What’s so good about it? Here are some of its features:

• Multiple Points Of Presence Suport - Now you can sign into Messenger v9 from several different locations and remain signed in, In v8.5 and under, signing in at a new pc will sign you out anywhere else.

• Signature sounds - Make sound signatures instead of just graphical ones

• Per contact sounds - chose a sound to associate with each of your contacts’ actions

• Animated Display Pictures - now you can use animated .gif files as your display piLinks in Status Message - Links in the status message are now clickable

• SPIM reporting - report and block users who spam you via IM.

Here are the download links, try it:

Download Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta (Mirror 1)
Download Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta (Mirror 2)
Download Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta (Mirror 3)
Download Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta (Mirror 4)
Download Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta (Mirror 5)

Apple iPod Nano
Touted to be the thinnest and most eco-friendly iPod ever. It is made from arsenic-free glass, BFR-free, mercury free, PVC-free and is highly recyclable. Features a 2" LCD at 320×240, an Accelerometer, battery life of 24 hrs (music) / 4 hrs (video), new UI, voice recording (when mic is attached), and shake-to-shuffle.

Apple iPod Touch The new iPod Touch is thinner, and features the Nike + iPod support. Features a battery life of up to 36 hours (audio) / 6 hours (video), built-in speaker, accelerometer and 3D graphics.

Apple iPod Classic
Battery life of up to 36 hours (audio) / 6 hours (video).

Apple iPod Shuffle

So what’s the point of all this?

What hooks me up the most is the price . When thinking of buying a gadget, we’re always concerned about prices. But this sounds great. iPod Nano, which is now called nano-chromatic, seems to have improved the most. It looks great, and what else?

Built-in accelerometer and "shaker". Similar to iPod Touch and iPhones, the albums are shown similarly and things only got better.

Check out more details at Apple Store

You can use this Esnips Downloader / Link Generator hosted on mymyTech to download your needed files

All you do is to paste the url address, generate, done!

Enjoy~

P.S - for those of you who think you can just access temporary internet files, esnips uses its own player that does not download the content but simply stream it.

Due to such popularity, they have a free service along with premium service which you have to pay for. But who wants to pay? Free isn’t always good, the speed is dramatically slow.

Try using the sites listed below to create Premium Links:

1. RS Generator
2. RapidCheat
3. HelloRapid
4. Rapid Unblock
5. RS Dln
6. Rapid Lizard
7. RS Premium
8. Very Rapidshare
9. Rapid File
10. Rapid Loader
11. RS Fox
12. RS Findr
13. Mega DL
14. Premify RS
15. Rapidshare Pre

So this is how you can get iTouch firmware 2.0 for absolutely free:

1. Download iTunes 7.7 from Here
2. Download iTouch 2.0 firmware from links below:
   http://uploaded.to/file/ih0z65/iPod1,1_2.0_5A347_Restore.ips
   http://freakshare.net/files/30208/iPod11_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw
3. Hold Shift and click Restore.
4. Select iPod1,1_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw

Enjoy~

After the incident of Nazir Gary’s death in Philadelphia last year, his co-defendant posted messages via MySpace. Speaking of MySpace, it was originally made for friendly networking, however, is being used abusively in some occasions.

Although its 24 hr help line exists to prevent any abusive, violent or inappropriate material, people have continued to post images of gang signs, drugs, guns and wads of cash.

"Killadelphia" is claimed to be many people’s hometown. Things like this may sound like a joke first few times, but it’s been excessively spread that investigators with police started to take actions.

MySpace says that it works with law enforcement agencies, however, it won’t stop people from filling up gang cultures in the web.

Major companies such as Sony, Samsung and other consumer electronics heavyweights have united to support a technology that could send high definition video signals wirelessly from a single set top box to screens around the home.

Thinking LCD, HDTV, Plasmas are great? Hear this out. “Wireless Video Signal Service“. Meaning, if you have a TV in your home, that TV will be able to access any source in the home, whether it’s a settop box in the living room, or the Playstation in the bedroom, or a DVD player in another bedroom.

