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posted by Francisca | 9:00 PM

Have you ever go to google.com and see the button with the word I'm feeling Lucky^TM? Here's a chance to use it if you have never tried clicking on it:






Ok, here's an explanation. No, the site is not "supported" by Google and it's not the Google's error page. The actual address to the page is http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/.

When you type words into the textbox and click on the button with the sentence I'm Feeling Lucky^TM, you will be taken directly to the first page Google returned for your query.

posted by Francisca | 2:06 PM

C|net has a website for new, unsigned or emerging artistes here. They also accept music uploading by artistes, which is a good place for unsigned or indie artistes to show their talents. Also, you get to download the music.

posted by Francisca | 1:28 PM

Looking for jokes to send to your friends/family via sms??? Here are a few sites that offer free SMS jokes:

http://www.humorsphere.com/sms/index.htm

http://www.funsms.net/sms_jokes.htm

posted by Francisca | 1:06 PM

I surfed around for some Javascripts and found this forum for webmasters at http://www.webmasterworld.com.

Basically, they have two types of forum i.e. the private forum and the public forum. You don't have to pay to read posts in the public forum and there are lots of infos around.

Private forums can be viewed by members only and you have to pay to become a member, but it's worth checking out the public forum :)

Topics discussed there include HTML, Browsers, CSS, Javascript, Site graphic, multimedia, E-Commerce, Linux vs. Unix vs. Windows (no surprise), RSS, Apache Web Server, PHP, Perl Side CGI Scripting....and even Gmail.

Ok, some folks there are trying really hard to get Gmail suspended because they assume that the folks at Google scan the email content...and some of them even bring up the Privacy issues' stuffs. I thought those people should read the Gmail's Privacy statement at http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/more.html. They did say that "No humans read any Gmail messages to target advertising or related information that users may see on Gmail."

posted by Francisca | 10:05 PM

Today's recommendation: For news and updates on Science/Technology, check out http://news.google.com/news/en/us/technology.html

Btw, Forgent Networks sued 31 major hardware/software vendor...you guess, for using of JPEG file format for images in their products. Those companies being sued includes Dell, Apple, IBM, Kodak, Adobe, Macromedia and Xerox. Quite honestly, I used to think that .jpeg (or .jpg, they're the same thing) are not copyrighted or anything, like .html or something. Could Forgent be taking the advantage to make money before the patent expires in October 2006? Btw, they insist that they still can sue for all the damages caused since the beginning of the time, even after in expires.

The bad news for end-users, if Forgent wins the lawsuit, there's a chance that prices for the software and tools (which involves JPEG file format) will increase.

It's not actually a new case. Many years ago, in the late 90's, Unisys and Compuserve began seeking for royalties on the use of LZW Compression. However, it all ends in 20th June 2003 when the U.S. patent on LZW compression ends.

JPEG: worth a 1000 words >>

posted by Francisca | 9:56 PM

The blog's up for the first time. Here goes...I found a forum for webmasters and webdevelopers. It's pretty new but not bad, there are plenty of useful links etc. The forum is located at http://www.webmastercool.com/forum/.

Secondly, Sitemeter offers some free services including site statistic and e-commerce services. Pretty good so check it out.

posted by Francisca | 10:09 PM