Mozilla Firefox v2.0.0.9 Released

Mozilla Firefox - faster, more secure, easier to use and sporting a new look, this latest Firefox release sets a new standard for web browser innovation. Mozilla Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla’s browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the tabbed browsing and the ability to block pop-up windows.

Download : Mozilla Firefox v2.0.0.9 Released

GoLive Mobile Marketing

Marketing Technology is very popular these days. Especially since there are a large number of mobile phone users that surf the net using their cell phone. Using your cell phone to browse the internet is very popular, and it becoming more popular every day. It is easy to just pick up your phone anywhere you are and browse online.

GoLive Mobile is a leading provider of mobile marketing software. They specialise in SMS Marketing, Mobile Website Design and Hosting and a plethora of other specialty areas.Go Live Mobile offers great packages and deals to get yourself a wap site up an running. Mobile website design is a new way to design your website so that it appeals to the mobile market and looks great while browsing on a cell phone.

At Go Live Mobile you can get mobile website hosting and wap site design and so much more. They have the best technology and the best in customer service to help you with your mobile technology. Building a wap website is very beneficial if you want to market to the mobile community. There is a great Cnn money article talking about Virgin Mobile and you make money from their new ‘Studio V’.

Epson Endeavor Laptop

Epson recently updates its Endeavor series laptop with the new 15.4-inch Endeavor NJ3000 model. It is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (ranged from T7250 to T7800), either a WXGA or WXGA+ LCD screen, and one of four different HDD capacities (40GB, 80GB, 120GB, and 160GB). It is currently being offered as BTO (Build To Order) product.

Avast reaches millionth registration

Avast Over 40 million people have requested a free registration code since it all started back in January 2002. Looking back over the past announcements you can see that the last year has proven to be quite exciting for Avast!:

• October 30, 2006 - 20 million Avast! Home users
• February 9, 2007 - 25 million Avast! Home users
• May 11, 2007 - 30 million Avast! Home users
• August 9, 2007 - 35 million Avast! Home users
• October 22, 2007 - 40 million Avast! Home users

When people are looking for a free antivirus I think Avast! or AVG are the best choice. They may not be the best antivirus on the market, but both offer enough protection for the users out there. And not having to worry about paying for a license renewal every year is a huge benefit.

Dell XPS-420

Dell XPS 420 desktop PC is now available for order via Dell?s online store. There are three difference configurations, ranged from $1,500 to $2,500. The cheapest one, goes under the name ?Media Powerhouse?, sports a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 320GB of HDD, and a CD/DVD burner. The medium model, ?Perfomance and Productivity?, uses the same CPU, hard drive, and burner. And finally, the most advanced configuration, dubbed ?Ultimate Entertainment?, is powered by a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Quad-core processor, a 500GB of hard drive, and Blu-Ray drive.

Ubuntu 7.10 Final

Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more. Ubuntu is free software. Whether you use it at home, at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the applications you’ll ever need, from word processing and email applications, to web server software and programming tools.

Download : Ubuntu 7.10 Final
Link : Requesting CDs from Ubuntu

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8

Firefox is a free, open-source web browser for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and is based on the Mozilla codebase. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over Internet Explorer, such as the ability to block pop-up windows.

Download : Mozilla Firefox v2.0.0.8 for Windows
Download : Mozilla Firefox v2.0.0.8 for Linux
Download : Mozilla Firefox v2.0.0.8 for MacOS

Google OS to go on HTC handsets

Taiwanese handset maker HTC is expected to ship about 50,000 cell phones by the end of this year that use a mobile operating system from Google, according to a Fortune article that cites a report from a UBS analyst.

The phones won’t be for sale until next year; the initial shipment will go to developers, says analyst Benjamin Schachter. Google is likely talking to other handset manufacturers, he says.

Google has declined to comment on rumors of its phone plans. Google is hosting an analyst day on October 24, and Schachter expects the company to talk about its phone strategy then.

Apple will release Mac Leopard October 26

Leopard (OS X 10.5)will ship on Oct 26th.
New features include:

• Quick Look, a new feature that lets you see the contents of a file without opening said file
• Stacks, a new way to access files from the Dock
• Time Machine backup
• Redesigned Finder that makes it easier to browse and share files between computers on your home network
• Updated Mail designs
• Improved parental controls
• Boot Camp exits beta
• Web Clip lets you save web content as Dashboard widgets

A single user license will cost $129 while you can pick up a family 5-pack for $199.

Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard: Order today and get free shipping at the Apple Store!

SkyDrive Storage reached 1GB

Microsoft just doubled Windows Live SkyDrive storage limit and are only at 1GB.

Aside from the storage upgrade the SkyDrive team also added a few new features:

• RSS feeds for public folders - receive updates whenever a folder is updated
• Integrated address book - add contacts from within SkyDrive
• Upload identification - shows who has uploaded each file

Windows Live SkyDrive

Microsoft just doubled Windows Live SkyDrive storage limit and are only at 1GB.