Sony and Samsung Electronics, along with Motorola, Sharp and Hitachi, will develop an industry standard around technology from Amimon Ltd. of Israel called WHDI, which stands for Wireless Home Digital Interface.

As of now, it is planned to be done through high speed versions of Wi-Fi, however an issue of quality degrading remains without ability to compress the data transmission.

Who knows what our future television technology will bring, but streaming video signal wirelessly? It’s just awesome.

General Electronics, known as one of the most popular company worldwide, has accepted funds from Middle East. As it left U.S. consumer financing, Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Development Co. has formed an $8 billion venture in order to profit from commercial investements in the Middle East and Africa.

The reason behind this action is that state-owned Mubadala wants to become a top 10 holder in Fairfield, Conn.

Simply in order to raise one’s reputation and ranking, I suppose making such huge investment is necessary. But $8 billion? Why not feed the poor with that much…

Cell Phones have become important part of our lives in means of communication. In Manhattan, known as the busiest city in the country, massive surveys have been taken regarding the use of cell phone, and here they are:

89% said they’ve used a cell phone. (86% for personal calls, 3% for business, and 9% for both)

69% feel safe when they have their cell phone with them.

38% have stopped using their landline since owning a mobile phone.
In France, 84% still use their landline compared to 12% in Sweden.

66% - One cell phone
28% - Two cell phones
6% - Three or more cell phones

What types of phone?

Nokia - 38%
Sony Ericsson - 18%
Samsung - 15%
Motorola - 10%
LG - 6%
Siemens - 3%
Blackberry - 2%
iPhone - 1%

50% have flirted via text, and the other 50% didn’t.
21% have flirted in France & 86% in Portugal!

86% of the world feels its unacceptable to break up via text
8% of Italians say that it’s fine and they’ve done it

Cell phones and text messaging having negative impacts?
42% Yes
47% No
11% Don’t know

Only 1% own iPhones, yet 25% would like one in the world (53% in U.S.)

Factors that matter when choosing a new phone?
Latest Model 7%
In store offers 6%
Reputation of the brand 5%
Durability 5%

Daily Usage?
63% for calls
57% for text messaging
44% for alarm
22% for calendar
12% for music player
10% for camera
9% for Bluetooth
7% for games

Whew, that was some a lot of statistics eh.

Straight to the point, as I’ve upgraded it for this blog, I don’t recognize any significant changes within the functionalities. Having a newer version would logically mean that it’s better, and by looking at the new features, it sure seems so.

Take a look at this video regarding Wordpress 2.6

New features:

1. Post Revisions - Bloggers can now keep a track of all changes being made to their posts and page with the new post revisions feature just like the one found in Google Docs.
2. Wordpress Turbo - Turbo mode makes use of Google Gears and allows a user to save admin files on local PC. This helps in lightening fast loading of admin menu in browser.
3. Press This! - The bookmarklet is back. It enables for easy posting of content from other social networking sites like Digg, Delicious, YouTube etc.
4. Theme Preview - Now blog admins can preview themes for their blog before making them live to their audience. This feature was previously provided by a plugin but has now been brought to the core.

There are also some specific features such as word count, image captioning, plugin management, but it’s not really a major necessesity.

Download Wordpress 2.6

Microsoft, being the world’s largest software maker, decided to triple the sotrage capacity of its Xbox 360 video game console without raising the price.

This decision was made due to the tight competition with market leaders such as Nintendo and Sony with their Wii and PlayStation3. The Xbox 360, with a suggested retail price of $349 will have 60 gigabytes of storage starting in early August in stores in United States & Canada.

Source: Microsoft (July 13, 2008)

Web addresses that you see on every single sites are what’s called, domain names. They’re simply names that are bought, and of course, domain names became important part of a website.

There must be countless names that aren’t taken for sure, but there are also so much that are in demands due to its short and wanted names. What happens to those addresses?

