Gliffy - Web Diagramming Tools

Gliffy is a free diagramming tool that works entirely in your browser. Gliffy is an web based Visio killer application can draw a lot types of diagram like FlowChart, Devolopment process, Web Layout, Floorplan, Class diagram, network diagram and etc.

You can sign Gliffy account freely and start drawing and asswmble your diagram online. meanwhile, your drawings can be shared with others via your blog or website, collaborated on by a group, and placed into documents when complete.

The diagram usage is very similar like visio and take me more than 10 minutes to finish one diagram. But the limitation is Gliffy is a web based application and very relay on the internet speed.

More Gliffy Screen Shot

Gliffy Official Website

Web based media player on FireFox - SongBird

Songbird is web based open-source media player and Internet browser based on Mozilla Firefox browser Engine only. It have all the features like desktop media player and support operating system like Linux , Macs and Windows. Songbird software lets you play music from the web like you going to a site that has links to music, Songbird creates a list of of files you can download or play.

Meanwhile, Songbird also allow you adding or playing podcasting and radio services like odeo and last.fm easily on the web based player. Beside that, the supporting audio format like MPEG Audio (mpga), MPEG Layer 3 (mp3), MP4 Audio (mp4a), Ogg Vorbis, Speex, AAC, WMA, FLAC also play on this web based media player.

Songbird still on the early stage of development ( Version 1) and the features will be grow much more in future when developers create cross-platform extensions and plug-ins.
SongBird Offical Website

Online testing on Microsoft office 2007

If you haven't downloading Microsoft Office 2007 for test out the features of Office 2007, Here is a easy way , Microsoft offer a free testing on Microsoft office 2007 beta via online. Microsoft create a complete computer simulation environment to test out their Microsoft office 2007 product.

List of product on Microsoft office 2007 beta 2

• Microsoft Office Access 2007
• Microsoft Office Excel 2007
• Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
• Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
• Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
• Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007
• Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
• Microsoft Office Visio 2007
• Microsoft Office Word 2007
• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
• Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 (should be available soon)
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Currently the Microsoft office 2007 online server is very buzy and the latency of the respond times is long. i need more than 10 minutes to get the respond and the chances to test is getting slowly and hard to access

Getting Encarta instant answer via MSN Messenger

Looking for fast encyclopedia answer? Here comes the MSN Encarta instant anwser via MSN Messenger.

MSN Encarta Instant anwsering services is an Artificial Inteligent answering robot with encarta information. Basically it like chating with someone and you may ask a lot can question using nature language. Encarta will try to answer you or open Microsoft Encarta (if installed on your PC) for the result.

Step for adding MSN Encarta Instant answer

• Open MSN Messenger and sign in.
• Add Encarta as a contact: encarta@conversagent.com
• Press enter on Encarta from your Contact List.
• Ask a question.

For me, this encarta services is good in term it can search encarta information like chating with someone but encarta respond still lack of respond speed.

News Source:- Liewcf.com

Healia - A health search engine

Helia is a consumer health search engine which you can find useful and health related information only. The health search engine was developed by multiyear competitive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Cancer Institute.

Helia search keyword is based on health vocabulary database of hundreds of thousands of health-related concepts and relationships to suggest alternate search terms and concepts. This sarch kwywords allows you to see the relationships among concepts and search terms that are similar, more general, and more specific than those you submitted.

I see this search engine is very extremly useful for everyone since the search engine is giving more specific health related information only and reduce user searching times on larger search engine.

IEs 4 Linux - Internet Explorer for linux

IEs4Linux is a simpler way to run Internet Explorer on Linux. It is a opensource and free application. IEs4Linux no need clicks needed and setup for the entire process installation of IE on linux. The installation just running a simple script only. The support Internet Explorer edition is IE6, IE 5.5 and IE5 only.

Step for install IEs4Linux

1. Wine and cabextract are required to be installed first before install IEs4Linux. (installation help for install Wine and cabextract )
2. Download IEs4linux from here and extract it to wine special folder.
3. open terminal and run 'ies4linux' executable.

