Firefox 3 Download Day is Here !

Update 2008-06-20:
Now that you've download Firefox 3, get yourself a nice certificate from Guinness World Record! :) Print it ! Hang it ! Show it to everybody ! :D


Up to this day, there's already 12M++ downloads ! I wonder if all of them are actually using it ;)

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Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do to help us set the record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours is get Firefox 3 now – it’s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.

Please download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008. That's 10:00 a.m. in Mountain View, 1:00 p.m. in Toronto, 2:00 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro, 7:00 p.m. in Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw, 9:00 p.m. in Moscow, and June 19, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. in Beijing and 2:00 a.m. in Tokyo.

By the time i blog this, it's already around 2M++ downloads ! Don't miss the boat ! Let's set the world record together :D

With more than 15,000 improvements, Firefox 3 is faster, safer and smarter than ever before ;)

Some inside feature of Firefox 3 :

• Compatible with modern Web pages and technologies
• Active security features and the industry’s fastest response times
• Thousands of free ways to personalize your online experience
• Superior speed and performance
• Created to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web

Well hopefully we get to see all the above statement is true ;)

Anyway, Get Firefox 3 NOW ! ^^

Fast & Easy Way to Get mp3 From FLV Files

Sometimes after i've downloaded an FLV files from YouTube or anything using your favourite tools, i decided i wanted to use some background sound, or songs, just for the sake of hearing it rings on my handphone :P



Well, moitah.net come up with just what i wanted ! A simple tool that can extract the Video and Audio into a separate files. AVI and MP3. Perfect !

To use this tool, one 9 year old boy can even do it after you teach it :P Simply drag-and-drop the FLV files (yes, you can do it multiple files !!)

After that wait a while, oh wait ! You don't need to wait ! After you drop it, the extracted files is there ! IT REALLY IS THAT FAST !

There can't be any other program that'll beat this one.

No-installation, drag-and-drop, simple GUI, BLAZING Fast, and (another plus for the nerds) comes with a FULL Source Code !

YAY ^^ Glad i found this FLV Extract :D


p.s: in case you're wondering the flv file i use in the above screenshot, here you go Centurions ;)


[via: Freeware Genius]

Get Your Facebook Notified by FizzBoost !

Lorien Benjamin Gamaroff developed a really useful desktop application. A Notifier. Yes, FizzBoost a Facebook Notifier!

With recent Facebook hype everywhere around the world, you can get many notifications, message, invites, zombies, slayers, etc.

FizzBoost aims to bring the best in alert program. It's the perfect companion to Facebook.

FizzBoost for Windows exploded onto the scene in mid 2007 and immediately made an impression on Facebook users. Bringing together the best of all the other alert programs, its clean interface and snazzy alerts, FizzBoost is the perfect companion to Facebook.

No need to logged in to your Facebook every ten minutes or so. You won't get caught easily by your boss if you had this FizzBoost, while you can still now what happenin' in your Facebook world ;)

FizzBoost is packed with a complete feature you can expect for ;)

• View Facebook Feeds directly in FizzBoost!
• Update your status directly in FizzBoost without having to go to your Profile Page.
• A sound for your notification.
• Twitter Status Updates You can now sync your Status between Facebook and Twitter.
• Notifications of Friend, Group and Event Invites.
• Notifications of Pokes, Unread Mail and Unread Shares.
• The ability to view your friends with convenient shortcuts to Message, Poke, View Profile.
• Notifications of Wall Posts.
• View Friend Photo Albums from within FizzBoost.
• Upload Photos to Albums and Create Albums from within FizzBoost.
• Nifty Event Viewer

More importantly Lorien the developer of this application is really active on the FizzBoost Applications and Discussion Board ;) This is a very nice situation, i certainly choose an application that really had an active developer, not like others who just create and then ignored it completely! Well, i'm not sayin' that the developer should be there 24/7, i mean if the application was 100% perfect then you can do that. Well that might be a little exaggerating :P but again, it's always nice to see the developer are still around right ?

Anyway, like Lorein said,

Try it... you won't be disappointed!

FizzBoost is the best desktop notifier for Facebook ! Highly recommended for you to try it out ;)

FLV Player is 2.0 !

Martijn de Visser the creator of the first standalone FLV Player, now is back with FLV Player 2.0 ! Yes, the FLV PLayer is 2.0 !

This new FLV Player 2.0 settings offer you some goodies !

I especially found the need of option to remember last used volume ! And it's here now ! Very nice !

