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Technology provider UnifiedRoot, based in Amsterdam, has begun leasing Internet addresses that can end in any word, rather than in .com, .org, .net or other top-level domains.

The entrepreneurs at UnifiedRoot and other companies now tinkering with the Internet’s addressing system in Amsterdam and elsewhere represent just one of several major factors working against ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the California-based entity responsible for distributing the more familiar Web addresses ending in .com, .org, .net, etc.

News Source: Eweek.com

His guide gives tip on various tools everyone should use to secure his pc. It suggest antivirus, antispyware, autostart and process checkers and more. But, it will tell you to not run a firewall. Curious ? check it out.

LINK: Ghacks.com

Yes! Mozilla firefox 1.5 is now out. The best browser, in my opinion, has just released it’s first major revision since reaching v1.0. I love Firefox since I switched, about a year ago. I got addicted with the tabbed browsing feature and love the myriad of extensions that it has. The download is a mere 4.7MB so there is no excuse not to give Firefox a try.

Get it now: Mozilla.org
Released Notes: What’s new in Firefox 1.5

The much awaited patch for one of the best MMORPG here in the Philippnes has been released. MU Online version 1.00B includes new maps, new mobs, new items and of course the castle siege. Only the strongest guilds can own a castle and rule the continent of MU. Some helpful tips on acquiring and maitaining a castle can be found at the mobius forum.

My Blade Knight exploring the Loren Canyon!

Download: MU Philippines 1.00B

Here are the new improvements as shown on the PSP:
-(RSS Channel) has been added as a feature under (Network).
-(Simplified Chinese(gb18030)) and (Traditional Chinese (big 5)) have been added as options to (Encoding) under (View) in the (Internet browser) menu bar.
-Characters may be indistinct in some cases when these encoding options are selected.
-(Volume ajustment) has been aded as a feature to (Location free player).
-You can now download video data that supports copyright protection using the (internet browser).
-WMA had been added as a codec that can be played under (Music)(This applies to music saved on the memory stick).

Note that you must adjust a system setting to enable playback of WMA format music data, a connection to the internet is required to adjust the setting.

Download: Sony.com

The Broadband Tuner allows you to take full advantage of very high speed Internet connections that have a high latency. The installer tweaks some system parameters.

There is an optional uninstaller that can be used to restore the settings that were in effect at the time just before the system parameters were changed.

Please take note that this is only for the MAC OS 10.4 or later.

Download link: Apple.com

Tim O’Reilly has a very nice article about Web 2.0.

The concept of “Web 2.0″ began with a conference brainstorming session between O’Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O’Reilly VP, noted that far from having “crashed”, the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. What’s more, the companies that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in common. Could it be that the dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as “Web 2.0″ might make sense? We agreed that it did, and so the Web 2.0 Conference was born.

In the year and a half since, the term “Web 2.0″ has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. But there’s still a huge amount of disagreement about just what Web 2.0 means, with some people decrying it as a meaningless marketing buzzword, and others accepting it as the new conventional wisdom.

Article Link: oreillynet.com