Archive for June, 2007

BlogTV:livestream your blog

BlogTV is a new livestreaming service that’s been making a splash at the Supernova conference here in San Francisco. It’s the latest in several live broadcasting services that have popped up, including uStream.TV, Veodia, Mogulus, and Stickam. Like some of its competitors, BlogTV is combining live video and chat in one window, along with […]

Free high-quality icons

 Pixel Press Icons offer a variety of free icons for download. New icons added include a set of pirate-themed icons.All icons are for MacOS X only. But I’m sure enterprising Windows users can find a way to make use of these icons as well.
 Their icon sets are offered free of charge for use on your […]

Internet Download Manager 5.11

Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 500 percent, resume and schedule downloads. IDM has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and safe multipart downloading technology to accelerate your downloads. Simple graphic user interface makes IDM user friendly and easy to use.
New in […]

Top 5 Linux Tricks

1. wget:
This utility has saved me, perhaps a hundred times in my career with Linux. Often times, we get stuck in a terminal shell, without a terminal web browser like lynx. How can we download a specific file that will save or patch our system without a web browser?
Well wget lets you do just that. […]

Top 10 Linux Shortcuts

Here are some popular ones:
Control-Alt-F1: Switch to the first terminal. There are actually 6 terminals, so you can press control-alt-F1 all the way to control-alt-F6. This can be very handy! I?ve used it to get out of a jam several times. Especially if your system crashes when X tries to startup. You can always fall […]

YouTube goes Mobile

YouTube launched a mobile interface available at m.youtube.com. To use it, you need a mobile phone that plays streaming videos and an unlimited data plan because “YouTube Mobile is a data intensive application”.
YouTube Mobile is a streamlined version of YouTube made to run on mobile phones. Videos can be streamed by any phone capable of […]

GreatNews 1.0 Beta (Build 383) Released

GreatNews 1.0 Beta (Build 383) Released on 6/19/2007

Added: 3-column display mode for wide screen userView->Reading Pane
Added: Hidden flag to allow multiple GreatNews running at the same time.[Advanced]MultipleInstance=1
Updated: Japanese Language Pack
Changed: Upgrade database engine to latest version (again)
Fixed: Updated articles were not saved. Only counters were updated.

Download:GreatNewsSetup.exe (800KB) GreatNews.zip(900KB)

Technorati : GreatNews

O2 Cocoon Phone - Beautiful

“Cocoon” is the upcoming clamshell phone from O2. This stylish and beatiful handset offers an integrated 2 megapixel camera module with flash and AF plus, Bluetooth connectivity with A2DP support, a 2GB onboard memory with microSD card slot for external storage, and a dedicated music control on the front panel. Talking about the panel, you […]

Wordpress 2.2.1 candidate Release

WordPress 2.2.1 release candidate has been made available for download for testing by the wordpress community before the final version is released in the next few days.
Boren.nu says that Wordpress 2.2.1 fixes bugs in widgets, xmlrpc, atom feeds, and other areas and also addresses security issues found in xmlrpc and phpmailer. All changes made since […]

Mac OS X tip: Navigating open applications

Here are some quick shortcuts for navigating open applications in OS X that will save you a few mouse clicks. You probably know all about switching between applications with Command-Tab, but you may no know that you can hide and close applications too:

If you want to close an app, hit “Q” when it’s highlighted
If you […]