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Friday, June 29th, 2007 |
Adsense ads are now available with rounded corners.. The Adsense team has released a post entitled “We go round and round” which gives light to this new feature.
This new option is part of our ongoing effort to improve the look and feel of our ads. We’re also working to give you even more choices to customize your ad formats while maximizing revenue and user satisfaction. We hope you enjoy the new corner options, whether you choose to go edgy or bubbly.
i think they’re pretty neat. at least we’ve got more options to choose from… the rounded corners do seem a bit more appealing… tsk tsk tsk….
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007 |
it seems to me that smartbro is being generous these days. i don’t really know why but my bandwidth speed is really high these past few days? and when i say high, i mean 1++mbps.. That’s more than twice as much as the advertised 384kbps.. maybe they just haven’t noticed it yet.. or maybe their fixing something? LOLZ! i don’t know, but i hope this stays for a while…
UPDATE: well, my smartbro connection is still on the high.. hahahaha! better spend my time downloading some precious programs… LOL!
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Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 |
Many of you already know or already heard of Adbrite . But for those of you who haven’t, Adbrite is one of the biggest Text Ad marketplaces on the Web and probably most trusted and transparent marketplace for digital advertising.You can sell and/or buy ads, whether it be Banner Ads,Interstitial Ads, Inline Ads, or Invideo Ads, on thousands of network sites. So take a look around the site and see if its for you.
Check Adbrite out here…
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Friday, April 20th, 2007 |
Mozilla Thunderbird 2 has just been released and has a features that have improved the way users can organize and label their messages.
Mozilla Thunderbird 2 is reloaded and more powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail.
Here’s what new in Thunderbird 2:
- Message Tags: Create your own tags for organizing email. Messages can be assigned any number of tags. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email.
- Visual Theme: Thunderbird 2’s theme and user interface have been updated to improve usability and maximize screen real estate.
- Session History Navigation: Back and Forward buttons allow navigation through message history.
- Advanced Folder Views: Customize the folder pane to show favorite, unread or recent folders.
- Easy Access to Popular Web Mail Services: Gmail and .Mac users can access their accounts Thunderbird by simply providing their user names and passwords.
- Improved Support For Extensions: Extensions can now add custom columns to the message list pane in addition to storing custom message data in the mail database.
- Improved New Mail Notification Alerts: New mail alerts include information such as the subject, sender and message preview text.
- Folder Summary Popups: Mouse over a folder with new messages to see a summary of the new messages in that folder.
- Saved Search Folder Performance: Search results for saved search folders are now cached, improving folder loading performance.
- Find As You Type: Finds and highlights message text as you type.
- Improved Filing Tools: Recent folder menu items for moving and copying messages to recently used folders. Move / Copy again functionality.
- Updates to the Extension System: The extension system has been updated to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions.
- New Windows installer: Based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, the new Windows installer resolves many long-standing issues.
- Windows Vista Support: Many enhancements and fixes for Windows Vista.
Aside from those features, some bugs have also been fixed.
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 |
I was surfing the web today and i came upon this site that sells independent vibrators for cellphones.. Then I thought to myself, why would you need another vibrator when most phones are already equipped with one?
I got interested and started reading what it was all about, and that’s when i realized that this wasn’t any ordinary vibrator, but rather a “VIBRATOR”. I think you know what i mean… LOL
It is called THE TOY. It connects to the phone via Bluetooth, and since it is “hidden”, then surely no one would know you have it unless you become obvious. The Toy has a lot more features that i’ll just let you discover from their site.. I wonder how strong it vibrates.. and when will they have a device like that for the guys? LOL
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007 |
One Laptop Per Child, a.k.a. OLPC, hopes to bring inexpensive laptops to poor kids around the world. And guess what? They are now considering the possibility of allowing these $100 machines to be purchased by the general public. And yes that means you! For them, it’s not about the money, but rather hopes of bringing inexpensive laptops to poor kids around the world.
OLPC is considering the plan that the computers would be offered to customers who would have to purchase a minimum of two laptops at a time — with the second going to the developing world.
So, you might be wondering what the specs are right?
-500MHz processor
-128MB of DRAM
-500MB of Flash memory (no hard disk)
-four USB ports
-wireless broadband
-Linux-based Operating System
-dual-mode display (both a full-color, transmissive DVD mode, and a second display option that is black and white reflective and sunlight-readable at 3× the resolution)
not bad for 100$.. i wouldn’t mind getting one..
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 |
Time magazine has chosen YOU and ME, the web users, as the “Person Of The Year” (2006).
The official magazine cover of the issue looks like this:
Who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I’m not going to watch Lost tonight. I’m going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I’m going to mash up 50 Cent’s vocals with Queen’s instrumentals? I’m going to blog about my state of mind or the state of the nation or the steak-frites at the new bistro down the street? Who has that time and that energy and that passion?The answer is, you do. And for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME’s Person of the Year for 2006 is you.
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 |
Mozilla’s Firefox 2.0 has long been considered a safer Web browser than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, but a flaw in the Firefox Password Manager could enable hackers steal your login data.
The problem, known as a reverse cross-site request (RCSR)was first discovered by Robert Chapin, a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and I.T, consultant. The RCSR appears on blogs, message boards, or group forums that let users add comments with embedded HTML code.
On sites that allow users to enter code, a hacker can embed a form that tricks the user’s browser into sending its username and password information to the hacker’s computer. Because the form is embedded on a trusted Web site, the browser’s built-in antiphishing protection, which is designed to alert users to fraudulent Web sites, does not detect the problem.
Even worse, hackers can make the deceptive form invisible, meaning users can transmit their private data without even knowing it.
Bug #360493
The Mozilla Foundation has acknowledged the problem and named it bug #360493. Microsoft has also admitted that RCSR attacks can affect Internet Explorer, but most reports indicate that Firefox is the more likely target because of the way it stores usernames and passwords.
No patch has yet been released for the problem, but you can avoid reverse cross-site request attacks by simpy disabling your Firefox 2.0 autosave features for usernames and passwords. This feature is found in the “Options” window under the “Tools” menu.
Mozilla has indicated that it plans a fix in Firefox version 2.0.0.1 or 2.0.0.2.
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Saturday, October 14th, 2006 |
Paypal is now available in the Phillippines!
However it is still not possible to load your account thru credit card, receive funds, or withdraw funds into a local bank account.
This is good considering that we can now pay online through Paypal but with all the constraints, this is still not what i need, which is to pay and recieve money… ^_^ It’s a good start though…
For more info, visit the paypalnow blog.
EDIT: The only thing we could do is pay via paypal with a limit of USD100..
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