Aside from the storage upgrade the SkyDrive team also added a few new features:

• RSS feeds for public folders - receive updates whenever a folder is updated
• Integrated address book - add contacts from within SkyDrive
• Upload identification - shows who has uploaded each file

Gmail Storage will increase to 6GB

The Official Gmail Blog has announced that Gmail’s storage counter has received a much-needed bump in its storage growth rate, which will put Gmail storage at 6GB by January 2008.

More Gmail storage coming for all

FotoFlexer online photo edit

If you would like to give your photos some editing but not ready to buy expensive photo editing application like Photoshop, try checking out FotoFlexer. FotoFlexer allows you to perform some basic photo editing online. All you need to do is sign up an free account, upload your photo and start editing.

FotoFlexer supports remove blemishes, change skin and hair color, morph photos, background changing and more.

What’s hot

It’s free, so you don’t have to pay a penny. FotoFlexer supports integration with photo sites like photobucket, flickr, picasa as well as facebook and myspace. Read more on FotoFlexer intergration.

What’s not

It is still an online photo editing service. You are limited to perform what the service provides and nothing beyond that.

Start editing your photo now.

Search rapidshare files with RapidShare1

In a nutshell, RapidShare1 is a search engine that let you search almost any files hosted with rapidshare. All you need to do is type in the file name and hit search, rapidshare1 will then list you results of related files hosted with rapidshare. However this site has no affiliates nor anything to do with official Rapidshare.de, .com, etc.

There is also a tag cloud to give you an idea what are the popular search items on the site, and apparently, “SHEMALE” is quite a hot item in rapidshare1.com :-)

StarcraftII Fansite Kit released

There have not been any official announcement on the game’s release date, but tonnes of free downloads videos and trailers are already made available on starcraft2.com. To add on top of those, Blizzard last week released their Starcraft II fansite kit. If you are a Starcraft fan who wants to create a fansite, this package should have everything you want to get started.

What’s inside the Fansite Kit

According to Blizzard, here’s what inside this 43mb fansite kit.

• Art assets including screenshots, concept art, hi-res logos, and wallpapers
• Site design elements including borders, backgrounds, fonts, and stylesheets
• Exclusive content: Unit renders and forum avatars / Messenger images
• StarCraft II fact sheet and FAQ
• Sample StarCraft II text content
• Site building tips

Download: Starcraft II Fansite Kit

Asus P750 Pocket PC Phone

CNet Asia recently posted the first official photo for Asus P750 Pocket PC Phone, along with some detailed specs. This much anticipated mobile device will run on Windows Mobile 6 Professional operating system and will be powered by Marvell PXA27x (520Mhz) CPU, a 64MB of RAM, and a 256MB of Flash ROM. It?ll support quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, as well as tri-band UMTS/HSDPA networks, whice provides high-speed internet access (up to 3.6Mbps).

Top five Windows Vista Gadgets

Multi Meter (Dual Core) v1.24
Want to measure your CPU usage? This handy gadget will monitor your CPU usage so you know what?s going on with your computer. It?s simple, clean, and easy to read, just the way it should be.
Number of downloads: 1,705,299

Download

1. eBay Sidebar Tool
   This is a simple gadget to help you keep an eye on the items you?re selling, items you?re bidding on, when your feedback has changed, or when you have a new message waiting for you. You can also do an eBay search right from the gadget, and it features a tabbed interface.
   Number of downloads:1,402,645
   
   Download
2. Calculator
   This calculator for your Vista Sidebar offers a bit more than the basic calculator. It?s got Trigonometry and Copy/Paste functions as well as Scientific notation display.
   Number of downloads:1,126,547
   
   Download
3. Weather Bug
   There are multiple gadgets available for monitoring the weather, but the Weather Bug is the most popular in terms of downloads. You get get detailed forecasts, radar, weather cameras, and alerts if there is severe weather coming your way.
   Number of downloads:1,053,256
   
   Download
4. App Launcher
   Add shortcuts to nearly anything, including folders!
   Number of downloads:632,643
   
   Download

Safari 3.0.4 for Windows Beta

Experience the web, Apple Style, with Safari - the fastest, easiest to use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web - up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer.
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included in Mac OS X. It was first released as a public beta on January 7, 2003, and a final version was included as the default browser in Mac OS X v10.3. A beta version for Windows was released for the first time on June 11, 2007. Safari also runs on Wine, although the graphics do not display properly.

Safari has a bookmark management scheme that functions like the iTunes jukebox software, integrates Apple’s QuickTime multimedia technology, and features a tabbed-browsing interface. A Google search box is a standard component of the Safari interface, as are software services that automatically fill out web forms, manage passwords via Keychain and spell check entries into web page text fields. The browser also includes an integrated pop-up ad blocker. An associated software from Apple is the Web Inspector - a DOM Inspector-like utility that lets users and developers browse the Document Object Model of a web page.

