A few days ago I received the invitation to join the Project Pogo Limited Beta by the Pogo Development Team. AT&T Pogo is a Mozilla Firefox based web browser developed by AT&T and Vizible. The current version is based on Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14. Currently AT&T Pogo is in early limited beta stage. What is so unique about AT&T Pogo? While most of other web browsers will display the same flat 2D interface, AT&T Pogo will offers you a more visually appealing 3D interface. The future of web browsing is here! (Large images warning!)

This is actually a quick n dirty solution to check software updates and keep your system up to date with the latest version of the software that you use.

FileHippo.com is offering an update checker software. Currently it is still in open beta stage. The update checker will check your system for installed software, and then send the version information to FileHippo.com server to check whether there are any new versions. The updates will be shown on your browser. The links to download the software updates will also be displayed.

VLC is one of the most popular media player. It is free, open source, and usually can play all the files that won’t play in other players. But, if you find VLC sometimes not very suitable for you, then you might look for other alternative media player.

I sometimes found that VLC cannot play x264 video very well on my slower Pentium 4 machine if the web browser that I use uses a lot of CPU and memory. The playback is not smooth and sometimes stuck.

Recently I've installed some modules on this site, and I cannot do through test to all of the modules. So if you find any bugs, please post them here.

So far, I've disabled the follow comments modules (the one that sent email to you if someone reply to a post) in order to avoid unwanted emails. I didn't notice that the module still send emails even if you uncheck the follow post comments. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Update 25 June 2008:

From now I will post any site changes here..

You have a few cool PowerPoint presentations, and now you want to share it with your blog/website reader without the need for them to download your PowerPoint presentation. Flash elements are popular nowadays, so converting your PowerPoint presentation to flash movie might be the solution for you. Here are 2 examples of PowerPoint presentations converted to flash:

Most of today's modern mobile phones have the ability to play MP4 video files. The hard part is to encode the video while maintaining the compatibility and optimising the video file for mobile phone playback. While video in 3GP container can be encoded using advanced codec (AVC/H.264 for example) and HE-AAC for audio, most of the 3GP files are encoded using H.263 for video and AMR-NB or AMR-WB for audio which is not very great compared with XViD and AAC in MP4.

This is usually useful if you are on shared hosting. You can know if your website is hosted on a crowded server with hundreds of other sites, or if the server is hosting questionable websites. You can also explore the quality sites hosted on your site’s server. You will get the rough view and I don't think the data is 100% accurate. Pretty interesting to check out.

myIPneighbors is a free service that will let you find who and how many websites are hosted on your site’s server.

While Firefox 3 will arive soon tomorrow, 17th June 2008, Flock 2.0 beta 1 is also available for test drive. Flock 2.0 will be based on Firefox 3 technology. Flock is a web browser that specializes in providing social networking and other Web 2.0 features built into its interface. The browser is built on Mozilla’s Firefox codebase.

However, I experienced random crashes with Flock 2.0 beta, especially when organizing or dealing with Favorites (Windows XP SP3). I also lost my bookmark during the update. So, better backup your configuration first if you are planning to test Flock 2.0 beta. It is still in beta stage. Just a small cosmetic change in Flock 2.0 beta.

Flock 2.0 beta is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

[Flock 2.0 beta]

If you are using Firefox, you should know that typing ‘foo’ in the address bar and pressing CTRL+Enter will auto-complete it to http://www.foo.com, pressing Shift+Enter to http://www.foo.net and CTRL+Shift+Enter to http://www.foo.org. In Opera browser, by default, you will only get the CTRL+Enter for auto-complete. Below are the steps to enable the Shift+Enter and CTRL+Shift+Enter in Opera (or any other key if you want to).

Need to encrypt a private file, or maybe the entire folder of private files? AxCrpyt might be the solution for you. AxCrpyt is a free and open source encrpytion software that integrated into Windows Explorer so you can encrypt and decrypt your files fast and easy.

Using AxCrypt is very easy. After you have installed the program, right click on a selection of files or folders that you want to encrypt and choose Encrypt.

I am actually a heavy tab user, usually every time I am browsing the Internet, I opened average 10 tabs and maybe more. My desktop PC is running on 2.66Ghz Pentium 4 which is quite slow for a heavy tab user like me. I’ve tested a lot of browsers that doesn’t require a lot of resources even when opening lots of tabs. So far, I found that Flock 1.2.1 is very suitable for me. Flock is a browser with Web 2.0 features, built on Firefox. Flock 1.2.1 is based on Firefox 2.

Pocket Quran is a free Java based software for your mobile phone. It is a complete Holy Quran in Arabic for Java-enabled phones. Any modern mobile phones that have MIDP 2.0 can run this software.

You can download it via WAP at wap.pocketquran.com or download to your PC from the website. You can transfer to your phone later using bluetooth or memory card.

[Download (choose Pocket Quran for Java-enabled Phones): Pocket Quran]

This simple tips will show you on how to manually download updates and patches for Windows.

First method: AutoPatcher

Note: Posting this doesn't mean that I am encouraging you to watch porn! Tepuk dada tanya hati... This article is totally safe for work.

Firefox 3 offers the ability to save web pages directly without any external applications. However, you need to expose this functionality which not curr