Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Locate Your IM Contact With RadiusIM

RadiusIM - Another cool IM Web based Services that allows users to log in using any of their Yahoo, MSN, AIM and Google Talk accounts to check out who's around you and point out using an icon via a embedded Google map.

RadiusIM screenshot

Basically the concept of RadiusIM is you choose your location, with your friends list on the right and a location map on the center. When friends and IM contacts are online, their icons show up in their specific location on the map. Beside that, RadiusIM has a cool way of just dragging the Google map around the world and seeing which members are located there, whether they are logged in or not.

On the privacy side, all user location within 1/4 mile is actually blurred out so that their precise location can remain semi-hidden.

My Note

RadiusIM Services is more concerntrate on about location and show who's is nearby your area only. Unfortunately, I still keep on trying to sign up the RadiusIM service which still not successful until now ( dun know what happen ) and i can see the serives seem like very slow and always disconnect to server. Anyway, The RadiusIM is a pretty interesting way to see who is around you, or near a certain location. The RadiusIM still an alpha version and i expect see from them. let me know your comment if you use Radius IM before ?

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Thursday, August 24, 2006

AllPeers - File Sharing on web browser without limit

AllPeers -free firefox extension which combines thestrength of Firefox and BitTorrent technology to enable possibility to share pictures, music and video’s within Firefox. AllPeer allows you to add friends to your buddy list and share files among your buddy. The process of adding file is simple, you just need to drag ‘n drop, and select who you want to share the file with.

AllPeers Print Screen

Beside that, AllPeer Services will go live with a public beta today and start offering public accounts according to a post on the company’s blog

On the allpeers blog said:

In a few hours AllPeers is going to be released in the wild after 5 months of private testing. We did not invite all the testers during that phase but rest assured the remaining one will receive an email when the application is available

  • AllPeers is still a beta product so don’t expect it to be perfect (yet).
  • Some features have not make it into this version so they will come out later; they include Chat, Comments, Tagging, support for external torrents.
  • AllPeers is for sharing privately with friends and family; not for massively distributing files amongst strangers
You can checkout the tour and to see what allpeers is about. AllPeers will be made available directly from the official Firefox extensions website. ( When available )

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Hullo - free versatile VoIP Calls Software

Hullo applicationHullo is a whole new VoIP communicate by changing the way that you keep in touch with people better than ever before. Why say Hullo is differ from Gizmo Project or Skype ? It can integrate your Windows-based "softphone," your cell phone, and your land line(s) together. after you set up Hullo, you enter your other phones numbers like cell phone or house phone, and then when someone calls you, Hullo will route the call as you if you're not at the computer, it can ring your home phone, then your cell, and so on.

Hullo is a client-based application that looks like an instant message box. It runs separately from the browser (and unfortunately is only available for Windows machines). Hullo is currently in beta and all calls to North America are free.

Review on Hullo VoIP software features

  • Simple Voice conference by adding as many people as you want. The Voice conference is relying on Versatel Networks EdgeIQ series hardware on the backend to handle the traffic.
  • Ability to create sophisticated find-me rules. You can be setup and assign different fules on an individual basis. Example your friend could be routed right to your cell phone, whereas your boss could be sent to voice mail.
  • Don’t like talking on a headset? Use your ordinary phone instead. When you click on your buddy’s name in the hullo contact list, it will ring your choice of handset, and your buddy at the same time. You can make and receive calls on any handset you choose. This will be a killer feature if they migrate it to a cellular handset.
  • hullo has mid-call transfers. hullo able continue a conversation from one devices to another devices ( Computer to Cell Phobe ) e.g. if you're talking on the computer and have to leave the house, you can seamlessly transfer the call to your cell phone

My Note

hullo has offer something differ from other VoIP software, i test the sound compression quality is good but i hope hullo can give more free calls beside North America.

webaroo v1.2 Released - surf web information without border

Previously i write a post about Webaroo - a free service enabling you to browse the web content without internet connection. Now, Webaroo has released Version 1.2 and you will find extensive enhancement such as the ability to add greater link depth, limit the download size, and download document, audio and video attachments for the web sites you add to your library.

