Miss World 2010 Alexandria Mills Leaked Nude Photo Scandal Is Brewing

Newly crowned Miss World, Alexandria Mills is caught up in a naked photo scandal. She is Miss World 2010 and the first from the United States in 20 years. Now she is embroiled in a beauty queen controversy that will undoubtedly make her famous, or at least famous enough that people will be searching for her nude photos on the Internet. But no deal has yet been made and the naked pictures of Alexandria Mills are still on the market for sale to the highest bidder. So you will not find Alexandria Mills' nude photos on the Internet, not yet at least. But this is not the type of publicity that the new Miss World is seeking, and many are wondering if she will be stripped of her title as a result of this scandal. In the meantime, Google search is boiling with everyone looking for naked photos of Alexandria.

According to RadarOnline, Alexandria Mills took nude photos of herself over the summer and sent them to her boyfriend at the time. They have apparently seen the photos in question and confirmed that the girl in the photos is indeed Mills. The picture, featuring the 18-year-old totally naked appears to have been taken in a bathroom and was supposed to be only for the eyes of her boyfriend. So this scandal center around her ex-boyfriend trying to capitalize on her new fame. The two had a fling over the summer, she sent him naked photos and now they are about to hit the Internet for the right price. Yes, this has happened before and will probably happen again because apparently no one learns from the mistakes of others. Miss United States Alexandria Mills might be the first woman from the United States to in two decades to take home the title Miss World, but she is certainly not the first beauty queen from the U.S. in recent years to be publicly humiliated by the naked pictures she took of herself and sent to her boyfriend. RadarOnline report:

The 18-year-old took a nude photograph of herself over the summer — taken in what appears to be her bathroom — and sent it to her boyfriend at the time.

RadarOnline.com has seen and verified the authenticity of the photo.

Mills took the crown at the 60th annual Miss World competition in Sanya, China on October 30, beating out 115 other competitors.

Not to worry though. She will just get more famous for getting naked if the photos ever see the light of day. After all, that is how Kim Kardasian and Paris Hilton got famous. Anyway, pointing to an alleged dispute between Norway and China over the recent Nobel Peace Prize award, some are saying Norway's Mariann Birkedal, once held as the favorite for the competition, was snubbed by some of the Chinese judges after some prodding from China. The Nobel Peace Prize from Norway was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, a political prisoner of China for "inciting subversion of state power," for his efforts in expanding human rights globally. Meanwhile, Romina Andonova, the Bulgarian contestant at the Global Beauty pageant, recently announced she had advance knowledge that Alexandria Mills would be the winner.

So Alexandria Mills, only 19, became Miss World 2010 in China. But not without a lot of controversy at the time, and with more wealth than beauty, according to some who attended the event. They say the participant from Norway should have been the winner, but this was in the same period in which in Oslo decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize to a Chinese dissident and political pressures took her title. Meanwhile, Miss World pageant committee doesn't seem to be bothered by the scandal surrounding her win, and her title will remain secure unless concrete evidence of the questionable photos actually becomes public. Many contestants are said to be hoping Alexandria will lose the Miss World crown over the nude photo scandal. Click on pictures to enlarge.

5 Platforms that Defined the Mobile Space in 2010 [Mashable Awards]

1. Android

---

The iPhone dominated technology news in 2007, 2008 and 2009. It’s hard to argue that any other device, software program or piece of technology had more of an impact on a culture and an industry as each version launched through the years.

It’s no longer so cut-and-dry. In 2010, Android displaced the iPhone as the best-selling smartphone platform in the U.S., powered many of the hottest smartphones including the EVO 4G, Droid X and Samsung Galaxy S.

The Android Market grew by leaps and bounds and more and more developers indicated that they see Android as the long-term path to success.

But the real news with Android wasn’t just on phones. E-book readers, laptops, tablet and slate computers, Google TV set-top boxes, car systems, television sets — you name it, an Android-based variation is either out or probably in the works.

