Facebook 2.0: More FaceBook for your iPhone?

FaceBook launched a new and improved version of their FaceBook application for the iPhone, the 2.0. With this new version, FaceBook wants to go more towards the regular internet version, introducing some features like: Notifications, Friend Requests, Photo Tagging, Photo Captioning, Inbox Search, Attachments.. Read more

How To: Remove ads from Windows Live Messenger

While Windows Live Messenger isn’t one of my favorite instant messengers, certain work circumstances force me to use it. The most annoying things about Live Messenger are the ads that keep on getting displayed at the bottom, ads that I believe, diverted our browser to unsolicited pages one to many times. Fortunately, there is a way around this, for people using Windows Live Messenger. It’s called Live Advert Remover and by using it, you can block any ads that get into our Live Messenger windows. Read more

Yahoo Messenger 9.0 has been officially launched!

If you were wondering when will the Beta testing for Yahoo Messenger 9.0 will end, well, it did. The long expected Yahoo Messenger 9.0 entered the stable release phase and it’s available for download.

Yahoo Messenger 9 has a more stylish interface, more spaced, better bolded and with bigger avatars. You have also the possibility to change the theme of Yahoo Messenger, changing its skin easyly with just 1 button. YM now also updates your status with your recent activity on your Yahoo services such as: MyBlogLog, Yahoo 360 etc. Read more

26 years after, the father of ASCII-based emoticon

This started in 1982, September 19, when Scott Fahlman posts the folloing messages to Carnegie Mellon University’s BBS board:
“From: Scott E Fahlman

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

: -)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use:
: -( ”
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Microsoft launches the new ‘I’m a PC’ ad campaign

Hello, I’m a PC, is the start of the new Microsoft ad campaign. After dumping the not-so-funny Jerry Seinfeld-Bill Gates duo, Microsoft launched their next level Microsoft ad. In this new commercial, Microsoft underlines (bolded) the PC and its worldwide use.

I must say that the new campaign, while going more corporate, is far more better than the previous Gates-Seinfeld ads. Read more

Google wants to aquire Valve Software

Google intends to buy game maker Valve Software, according to The Inquirer. Analysts report that Google wants to aquire Valve only for their Steam Powered Techology, which has alone thousands of online users. Valve’s Steam, is a content distribution platform, which sells..alot! Read more

The new Seinfeld-Gates Windows commercial: again, what?

The new commercial starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld was launched, but again, left me without no taste. When they first annouced the Jerry Seinfeld campaign, I was somehow happy, imagining that we will see some comedy action. Well, I was wrong and while the first commercial left me with a “what?!” taste, I was hoping again that the next one will be better (again). Read more

Rooms: Chat on IRC with your iPhone!

While the iPhone software market is full of almost any program you can think of, it seems that there weren’t any real IRC clients. Rooms is the first IRC client for the iPhone and while it’s not your average mIRC clone, it has the basic features you need to get yourself connected to your favourite IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channels.

The interface is pretty straight forward, when you open Rooms for the first time, you will be prompted to choose your server, port and nickname. Read more

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