Archive for May 29th, 2006

Citizens Self-Arrest Form

Monday, May 29th, 2006

http://www.ou.edu/oupd/selfarr2.htm

Heh, now that’s pretty funny if you ask me. I dunno how real this is so I wouldn’t advise submitting this form.

Windows Media Player 11 Beta Version

Monday, May 29th, 2006

Microsoft has today made available the latest beta version of Windows Media Player, version 11.

WMP11 sports an improved UI, better performance and improved library features. The subscription based service, URGE, is intergrated into the client and offers quick and easy downloads of the latest tunes for $14.95 per month.

URGE is currently being offered as a 14 day trial for a limited period. (more…)

Beta Version: Skype for Windows 2.5.0.82

Monday, May 29th, 2006

Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, this uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users – not to share files this time, but to talk for free with your friends. The technology is extremely advanced - but super simple to use. You’ll be making perfect quality free phone calls to your friends in no time. (more…)

AntiVir Personal Edition 7.0

Monday, May 29th, 2006

AntiVir Personal Edition offers effective protection against computer viruses for the individual and private use on a single PC-workstation. It detects and removes viruses and includes an Internet-Update Wizard for easy updating. The built in resident Virus Guard serves to monitor file movements automatically, for example when downloading files from the Internet. Heuristic scanning protects Protection against previously unknown macro viruses.

Be Sure to Cancel Your Credit Cards Before you Die

Monday, May 29th, 2006

It’s not just the US Government… Be sure and cancel your credit cards before you die. This is priceless, and so easy to see happening, customer service being what it is today.

A lady died this past January, and Citibank billed her for February and March for their annual service charges on her credit card, and then added late fees and interest on the monthly charge. The balance had been $0.00, now is somewhere around $60.00. A family member placed a call to Citibank: (more…)

MyNet signs a deal with ICQ?

Monday, May 29th, 2006

ICQ Inc. seems to deal with Turkish company Mynet as it did before with Russian Rambler,Ukranian Bigmir,Israeli Nana,German ProSieben,Italian Libero,Bulgarian Abv and finally Turkish Mynet as the new chain of the link which is added last.There aren’t any official announcement by neither ICQ authorities nor Mynet.As you may wonder how I reached to that conclusion,here is the website that justifies my thoughts: http://icq.mynet.com/. We hope this will be a satisfactory deal for both sides. ICQ had lost its popularity in Turkey for a couple of years.Let’s wait and see how it will affect the IM world. (more…)

Kyle Korleski on the new MySpace Instant Messenger

Monday, May 29th, 2006

First off, I noticed that numerous clients are running on the net and contain spyware (such as Gator’s GAIN). The official URL of MySpace is http://www.myspace.com/myspaceim - okay?

And sadly, this package has no support for the Macintosh OS X. Most other IM clients (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber and Skype) offer multi-platform support while MySpace IM is brought to a significant disadvantage. In fact, they introduced this without even perfecting their web-based version. (how long are these two weeks supposed to be tom?) (more…)