Android’s rise from second or third-tier mobile platform to mobile superstar and embedded system of the future is certainly one of the biggest stories of 2010.

---

2. iOS

---

Apple may have faced some tough competition in 2010, but the company didn’t let iOS sit idle. The fourth generation iPhone, the introduction of iOS and of course, the iPad still showed that Apple is in this game to play.

As a platform, iOS continues to enjoy the largest mobile application store (200,000 apps and counting) and is the commercial platform of choice for many developers both large and small. With iOS 4, the company added some new features to bring the OS to parity with some of the competition, features like folders and multitasking and better notifications, while still introducing its own special features like FaceTime, Game Center and the iBook store.

Still, the biggest thing to happen to iOS was the iPad. The iPad is not just one of the biggest technology stories of the year, it’s one of the most successful product launches of all time. Millions of units have sold in the last six months with supply levels finally reaching the point that the device can be sold from outlets like Target, Walmart and Amazon.com.

The iPad is helping transform the publishing industry, is being used in education, and is appealing to users and buyers of all stripes.

iOS faces more competition than ever but the platform continues to remain strong and for many, is still the undisputed champion when it comes to a consistent, usable user interface.

---

3. Windows Phone 7

---

Microsoft isn’t a company that can often be described as the underdog in any arena. In mobile, however, it’s a pretty fair assessment. After ditching its Windows Mobile platform (now dubbed Windows Phone Classic), Microsoft formally announced Windows Phone 7 in February of 2010.

The phones will be hitting store shelves in Europe and Asia in a couple of weeks, with North America following soon after. With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is doing a very un-Microsoft thing and cutting all ties to its legacy Windows Mobile platform. Starting from the ground-up, Windows Phone 7 takes a refreshingly different approach to interface and smartphone user motifs.

Part Zune, part portable Xbox, part mini computer, Windows Phone 7 is taking a bit of a different path than its competitors like Android, iOS and BlackBerry. These differences are how Microsoft hopes it can distinguish itself in the marketplace.

Whether Windows Phone 7 is different enough or powerful enough to win back some of the mobile market, we’ll have to wait and see. Still, we wouldn’t bet against Microsoft’s ability to rally.

---

4. Unity

---

Unity isn’t a platform per se, it’s an integrated authoring tool for creating 3D video games. The Unity engine was already acclaimed for its role for making games for the web and Mac and PC, but it really helped game developers go to the next level when Unity iOS hit the scene.

Thanks to Unity, game developers can more rapidly create compelling and complex 3D worlds and do better device testing, without having to know all of the ins and outs of Xcode. More than 1,000 iOS games have been built using Unity, including best-sellers like Skee-Ball and Zombieland USA.

Unity is currently in beta for Android and will be available soon. In April, it looked like Unity might be affected by Apple’s brief ban on third-party programming tools. Unity was always confident its platform would be safe, and after Apple relaxed its guidelines in September, Unity’s place in the mobile platform development ecosystem was solidified.

---

5. Appcelerator

---

Like Unity, Appcelerator isn’t a platform per se, it’s more of a toolkit for helping web developers create native applications for the iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry operating systems.

Appcelerator’s Titanium platform has experienced terrific growth over the last year, with companies big and small turning to the platform as a way to cut down on development time, while still creating applications that are native, fast and intuitive.

What makes Appcelerator and other cross-platform toolkits important in the world of mobile application development is that they help break down some of the barriers to getting software created in the first place. iOS is one of the most commercially viable software platforms of the moment and tons of developers want to get started building apps. The problem is, if your background is in PHP and JavaScript, jumping into Objective-C and Cocoa might be a bit tough.

This isn’t to say that learning more about the native OS platforms isn’t a good idea — it is — but tools like Titanium can make that learning process less intimidating, while also making it easier to build apps in a language you know, and you can still gett the benefit of the native toolchains and UI kits.

