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You can find your favourite song by humming!

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We used to remember the song tune, music and harmony rather than the lyrics or the song title. Have you ever missed your favourite song? Have you ever just hummble it to your friends and they have ever look at you like you are from Mars? Well, not again!

You know that song is famous, but all you can remember is some tune and just hummble? That’s enough! That’s all you need!

Go to Midomi.com, where you can use your voice to instantly connect to your favorite music, and to a community of people that share your musical interests. Listen to voices, see pictures, rate singers, send messages, buy music, and more.

As with any other innovative company, Midomi is still in beta. But you can contribute to their database by singing your well-known favourite song.

Grab your mic and let’s start singing!

Adblockplus – Blogger killer?

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Well,

I just found out this very cool firefox plugin, that I can’t surf without it anymore. After using that adblockplus plugin, your Yahoo mail will look like Yahoo mail plus, without annoying graphical ads anymore. Your favourite blog will be really ads-free.

The hot debates are “Is this ethical?”, “Are we killing the goose?”, blah, blah, blah

But the answer is that actually, Adblock Plus gives the user control. If you want to view google ads, don’t filter them.

If you got annoy with chitika ads on my blog, just install that plugin and boom, you can browse Bridge to Nova for ads-free. Trust me, I don’t mind. Why?
Guess what, if you got really annonyed by ads on the internet and you love to use this software, maybe you aren’t the guy ads company are targeting. It is as simple as that.

Domain Names : Fundamental of success ?

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Well as some of you might notice I have been bloggin with the blogspot.com for quite a long time and then I decided to go with my own domain name.

Why? Because I feel that a good domain name can help an online business become more visible, credible and accessible. And it can also help a person make a fortune. While finding one was very prohibitive, we can be a part of the gold rush, too.

Let’s do the math! Over 23 million “.com” names have been registered, and over 22 thousand are being purchased every day. It means that you’re more likely to win the lottery than find a good domain name.

Here is a list of record selling domain name:

- business.com sold for $7.5 million
- asseenontv.com sold for $5 million
- altavista.com sold for $3.3 million
- loans.com sold for $3 million
- CreditCards.com sold for $2.75 million
- autos.com sold for $2.2 million
- Men.com sold for $1.3 million
- wallstreet.com sold for $1.03 million
- forsalebyowner.com sold for $835,000
- drugs.com sold for $825,000
- cinema.com sold for $700,000
- Me.com sold for $460,000
- art.com sold for $450,000
- engineering.org sold for $199,000
- fruits.com sold for $160,000
- perfect.com sold for $94,000

Not only that big list, some other domain are trading everyday on eBay from somewhere between $100 to $1000.

Why? Why do these people pay that much just for a domain name? This is because domain is the thing upon which you will build your online business. And like real estate, the location is just as important — being accessible.

Act like a geek!

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The easiest way to get someone’s attention is to yell at them. Or throw something. The geek way to get someone’s attention is to write your message in lights.

Well that is the quotation for WavyWand.

Yeah, that’s right, we are not very far away from actually seeing the laser knife just like in the star war. The very cool feature of WavyWand is that it comes with the USB cable and software, in which you can program any animations or pictures or wordarts or many more. The sky is the limit. But you need your mind wide open.

Oh! I almost forgot. No more yelling! :)

Safari on Windows

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I know this is gonna be old news, but I can’t control myself to complain about Safari buggyness on Windows. Safari really sucks, well at least on Windows PC(s).

I installed it on my WinXP SP2 and tried to make a blog post about it. After I logon to blogger.com and I clicked to create post, Bang! Safari close with no reason or whatsoever. I tried reinstall many times, same problem.

I am aware that safari is, in fact, only in beta. But can’t even write a blog post on blogger.com should be in alpha version.

Freeware at your grab

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Here we go!

I got this list from googling around. Enjoy!

