Archive for August, 2007

Yahoo Mail receives liftoff

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Yahoo Mail received new interface with integrated IM and functional right click on the messages (Not like others) even in Linux.

In addition you have possibility to quickly switch to your yahoo home page just by clicking the tab.

Other yahoo services like calendar are also integrated .

The overall look is improved, it is still little bit slow, but do not forget that it is BETA.

yahoo beta

Enjoy your too.

Most overlooket items to bring to college or university campus

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

College and Finance have a list of most overlooked items to bring when going to College/University campus.

It is really interesting list, unfortunately is little bit late for me I hope that t will help you.

take a look

I personally will add personal printer. Probably you will print most of the content at campus provided printer, but sometimes you need one or 2 pages urgently. In addition if you opt for MFU (multyfunctional unit) you will have scanner/copier too.

TorrentSpy block USA users

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Recently the leading torrent search site start blocking searches from USA based users. Instead they see this message.

Sorry, but because you are located in the USA you cannot use the search features of the Torrentspy.com website.Torrentspy’s decision to stop accepting US visitors was NOT compelled by any Court but rather an uncertain legal climate in the US regarding user privacy and an apparent tension between US and European Union privacy laws.

Abobe adds H.264 support to Flash

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

As announced on 21 august Adobe Flash Player 9 will support H.264 codec which will improve WEB video quality.

This will allow video developers to reduce their cost for  encoding and preparing data for transmission.

New subdomain launched

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Hi,

There were not much posts those days because I was busy creating new subdomain and installing and configuring applications for it.

It is located here and it is a PDF paper for Linux in your home in Bulgarian language (sorry no English translation available).

Disclaimer: The content is not provided by me, I provide to the customer only space and traffic for it.

Asus Eee PC

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Asus announced that they will start shipping of Eee PC in July/August with 2 different models with 7″ and 10″ screens and 2GB SSD for 15s boot time with price tag: $199 and $299 respectively.

For more information

DIY Segway

Monday, August 20th, 2007

The group of students from Wayland High School, John D. O’Bryant School of Math and Science, and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School working with four MIT students succeed to build transportation vehicle similar to Segway.

There is a lot to be done, but at least their effort is working.

For more info see the website.

DANGER(from the website): Segways, like any large machine, can be very dangerous. This site is intended for informational, not instructional, purposes. Attempt/build at your own risk. Be careful!

Vista cursors in XP

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Here is a tutorial how to bring some of the Vista look  into XP.

This tutorial is for mouse cursors.

Thanks Alan.

Red Hat Developer Studio 1.0 (beta1)

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Red Hat Developer Studio 1.0 (beta1) is released for download and comments.

Red Hat Developer Studio is a set of eclipse-based development tools that are pre-configured for JBoss Enterprise Middleware Platforms and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Linux and windows versions are available.

The size of download (at least for Linux) is 530 MB.

Read installation manual for how to install.

TIP: to run jar archive issue

java -jar <jar archive>

at terminal.

Here is how it looks:

RH Dev Studio screenshot

check it out 

What is faster Laser or Ink?

Friday, August 17th, 2007

What technology is faster for document printing, Laser? Or Ink-Jet?

Until recently the answer was “Definitely Laser”, but Epson is changing the situation.

Recently they announced that their new SOHO model C120 will print with amazing 37 ppm (pages per minute).

Another plus is that it will cost approximately $90 USD, but be careful and check your TCO.