As more and more devices hit the market, each with its own slight or major variation, the need for cross-platform development tools and platforms is only gong to increase. We think that Appcelerator is a great example of cross-platform development done right.

65% Of Marketers Surveyed Say They Do Not Use Twitter

For five years now I have been saying Social Media (I still prefer to call it New Media) is still in it’s infancy. Here is the latest proof. In SmartBlog’s most recent weekly reader poll they asked:

What do you think of Twitter’s new home page design?

Surprisingly for some more than 65% of their readers said they don’t even use Twitter.

I don’t use Twitter, 65.10%

Love it, 22.15%

Complaining about it now, but I’ll probably get used to it, 10.07%

Can’t stand it, 2.68%

Now when you think about this response for a moment its even more significant. This is a reader poll by a site that has a very social media savvy readership. That tells me the real number of marketers who aren’t using Twitter is even greater.

Just keep reminding yourself every time you think New Media has finally really blown up and hit the big time you have not seen anything yet. Am I crazy?

Stop Zooming In On My Rug! It's Already Pixelated

While pixelated images make me cringe, I think that the playful pattern of this wool rug is absolutely lovely. Prices are only available on request and the matching pillows are unfortunately sold separately. [Nanimarquina via BLTD via Unplggd]

The iPad Is Such A Great Travel Computer That I'm Selling My Laptop

Back from a week out of country, I confirmed a theory: the iPad makes a fantastic travel computer. So much so that I'm going to be selling my laptop.

For the last five years I've lived out of an Apple laptop, starting with a 12-inch Powerbook and culminating in my current first-gen unibody MacBook Pro. They've become my desktop machines, as well, although I've typically kept a Windows machine around for gaming and for general Windowsing. Sometimes I'd stitch them together with Synergy, then I found myself using my laptop and an external monitor exclusively. Recently, when I found a refurb quadcore iMac at the Apple store, I replaced my laptop and my Windows box both with a single machine and hadn't touched my MacBook Pro since.

Heading out of country to do some reporting last week, I realized that I had to make a decision: fire up the laptop again and carry all five pounds of it through multiple flights on turboprop puddle jumpers, or take a leap of faith that I could do everything I needed to do with the iPad.

I went with the iPad. I'm glad I did. It worked splendidly.

While I've complained that the iPad is about a half-pound too heavy for its role as a multi-thing around the house, compared to a laptop it's a bantamweight. Inside my sassy Commie shoulder bag, it barely even registered. (That bag was also handy for boarding passes and other sundries.)

Thanks to the vagaries of TSA policy, the iPad doesn't have to be removed from a bag during screening. That makes the screening as pleasant as a superfluous security rimming can be. I've never made it through a TSA line more efficiently.

What computing does one do on the road? My needs are admittedly more modest than many business travels. My only two critical functions are being able to write and save text and, when internet avails, check my email.

For the words, I used the iPad's built-in Notes app, which has a juvenile design, but worked perfectly well for saving a few thousand words of notes for later parsing on my home computer. For the actual typing, I brought along an Apple Bluetooth keyboard. (Something I think is about as close to design perfection as a thing can be.) There were a few moments where the keyboard seemed to flake out, strangely on a per-app basis. Notes never failed me, but the official AIM app stopped recognizing the return key after a while.

Bluetooth keyboard support still doesn't feel completely thought out on the iPad, but it suffices.

For long typing sessions, I found myself putting the keyboard on my lap while placing the iPad off to the side—sometimes not even in direct eyeshot. For longer writing, there's a sort of freedom that comes from not even looking at the screen while you type. (My friend Quinn Norton said that on longer writing jags, she sometimes uses her wireless keyboard in a completely different room from her computer, a sort of modern twist on the big-keyboard-tiny-screen experience of early laptops like the Epson HX-20, which were for years favored by some journalists even as laptops with larger screens were commonplace.)

