Yahoo Podcasts services

Well today Yahoo introduces its Podcasts services which allow users to search, listen, subscribe, review and rating it. I've tried to search my favourite podcast shows, which is TWIT, and the result shows up, but it is not too update as i think it would coz TWIT has the new show which is episode 26 but in the Yahoo Podcasts services results shows that it is only shows episode 25. Anyway, if you wanna try to listen to it, just click the listen button and it will pop up a new window and you can listen to it. But if you wanna subscribe it, you have to sign up if you don't have an account, but if you do, you have just to sign in which is also used for Yahoo email account, games and 360 degrees account, apart from it.. hehe

Well enjoy..

Yahoo Podcasts services: Click here

Video iPod?

Hmm well i've been waiting from Apple to come out an iPod that supports both audio and video coz it will make it so cool to bring around our favourite audio and video collection. Heheh might as well put some movies in there, just like PSP. I got this picture from engadget.com.

Mystery Ocean Glow in Indian Ocean

This is really wierd stuff and it is amazing too.. the satellite shows the glowing image shown in the Indian Ocean. I don't know what it is look like.. but it is really wierd.. maybe it is the force of Allah.

Free Linux Magazine

This is a good news for me as i'm always searching for a Linux magazine and i don't want to spend a lot of money in buying it. Then i found out that Tux magazine is giving away free monthly subscription magazine via PDF files format. Isn't that cool? heheh i'm so delighted that i downloaded all of the back issues and the latest ones. Anyway, i'll posted the links to the Tux magazine's website.

Tux Magazine: Click here

Hard Driver failure

A couple of my friends send me their PCs for me to repair it and i've discovered that their problems is mainly the hard drive failure. One of them cannot boot into windwos properly and it was so lagging and slow, the other one is kept restarting. I've put to the test between these 2 hard drives by connecting it into my PC and then i realised the hard drive is the main problem. It became malfunction and slow to process. I don't want to mendle with it coz hard drive is very sensitive and any person with high-tech tools and a very clean room just like the hard driver manufaturer's factory can repair the hard drive. Well one thing to solve this is by back up the data (even by using Knoppix could not solve it as the hard drive failure really pissed me off) and replace the new one.

After podcast, what's next? Videocast?

Well i've been thinking, what's next after podcast? Podcast have been a major boom attraction for a couple of months and a lot of people have jumped into the bandwagon but if there's too much of it, people won't give a damn about other podcast shows. Then, why not videocast or also known as vlogs (video weblogs), vodding, vlogcasting, or vidcasting. Sort of video broadcast like podcast shows by using RSS feeds. Isn't that cool??

Well below are several links to the show that i like:

1. Diggnation, click here
2. Revision3, click here
3. DigitalLife TV, click here
4. From the Shadows, click here
5. Go Open, click here
6. Hak.5, click here
7. Infonomicon, click here
8. MacTV, click here
9. MoBuzzTV, click here
10. NerdTV, click here
11. Open Alpha, click here
12. Rocketboom, click here
13. Screencast Online, click here
14. Systm, click here
15. The Broken, click here
16. The Packet Sniffers, click here

Stop monitor Flickering

I've a less-known-brand monitor which is TECOM, i don't know where it is from but i think it is from Taiwan and correct me if i'm mistaken, and i've expereience the flickering thingy for a couple of months now. It is irritating!!! Damn it!! I've tried a lot of things to stop it, including i hit the monitor using my hands, switched it off and on back and forth, and all pull the VGA cable and plug it in again. SIGH... until i don't know what to do..

Lastly, i googled it out and try to find the solution and eureka.. there's a website that shows why the monitor is flickered and also shows the solution. That's how i know why the flickering occured, well the refresh rate for windows 98 is about 60Hz but i'm using Windows XP (Pirate one..) so i change the refresh rate from 60Hz to 70Hz.. and it solves it.. yahoo!!!!

