Yahoo Launches Messenger 8 With 180 Plugins

Yahoo Messenger Version 8 for Windows, which can be downloaded here, launched out of beta today.

The key new feature of Messenger 8 is that it is open to third party developers to create widgets that work within the client. Yahoo is reporting that 180 plugins have been created in the last month since the platform [...]

Wordpress 2.0.4 released

A bit late… anyway the latest stable release of WordPress (Version 2.0.4) has now been released. There are a lot of security and bug fixes with this one (more than 50 of them). I will update my blog later on.
Link: Release Notes | Download
*Update : Just finished updating my blog [...]

WinRAR to be free this Sunday, July 30

If you want a robust compression software then this one shouldn’t be miss.
In order to thank everyone who voted for us and made it possible for us to win this prestigious award, we are offering the WinRAR 3.51 single user license non upgradeable version this Sunday the 30th of July 2006 from 00:00 until 24:00 [...]

Microsoft make MSDN Library free to download

Great news has arrived for anyone who programs with Microsoft tools and a Microsoft language: the MSDN is now free to download.
The download itselfÂ comes in three ISO images totalling about 1.6 GB.Â
Link: MSDN

Intel Debuts ‘Core 2 Duo’

Intel has finally launched their new ‘Core 2 Duo’ and ‘Core 2 Extreme’ series processors this afternoon from their headquarters in California. Conroe desktop chip availability is set for ‘early August’ with the mobile Merom version arriving later on that month. Here’s a quick rundown of the desktop chips with prices listed in USD (sorry [...]

Netscape.com Hacked

Title says it all. Virus researchers at Finnish security vendor F-Secure discovered the Netscape.com hack during research work around cross-site scripting vulnerabilities on social networking sites and said the attack was obviously the work of Digg fans. In the cross-site scripting attacks, visitors to Netscape.com encountered JavaScript pop-up alerts with comical pro-Digg messages [...]

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