Once they get going… Feed meView your favorite RSS feeds right in Gmail as “Clips” along the top of your Gmail screen. Display clips from blogs, news sites and other online sources. Pick from the latest headlines, random popular feeds, or add any RSS/Atom feed you want. Learn more See it nowDon’t want to wait for an attachment to download? Now when you get Microsoft Office, OpenOffice or .pdf attachments, you can view them as a web page in HTML by clicking the “View as HTML” link right next to it. For when you’re on a mobile device or you don’t want to install...

Quite a cool thing from ‘Harold Hanek’, a Wikipedia browser. It basically allows you to browse Wikipedia faster online using AJAX technology. Gollum is the name of my newest crime of invention. By reducing the complexity of information, I have created a fast and eyefriendly browser through the free encyclopedia “Wikipedia”. Originally this invention was built up for my daughter but now I have expanded it to the world for free as an open source project under GPL. -> Check it out!

GMail (or should I start calling it Google Mail?) has added yet another free feature: Virus scanning is here! Get an automatic check-up every time you open or send a message with an attachment. We even try our best to remove viruses so we can protect you against all the ones we find. You’re on your own with the common cold (try chicken soup). Learn more Update: Usayd Ideas on the new developments; PC Advisor suggest that maybe Gmail is finally exiting the beta stage. I personally think that as long as Google continually update GMail then, like their other services, it will continue to become...

At last a new bèta after the eBay purchase: Skype v2.0 bèta is now a fact. Apart from a few changes in the layout, new features have also been added. Stuff that caught my eye immediately are: personal messages that appear next to your name in the contact-list (much like in msn) , new ‘bubble’ sounds, and most important of all: video. Yep, they finally added a web cam feature. Haven’t been able to test it yet, but you can read a review on Skype v2 at latimes.com (you need to register, or use bugmenot ). I’m glad to see that Skype finally added web-cam support, because...

What got slashdotted recently? “Dell Finally Goes for AMD…” While “Remarked Celerons Sold As P4s…” Macworld reports that iPod is competing with Barbie’s for the top 10 girls toys.. What is going on in the world?! I am never usually ‘against’ the advance in technology, in fact I am not against it but I am slightly weary that things generated by the advance in technology such as computers, multimedia, TV and electronic entertainment are possibly taking too much of a role in peoples lives. I know that many children (and adults) spend a lot more...

Test Facts: The average score for the gals is 38, while the guy average is 56. Of the Computer Geek Quiz Takers: 17% are scared of links 17% of Windows users curse it – Yes, I admit I am of this 17% 4% of Linux users selected Bill Gates as their hero I am a Low-Rank Computer Geek Yeah I know its prettey sad but element took it so I thought I might’swell. Crap i’m more geek then element! I knew I shouldn’t have lied on the test! Go on Tibault, you know you want to!

Peace be with you all I have recently been working on a new plugin. I started this plugin because it is the month of Ramadan in the Hijri (Islamic) calendar and I thought it would be nice to show what was posted in each month on the Hijri Calendar. Thankfully I had already acquired a script which calculated the hijri date using PHP in the past so my main aim was to implement this in the plugin to make it calculate the hijri date as well as the georgian date. This plugin is a much more complicated one then my first ones; Random Hadith and Random Qur’an. I wanted to be a little ambitious...

“A 122-year-old dairy equipment company has used embedded Linux in a robotic cow-milking system (the system is robotic, not the cows). The Voluntary Milking System (VMS) allows cows to decide when to be milked, and gives dairy farmers a more independent lifestyle, free from regular milkings, the company says. ” LinuxDevices