Ok, the first time I saw that headline I thought, what! “Xena”(Lucy Lawless) has a new child and named her “Gabrielle”???
Haha Ofcos’ I was completely wrong!
The “Xena” they refering to here is our new 10th planet and the “Gabrielle” is Xena’s newly found moon.
Pretty cool planet and the side kick moon aren’t they?

XENA, the possible tenth planet in our solar system, has its own moon, a dim little satellite called Gabrielle

Scientists at an observatory on the U.S. island of Hawaii discovered the moon three weeks ago. They estimate it is slightly more than 250 kilometers in diameter, about one-10th the size of its far-flung planet, which is known informally as Xena.

More stories here: Tenth Planet Has Moon
Reported 10th planet Xena has moon named Gabrielle
New Moon Found Orbiting 10th Planet

Why do you want 30gigs email? I don’t know because I don’t want/need one.
But if you feel like you must have one then, hey go ahead, it’s there for you and yes it’s free!

30Gigs.com started off with the idea of creating a “All in one” site for the webmaster and avid computer users. Combining personal file storage, GD2 signatures and anonymous email all in one service, which would be free. Our main goal is to increase our space even further, to 50 gigs, or maybe 100 as time goes on. 30Gigs.com is still in a very heavy beta, and if you are a member, please help us to make it the best mail server there is. We will be offering a section for personal file storage (up to 30 gigs) and a GD2 signature maker to keep your email safe from spam robots. We also offer a unique feature, which allows you to send a email from any address you want. This is very usefull if you have multiple accounts linked to your 30Gigs.com account, and want to send a email from john@otherservice.com so you dont confuse the sender. 30Gigs.com is owned and operated by the Solo2 Network. Any further information can be addressed to support@30gigs.com.

I got this info via “FluxionTech”. well yah, you need to have invite from someone who has it. Don’t look at me, I don’t have one and I don’t want one either.
But don’t worry, the guys from “FluxionTech” giving out invites and you could test your luck there.

Sometime last month, I was given an opportunity to try out the beta test of the newly created roll your own search engine site, “Rollyo”.
The owner has requested not to shout/blog/publicize about it so I barred myself from blogging here.
Now that Rollyo’s been officially released, I’m able to talk about it here.

Rollyo allows you to create personal search engines using only the sources you trust. Just add the sites into a form and boom, bingo, whamo, you’ve created a custom search engine (we call them Searchrolls).

Rollyo is integrated with yahoo search and from my experience, it produces very fast and accurate results.

Rollyo puts the power of Yahoo! Search in your hands, by giving you the tools to create your own personal search engines – with no programming required. All you have to do is pick the sites you want to search, and we’ll create a custom search engine for you.

You can create unlimited search rolls for yourself according to the subject you want to group as. Say for example, I have created search roll “Web Development Resources”, where I add all the related web development site links and once it’s been search, the results will come only from the links I’ve added and nothing else.

More effective and specific search result can be achieved as you limit your search rolls with fewer links. The maximum of 25 links can be added to each roll. It was said that the fewer the links in each roll, the better the search result will be.

One of the features I like about there is, the pop up box listing all the links as well as a small image and info of the roller, once you click on search rolls. You can also save other users’ search rolls as you’ll find many interesting rolls for your own use. There are some tools like firefox plugin and bookmarking to go with and some more will come later on.

Well now that the news is out, you can pay a visit to Rollyo and try it for yourself.

I never use Opera browser before and I’m thinking of trying it our since it’s now free :p

Download Opera

Opera has removed the banners, found within our browser, and the licensing fee.

I’m satisfy with my firefox, although my current version 1.0.6 gives some bugs a few time… I forgot why I removed last version 1.0.5 which is more stable that this.
I got IE6, Avant Browser and Mozilla FireFox to test my sites, now I got one more browser, “Opera”.
People says it’s great browser…well I’ll have to see for myself.

This is the must page to bookmark. Good collection of web badges and buttons compiled by ZwahlenDesign. Do check it out and you might find lots of useful badges that you are looking for. The collection includes the followings:

1. Operating system
2. Made in
3. Valid
4. Powered
5. License
6. Get Software
7. Viewer
8. Software generally
9. Attention
10. ZwahlenDesign

Link: http://www.zwahlendesign.ch/en/node/19

I found this excellent tutorial on photography by Jodie Coston. There are 10 lessons all together and if you really want to be a good photographer, you should read through all of those. Really worth reading and great notes for photographers.

1. Lesson 1: Composition And Impact – It’s A Beautiful Photograph, But Do You Know WHY It’s Beautiful?
2. Lesson 2: Aperture And Shutter Speed – How They Work Together.
3. Lesson 3: The lens – choosing camera optics.
4. Lesson 4: ISO, Grain, Transparency vs. Negative, Specialty Films
5. Lesson 5: Fun Effects – Camera Filters, Soft Focus, Zooming And Panning
6. Lesson 6: Landscape, Nature and Travel Photography
7. Lesson 7: Portraits And Studio Lighting
8. Lesson 8: Studio Lighting – Still Life and Product Photography
9. Lesson 9: Tying It All Together
10. Lesson 10: Special Requests

About Your Instructor
Jodie Coston is a freelance photographer who lives in northwestern Montana. She has exhibited her work in gallery exhibitions around the world and has won numerous international awards for her images.

Prints for home or office available at: http://jodiecoston.dpcprints.com

I guess I was inspired by one of burmese photography blog that I came across recently and thought of checking out some good tutes for interested photographers.

Just 2 days or so the release of GTalk and numbers of tweaks are already. Some are not really necessary (for me atleast) nevertheless good to know their existence.
Here are a few tweaks at FluxionTech.