REVIEW: New Yahoo! Mail Beta – The Unofficial Yahoo! Weblog – yahoo.weblogsinc.com _: “Gmail is suddenly looking a little clunky. The new Yahoo! Mail is a sleek, finely wrought piece of interface design. The overall look is an Outlook-styled, three-pane window with folders in the left vertical pane, headers top right, and a message preview pane below the headers. Thus, Yahoo! becomes the first major e-mail provider to keep the Inbox in view while reading a message. That alone is news, but it’s not, in my opinion, the biggest news.”
Samsung to play safe with dual HD DVD/Blu-ray rig
Samsung is to harness consumer confusion over which next-generation optical disc standard to back by offering a player that supports both HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD).
Search Engine Journal » Google Talk Goes Wireless with MessageVine
Search Engine Journal » Google Talk Goes Wireless with MessageVine: “Google Talk Goes Wireless with MessageVine
It was only a matter of time before someone took Google Talk wireless. MessageVine today announced the release of the first Mobile Instant Messaging solution for Google Talk, Google’s Instant Messaging and VOIP messaging system. MessageVine’s Mobile Instant Messaging client for Google Talk is an always-on, secure real-tInstant Messaginge communication application based on rich presence information. MessageVine’s Mobile client offers the same friendly and intuitive user experience as offered by the Google Talk’s PC client.”
CNN.com – Internet-based TV starts making inroads – Aug 2, 2005
CNN.com – Internet-based TV starts making inroads – Aug 2, 2005: “Television delivered via Internet technology looks set to give consumers a choice in much the same way they choose their broadband connection provider.
Internet Protocol television — or IPTV — is where television images are broadcast using the same fiber optic technology used to bring broadband Internet connections into homes.”
Macworld: Feature: Tiger Secrets: System settings, Page 1
Macworld: Feature: Tiger Secrets: System settings, Page 1: “Secret shortcuts. Hidden helpers. Mysterious menus. You could spend months tracking down all the undocumented features tucked away in Mac OS X 10.4, Apple’s newest operating system. But chances are, you’re too busy using Tiger for more-important tasks—such as doing your job. So Macworld sent in a team of specially trained spies to uncover Tiger’s deepest, darkest secrets.”
Keep the Computer Browser Service Humming
Keep the Computer Browser Service Humming: “In ‘The Computer Browser Service,’ June 2002, InstantDoc ID 24879, I explained that the Microsoft Computer Browser service maintains lists of your network’s Windows-based domains, workgroups, and computers, as well as other network equipment that supports the NetBIOS protocol. These browse lists are the source of the information that users see when they expand Network Neighborhood in Windows Explorer. In Windows 2000—based networks, Active Directory (AD) replaces the Computer Browser service. However, mixed Win2K—Windows NT networks that maintain pre-Win2K domain controllers (DCs) and networks with some clients that aren’t AD-enabled still use the Computer Browser service.”
Microsoft digging deeper into VoIP
Microsoft digging deeper into VoIP: “Microsoft has acquired Teleo Incorporated, a San Francisco-based Voice-over-IP technology company for an undisclosed amount. Ring, ring, ‘phat cash is on the line.'”
PC Pro: News: Hot Topics: Freenet releases pre alpha version of ‘anonymous’ p2p
PC Pro: News: Hot Topics: Freenet releases pre alpha version of ‘anonymous’ p2p: “Freenet releases pre alpha version of ‘anonymous’ p2p
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Despite the recent court victories by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and others against Grokster and the targeting of users who distribute music files, it seems the peer-to-peer (p2p) business is not about to give up without a fight yet.
A group of developers say they are on target to produce a system of anonymous file sharing by the end of the year.”
Cell phone radiation chart – CNET reviews
Cell phone radiation chart – CNET reviews: “According to the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA), SAR or specific absorption rate is ‘a way of measuring the quantity of radiofrequency (RF) energy that is absorbed by the body.’ For a phone to pass FCC certification, that phone’s maximum SAR level must be less than 1.6W/kg (watts per kilogram). In Europe, the level is capped at 2W/kg. The SAR level listed in our chart represents the maximum SAR level with the phone next to the ear, a level obtained through required FCC tests.”
How to extract fragments from DVD movies and to create one DVD (with video clips) ?
How to extract fragments from DVD movies and to create one DVD (with video clips) ?: “How to extract video fragments from DVD movies and to create one DVD (with several video clips) ?”