Archive for January, 2005

Top Brands in 2004

Monday, January 31st, 2005

Apple has become 1# brand in a world regarding brandchannel.com. It?s hard to imagine a brand having a shinier year than Apple. Notably punctuated with iMacs, iPods and iTunes.
Right after Apple game my favourite… Google. But at least suprisingly for me fifth place took the Arab-focused, 24-hour news source Al Jazeera.

Danes are going to Open Source

Sunday, January 23rd, 2005

Finally Denmark is also going to adapt some open source movement. However, the product is a bit unusual. See it yourself :D

Flash blog in from Wordpress

Saturday, January 22nd, 2005

Andre Michelle has made AS2 framework for blogs made with wordpress. Get it here

Morning links

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

All Google software

Example.Flash MX: XML and V2 Tree Example 1.

Better source coding font than default Courier

googleoff index googleon index

Monday, January 17th, 2005

Interesting thing I found today from HTML source:

<– googleoff: index –>
<– googleon: index –>

What’s the significance? Does this affect how google indexes the site, or is it purely for the site developer?

a little story

Saturday, January 15th, 2005

Check out this beatiful little story. Pretty cool idea

Warning if PDF link

Friday, January 14th, 2005

Yes! finally here is a great PDF warning extension for Firefox. Whenever you load a web page that has a link to a file that ends in .pdf, TargetAlert will append an Acrobat icon to the end of the link.
http://www.bolinfest.com/targetalert/features.html
This is a little help for irritating feature that freezes your browser when clicking PDF link on the sites of those dumb people who makes links PDF’s into pages without proper label.
In general PDF should be banned on the web because this and this and this and this and this and this and this

Firefox speaks soon

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

FoxyVoice
FoxyVoice is a Firefox extension that provides text-to-speech functionality using Microsoft Win32 Speech API. With FoxyVoice
you can listen to the page being read; or browse on one page and listen
to another page being read for higher degree of sensory overload. The
soothing voices that comes with SAPI also makes FoxyVoice a competent virtual hypnotist.
More info at http://foxyvoice.kenche.info/

Accessibar
Accessibar is a toolbar extension for the Mozilla
browser which aims at providing various accessibility features for
users who could benefit from them. These features primarily focus on
the dynamic manipulation of the visual display of the web page in
addition to the integration of a text to speech reader which can read
out loud the browser’s user interface as well as web page content.
More info at http://accessibar.mozdev.org/

Firefox talks

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

FoxyVoice is a Firefox extension that provides text-to-speech functionality using Microsoft Win32 Speech API. With FoxyVoice
you can listen to the page being read; or browse on one page and listen
to another page being read for higher degree of sensory overload. The
soothing voices that comes with SAPI also makes FoxyVoice a competent virtual hypnotist.
Download from: http://foxyvoice.kenche.info/

Free Anti Virus

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

UPDATE ClamWin Free Antivirus another free antivirus software. I haven’t give I try yet.

Here’s an freeware anti-virus utility that also offers you free monthly updates. An easy-to-use program, AVG features resident protection, an E-mail scanner and automatic healing of infected files. Note: this program is free for personal, home usage only. (For Windows).

AVG Anti-Virus FREE Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Anti-Virus FREE is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product! Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high-level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Anti-Virus FREE is easy-to-use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements).

Highlights include:

Automatic update functionality
The AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run
The AVG E-mail Scanner, which protects your e-mail
The AVG On-Demand Scanner, which allows the user to perform scheduled and manual tests
Free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product
AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files
Great customer satisfaction!
Is AVG Anti-Virus FREE right for you?
Anti-Virus FREE Edition is for private, non-commercial, single home computer use only. Use of Anti-Virus FREE Edition within any organization or for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited. Your use of Anti-Virus Free Edition shall be in accordance with and is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the AVG Anti-Virus FREE Edition License Agreement which accompanies Anti-Virus FREE Edition.

AVG Anti-Virus FREE Edition is not intended for non-profit organizations.

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