Firefox 1.0.7 is out!!!!!!

Well after Firefox RC was released, i download it and it tried it but it crashes all the time.. i really hate it, anyway it is still not the full version... after that i downloaded the newest version of Flash Player plugin for my beloved Firefox but to no avail the flash contents in any webpage could not be viewed!!! Even Macromedia website can't be viewed its flash contents.. huh? Wtf, i just can't believe it and i googled on how to overcome the problem and in the macromedia forum they said to uninstall the newest flash plugin using the uninstaller from the Macromedia website and then install the previous flash plugin and it solves it!!! Yahoo!!!!!!!

Anyway, i'm waiting for the 1.5 version of Firefox as they say on Firefox road plan, heheh this is the best browser i have ever used but some websites still didn't include Firefox compatible in its web-app... sometimes it is annoying that you can't view the page as it is not compatible with IE.. damn i really hate it!!!

So download Firefox 1.0.7 now!!!

Quicktime Player 7 final released!!!!!!

Apple has released Quicktime Player 7 (Final) for Windows

* Advanced video with pristine quality
* Amazingly responsive live player resize
* Up to 24 channels of Surround Sound
* All new playback controls
* H.264

Quicktime website

What is 3GP?

3GP - is the new mobile phone video file format.
3GPP, 3GPP2 are the new worldwide standard for the creation, delivery and playback of multimedia over 3rd generation, high-speed wireless networks. Defined by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project and 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 respectively, these standards seek to provide uniform delivery of rich multimedia over newly evolved, broadband mobile networks (3rd generation networks) to the latest multimedia-enabled wireless devices. Tailored to the unique requirements of mobile devices, 3GPP and 3GPP2 take advantage of MPEG-4, the standard for delivery of video and audio over the Internet.

Extensions:
.3gp 3GPP standard, GSM Network, Video: MPEG-4, H.263, Audio: AAC, AMR
.3g2 3GPP2 standard, CDMA2000 Network, Video: MPEG-4, H.263, Audio: AAC, AMR, QCELP.

The evolution of high-speed wireless digital networks is based on two predominant technologies — GSM and CDMA2000. Both types of 3G networks are currently being deployed worldwide to offer consumers a variety of on-the-go multimedia services.

3GPP and 3GPP2 Mobile Infrastructure Solutions — Many of the world’s largest telecommunications infrastructure companies provide 3GPP and 3GPP2 mobile content delivery products and services to operators. Examples include:
* Alcatel
* Ericsson
* Nokia
* Siemens Mobile
* Sun Microsystems

3GPP and 3GPP2 Mobile Phones — Many of today’s new mobile phones offer 3GPP and 3GPP2 content capture and playback capabilities. Leading providers of these standards-based multimedia phones include:
* Motorola
* NEC
* Nokia
* Panasonic
* Sanyo
* Sharp
* Sony Ericsson
* Toshiba
* Qualcomm

Reformat my PC

Damn it, seriously i don't wanna install the file compression utility iZarc becoz after i uninstall it, it leaves a .dll files which is hard to delete and the iZarc function is still in the system, when you right click, it still have the function as it used to, send to izarc.. or whatever, and it won' t dissapear as i delete the registry key at the extension shells.. damn it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it makes my hard drive freeze a couple of times.. So i decided to reformat my pc.. and after long hours and pain staking process to install all of the softwares... i'm getting too tired and sleepy.. yaawnnnnnnnnnnn

File Compression Utility

Well i already dumped WinZip a long time ago when it did not support some extensions like .tgz or something.. after that i use UltimateZip which is quit good and i use it for such a long time and then they tried to charged it with the new version.. and i said what the *&^%, i changed it and use the iZarc software and they still didn't support some file extensions.

Finally, now i'm using back the Ultimatezip and after i install it they asked me to register, like Winzip does, and i find the crack for it and just use the keygen to register it, duhhhhhhh. hehehe