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27Feb/0811

Online Video Hosting Stage6.com Shutting Down

What a shock news I read today! Stage6.com a high quality video online hosting is well known with its DivX file format will shut down their operation on 28 February 2008. A post made by Tom (aka Spinner) on 25 February 2008 explains why they are shutting down the website. With the very sort notification a lot of Stage6 user complaint it as you can see it on their reply to the announcement post.

Stage 6 Logo

23Feb/084

gOS: Good OS for Google Enthusiast

Remember the fuzz about Google launching Google OS (Operating System) spread among Google mania back a few months ago? Well, up until this post is posted, it seems that Google OS is not going to happen. Feel disappointed? Don’t be! As other Google enthusiasts is trying to make it happen!

gOS Desktop

19Feb/081

Mozilla Thunderbird 3

As the buzz of Mozilla Firefox 3 goes all around the Internet, which I’m waiting it to be soon a stable version, I’m eager too to see the new release of Mozilla Thunderbird. I read the news at Cnet News that Mozilla is currently developing the next version of Thunderbird. Frankly I’m happy that there is still some news and progress about this good email client application, as Thunderbird seemed to be a stepchild of Mozilla because of all attention to its well know free browser Firefox.

Thunderbird

Some improvement expected to be added on Thunderbird are integration of Lightning calendar add-on and tabbed email UI. Actually you can start trying the calendar add-on by downloading it and install it on Thunderbird, which I already did :) I haven’t tried it further than installing it and look around, my first impression is “this is good”. Before I was installing a calendar add-on which integrates Mozilla Sunbird (a standalone calendar application) but the integration doesn’t look as nice as Lightning does.

14Feb/085

Boost Your Windows XP Performance Using eBoostr

Do you want to boost your computer performance without spending time to open your computer and add additional RAM modules? Do you have a big USB drive or SD card memory which is rarely used? Then you have another solution to tweak your computer speed using eBoostr software.

eBoostr

eBoostr goal is to bring the ReadyBoost technology which available in Windows Vista only to Windows XP users. What you need is a USB disk or USB thumb drive with some space available to be used by eBoostr. There are several requirements:

10Feb/081

Yahoo! Say No! To Microsoft

Just read ArsTechnica today and found out that Yahoo in the end say “no” to Microsoft $44.6 billion bid to take over Yahoo. The board member of Yahoo said that Microsoft’s offer is undervalued Yahoo.

After rejecting Microsoft’s offer, Yahoo still need to find a way to solve the problem. Another article said that Yahoo thinking about making cooperation with Google, to serve ads on Yahoo search page in exchange of big revenue from the advertiser. But then if this cooperation happens, Google will monopolize online advertising.

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6Feb/081

Yahoo!: Yahoo Always Have Other Options

With all the news on the internet about Microsoft will acquire Yahoo, I’m quite shocked. How come Yahoo can collapse? Some news site said that Yahoo can’t compete with Google on online advertising market.

Many people dislike the fact that Microsoft will buy Yahoo, I don’t really like it too. Most people concern about privacy, market domination, monopoly, etc. I think it’s true. If Microsoft does buy Yahoo, surely Microsoft will monopolize both desktop and internet as they have dominant MS Windows and Yahoo have lot users of Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Mail.