Editing large amounts of text with lots of cutting-and-pasting might be awkward, if manageable. But for a straight-ahead input machine, the iPad did the job as expected.

I did miss the soothing phospheresque green-on-black of my beloved Writeroom text editor, though. The upcoming iPad Universal upgrade can't come soon enough.

Beyond mere typing, I had hoped to use the iPad as a backup for my photos and videos from my new Canon T2i, but the official Camera Connection Kit is nowhere to be found. I ordered one from Apple, but it is at least a month backordered. It would have been great not just to use the iPad as backup for my images, but to preview them on its larger screen. (I was even shooting video at 720p in the hope that it would be viewable without a transcode.)

Nothing about this story is inherently all that shocking. More or less I just told you: "I used an iPad." But the real-life experience hammered home how useful this form factor really is, primarily because of its ridiculously good battery life.

I went nearly 24 hours without charging my iPad, watching four hours of video, reading books for a couple of hours, getting in a few rounds of Strategery, and still had a bit less than half of my battery life left when I hit the ground three planes later. That longevity changes the experience profoundly, more than making up for the iPad's deficiencies for me. Except for editing video, there's not a single thing in my workflow that I can't do on the iPad, and I haven't even begun to experiment using VNC or other screen sharing tools to connect back to my iMac to access its "real" computing power.

Naturally, what works for me may not work for you. I'm not advocating that everyone ditch their laptops immediately. There are plenty of tasks a touch tablet just doesn't do as well as a traditional laptop. (Can someone tell me how to use Numbers for iPad without crying a little bit? Triple-clicking selective click-and-hold-for-context maybe-this-drags made my lip quiver.)

But I returned from this trip convinced that this form factor has legs. (And everything I came to appreciate about the iPad's merit as a travel computer should apply to Android and WebOS tablets, if and when those actually make it to market with a consumer-friendly level of UX refinement.) Since I have a power-guzzling traditional computer on my desktop to do all the heavy lifting when I'm home, I don't see a place for my laptop in my life right now. I had an inkling that might have been the case when I bought my iPad, but I had to take a leap of faith to be sure.

Anybody want to buy a five-pound iPad without a touchscreen? You have to take it out during airport screening and it only runs for about two hours, but its keyboard is attached.

Image: Clamcase's prototype iPad case, which turns the iPad into a convertible laptop-a-like. I'm dubious—will I have to take it out for screening?—but it's not as a ridiculous an idea as I'd once thought.

Counterpoint: "For instance, if you're using a hardware keyboard with the iPad very often, you'd probably be much better served by a MacBook Air." [Marco Ament]

An iPhone App To Help You Fake A Social Life

I'm sorry, you'll have to excuse me for a moment. I'm quite in demand as you can see by all these message notifications on my iPhone. Obviously things like this can't be faked and my Settings app really needs me.

OK, so maybe I used an app called iNotifyYou to fake all those notifications just to make all of you jealous. It's just tough to resist this cute app which lets you alter the notification numbers for any app on your home screen—or to just plain clear them all at once.

Pretty useful for those times when some notifications just refuse to go away and it's got potential for some humor. iNotifyYou will cost you two bucks and is available in the iTunes store now. [iTunes]

Here's What's New In iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4

Oh yes! iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4 is out and we're tearing it apart to find out what's new so that you don't have to risk your iPhones. Here's what we've discovered so far. Updated.

The default home screen is different. Instead of all your apps being spread out when you first turn on your iPhone, now some—the clock, calculator, compass, and voice memo apps—are already sitting in a folder called "Utilities.'

Oh, and speaking of home screens, there are now finally some new default wallpapers that aren't busy or distracting and could actually serve as decent home screen wallpapers.

Aside from those new wallpapers and an option to toggle off the ability to send group messages, there don't appear to be any major differences in the settings for this beta...except for tethering!

There's a tiny change to the Photo app in that you can finally view your Photo Roll in a different orientation—unless you have Orientation Lock turned on that is. [Thanks to Habib for catching this!]

