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This article was written on November 27, 2006 by CyberNet.

Million Dollar Monday

The chances of coming across celebrities and the world famous while traveling by air  are getting slimmer as more of these people opt for their own luxury private jet.  Last week we talked about luxury yachts, which are probably owned by the same crowd that own the world’s most expensive jets! Prices can run well into the tens of millions with amenities most of us could only dream of, like gold-plated bathroom fixtures, hand-woven carpet, original artwork, etc.

One particular jet has crocodile leather trim all throughout including the toilet seat! Yes, the toilet seat! As of June, there were over 219,000 non-commercial airline, non-military planes in the US. Just like the yachts we wrote about last week, it appears that the bigger the jet is, the better.So, here’s what we’ve dug up about the world’s most expensive private jets!

Boeing is pretty well known for their commercial aircraft like the 747.  They also have a line of business jets that are designed and configured to be luxurious.  Some of them include a master bedroom, showers, fancy bathrooms, conference rooms, and dining areas. These particular jets cost anywhere from 42-47 million! Capacity is anywhere from 24-63 people plus 3 crew members. One particular jet (pictures to the right) has 807 square feet available for “working space.” Any business leader would have anything and everything imaginable to keep business running from the air.

Another well known maker of luxury jets is Bombardier with their BD-700 Global Express jet. This particular jet is considered to be “high speed” and is owned by people such as Celine Dion, Bill Gates, Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu), and Steven Spielberg. This is a smaller jet in comparison to the Boeing version and can hold anywhere from 8-19 passengers with 2-4 crew members. It has similar features from the Boeing like the separate conference area, living cabin, galley, crew rest area, etc. The price begins at around 45 million!

If I ever make 45 million in my lifetime, I’ll be a happy camper! This type of transportation is certainly for the privileged traveler. There’s nothing like running your business from the air, which these jets are completely capable of doing.  When price is no object, a luxury jet is what your money can buy!

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If you just tried to tell us the FinePix X100 was a bog standard digital camera, we’d still probably pay any price for those amazing retro looks, but Fujifilm has more in mind. Specifically, the X100 harbors an all-new viewfinder setup, that can switch between a full-on optical view (something that’s currently impossible in similarly sized Micro Four Thirds cameras), and an electronic viewfinder. The optical mode also includes overlaid shooting data, which isn’t typical for a straight compact viewfinder (since it’s looking through its own lens, not the camera’s main lens). You’ll have to read Fujifilm’s full-on explanation to really know what’s going on here — it gets a little technical — but basically there’s a half mirror prism that lets the mini LCD project info on top of the optical image that’s coming through to your eye, but that half mirror prism becomes a straight up mirror when the viewfinder’s front lens is blocked, allowing for a full electronic image of the actual image being captured by the lens to bounce to your eye. See? That wasn’t so difficult. We don’t know what we were so worried about.

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China’s BYD came out of nowhere in early 2009 to debut a MID / phone running Windows XP, but consumer electronics are just one arm (actually spun off) of the relatively young mega-corporation. Its BYD Motors division has also been working on various plug-in vehicles for the past few years, and it’s now set to roll into the Detroit Auto Show next month with two new models. Those include the all-electric e6 Premier crossover, and the S6DM dual-mode plug-in hybrid SUV, the former of which promises a range of 300 kilometers and a top speed of 140km/h, while the latter can eek out 60 kilometers solely on electric power or close to 500 kilometers when the 2.0L gasoline engine comes into play. What’s more, the company is apparently also promising a US launch announcement of some sort, although Autoblog Green suspects that will involve the earlier F3DM hybrid (pictured above), which has already begun testing in California, and the E6 electric crossover. Head on past the break for the full press release.

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This article was written on June 13, 2008 by CyberNet.

With every new release of Firefox there’s always going to be a few extensions that just don’t make the cut. Developers let the extensions fade into the dust as users keep their fingers crossed that someone else will pickup the project. Google Browser Sync is exactly one of those extensions, and it looks like there is very little chance of a resuscitation. That means you’ll no longer be able to sync your bookmarks, history, cookies, passwords, and tabs between browsers!

According to Lifehacker Google has no intention of making the extension compatible with Firefox 3 which is due out on Tuesday. Here’s part of the response that one of their readers received from the Google Team when inquiring about the future of the project:

Thanks for trying out Google Browser Sync and for all of your feedback. It was a tough call, but we decided to phase out support for Browser Sync. Since the team has moved on to other projects that are keeping them busy, we don’t have time to update the extension to work with Firefox 3 or to continue to maintain it.

The response then goes on to talk about how Firefox 2 users who are still running the extension will only receive support throughout 2008. Looks like there’s really no point in someone trying to get it to work in Firefox 3 then if Google won’t be providing the hosting that’s needed to store the information.

My question is how many of you still use Google Browser Sync? I thought it was pretty cool when it first came out, but it didn’t last long on my computer. I just wasn’t comfortable with Google having that much of my information, and right now all I use is Foxmarks merely as a way to keep my bookmarks backed up.

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