Still remember Apple TV? Have you got yourself this latest entertainment gadget, put it beside your home theatre and LCD TV?
At the moment, Apple TV plays movies, TV shows, music, photos, and podcasts only. But come mid-June, Apple TV will provide the link-up to YouTube’s hugh video catalogue. Basically, you will be able to search and play YouTube videos on your big screen! Isn’t that awesome?!
Auction giant eBay has recently acquired StumbleUpon, a San Francisco company that helps users discover and shre sites that fit their specific interests, for US$75 million.
StumbleUpon has approximately 2.4 million users, and is growing quite rapidly.
Bill Cobb, the President of eBay North America has the following to say;
Our intent is to support the growth and evolution of this community-based business, and StumbleUpon will run as a separate business unit within eBay Inc. Although there are no definite plans to share at this time, as the site evolves, we’ll be exploring the possibilities for synergies between StumbleUpon and eBay marketplaces, Skype, and PayPal.
eBay Senior Director Michael Buhr will serve as general manager of StumbleUpon effective immediately. StumbleUpon’s current founders and management team will remain in their respective positions and will work hand in hand with Buhr to enhance the StumbleUpon services.
By the way, have you tried the StumbleUpon Toolbar? Download it for free today and give it a shoot. It’s cool I assure you.
According to the latest statistics from W3Counter, Internet Explorer is still the favorite browser among Internet users. Internet Explorer 6.0 has a 49.54% market share, while the latest browser from Microsoft, Internet Explorer 7.0 has the 2nd largest share at 16.82%. That gives a total of close to 70% market share! This is not surprisingly as all Windows systems are preloaded with Internet Explorer.
Ubuntu is a very popular Linux distribution particularly within home or personal computer users. Based on Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu is very strong on usability, ease of installation, and freedom from legal restrictions.
As the Ubuntu community continues to grow rapidly, so does the resources available for the users. Some time ago, the community has come up an all new free e-magazine called Full Circle which carries a lot of useful information about Ubuntu, Open Source and Linux in general. Issue #0 is available for download in PDF format. You can download it in your chosen language here.
Weather is so hot these days I don’t know how many buckets I must have sweat a day sitting at my desk. However, this will be a thing of the past after I get hold of a cool and portable refridgerator from Brando. That is a USB Mini Fridge! Yes, my personal fridge, which I will put on my desk, sharing space with all my other computer gadgets! Haha.
Have you seen the latest issue of Playboy? Nope I guess, here is a screen shot of the cover.
Shh… any idea where you can get hold of Playboy in Malaysia? 🙂
After being delayed for close to a month, WordPress 2.2 was finally released on 15 May 2007. This latest version of the popular blogging software includes a number of new features, most notably Widgets integration, and of course hundreds of bug fixes.
Some new features at a glance:
Last time, I showed you how you can easily download YouTube videos and save them on your computer. Fill up both your 150GB hard disks with your favorite videos. But, how do you play them?… some readers emailed to ask me.
If you didn’t notice, the videos you download from YouTube are in .FLV file extension. FLV (Flash Video) is a proprietary file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (formerly known as Macromedia Flash Player). To play these videos, all we need is a FLV player, and you are in luck today because we have a Free FLV Player!
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After a dotcom merger was completed, a company had too many extra computers lying around. A couple of guys lined them up around the office and knocked them over… they have a computer domino!
(This Domino babe picture is purely for illustration purpose only)
Excuse me if I salivate buckets wishing I could put my hand on this awesome yellow box. In order to promote the upcoming Simpsons movie, Microsoft has created 100 limited edition Simpsons Xbox 360s. Yes, you read me right, there are only 100 of these yellow game consoles in the world. So, how do you get your hands on one?
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