More information : - IEs 4 Linux - Internet Explorers for Linux

Download IEs4Linux

VOIP – Is it for you?

VOIP has created quite a buzz of late. VOIP stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol. More and more people and businesses are switching to VOIP from the standard PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Networks). VOIP transmits the data via the internet versus a PSTN which uses an electrical circuit established between two callers. There are a few reasons why people are switching to VOIP. The first is quite simple – Price. The price for most VOIP services is significantly lower than a landline system or PSTN. There are free pc to pc services and even the services that tie into the regular phone system are much cheaper than the same service plan for regular telephone service. It is not unusual to find unlimited calling anywhere on a pc to pc basis and most of the major services have a variety of plans. These can include local overseas numbers. The second big reason for changing is the ability to bundle services such as caller id, call forwarding, voice mail, call block, etc as part of the same package without the additional costs you would expect to pay with a landline system. Increased mobility is another big advantage of VOIP. You can have your local phone with you where ever you are as long as you have broadband internet access. Plug in your converter to an internet connection; add your phone and you can have your regular phone service on the other side of the country. Not as portable as your cell phone but if you travel a great feature. You can have the ability to have a number within the local area of your friends and family or customers so that they may call you locally. Imagine, you can have a local presence in numerous areas all from the same phone for only a few dollars a month for each one. VOIP will also allow you to integrate voice and data and has been used for conferencing and desk top sharing. If both parties have VOIP it is possible to share video, audio and even share a desktop view of their pc. Finally, VOIP can allow you to easily set up three way conferencing or other conferencing set ups at a much lower price than a land line system. In conclusion if you are looking for savings and more options VOIP can be the cornerstone of your communications program.

Picasa Web Album Release

Recently i write about " Picasa web albums going to launch " and today Google has make Picasa web become reality. Google Picasa also start to invites people to join up and testing the Picasa web photo. Now, you will get 250mb space of photo for free. if you want greater space to photos , you will be shock that you need to fork up 25USD to get a 6GB space per year. Seem like the web album services is very expensive compare to Flickr just charge 25USD per year and lets you upload 24GB total up.

There is some nice features about this picasa web album that you can make the photo sharing be private or public. meanwhile, a Picasa desktop software allow uploading to your account.

This news might be some disppointment but i hope Google slightly adjust the pricing and the upload limits.

New Souces and ScreenShot :- Google Blogoscoped

Google Earth 4 version

Google official launch new version of Google earth 4 on the Google Blog. The new version of Google earth is able to support windows,Mac and Linux distribution. This has been a great news for Linux and Macs fans. Beside that, Google also come out enterprise version of Google Maps by offering a fee-based service and support for businesses that want to embed a Google Maps experience in their websites or internal applications. New features on Google Earth 4:-

1. Support for "textured" 3D buildings using models created with SketchUp, so that the images look more realistic
2. An updated KML format that allows sharing of partial information.
3. Google Earth in French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
4. Full screen mode now allows searching (press "/" to search).
5. Now Google Earth is an universal binary, so it runs natively on both PowerPC- and x86 (Intel)-based Macintosh computer.

ScreenShot of 3D modeling building from Google earth 4

News Source :- Google Blogspot

There's a Linux version (available to download here as a bin file).

Download Google Earth 4

Google web 2.0 Search Engine API

Google has release an powerful ajax search engine API for public to developed own ajaxed search engine under Google. This Ajax search engine API is a JavaScript library that allows you to embed many flavors of Google Search into your site: Web Search, Local Search, Video and Blog Search.

Here is the example of Google ajax search engine API - Here which You can combine the search results from all these sources to obtain a beautiful sidebar. The best part on Google Ajax search engine is you can customize a certain result that load on search pages. meanwhile, Users of the site can use the search results to paste them in comments or other user-generated content.

The Google Ajax search engine is currently support IE, Mozilla and Safari only. This API still new and i hope adsense function can be added on it in future