People can sell them for a certain price according to its demand

By statistic of the estimated prices of the web addresses, here are TOP FIVE of the MOST EXPENSIVE Web Addresses

1. Sex.com - $12 million
2. Porn.com - $9.2 million
3. Business.com $7.5 million
4. Diamond.com $7.5 million
5. Beer.com - $7 million

Buying a little domain for less than 10 dollars may get you big somewhere in future

However, it is NOT True anymore. Although this may not apply to those with older models before 1995 or so, most of new, if not recent, cars have specialized starter in engine which allows you to turn the engine on without much waste of fuels. In comparison, it is better to turn off the engine when unnecessary than to leave it on.

But this doesn’t mean you should turn off your engine in the middle of the traffic

One of the obvious good thing about this is that it is Free. Today my Kaspersky trial has ended and needed something to replace it for the meantime, or maybe for permanent use.

This free version doesn’t support proactive safe surfing, neither protection against keyloggers (which drove my computer crazy a while ago). Although this free edition would be limited of course, I suppose it’s better than nothing. Oh almost forgot, no technical support for free version.

All good for free download at AVG Downloads, but can you expect much? Time will tell =D

Even I wasn’t inclined to click it back then when I didn’t know about it.

Simply, it goes to the first search result of the keyword directly without seeing the search results.

Try searching “mirror google” or any related keywords on “I’m Feeling Lucky”, and you’ll see a mirrored image view of Google, which is hosted by another site, but it looks cool, =p

Comparing each three, they let you chat, talk, video chat, send files, and all the similarities. But is ooVoo just another clone of them? Not really. From my experiences of using ooVoo, it allows you to video chat with total of Six People, simulataneously. Since it’s mainly for video chat and video conferencing, its features are much better than other clients of course.

• Video Chats
• Record Video Chats
• Video Messages
• Video Effects
• Phone Calls
• Text Chats
• Send Files…and more~

As of now it also includes 3000 free minute of phone calls, but it’s most likely to alter eventually.

From my experience, I like it…except the fact that it takes quite use of memory. Talking with 1 or 2 people? Fine, it’s smoothe. But when you talk with full 6 people, that’s when things get slow. I suppose it’ll differ on your computer of course, but I’ve noticed a significant difference in the memory usage

Overall, you should try it out - www.ooVoo.com

DealExtreme.com has always been my alternatives where I was able to buy SO MUCH things at such low price. Long story short, things are mostly made in China, and it takes about 2 weeks for shipping. But worldwide shipping’s FREE, and countless number of products are at such LOW price. Need anything technical? Or even something most unexpected? Search it up and see for yourself.

Many may argue that these items are cheaply made. The quality is pretty good at least for the ones that I’ve bought. After purchasing an item, you can either upload images/videos, or write a review, and that gets you what’s called “DX Points” which are redeemable. The customer service is really nice as well, where they were offering custom orders.

It’s been a pleasurable experience in buying items from this site, and hey, why don’t you save yourself some cash and look around?

After series of Release Candidate,  the final version of  Firefox 3 has been released at last. Although Firefox has grown significantly next to Internet Explorer, the features of extensions and others helped it grow even more.

Firefox 2 has been known to take a lot of memories (especially when many tabs are open), but it seems to be fixed now. Go click on the image, and check out so much more features.

8 million downloads in a day?

7.14 mb x 8 million = 57.12TB …wow

Foxconn, who’s known for assembling Apple’s products, may build 25 million tiny 3G iPhones.

The newest version is the third generation of this phone, weighing only 110 to 120 grams vs. first generation cousin’s 158 grams and running on 3G mobile technology. Adopting plastic casing instead of aluminum-magnesium casing largely brings down the gear’s weight and cost by nearly one third. In addition to weight advantage, the latest version is also more energy efficient and externally smarter. LCD screen on the phone measures 2.8 inches diagonally, a downsize from first generation’s 3.5 inches.

Who knows where time will take us?

While Toyota is now known to have their “Prius” that has one of the most mileage per gallon, they’re planning to release another car called, “iQ microcar” in about a year. While being only 10 feet long, it’ll still offer four seatings, and it is said that it’ll most likely get a Li-ion battery pack by 2010, which will make the car even greater.

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