Freeware applications enjoy and please donate where applicable


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3D Graphics:
3Delight Free – http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or – http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis – http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender – http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax – http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Houdini (Free Edition) – http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Maya Personal Learning Ed. – http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services…_maya_ple.shtml
Now3D – http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX – http://www.openfx.org
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP – http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Terragen – http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic – http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D – http://www.wings3d.com/

Anti-Virus:
AntiVir – http://www.free-av.com/
Avast – http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG – http://www.grisoft.com/
ClamWin – http://www.clamwin.com/

Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware – http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Bazooka – http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
Diet K – http://www.dietk.com/
SpyBot Search & Destroy – http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster – http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard – http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
WinPatrol – http://www.winpatrol.com/

IRC Clients:
BersIRC – http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX – http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC – http://www.hydrairc.com/
TinyIRC – http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat – http://www.silverex.org/news/

Audio Players:
1by1 – http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy – http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer – http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Foobar 2000 – http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes – http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic – http://www.jetaudio.com/
Musik – http://musik.berlios.de/
QCD Player – http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique – http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp – http://www.winamp.com/
XMPlay – http://www.un4seen.com/xmp
lay.html

Audio Tools:
Audacity – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
CDex – http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter – http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC – http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 – http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder – http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 – http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer – http://www.kramware.com/
MP3 Book Helper – http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag – http://www.mp3tag.de/
mp3DirectCut – http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain – http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim – http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz – http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares – http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free – http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner – http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather – http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

CD/DVD Burning:
Burn4Free – http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce – http://www.burnatonce.com/
CDBurnerXP – http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/
CDRDAO – http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend – http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner – http://www.deepburner.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD – http://www.paehl.de/cdr

Compression / Decompression:
7-zip – http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 – http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
ExtractNow – http://www.extractnow.com/
FilZip – http://www.filzip.com/
IZArc – http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip – http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip – http://www.tugzip.com/
UPX – http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go – http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius – http://www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw – http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS – http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Desktop Enhancements:
AveDesk – http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372
CursorXP – http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
Kapsules – http://kapsules.shellscape.org/
MobyDock – http://www.mobydock.com/
Panorama – http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html
Rainlendar – http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=proj…ject=rainlendar
Samurize – http://www.samurize.com/
tclock2 – http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm
Weather Watcher – http://www.singerscreations.com/

Download managers:
Free Download Manager – http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Fresh Download – http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
Star Downloader – http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
wackget – http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/

Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt – http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser – http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder – http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
KeePass – http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
GnuPG – http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware – http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
WindowsCleaner – http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm

File Managers:
2xExplorer – http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 – http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
ExplorerXP – http://www.explorerxp.com
Gyula’s Navigator – http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer – http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander – http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery – http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Firewalls:
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) – http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) – http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
Sygate (FREE for personal use) – http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall – http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp…reeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients:
CoreFTP – http://www.coreftp.com/
Filezilla – http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
miFiles – http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html
SmartFTP – http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:
FileZilla – http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Golden FTP Server – http://www.goldenftpserver.com
GuildFTPD – http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detail_v…pplication=8334
Quick ‘n Easy FTP Server – http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd – http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
WarFTPD – http://www.jgaa.com/

HTML Editors:
1st page 2000 – http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML – http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia – http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
HTML-Kit – http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
NVU – http://www.nvu.com/index.html
Selida – http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE – http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder – http://www.tsware.net/

Image viewers:
Ahaview – http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
Irfanview – http://www.irfanview.com/
Picasa – http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php
SlowView – http://www.slowview.at/
XNView – http://www.xnview.com/

Instant Messenger:
Gaim – http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
IM2: http://www.im2.com
Miranda IM – http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pandion – http://www.pandion.be/
PSI – http://psi.affinix.com/
SIM – http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/
Trillian Basic – http://trillian.cc/downloads

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
Avantbrowser – http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Maxthon – http://www.maxthon.com/
SlimBrowser – http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

Mail programs:
Foxmail – http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/
i.Scribe – http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail – http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail – http://www.pmail.com/
PopTray – http://www.poptray.org/
Thunderbird – http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Anti-spam programs:
K9 – http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile – http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes – http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

Network Tools:
CMDTime NTP Utility – http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer – http://www.ethereal.com/
NetMeter – http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
NetProfiles – http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/
Ntop – http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter – http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY – http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats – http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2400
RealVNC – http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC – http://www.tightvnc.org/
UltraVNC – http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP – http://www.winscp.com/

Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition – http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord – http://www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org – http://www.openoffice.org/

