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The Wi-Fi Alliance claims it’s early certification of wireless networking draft 802.11n, which is not expected to become an IEEE standard till March 2009, has prevented a ‘bad user experience’.

(Sorry I have not been able to post a tutorial lately. I am working on a VB .NET project.

Safari 3 Beta has been released, with compatibility for Windows!

This beta has improved speed, draggable tabs, resizable text boxes, and some other stuff.

This will surely bring many Windows users to switch to Safari.

For all of the info please visit MacWorld.

Or, go to the official web page and download it! -Apple

Just to freshen things up here, I shall post something different from Vista.

Open Office Aqua for Mac OS X is now available as an alpha download.

Although you may install it, there are many holes that are to be fixed by developers:

• You cannot print
• PDF export does not properly work as the text won’t show on the page right
• Starting OpenOffice.org from a shared folder does not work
• Copy and paste does not fully work
• Some text is not drawn in places like Impress
• Impress will not recognize multiple monitors

Most importantly, the alpha may crash and your data will be lost.

If you would still like to try it, visit the Open Office Aqua Site.

Box users, rejoice! Microsoft Office can now be box.net enabled through the use of a plugin.

After the plug-in is installed, a “Save to Box.net” link will appear in the “Add-Ins” section of each Microsoft Office application.

Clicking on this button will save your file to Box, making it easy to access from anywhere, share with anyone, or keep safe for later.

The plug-in is compatible with Windows versions of Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007.

Official download here:
http://www.box.net/r/office_2

Source: The Economist

TECH firms constantly moan about software piracy and no wonder. Last year it accounted for 35% of the worldwide market and cost the industry $39.6 billion according to the Business Software Alliance, a trade body. America and China lead the world in terms of total losses from piracy at $7.2 billion and $5.4 billion respectively. But when calculated according to the number of computers in each country a different picture emerges. Cash-strapped countries dominate the leader board. In Azerbaijan, which comes out on top, computers are loaded with $262-worth of pirated software on average. But Iceland is the surprise second-placed nation: although software to the tune of $32m is pirated it is spread over only a few computers.

AFP

As you can see, youtube has changed its look and some features.

The player will add a feature that was already available in Google Video: jump to any part of the video even if the video isn’t fully downloaded.

For each video, you’ll be able to see around ten related videos. You don’t have to wait until the video ends to play a new one because they’re available as thumbnails if you hover over the video. The effect is similar to the dock from Mac OS X. You can also click on the two arrows to go to the previous / next video.

The “menu” button gives you access to the embedding code or to the URL of the YouTube page that shows the video. If you click on the button, the video is smoothly minimized in the left corner and it continues to play.

Get Joost now! Anyone can get Joost, just fill in your email and an invite will be sent to you!

https://www.joost.com/download/

When you have it installed, you can sign up and use Joost!

Or, if you don’t wish to download at this time, comment asking for an invite and I shall send you one.

Update: You do not need an invite anymore. Just download and install Joost, and when you open it, you can register, no invite needed. Thank you and have fun using Joost!

Download Joost Here

Tech ware labs has claimed to have “spy” pictures of the first quad-core laptop, with specs to go with it.

These pictures aren’t very satisfactory, so we will have to wait for more evidence of its existence.

Two chat bots, Alice and Jabberwacky, were able to converse with each other.

Amazingly, the conversation appeared profound at times and made much more sense than real humans.(Much easier to read than H3770 808 h0W 4Re Y0u?)

But at other times, it makes no sense what they say.

Both bots analyze keywords and phrases and searches for an appropriate response from its database.

This is the original sample: http://discovermagazine.com/2007/brain/i-chat-therefore-i-am/article_print

To chat with one of these bots, go to the link:
Alice
Jabberwacky

Microsoft has increased its pursuit of buying Yahoo!, by entering formal talks on Friday.

Both companies have been informally talking to each other for years, toying with the idea of challenging Google in web supremacy.

“It’s been talked about for a long time, ever since Google came into the picture.
I can’t imagine a more perfect deal,” said Peter Lobravico, vice president of risk arbitrage sales/trading at brokerage Wall Street Access.

“You can’t find a stronger buyer than Microsoft and while it would spur a lot of political and regulatory noise, everyone knows in the end that the deal would go through.”

Microsoft reportedly made an offer several months ago, but Yahoo! turned it down.

The renewed talks are a sign of Google’s power, the Journal said, and are also a sign of problems over the past year with in-house efforts at Yahoo and Microsoft.

A deal could help Microsoft attract advertisers to its online businesses.