Spy Shots: Enough already with the 2011 BMW M5

2011 BMW M5 – Click above for high-res image gallery

Another month, another round of 2011 BMW M5 spy shots. It never fails. But this latest smattering of pics shows off even more of the Bavarian luxo-bomber's exterior, including its shapely, M3-inspired fascia, bulging hood and camo-covered (and trademarked) fender vents aft of the front wheels.

Naturally, the rest is comprised of standard 5 Series bits, but those massive, drilled rotors and 10-spoke BBS wheels speak to the heart of the matter. And speaking of the heart – if you weren't already aware – expect the all-new M5 to be packing upwards of 560 horsepower and 530 pound-feet of torque from its twin-turbocharged 4.4-liter V8. With the recent onslaught of photos, the next M5 is right around the bend, and we should get our first glimpse within the next few months.

The Blueprint To All Our Data Is Hidden Inside This Mountain Fortress

In the snowy Swiss Alps, behind a three and a half ton door that could withstand a nuclear attack and beyond a maze of passageways, scientists are depositing a capsule containing everything future generations will need to decipher our data.

The facility is the Swiss Fort Knox (really, that's what it's called) and the researchers are those of Planets, a project funded partially by the European Union with the aim of ensuring "long-term access to our digital cultural and scientific assets." As one of the project's leaders noted, Einstein's paper notes are still readable today; Stephen Hawking's digital ones, seven decades on, might not be.

Today, four years after their project began, the Planets team deposited a capsule deep into the heart of the Swiss Fort Knox compound, containing punch-cards, microfilm, floppy discs, audio tapes, CDs, DVDs, USB and Blu Ray media. They wanted to give the researchers of the future everything they might need to reconstruct our media and salvage our histories, regardless of how different their technological landscape looks.

Andreas Rauber, a Viennese professor and partner of the Planets team, explains:

Unlike hieroglyphics carved in stone or ink on parchment, digital data has a shelf life of years not millennia. Failure to implement adequate digital preservation measures now could cost us billions in the future.

But digital preservation isn't only a matter of economics. As we explored in our Memory Forever theme week, our society is increasingly trusting hard drives to do the work that brains—and paper—once did, and while that's working out for the present, there's no telling what to expect when it comes time to access our digital past. Be glad that some people are thinking ahead. [Planets Project and Swiss Fort Knox via PC Mag]

快速减肥法成功案例

想要成功减肥的同志们 看过来了，本人身高158cm，曾重130斤，现在只有94斤，是活生生的快速减肥法成功案例。还在想着怎么甩掉肉 肉，在这个夏天穿上美丽裙子的姐妹们，这趟通往超短裙短裤末班车的帖子，一定要看哦！

眼见为实啦，这就是我130斤左右的时候照的，虽然样子有些小吓人，但好歹也是人生的一种经历。记得当时最想减掉的就是肚子啦，厚厚的一圈肉，让人 弯不下来，坐不舒坦，恨不得可以割掉。

我的胖有一半以上的原因是因为我吃的多引起的，所以刚开始减肥我就往减少食量上面走的，不过正因为我是因为吃的多长得胖，所以节食这个法子试用没到 三天我就放弃了，改成了苹果法，就是一日三餐只吃苹果，什么都不吃。不知道在哪里看来的说法，说是这个苹果减肥法只需要坚持三天，再胖再难瘦下来的人都可 以变苗条。

三日苹果减肥法好吗？我不晓得有 没有人成功过，反正我连续吃了五天苹果，到有段时间一看到苹果就想吐的地步，身上的肉肉也还是没减多少，人倒是走路都开始有飘的感觉了。而且差不多没到半 个月，感觉体重又回来了。个人感觉这个减肥法子还不是很科学的，要是光吃三天苹果就是瘦，世界上哪有那么多胖子？！

