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I have just received the following email:

”
the popular ICQ archive and download database has moved. You can find us at www.imdlc.com from now on.

IMDLC is short for Instant Messenger Download Center which means that you will soon be able to find downloads and skins for other IM programs too.

You are invited to join us at IMDLC and contribute by uploading your favorite messenger enhancements.

Regards,
The IMDLC.com Team.

http://www.imdlc.com
http://www.imdlc.com/mos/Forums”

Which is probably a result of the fact that they have lost motivation to keep the newssite up really as according to them most ICQ news are not blog worthy anymore. I am sorry for that and I highly disagree with that opinion.

Well, I guess that’s already it.

Technorati Tags: ICQ, ICQ-4u.com
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The ICQ Team released a New ICQ 6 Build#5391 with new bugs like e.g. clear type support is broken so if you have a TFT it will make the text font to look a lot of blocky.

Also Getright 4 gets confused by it and breaks ICQ 6 as it downloads the xtraz locally when IE monitoring and download link catch is enabled.

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When I was about to post a post, I stumbled over the successor of Blogger In Beta Blogger just started; Blogger in Draft and they even had a “tell us your opinion” link on the Blogger Dashboard!

So I took my chance and wrote my opinion about the way they do not care about bugs being reported!

Let’s see whether they will bother to reply with a statement this time

Never give up the hope?

Technorati Tags: support, Blogger
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UPDATE: I was notified that Google shut down its blog search engine of course. There are new ways which you can find out more about this here, e.g.: https://blogging.im/findblogs

According to Blogger Search I am human spyware? 😀

Infact I have just done the following search:

(After I did maybe 3-5 others) and suddenly I have reeived this weird warning:

That’s as fun as the Barracuda Spam Firewall blocking your ordinary inquiry emails sent to companies using this firewall system.

Tired of false positives? I sure am!

Technorati Tags: spyware, blog
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Technorati recently released new widgets

They are supposed to look something like this:

You may notice that the radio button options look weird… Right! It doesn’t work on most browsers. For me, it failed to work correctly in:

Opera 9.21, Firefox X64 2.0.0.1, Internet Explorer 7.
Either it won’t save, the options would saved unticked or the radio button display sucks on me.

On the bright side, emailing to Janice Myint resulted into a 24h reply to both emails I have had sent. A sign of hope for the ever questionable Technorati Support? I don’t know, but seriously, there is not a couple of months passing without Technorati breaking things for me!

I seriously wish they would put more concentration on bug hunting and browser compatibility than constantly add new features and re-do their homepage a thousands of times.

Speaking about this: If my blog’s sidepanel looks defaced to you: I know, Technorati tries to fix this (hopefully), so please don’t send me emails about it.

I also know that some posts of my blog are indexed wrong, but all Technorati had to say about this is “I don’t know” – any further email I sent about this topic has been ignored. Blogger does the same.

It doesn’t solve the customer’s problem, but who cares?

Anyway, if Technorati got the widget working for my blog, I will happier and maybe gain some trust into their service.

Did I ever mention that Yahoo also ignores any email I sent to delicious support?
I will test Mister Wong English soon. If it’s any good, then good bye delicious!

Actually during wrting this line, I have figured out, that the new Technorati widget has only problem on long blog pages, if they cannot fix it, I might trying squeezing it into a borderless table – a workaround that has worked for Technorati problems in past.

Technorati Tags: Technorati, Mr Wong, support
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I have been trying Windows Vista since Beta 1 (on an old computer just for testing) and use it on my main computer as my main OS since it came out for end users in February 2007.

Today, I stumbled over the entry in Wikipedia, stating that Windows Vista is currently not supported and that’s why people who are depening on Skype might not switch to Vista because of that.

Well, indeed Raul Liive is right in his blog entry stating that there could be voice and video problems related to bad Vista drivers.

However, as Vista X64 is my main OS, I have to say, based on my experience, it’s not that bad at all. Logitech luckily released QuickCam and drivers lately that make Skype Video useable again for me.

And Realtek releases new AC97 and High Defination drivers steadly and Creative and co mostly do the same!

So, don’t be afraid trying, you maybe might be surprised how well it works!

Technorati Tags: Skype, Vista, Windows, X64, 64bit, Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP
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Mister Wong, the German competitor to the USA based Delicious, – an online bookmark manager started its English cloded beta.

Mr Wong describes itself as

“Mister Wong is Europe’s largest portal of its kind”

If you are intersted in joining the closed beta, you can email me and ask for the code to enter and sign up. I have asked whether sending it by email would be okay and they replied as long as I do not publish in Bild, it is alright. 🙂

Technorati Tags: Mr Wong, bookmarks
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Driver Agent supporting Opera browser.

I have just found out today that they have started supporting Opera and even detected it right, interesting!

Driver Agent is a service that scans for drivers you have and which are old and which are up-to-date including giving source from where to download the latest ones.

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Skype enhanced its audio quality, so updating to Skype 3.2 is rquired!

Quote from Skype’s Heartbeat status site:

“Some users may experience a reduction in call quality when a call is placed from an older version of the Skype software to the newer versions. Problems with call quality are inevitable given that the older versions of Skype are being used.

Each new release of Skype improves in audio and video quality. That is why we are asking our users to get the best possible call quality by upgrading to the newer versions of the software. The best call quality is experienced when both parties are using one of these versions:

Skype for Windows 3.2 or above: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/windows/

Skype 2.6 for Mac: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/macosx/

Skype for Linux 1.4: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/linux/

These audio quality issues may arise only when you’re having a voice conversation partner with another person on Skype. It does not affect SkypeOut calls, i.e. calls made to landlines or mobiles, or any other features that Skype has.”

Technorati Tags: Skype, 3.2
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As past info said, Real Player for Vista X64 seems to be really ready in time, or at least close to it, as RealNetworks released now RealPlayer 11 Beta, which adds Vista X64 compatibility (with yet some limitations as you can see here below).

Other features are the ability to download web videos like from YouTube on click (rather than pulling them manually from the browser’s cache directory).

Technorati Tags: 64bit, Vista, Windows, Real, x64
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