Another BEST thing in this new player ?
You can DIRECTY copy-and-paste a YouTube url ! It will retrieve the video and played it ! Brilliant !

Not to mention you can do a CTRL-Enter too ;)

Say goodbye to the old FLV Player 1.3.3 :) The new FLV Player is BLACK ! Elegant ! Simple !


Go get the FLV Player 2.0 while it's FRESH ! :D

Grow a World from Network Traffic

Packet Garden captures information about how you use the internet and uses this stored information to grow a private world you can later explore.

With each day of network activity a new world can be generated, each of which are stored as tiny files for you to browse, compare and visit as time goes by. You can think of packet gardens as pages from a network diary.

Each time we use a computer and connect to the internet, there are ports that were open and sending out tiny little packets all around your network.

It can be Peer to Peer applications, Instant Messaging applications, checking an email, browsing on the web, uploading a file through FTP, or even playing games online.

All of that generates information which is used and presented with a beautiful visualization called Packet Garden.

Packet Garden was developed by Julian Oliver, originally an experimental artwork that seeks to provide an alternative and accessible approach to visualizing daily internet use. It runs on every platform that we had Windows, Linux, and even OS X computers :D

You will have a unique 3D virtual world that built to your network usage :) For example, if you download something, then it will be represented as valleys with the size matching how big the data are ;) and vice versa for uploading which represented in hills :D


For each type of traffic, you'll see a different type of plant for each type of traffic ;)


After you installed the Packet Garden, you need to capture a traffic first, and then you can grow a world :) you can load it the next time you wanted to visit this world :) if you go inside the world, you'll become a little ball :P and can move around, too bad you cannot zoom out/in :P

Anyway, if you have a decent PC, this will run pretty smooth ;)

Have a try :) it's fun :D




[via: o'reilly radar]

Strip Annoying >>>> with emailSTRIPPER

So, how many of you gets annoyed over the forward reply thing, the ">" sign on your inbox ? Well, i personally do ! Okay, i can stand if it was once or twice that thing, i mean if it was just ">> your text here" i can read it. But if it's been through a chain of your friends, who forward it, reply forward it again, that is when things become annoying :P

emailStripper is a free program for cleaning the ">" and other formatting characters out of your emails. It will restore "forwarded" or "replied" emails back to their original state so they're easier to read.

While ages back, i always use notepad to search and replace those ">" manually, now you can have emailStripper to do the job ;)

It does perfectly on stripping off the ">" signs. If you have a ">" in the middle of your text, if will assume that that is the correct text ;)

Say, you have this text, i used programming example here :P

>> if a > b then goto c

It will only strip those in front of the text. This is perfect, since if you search and replace using notepad, well, all are being replaced :P



But there's one drawback here. emailStripper will erase all the linebreak, to put it simple, all the stripped results will be written in one whole line ! This could be troublesome if you wanted to retain the same structure of linebreak.

Overall emailStripper, is a handy little tool you can try for sure ;)

Print Your Own Free Software Sticker Book

This one is for those of you who wanted to paste a cool sticker on your laptop or pc ;)

The .pdf Sticker Book includes a set of stickers related to free software projects. Now, you may remove Microsoft sticker from your computer ;) and choose some sticker of this book to replace it.


For around 6++MB, there are lotsa nice one :) this surely is a Sticker Book :D there are pages with one design of sticker, this were made to save your time on printing ;) well, maybe after you print these things, you can distribute and give 'em away for free to your friends too :D


Sure looks good on your laptop :) I'm gonna get one myself :D

Lastly, you can also participate in Sticker Book Project too, just send your sticker/s to stickers@pikao.org ^^

Freeware: Font Xplorer 1.2.2

Sometimes when i'm doin something that involve fancy fonts, weird fonts, elegant fonts, either in photoshop or flash, i often waste my time by trying out the fonts, ONE-BY-ONE.

But with this Font Xplorer, i can list all the fonts that were installed, or the one which i just downloaded and about to install ;)

This handy freeware, works with TrueType and OpenType fonts only, which is decent enough for most of fonts, the limitation is that it can't handle Adobe Type 1 fonts, but well that's another story :P

Anyway, another easyness is to Instal and Uninstall fonts, if you're in Vista, after you downloaded some fonts, you can right-click and choose install :) but if you're on XP or 2000 or bellow, you hafta do it manually, by copying to the FONTS folder. By using this Font Xplorer, you can do the right-click too ;) Install or Uninstall :) EASY !

All these comes in free as in beer ;D So just go and get it ;)


[via: NoHeat]
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