I was really hyped up when I started using Xfire – an IM Client which shows your buddies when your playing and what your playing. It has been developed to do much more then that, but I always wondered if that would ever be possible with MSN Messenger. Well now it is, with MSN Application Monitor – a 3rd Party software which allows you to have your personalised message determined by running software. You can get this from Mess.be, and it has been compiled as a very simple application consisting of only a .exe and an XML file. Its really easy to understand and there has been a...

Google has launched Keyhole 3, rebranded Google Earth, and has dumped the subscription rate (except for a $20/year "plus" version with prettier pictures and a commercial $400 "pro" version) available now at earth.google.com. The program lets you fly around a 3D globe, with overhead satellite photos, tilted 45-degree photos, 3D rendered buildings, and overlays that display everything from roads to hotels to bike routes. You can compare it with NASA WorldWind (what I’ve been using till now) but with Google’s satellite imagery and more features. You can read a nice...

by Mike Whitney  06/27/05 "ICH" – - "You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinkin’ dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like… victory. Robert Duvall, "Apocalypse Now" (1979)  Two weeks ago the UK Independent ran an article which confirmed that the US...

Google has hugely expanded the areas of the world that it covers with satellite imagery. Egypt, Iraq, mainland Europe and the UK have all now got satellite coverage to a lesser or greater degree Great Great, you can now have a look at Buckingham Palace, The Eiffel tower, St. Peter in Rome, The Giza Pyramids, etc. Really nice pictures of interesting places. But why would those be my first search? Of course I want to see my own house first, duh, who wouldn’t?! But… I couldn’t find it because this ‘to a lesser or greater degree’ seems to point at only one country,...

Well, I have no idea what I should say about this… Just follow the link and be amazed. ° Original, French article° Bit-tech.net, English translation

Maybe I should make a category for Google? SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Web search leader Google Inc.(GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is developing an online payment system but not a direct rival to eBay Inc.’s PayPal, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Tuesday. Schmidt spoke after several days of heated speculation over reports that Google was working on a potential rival to PayPal, eBay’s popular online payment system. Reuters  Well what is this in my opinion? Just another development from Google’s fast growing ‘e-conomy’ (thought of that...

Freedom2Surf sends broadband through the roof Service to hit 24Mbps in next few months Broadband speeds are to take an unprecedented leap forward in the next few months, with Freedom2Surf claiming to be in pole position. The ISP, which is today launching its new 8Mbps service, will soon be upgrading the offering to 24Mbps. The 8Mbps service is available for £15 a month. At present it is online at only 14 exchanges, covering metropolitan areas, but Freedom2Surf says that will soon go up to around 200 exchanges. Customers on Freedom2Surf’s existing 2Mbps Connect Packages will...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has secured an agreement from Israel and the Palestinians for settler homes to be razed after the Gaza Strip pullout. Rice said on Sunday that both sides agreed that the homes occupied by about 8000 illegal Jewish settlers would do little to address the housing needs of the 1.3 million Palestinians living in the occupied territory. "The view is that there are better land uses for the Palestinians to better address their housing needs," she told a news conference before heading to Jordan on the next leg of her Middle East tour. "The important...