Changes in Safari 3.0.3 for Windows beta:
* Latest security updates
* Improved stability

Download : Apple Safari 3.0.4 for Windows Beta

Making Money with WidgetBucks - ($25 signup bonus)

WidgetBucks is the new advertising network that features a widget that displays shopping advertisement. WidgetBucks is CPC so you would make money when someone else clicks on the ads.

WidgetBucks can be used on Typepad, Movable Type, Blogger and Wordpress. Like Adsense, WidgetBucks comes in various sizes, 160×600, 300×250, 728×90, 468×60 and 660×330.

WidgetBucks Ad Sizes

Unlike Google’s Adsense wherein a bot crawls your site for your keywords and finds relevants ads for your website, WidgetBucks can either use MerchSense, probably a bot, to crawl your page and find relevant products to include in your widget or you can choose a category. This gives publishers a greater control on the ads.

Widgetbucks choose crawl

WidgetBucks Features

Publishers and bloggers who would like to sign-up would instantly get a $25 bonus. That’s not all WidgetBucks’ payout is only 50$ so you are already half-way there just by signing up.

WidgetBucks also has a referral program wherein affiliates receive 10% referral fee based on the commissions earned by the people they refer for a full 12 months.

I think WidgetBucks is a good source of income to supplement Google’s Adsense program.

Here is a WidgetBucks ad screenshot.

Zoho Launches Online Database Manager

Zoho has launched a new addition to the Zoho Suite - Zoho DB & Reports , which is a complete database and report management tool. It has a familiar spreadsheet interface that users will quickly be able to adapt to, and the chart creator is unbelievably simple.

Here’s an overview on the features it has:

• Multiple views: Tabular View, Chart View, Pivot View, Summary View
• Drag-and-drop interface for Chart and Pivot Table creation
• It understands an insane amount of query syntax, including Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Informix and ANSI SQL
• Tabbed interface makes it easy to switch between sheets and charts
• Import existing XLS/CSV/TSV files

Source: Zoho Blog

WindowBlinds 6.0 released

Stardock has released the highly anticipated WindowBlinds 6 today. WindowBlinds is a utility that allows users to change the look and feel of the Windows desktop experience by applying skins to the user interface.

WindowBlinds 6 adds the ability to have ?blurred glass? window borders on Windows XP which allows artists to make skins that could make Windows XP look virtually identical to Windows Vista. WindowBlinds 6 adds full support for customizing Microsoft?s new Windows Vista operating system.

The new version also adds a host of other features including advanced animation support in skins, adjustable transparency, user-creatable skin sub-styles, a new, easy to use configuration program, user customization options of fonts and colors in skins and much more.

Download : WindowBlinds 6.0

Paypal - new withdrawal features

Remember few days ago I blogged about Paypal enabling users to withdraw via debit card and credit card? Well, folks at Paypal has now officially put this into an announcement.

Here’s a direct quoting from Paypal:

We’re pleased to announce the launch of a new withdrawal feature, allowing you to transfer funds from your PayPal account to your Visa® branded credit, debit or prepaid card. This new feature will enable you to gain convenient access to your funds and is available in 26 countries, including Malaysia, India, Indonesia and the Philippines.

This is definitely a good news for those who have funds in their Paypal account but struggling on how you can withdraw them out. Hop over to the Paypal announcement page to understand more on:

• How does it work?
• Will every Visa® credit or debit card work?
• How do I determine if my Visa® credit, debit or prepaid card is eligible to withdraw funds?
• How long does it take to receive funds to my credit, debit, or prepaid card?
• How do the funds appear on my credit/debit/prepaid card?
• Are there any minimum or maximum withdrawal amounts?
• How much does it cost

So I guess this should put a stop on those Malaysianpal or sites that makes you make for ebooks that teache you how to withdraw from Paypal?

Winamp 5.5 Build

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows. Winamp supports MP3, CD, Audiosoft, Audio Explosion, MOD, WAV and other audio formats, custom appearances called skins, plus audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins.

Download : Winamp v5.5 Build 1600 Lite Beta Preview 3
Download : Winamp v5.5 Build 1600 Pro Beta Preview 3
Download : Winamp v5.5 Build 1600 Full Beta Preview 3

Foxit Reader 2.2 Released

Foxit Reader 2.2 has a greatly improved text selection feature. With it you can highlight text line-by-line which is incredibly handy when working with multi-column layouts. If the text that you?re highlighting gets close to the bottom of the page Foxit will automatically begin scrolling for you, too!