苹果~网上搜来的，漂亮吧？？

我减肥弄的最疯狂的一次是内服外敷，外面抹上一层纤体膏，然后用保鲜膜裹上，慢慢在家里做一些运动，还同时吃买来的减肥药。那短时间真是把我害惨了，纤体膏 倒是还好，没出现将皮肤烧红的迹象，好像没擦过一样，因为运动保鲜膜上倒是有不少水分，弄的整个皮肤皱巴巴的，那个减肥药则是刚开始吃的时候没有动静，连 续吃了两天后，让我拉肚子拉到差点虚脱。不过总是有效果的，瘦了十来斤下来了。

但这个体重没保持多久，我去医院以后止住腹泻之后也停止喝减肥药敷纤体膏，喝了几天水以后体重又呼呼的往上涨。看来减的不是脂肪是水分，这样减下去 的体重很快就会反弹的。

这个是纤体膏，挺大一罐的，可是减掉的只是水啊~！！

后来我就在各大减肥论坛上闲逛取经，后来在百度贴吧里有人推荐 清许减肥茶，说是靠调节人的食欲来达到减肥的目的的。很多姐妹们在上面写自己的减肥经历，还有对比图片，很是心动，立即去他家官网买了回来。

点击此处查 看更多关于清许茶的详细信息

这1包清许茶有300g，可以使用20天哦，在每顿饭的饭前空腹喝，每次取出5g，用200至300毫升、80到100度的开水冲泡，5至10分钟 后等茶够浓了，一次喝完，非常简单哦！

话说这个清许茶还是有一段很长的历史典故呢，它是根据老中医家族世代相传的秘方配制而成的中药减肥茶，经过了特殊的用量比例，主要成分有荷叶、决明 子、玫瑰、山楂、菊花等纯天然药材，纯天然的药材肯定没有副作用啦，我感觉这点是最重要的了，而且制作工艺更是非常独特哦，需经过多道工序，选材、泡药、 凉晒、烘干……最后打磨成最利于人体吸收的粉末状！

这是我刚开始喝清许茶一段时间的样子，我感觉到平时穿的裤子，裤头开始松了，特意量了体重并拍照留念，哈哈。

这个时候更瘦觉，最讨厌的大肚子明显的小了很多，能猜出这时候的我多少J吗？

我前后喝了一段时间，感觉不仅自己的食量在慢慢趋于固定下来，每天吃东西吃到一定程度就好像胃里有人在说“停住！”，然后就不会再想吃了，相对于以 前尝试过的一些减肥方法，我还是比较喜欢喝清许茶。

这就是我的理想体重，已经很瘦了，看那腿多纤细啊~~ O(∩_∩)O哈哈~

现在，我停用清许茶已经有一段日子了，最担心的反弹问题也没出现，不过为了以防万一，我再也不想以前一样吃了就睡，睡醒了就吃了，现在还是会偷空运 动一下的，而且夏天就要来到，好容易减肥成功的我，当然是要抓紧机会秀美腿啦！

Rihanna Self-Pleasure Performance In Concert

Rihanna performed in Oberhausen, Germany last week and got a little touchy-feely with herself and does the mound rube in fishnet. And I am not going go lie, I can get to really enjoy this shit. Does she pleasure herself during every show or what? Whatever the case, she could at least mix up the wardrobe to keep things fresh for groupie fanatics who follow her from one city to the next... Even though Rihanna's "Last Girl On Earth" tour is going a little rough from the standpoint of her health (she fainted) and her inability to stay on her feet (she slipped and fell in France), her tour is still going on well. And I would certainly pay to see this awesome shit live in concert. I hope no one mind me having my penis out and in my hand while standing in the front row to fully appreciate her onstage performance. Freaking whore...why don't she just finger yourself on stage while she is at it? I think we can all agree; sex sells, when you have nothing else to offer. Anyway, I am off to buy some Rihanna concert tickets and some lube. Click on pictures to enlarge.