Partition Managers:
Partition Resizer – http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager – http://www.ranish.com/part/
TestDisk – http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

PDF Utilities:
Free PDF – http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView – http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 – http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator – http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PrimoPDF – http://www.primopdf.com/

Photo manipulation and image design:
ColorPic – http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Paint .NET – http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Pixia – http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Pixie – http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
PhotoFiltre – http://www.photofiltre.com/
Sodiodi – http://www.sodipodi.com/
The Gimp – http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint – http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint

Programming:
Crimson Editor – http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Context – http://www.context.cx/
Dev C++ – http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal – http://www.bloodshed.net/
Digital Mars C++ – http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
Eclipse – http://www.eclipse.org/
ExamDiff – http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
Freepascal – http://www.freepascal.org/
JCreator LE – http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm
jEdit – http://www.jedit.org/
Notepad++ – http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 – http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
Pelles C – http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm
PHP Hypertext Parser – http://www.php.net/
PSPad – http://www.pspad.com/
Python – http://www.python.org/
Ruby – http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop – http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/

Pop-up Blockers:
Google Toolbar – http://www.google.com/
NoAds – http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper – http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Privoxy – http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron – http://www.proxomitron.info/

RSS Readers:
Ablion – http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm
RSSOwl – http://www.rssowl.org/

System Information and monitoring:
CPU-Z – http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Everest – http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p…ang=en&pageid=1
Gkrellm – http://bill.nalens.com/
Motherboard monitor – http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
SpeedFan – http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Sysmetrix – http://www.xymantix.com
WCPUID – http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html

Video codecs :
DivX Codec – http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/index.php
FFDSHOW – http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
XviD – http://www.xvid.org/

Video players :
BsPlayer – http://www.bsplayer.org/
Crystal Player – http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads
Cygwin MPlayer – http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
DivX Player – http://www.divx.com/
MaximusDVD – http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic – http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303
VideoLan – http://www.videolan.org/

Video tools:
DVD Shrink – http://www.dvdshrink.org/
DScaler – http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG – http://www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot – http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
VirtualDub – http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod – http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889
Zwei-Stein Video Editor – http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Web browsers:
Firefox – http://www.getfirefox.com
K-Meleon – http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla – http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape – http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp

Web servers:
Abyss – http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache – http://httpd.apache.org/
Sambar – http://www.sambar.com/
Savant – http://savant.sourceforge.net/
SimpleServer:WWW – http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm
TinyWeb – http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html

Webcam Software:
booruWebCam – http://www.booru.net/
Pryme – http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

Checksum Utilities:
fsum – http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
hksfv – http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/
md5sum – http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer – http://www.md5summer.org/

General Utilities And Other Applications:
AnalogX – http://www.analogx.com/
AppRocket – http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
Celestia – http://www.shatters.net/celestia
CCleaner – http://www.ccleaner.com
Cygwin – http://www.cygwin.com
Dirkey – http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
EditPad Lite – http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
HTTrack – http://www.httrack.com/
Inno Setup – http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Memtest-86 – http://www.memtest86.com
MWSnap – http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime – http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer – http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Peerguardian – http://xs.tech.nu/
QuickSFV – http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/
png2ico – http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
Stickies – http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
Sysinternals – http://www.sysinternals.com/
Toolbox – http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/
TuneXP – http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/showdoc.php?doc=txp_about
Turbo Pad – http://turbopad.sourceforge.net/
Vim – http://vim.sourceforge.net

Google.cn being blocked by China’s government

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Google’s China news can’t stop at the moment. Since Google’s controversial decision to launch Google.cn with results being filter, news are being pop up day after day.

If this news is true, this might be a big crush between Google and China Goverment.


Tests on a Shanghai-based trace-route server, located at http://www.linkwan.com/vr2/, indicated that the site was being blocked at the government-operated backbone server. The analysis from the trace route said ‘IP packets are being lost past network CHINANET backbone network at hop 4.’

The same message is displayed when the test is run on websites that are blocked by the government, such as the BBC’s news website. A trace route could not be conducted from Beijing, although attempts to load the site in an internet cafe resulted in ‘time out’ errors.

Source : Forbes.com