ICQ for Digital Lifestyle Award!

Somebody posted in the ICQ Focus Group about Digital Lifestyle Awards vote.

Seems the ICQ Team listened to him… Since a while German visitors can sometimes see some German advertisement banners with a link to the Digital Lifestyle Award*5!

So happy voting, German ICQ users!!! 🙂

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ICQ has a new homepage

ICQ got a new homepage. Yet no major changes are done, but I bet they will come soon.
The new ICQ home does officially run properly in MSIE and Firefox. It doesn’t display 100% as insisted in Opera, even not if changing the browser identity.

Now, also the frequently asked questions from the help center are displayed on the main page. Which includes error number and lost password.
Also there you can see the current network status on the top right corner.

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Creepy and be afraid?

I don’t know how many of you ever thought about this, but there are an huge amount of people that use GMail and Skype. Did you ever notice that there is some – probably small – amount of people that will never use either service?
You ask why?

Because according to others GMail is too creppy and Skype is a reason to be afraid.

In my opinion all those fears are pretty much without reasons. It’s like the “Company xyz will hunt down individuals that run a piraced copy of something”. Which never really happened.

I mean, what would happen to GMail and Skype if were doing bad stuff? I tell you: They would be pretty much: DEAD!

This is my opinion. And I am still a happy Skype and GMail user 🙂

I have opened a discussion thread and a poll for this post at forum, here (you need to register for being able to post).

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ICQ Team – And the quest continues!

I have written about “The Traces Of ICQ” earlier.

Now, thanks to my friend Charles who has pointed it out, there is some hidden gallery of the ICQ Team:

Step 1: Click on the < Main > Button
Step 2: Select < Preferences & Security >
Step 3: Go to the < Status Mode > Tab
Step 4: Put the mouse cursor in the middle of the empty space
Step 5: Hold The Ctrl+Shift Keys and while holding them Click on the Left and Right Mouse Buttons together (Left button first)

So have fun with that easter egg! 😀

You can also find a photo of Udo 😉

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MS? Google? LET’S GET IT ON!

Source & poll by Derision in my forum 🙂

So let’s quote him:

It’s not Apple, it’s not Open Source… no, this time, Microsoft’s guns are aimed directly at… Google?!

Thursday at Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer stepped up his rhetoric against Google and continued to promote Microsoft’s aim to topple the Mountain View, California-based company not only in the search space, but also in Web site advertising dollars for its competing search and Internet services site, MSN.com.

“What do we want? More than anybody else has,” Ballmer said, when asked by an analyst about Microsoft’s goals against Google in these markets. “You might think it’s a funny answer, but if you don’t set the big, bold goal, the big ambition to be number one, you never get to be there.”

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T-COM and the fun of the phone

After a lot of problems with my internet (including that it has been slow at evenings and weekends), the “fun” started with a distribution affiliate of our phone company.

That means they were ringing up my mother telling her that our selected tariff will be no more Call-by-call possible and that the phone will stop working! So, she got forced to switch.

I have searched the internet the day before yesterday, I couldn’t find any sign of this change. So I was calling the number they gave to my mother, I got some guy on the phone that said that all what my mother got told were lies! Yes! They were lying
to get my mother in a “cheaper” tariff!

What would I do without Call-by-call? No longer calls to abroad, no longer cheap phone bills! Imagine that, I would be cut from the phone world! Grr!

So beware what your phone company might tell you! 🙂

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