The other good news is that the improved text selection is just one of the many new features in Foxit Reader 2.2:

• Capture words via mouse: If you are using a dictionary software, you may want to use your mouse to capture words inside a PDF file and have them translated. You can turn on this feature by checking ?Screen word-capturing? option under Edit>Preferences>General.
• Advanced PDF Search: Now you can search a string either in a single PDF file or in multiple PDF files under a specified folder. When the search finishes, all occurrences will be listed in a tree view.
• Minimize Foxit Reader to the system tray: You now can save space on your task bar by minimizing the Foxit Reader to system tray. This feature can be turned on by checking ?Minimize to system tray? option under Edit>Preferences>General.
• Work with friendly bookmarks: Now when you navigate through the PDF document, the highlighted bookmark item will automatically be kept in sync with the current page being displayed. And you can click on a handle to hide or show the bookmark panel.
• View PDF page size: Now the actual size of each PDF page is displayed on the status bar.
• Enjoy other improved features: You will enjoy many other improved features, including:
  • Well-organized toolbars
  • Better command line support
  • Enhanced support for eastern Asian languages
  • Many bug fixes

Download Foxit Reader

DiggUpdate keeping you updated with Digg.com

If you want to be the fastest to get the hottest news that hit digg.com front page, or if you want to know the stories digged by your friends, DiggUpdate is the application you need.

DiggUpdate is a light application that upon installed, prompts you small windows on desktop with digg stories the way you want it. Customize if it you only want to read hottest stories from specific categories. This latest application from OpenSoft development caters for both Windows and Mac.

Download

• Download for Mac
• Download for Windows

File Shredding - Personal Securities

Every time when you press the delete button with the intension to remove some files from your computer, I hope you don’t really that those files are permanently deleted from your computer, at least not yet. Basically these files are only marked as deleted, removed from indexing and not occupying the disk space. They are still accessible (or we call it recoverable) and with certain softwares or the MS-DOS undelete command, they are practically recoverable.

It sounds like a good news as there is a big chance that files are recoverable even if they are deleted, but thinking from another perspective its could be harmful too. What if someone recovers your private files? Especially when you trade your hard disk away, or your colleagues might be using your old computers and manage to recover your old files.

What is File Shredding

File shredding is all about wiping your files from computer, totally and securely so it cannot be restore by any chances. Basically file shredding works by overwriting the particular file over and over again so the original contents gets removed from the hard disk.

wipe-disk-with-file-shredder.com is a site that gives you a pretty good idea about file shredder. The personal privacy vocabulary consist of terms like Wipe Disk, File Shredder, Number of Passes, etc that helps giving you more in-depth into the whole concept.

The website also listed some good application for file shredding that comes with description, prices as well as direct link to the developer site. So if you are concern about personal security and privacy over hard disk migration, its time to act now.

Reason to perform file shredding

Most of us delete files because we do not need them anymore, but a lot time we also perform deletion because we do not want others to access them. When you deal with sensitive information, file wiping is definitely useful.

The typical delete function only clear the linking to the specific file, leaving the actual content still intact on the physical medium. That could be extremely dangerous as recovery and duplication of them are still possible. Government bodies, hospital or private sectors that deals with highly confidential information on their clients/partners are amongst who cannot afford to have their information leaked out. You will expect them to go through some strict procedures of file shredding and wiping.

Normal end users might not see this as something too important but still your privacy may be invaded if deleted files are not handled properly. Don’t be too surprised if files you deleted appear on another person’s archive.

Gmail password protection request

This Morning I receive a mail from Google and they tell me to update my gmail acount. If I don’t verify my ownership of account in 24 hours they will block/ susspend my Gmail.It’s strange that I have never recceive one before,so I am fraid this could be a fake mail.

Dear members

To initiate the process for protection the password for your Google Account
This is a must to ensure that only you have acces and use
of your Gmail and to ensure a safe Gmail experience. We require all
flagged accounts to verify their information on file with us. This is the right
link for update account page After you verify your information, your account
shall be returned to good standing and you will continue to have full use of
your account.Please note that if you don’t verify your ownership of account
in 24 hours we will block/ susspend your Gmail.

This is a post-only mailing. Replies to this message are not monitored
or answered.

Can anyony tell me this is real?

Sell your old cell phone off on CellForCash.com

Some of us really change our mobile phone on regular basis, these trend followers always end up storing few spare cell phones at home unused. CellForCash.com is a place where you can recycle your cell phones for free and get cold hard cash in return.

The main key objective of this site is to make sure that consumers and business to recover the value of retired cell phones as well as disposing these little value piece of outdated gadgets. The site is pretty simple to use. All you have to do is check on the main page for the model and manufacturer of your mobile phone and sell your cell phone off. Cellforcash gives you few dollars to hundreds depending on the model and aging of your phone.

Cellforcash is currently having a contest and participants stand a chance to win a Wii. Read here for more information.