I’m starting my hand on sql05, vs.net 05, sdk 3.0, WCF, WPF, WWF etc etc… and…

Arrgghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

Windows SDK Setup Wizard

Setup file: 400KB
Installation: 958.8MB ?!!!??!!!!
Estimated Download Time: 20 Days, 18 Hours !!!!!!!!!

Arrrggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

That is just so great! What am I to do???
I want to start test now, NOW! NOW! NOW!!
Garrrhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I just upgraded my Firefox to the latest 2.0. Six of my extensions broke, including my favorite LoremIpsum and ScreenGrab.

I just notice, there is no “Extension” option under “Tools” but it becomes “Add-ons” and includes two tabs “Extensions” + “Themes”. And I don’t know where my connection settings go…oh it’s under “Advenced – Network” tab.

A bit of here and there changes I’m noticing… The browser tabs becomes a little glassier. Nice.

I have to upgrade my IE too. I downloaded other day and don’t want to install it since I want to keep it standalone for V7 and V6. So I’m still using RC1 Standalone for testing purposes.

I don’t know why IE installer file is too big in size ie. 15+MB compare to 5M of Firefox. IE download is definitely not the choice for people with bad internet.

Anyways I’m not gonna do any comparison between the two. This is just a remainder for you to upgrade your FF with latest one.

Download Firefox 2.0 here.

A Hamm Ahamm Advertisments!!

It used to be that only Gmail users could use Google Talk but now anyone can sign up for Google Talk. (Gmail accounts no longer required)

Now anyone can Talk

Google Reader launched a new interface, with a bunch of new and exciting changes.

Discover the new Google Reader

May: my friends are complainin me, askin me whether i work for google cos’ i advertise too much about how good google is.
Jachin: Good software is good
May: true
Jachin: There’s not much out there so you just promote the good stuff… not your fault Google does well
May: very true

So…I don’t work for google but I plan to if I’m given a chance. Let just say, I promote good stuffs no matter which company they come from.
Thanks Jason for support and the links.

Technorati Tags: Google Talk, Google Reader, Software, Gtalk, Google

Hey check this out. This is very good offer for small/medium organizations. Google is offering (rather beta testing) for google application integration with your own domain. It’s kinda like subdomain system from google. You can offer customised google services like email, chat, calander with your domain.

Google Apps for your domain lets you offer our communication and collaboration tools to your entire organization — customizable with your branding, color scheme and content through the administrative control panel, and with no hardware or software to install or maintain.

Well I don’t think my domain can apply for that cos’ mine is personal and definitely not an organization type. But I think InternetFiji would try to test/make use of this for some of their customers. I’m sure inet will get an account if they apply for it. Well…just a thought, since I can’t check out for myself, Ian you mind setup an account for inet so I can play with it?
Anyways here are some facts.

Quick Facts
Cost: Organizations accepted by Google during the Google Apps for Your Domain beta period are eligible for free service for their approved beta users even beyond the end of the beta period, as described in the Terms of Service.

Languages:
Administrative control panel – Currently fully supported in English only.
Gmail, Talk, Calendar and Page Creator – varies by product.

Fully supported browsers

• Microsoft IE 5.5+
• Mozilla Firefox 0.8+
• Safari 1.2.1+
• Netscape 7.1+
• JavaScript and cookies must be enabled on all browsers.

Step 1: Sign your organization up

Step 2: Log in to the control panel and create your user list

Step 3: Select which services you want

Step 4: Activate your services

Step 5: Show your users where to find their new communication and collaboration tools

Sweet isn’t it? K try it out.
Links: Google Apps for your domain
Product Tour

Technorati Tags: Google, Applications, Domain, Beta

Oh just doing free advertising. This one is a lot better than the last one – The Burglish Conversion.
This picks up the similar words and also convert simple English words.

Next Generation Burglish Chat with Burglish to Burmese Input Method – Testing Version v0.1.0821

Test is here. www.Burglish.com

http://www.soemin.net/php/chat3/

There is no intro or proper write up about the program yet, cos’ just out yesterday or so. The developer is a friend of mine, Ko Soe Min (Mark), you might see him around in some of my post comments.

The Burglish conversion there is very cool, the methods are very similar to those of Chinese and Japanese language packs. Ko Soe Min is very smart in Japanese Language so I guess he got the idea from there. I saw some of my Chinese friends uses their language installer and type in English which picks up Chinese characters and get the best match from it. This Burglish chat works in exact same way, it’s very fast and easy to use. But you need Firefox 1.5.

I’m just loving it. My bro and some of my friends who tested it also give a good thumb ups.
Excellent work Ako. It would be nice if you do a bit of intro write up and explain about it. Here I am spreading the good words, mont kwe oo naw. hehe.

Updated:
Please check “Mark” comments below for updates on the program.
There is a direct domain to the Burglish Chat now. visit: www.burglish.com

I’m so loving the new gtalk features.
I got the new features a few days back and just today I got time to check them out properly.

We’ve been working hard to add your top-requested features to Google Talk, such as fast and reliable file transfer, and the ability to send and receive voicemail messages for free. We’ve even created a fun little feature for you music lovers.

So today, we’re excited to be releasing these features to a small percentage of Google Talk users. We’ll be rolling these features out to all Google Talk users on the U.S.-English interface in the coming weeks.

Via: Googletalk Blog

My favorite one is voice mailing. You can send voice mail to the followings:

• Online contacts
• Offline gtalk contacts
• Old Gtalk Version Users
• Other email (yahoo, hotmail, etc) contacts

Oh when you send voice mail, the message goes like this.

The person you trying to reach is not available.
Please leave your message after “Me”.
Meee!

The last “Me” part is funny hehe.

Online Contact with New Gtalk Version

Offline Contact

Old version user

Non-Gmail Contact

I’m not a fan of direct file sending but still it’s good to have it since other messenger services got it.

Direct File Sending

The music playing status is cool too. I just love the music icon.

Music Status

Receiving Voice Mail

Anyway I just sent about 20 voice mails to my online, offline and other email friends now. hehehe :d I hope they appreciate my most sensational voice LOL.

Oh yah do drop me some voice mails too so I can check out your fantastic voices.

Technorati Tags: Gtalk, Gmail, New Features, Voice Mail, Gtalk Voicemail