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Did you notice that Google has a new favicon? Google has replaced the upper-case blue “G” in a blue, green and red borders with a lower-case purple “g” in a white backgrond. The new Google favicon is located here in 16×16 pixels ICON format.

The first time when I saw it, I can’t believe my eyes. I thought something wrong with my browser caching mechanism. But after googling around, I found that it is a real thing that Google has changed their favicon. Some people said that the new favicon looks similar to Ghostscript logo. Personally, I still prefer the old favicon. What do you think?

Source: Google Operating System

Looks like Dell is following the trend. This is a killer mini-laptop to Asus Eee PC, HP 211 Mini-Note PC and VIA OpenBook Mini-Note. Brian Lam from Gizmodo bumped into Michael Dell at D: All Things Digital conference, the sixth edition of D. What is the price tag for this cute little baby? Which operationg system is available? Be sure to visit Gizmodo for more exclusive photos.

Source: Gizmodo

I received an invitation email from txtbuddies inviting me to register as a member. I quickly register myself as a member. Within a minute, I am now a member of txtbuddies and I can now send free SMS to any members within Australia and Malaysia. Currently, txtbuddies is in the beta test mode and these two countries are ad sponsored region. So, how about the destination SMS without ad sponsored? Can we send? Yes, you can by purchasing credits online in txtbuddies using PayPal and major credit cards. Hopefully after the beta test mode, more regions will be part of the ad sponsored region.

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WordPress is turning 5 years old today as of May 27, 2008. The first version of WordPress 0.7 is announced on May 27, 2003. Congratulations to Matt Mullenweg and Automattic. They are throwing a birthday party in San Francisco, California at 111 Minna, starting from 9:00pm (PDT) to 2:00am (PDT).

Unfortunately, I can’t attend this birthday party because I lived far away from San Francisco. I do hope you guys enjoy the birthday party and I am proud to have my blog powered by WordPress. Have fun and Happy Birthday to WordPress.

Feeling bored at home or at work? I stumble upon this small little chess game called NetChess. NetChess is developed by RS Software Lab. With NetChess, you can play chess with your local computer. You can also play it with an opponent over a local network or over an Internet. To accomplish this, both players need NetChess installed. One of the player will host the game and the other join the game via IP address.

Be sure to download NetChess and start playing today. Enjoy your game.

Source: NetChess

I owned a dot matrix printer some time year 2000. I was a student at that time and I can’t afford to purchase an inkjet printer or a laser printer because the ink cartridge and toner cartridge is expensive. However, I so lucky to own an inkjet printer from a lucky draw during a company annual dinner but I am having hard time paying for the high price ink cartridge manufactured by the printer manufacturer. Today, I stumbled upon a website offering premium ink cartridge with an affordable price.

Carrot Ink was founded by John and Amy Howard in 1998 where they have the belief that quality inkjet cartridges shouldn’t cost more than the printer itself. With the continuity support from the consumers, Carrot Ink will continue to sell its high quality cartridges from 30% to 70% lower than the printer manufacturer’s cartridges. In fact, they keep on challenging themselves to do better everyday to compete with the printer manufacturer’s cartridges. With the 100% customer satisfaction guaranteed on low prices, high quality and fast delivery from Carrot Ink, they meet the ISO 9001/2000 standard manufacturing. With this commitment, you can count on them.

At Carrot Ink, they offer wide range of inkjet cartridges and toner cartridges that compatible with major printers available in the market such as Brother, Canon, Dell, Epson, HP, Lexmark, Apollo, Apple, Compaq, Genicom, IBM, Kodak, Okidata, Panasonic, Pitney Bowes, Samsung, Sharp and Xerox. You can shop online easily at Carrot Ink for your cartridge by finding the printer brand, printer family or printer manufacturer part number. What you need is just head to Carrot Ink website, create your personal or corporate account and you have the flexibility to track your order online. If you are looking for a Epson ink cartridges like me, you can save up to 60% over MSRP and the same goes to other brand cartridges like Canon ink cartridges. I am sure you are looking for one too like me.

Besides affordable high quality inkjet cartridges and toner cartridges provided by Carrot Ink, they also offer refill kits, batteries, thermal fax film and paper. Be sure to visit Carrot Ink website for more information.

Electronic Data Systems (EDS), the Texas-based information technology outsourcing company and Hewlett-Packard (HP) confirmed they are in advanced discussion about a possible business combination involving the two companies but both gave no details. The Wall Street Journal reported HP is willing to pay $12 billion to $13 billion for this acquisition. This would be HP’s biggest since its $19 billion acquisition of Compaq in year 2002.

With this HP acquisition, do you think it help will EDS? Perhaps, let’s just watch for this acquisition to announce to deal.

Source: BBC NEWS | Yahoo! News

Not again… Advertlets website is down due to database connection lost between their database server and web server. Referring to the screen shot above, looks like their database server is having an public IP address of 202.46.116.101 and why in the world they put it on public IP address. Strange huh…

No news update from Advertlets Blogspot. I guess Josh and the team is busying troubleshooting it or busying preparing emails to reply. Hmm…I can’t check my daily earnings and statistics now. Luckily the ads is still working.

Time really flies. She is 9 months 1 week 1 day old now.

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OpenSolaris 2008.05 is now available for public. OpenSolaris 2008.05 is a Live CD. This allows you to experience it instantly by simply boot up the Live CD to a fully functional desktop environment. After you satisfied with it, you have the option to install with a single click using the new improved easy-to-use installer.

You can download the OpenSolaris 2008.05 ISO image or you can also request a OpenSolaris 2008.05 CD for free deliver to your doorstep. I had request for a free CD copy. Unfortunately, the delivery may take longer time depending on the country. You can refer to the approximate shipping times below: -

• US - 2 to 5 days
• Europe - 5 to 7 days
• Latin America - 2 weeks
• Asia/Africa - 4 weeks

However, there is no free lunch in this world. So, I have to wait patiently for the arrival of the free CD copy from Sun Microsystems. Thank you very much.

Source: OpenSolaris.com | OpenSolaris.org