New features that have been incorporated include:

  • Webaroo Mobilenew Webaroo toolbar button for your browser, making it easy to add web pages and as you browse. Beside that You can adding password protected page by using the browser button.
  • Import your bookmarks from your browser to your Webaroo library.
  • Store Webaroo content anywhere on your hard disk.
  • An enhanced Webaroo library, that shows you what content is being updated and helps you sort your web packs & sites.
  • Update notifications & new web pack alerts.

Currently, Webaroo is supporting Windows Pocket PC 2003 SE and Windows mobile 5.0 platform for mobile edition and Windows XP and Windows NT SP4 for Desktop Edition.

You can review the specification over here and the web content can be download at webaroo collection of topic-specific Web Packs.

Download Webaroo 1.2

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Download Microsoft Live Writer

Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer is launched yesterday, it is totally free desktop client's software and downloable application. Windows Live Writer able to run on windows PC and allows write your blog posts.

Windows Live Writer Screenshot

The blogging system that integrate with Microsoft Windows Lives support are Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress and others.

The main features of Windows Live Writer are WYSIWYG authoring and Photo publishing. The rich text editor is no quite impressive because contains the usual elements and doesn't produce clean code.

Photo Publishing features allows bloggers easy insertion of photos and things like Live.com Maps, and tagging. The images editing features that you can use are resize the picture, add a nice shadow, adjust brightness and even use some simple effects.

Windows Live Writer is available to download here [4.74 MB, Windows] and it's still beta version.

Desktop- Online Vritual Desktop

Desktop LogoDesktopTwo is a powerful new web based desktop that offers an impressive list of well designed features. DesktopTwo can allows you complete access of your desktop wherever you are and totally free. DesktopTwo services has generated well over 100,000 subscriptions from around the world.

Requirement to run DesktopTwo properly:-

  • Java enabled
  • Flash version 9
  • Pop Up on browser is available
  • Adobe Readers
  • Cookies turn "on"

Desktop Two Screen Features that DesktopTwo offers by :-

  • Web IM, including chat with Jabber, Google and MSN buddies. (No Yahoo! or AIM yet, that’s a shame.)
  • 1 GB of free storage.
  • An inline MP3 player with playlist creation.
  • An adress book.
  • WYSIWYG web page editing.
  • A blog publishing platform with support for tags, full or partial RSS feeds, 16 layout templates and the ability to edit the CSS.
  • Email and search.

My note

DesktopTwo seem like Next generation web-based desktop which includes email, IM, address book, hard drive, blog creator, message boards, search, office tools, mp3, and much more. Anyway, i have test it out and quite impressive about it. If anyone has experience in using this tool, please let us know how it worked out for you..

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Monday, August 14, 2006

Cache Discovery Protocol Speed Bittorrent Speed

Bitorrent is starting up working with CacheLogic again on a new bittorrent protocol call " Cache Discovery Protocol or CDP" Concept which supposedly will act like DHCP features for peer to peer networks.( to address the issue of ISP bandwidth throttling, and more importantly, BitTorrent traffic caching.)

This DHCP features will assigns IP addresses to devices on a network automatically, without much mucking around on the end user part which similiar to current CDP would allows BitTorrent client to auto discover better seeds that have been cached on the network, and allow faster downloads of the files. This new technology seem like will be helpful on situations where there are only a handful of seed files.

My Note

My understanding on new bittorrent protocol seem like help out on addressing some of the issues on bittorrent peformance by caching some of seeds addresses, especially where there is very limited upstream speed available. it seem like this protocol works fine by finding better, cached seeds on the network for your bittorrent client

Via GigaOm

AIM and AOL User get free 5Gb online storage

xdrive AOL announce offering 5GB of free online storage for all AIM and AOL web user on september onwards. This free online storage will powered by XDrive.

