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After making a pre-beta lab release for Picasa for Linux, Google decided to pull it out from it’s website. The software which is still in pre-beta uses Wine internally, and much of the work to port Picasa was done by CodeWeavers team.
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Update : It seems that Google put Picasa for Linux download page back
I’m sure that most of you have heard about AJAX buzzword, and information about it has been spread over everywhere. However, I found one particular interesting article about AJAX, written by Oracle.
IMHO, this is the nicest article about AJAX on the internet, the article itself was written in simple language and without unnecessary hype to begin with. It is suitable for all level of developers and can serve as an introductory tutorial for the uninitiated.
If you don’t already know, my blog suffered from the “technorati mood swings”, where it states that my blog hasn’t been updated for more than 50days. It seems that I’m not the only onewho has this problem.
Until now, I don’t know what happened and what to do as technorati won’t update my blogs, though i’ve ping them each time I write new post. But last night, I was hit by a pleasant suprise, my blog was updated by technorati 7 days ago, and all my post within that 50days period is included in technorati.
God knows what happened behind the technorati engine, but I wrote this as a reference to other bloggers. Do not give up if technorati stopped updating your blog, they might just have a minor hiccups. Your blogs will be updated by them eventually.
I don’t know if you guys like to use Lelong.com.my service, but I really do, as you can find a lot of cool stuffs there at a bargain price. I usually surf and search for stuffs there at lelong even if I wasn’t looking for something particular.
Therefore to save my time, i developed a Mozilla Search Plugin for Lelong.com.my, the search plugin integrates itself into your Mozilla Firefox browser just like Google search plugin on default Firefox installation. Now, you can search lelong.com.my stuffs right inside your browser!
What are you waiting for? Install Lelong.com.my Search plugin now!
Following my previous post about spammers using TinyURL.com service to spread their spam ads, I’ve received an e-mail reply from Kevin Gilbertson.
He recommends people to forward the spam emails to abuse@tinyurl.com , complete with header so that they can investigate abuse and terminate TinyURLs that are used in spam.
Personally, I think that TinyURL.com registration procedure is too lenient, encouraging spammers to use their services to spread spams. Until TinyURL.com impose a strict registration procedure (like putting captcha, discourage robot/automated registration ) I guess we could flood abuse@tinyurl.com with spammers url that abuses TinyURL service, just to send them a clear message.
I found this site after surfing aimlessly for an hour straight. At first I thought the site is about typical social bookmarking or just another RSS aggregator, but after close inspection I found out that this Web 2.0 website offer a free service to track various Amazon products via news feeds.
Users can track Amazon products wishlist, latest Amazon products and top 25 Amazon products price changes by category, these services are provided free without registration by RSStalker.com.
RSStalker.com provides XML based RSS feeds to track price changes of Amazon products. Generate a feed for a single product or for an entire wishlist. Add it to your favorite aggregator and you will be automatically notified when the price changes. Simply unsubscribe to the feed when you are done.
Price watching is also great for stuff you’ve already bought. Amazon.com doesn’t advertise it, but they have a 30 day price drop policy. If you bought something from them and they lower the price within 30 days, just fill out a form and they’ll refund you the difference. See the FAQ for details.
RSStalker.com (pronounced RSS Stalker), provide these services for free and without any advertisement on it’s website. However there’s one catch, they provide you with these service in hopes that you will click their affiliate link in the feed when you want to make your purchase, thus earning them a fraction of the sales.
Nice strategy indeed :)
Anyway, I praise the guy behind RSStalker.com for going to this length to provide us with a good service and a nice Web 2.0 website.
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