Yahoo: Online Bookmark service gets an upgrade

Anew version of Yahoo’s online bookmark service is now available. The service allows users to store bookmarks or favorites online to share them on different computers or with others. New features of the service include drag and drop support, folders to organize your bookmarks and improved search functions.
Tags can now be used as well [...]

Adobe: Small footprint PDF & ebook reader getting ready

Yesterday Adobe has launched the public beta of Digital Editions, a new Flash-based reader of digital content. Digital Editions, built from the ground up as a lightweight, Rich Internet application (RIA), supports both the PDF file format and a XHTML-based reflow format that can adjust content depending on screen size.
The Digital Editions download is [...]

Microsoft releases Windows Defender

After beta testing the software since January 2005 today Microsoft has released its first version of Windows Defender. The free application is intended to protect MS Windows users from …pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software…
Windows Defender might raise the stakes for security vendors like Symantec and McAfee [...]

Firefox 2: Microsoft sends a cake to congratulate

A member of the Firefox team has put up on his private blog this image of a cake said to be sent by the Microsoft Internet Explorer team to the Mozilla Corporation (Firefox team) congratulating them for their successful roll-out of their (and the only one still) competing web browser.
We wish to congratulate as [...]

Google: Create your own search engine with Google Co-op

This morning Google has launched a customizable version of its search engine that allows users to prioritize or limit search results to a defined set of web sites.
While Google has since quite some time allowed web site owners to create their customized search engines the new service includes many more options. Users will also [...]

Spell ransom notes with Flickr

Erik Kastner has created an online application that uses random Flickr images to spell ransom notes. While there are other services online to do such a thing the results from this are definitely the best so far.

Intended for developers (source code available) but you can still use it to create yourself some great images of [...]

Bittorrent: Now embedded in network and consumer electronics

Today Bittorrent announced that its popular file sharing software will be embedded into network routers and Internet devices.
BitTorrent enabled network devices will allow users to connect to the Internet, schedule and download files without the need to use a PC.
ASUS, Planex and QNAP are the first to announce plans to embed BitTorrent’s download manager [...]

Sudan: UN envoy ordered to leave country for blogging

Yesterday official SUNA news agency reported that the Sudanese foreign ministry has given Jan Pronk, special representative of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in Sudan 72hours to leave the country.
Last week Professor Pronk wrote in his personal blog that the Sudanese army had lost two major battles in Darfur to rebel groups, one in [...]

Web Browsers: Firefox 2.0 release date 24-October-2006

After Microsoft having released his new Internet Explorer 7 web browser with some hickups this week, the Mozilla Foundation today announced that it will make the version 2 of its popular Firefox browser available for download on next Tuesday 24-October-2006.
PC World has created a review of the IE7 and Firefox 2 comparing the [...]

ThinkGeek: New eStarling WiFi-LCD Frame available now

When the first version of the eStarling Wi-Fi enabled photo frame hit the shelves last time earlier the year it sold out almost immediately.
A new version of the eStarling is now available at ThinkGeek with a more stylish look and improved 7″ screen.
The eStarling frame is a standalone Wi-Fi LCD photo frame that connects [...]