08/31/2004
Finally Skype officially released the first beta version software for Apple computer's Mac OSX today. Well done, Skype guys! I had received few comments on my last entry talk about Mac version of Skype, some bloggers asked me to send them that pre-beta version via Email. Actually I had sent some out, I was considering some copyright issue when I sending out the software, still, I was using a very traditional way to give out this popular peer-to-peer communication tool, Is it kind of weird? However, not only windows user, but also Linux and Mac users would have a chance to get involve in this communication trend.
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08/27/2004
A weblog service in China received an email from government's Communications Administration Department, the service was warned by regulation of contents, a user post some articles talk about a sensitive history stories. I don't know what the story he post since the service deletes his post immediately. And the CA's email also warned the site to get an official ICP license; otherwise, they will block the whole service.
So what's the ICP license? ICP know as Internet content provider licenses. Any website in China is providing information contents have to apply for an official ICP license from Communication Administration Department. If a website didn't get an ICP license, they will be forced to shut down by CA's order.
I find out jianshuo's article he wrote long time ago talk about his own experience on attempt to get a license, at the end, he figure out that It's impossible to get a license rather than just let the web-site Illegal. Why? The smart guy will tell you why!
Not just ICP issues, the warning email also point out some regulation of contents: DO NOT POST Political, Economic, Historical (Some Part), Erotic relative contents on the website. Well, that's great; I don't know what we should talk about over the web after we follow these regulations!
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08/20/2004
Skype (aka: P2P voice-based communication tool) released the Linux version about 2 months agao. After long-time waiting from mac world, finally, Now Skype is ready to deliver their mac version. Actually the beta version of Skype for mac OSX is under developing, we may not find any download link in their website, but some guys leaked out this beta version and distributed via Bittorrent. You could find out a bittorrent feed from suprnova or just direct click here to download it via bittorrent client.
It's work pretty good in my Powerbook, the voice quanlity was better than iChat. but, some features like conference call didn't implement yet, however, skype for mac OSX is under way.
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Apple released new iSync 1.5 which was really powerful to support a lot of new devices (bluetooth-enabled). In my case, I could synchronize my nokia 6600 with Powerbook G4 through bluetooth connection, just one click to sync all my contacts and calendar with my address book and iCal. How amazing it is to me for manage my personal contacts and appointments. Also I could upload all of my phone-camera pix to my iPhoto albume by using bluetooth too!
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08/16/2004
In Russ Weakley's article, he point out a accurate and concise defination of Web Standards.
a site built to web standards should ideally be lean, clean, CSS-based, accessible, usable and search engine friendly.
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08/14/2004
Checking my Email this morning and I noticed that my hotmail account had been upgrade to 2GB of storage. A little surprise! My account is MSN plus account which cost $19.99 a year. After couple months of announcement, finally MSN launched their 2GB hotmail service to compete Google's 1GB Gmail service. Also the Hotmail support send/receive up to 20MB of attachments, which is two times of Gmails'.
I had tested Gmail for almost three months. Obviously, it was a really nice service with excllent accessibility and user experience. The only thing I was not satisfied is the service that didn't support any email client. Personally I'd like to manage my emails and documents with a client application like Outlook, Eudora which I could read and write my email offline. At this point, Hotmail is far more better than Gmail, although there have whole bunch of plug-ins to let user to manage and synchronize Gmail account, hotmail still the best one work with email Client. So I don't think I will totally change to use Gmail.
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