The free online storage service will allow users to upload and download digital photos, videos, and important documents in Xdrive's data server without a single charges. meanwhile, XDrive will provides features like below:-
  • Drag and drop interface between online storage and hard drive
  • Access to files through any Web-connected PC or mobile device
  • Permission-based file and folder sharing
  • Online collaboration via shared files
  • Scheduled automatic backups
  • Automatic upload of e-mail attachments from providers including AOL Mail, AIM Mail, or any non-AOL POP3 or IMAP-compatible mail providers
  • Full-resolution photo storage
  • Easy access to AOL Pictures for professional prints and photo gifts

My Note

The free storage sounds awesome but just serve for AIM and AOL user only. This news may be worrying other online storage provider like GDrive that taking a long time to launch.

Via DownloadSquad

Free 3GB email storage and unlimited attachment size from AOL

Lycos Email LogoLycos announced their new Lycos email services ( ccurrently still beta version ) with 3GB email storage and allow unlimited attachment size to be send and received - All is free. All Lycos free email account will similiar like other email services with ads supported on web based email interface. meanwhile, to prevent infrequent use just for sending huge files, there’s a stipulation that Lycos mail accounts that go unused for 30 days will be deleted.

if you willing to pay 20USD, you can enjoyed 5GB storage without ads supported and no account preservation.

My note

The unlimited attachment storage has become attractive point to subscribe Lycos email services. In comparison, most other services only permit files of up to 10MB to be attached to e-mails. Email storage number isn’t anything super special whereby Gmail already offer 2.75GB ( continue adding up th space).

I still prefer Gmail since the good use of integration with other Google services and my email storage on Gmail never break 10 percent before.

Friday, August 11, 2006

Krugle - Source Code Search Engine

Krugle search engine has been a great place for developer around the world to search code and technical content. Krugle is designed to deliver easy access to source code and other highly relevant technical information in a single, convenient, clean, easy-to-use interface, according to the company.

Krugle Search Engine Interfaces

Krugle offers three separate search options: one for code, another called 'Tech Pages' for code documentation, forums and knowledgebase articles, and a third called 'Projects' that helps developers track down open source projects.

Krugle is based on Apache Software Foundation's Web search projects and Antlr (Another Tool for Language Recognition) parser generator. Krugle itself isn't opensource project but they participates on open-source projects from which part of Krugle's code springs, and also in other development communities. The requirement to use Krugle is require Java Script.

My note

myself is developer on web based coding and find Krugle is a great tool for the code ninjas amongst us.

Krugle Website

Via Linux Watch

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Download Free portable application

John Haller from PortableApps.com has released a lot of portable application that very useful on our daily digital life. all portable application is opensource and free for download. Why use portable application ?

A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When your USB flash drive, portable hard drive or other portable device is plugged in, you have access to your software and personal data just as you would on your own PC. And when you unplug, none of your personal data is left behind. List of portable application that available

  1. Firefox portable 1.5.0.5 ( Web Browser )
  2. Firefox portable 2.0 Beta ( Web Broswer )
  3. Portable Thunderbird ( Email application )
  4. Portable Filezilla ( FTP Application )
  5. Portable ClamWin ( Anti Virus Application)
  6. Portable OpenOffice 2.0.2 ( Office productivity Suite )

Firefox logoFileZilla logoClamWinThunderBirdOpenoffice My Note

This portable application has been ease my digital life without install all application on my computer. meanwhile, the portable application just simple plug other computer and nothing data left behind over there. anyway, this credit should belong to John Haller for the creation of portable application.

John, you've brought a ray of sunshine into my life!

free Web IDE tools - Aptana

aptana Simple screenshot Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. This Javascript IDE supports Ajax development and has an easy and simple user interface to help your coding and web design task. The Javascript Web IDE features:-

  • Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions
  • Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure
  • Error and warning notification for your code
  • Support for Aptana UI customization and extensions
  • Cross-platform support ( Windows , Linux and Macs )

The basic of Aptana IDE is required a v1.4.2 of the Java runtime environment installed on your computer. so, Aptana can work fine.

My Note

i like the aptana since the Javascript Web IDE has javascript reference and ajax library helping me develop and learning the code. Plus more clear explaination on the syntax and function usage.

Aptana is worth for downloading if you are web developer. meanwhile, This application is totally free

Aptana ScreenShot

Download Aptana

Ajax Tutorial using Aptana

Aptana FAQ