear materials for mobile. They are specially designed to provide lasting energy source. And some people think it could replace current batteries, including those used by electric cars. According to the creator, nuclear batteries have a very large capacity to generate electricity when compared with ordinary people.

The batteries have always been the Achilles’ heel of the mobile devices. Usually, the designers of electronic devices for mass consumption (like laptops or media players) use small displays or screens that are not very bright in order to save the scarce energy resources that are provided from the regular batteries. But the new nuclear battery would bring a solution based on a liquid semiconductor (rather than a solid semiconductor) that will produce a much longer lifetime for the battery. The reason is the solid semiconductors are attacked constantly by some radioactive elements used by other types of batteries, while the liquid semiconductor is quite resistant to these attacks. Although the term “nuclear” can be a little perturbing, the fact is that these batteries are not very different from those batteries used in, for example, medical pacemakers.

The new radioisotope battery has the size of a penny and provides much more power than the traditional ones because, according to the researches, its capacity is very superior. Jae Kwon, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Missouri, said that the radioisotope battery “can provide power density that is six orders of magnitude higher than chemical batteries”. That is to say, it provides no less than a million times more charge than any “normal” battery.

Kwon and his research team have spent enough time working to solve many problems that they have encountered when developing this type of battery. One important thing is the batteries need to be small and thin in order to be practical and useful; this way, they could be used to power watches and small electronic devices. As mentioned before, the prototype (which you can see in the picture below) has the size and thickness of a penny, but the researchers think they can achieve a thinner battery. In order to do this, Kwon has required the collaboration of another professor: J. David Robertson (chemistry professor and associate director of the MU Research Reactor). Together, they hope to maximize the power of the nuclear batteries as well as reduce the size and test other materials to make additional improvements. Kwon thinks that the final battery, which would be used in commercial gadgets, could be thinner than a human hair. For the moment, the research team have required a provisional patent in order to protect the exclusive right to use this invention.