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Opera is now available in a USB stick version, or better to say: I found it just in IT news, but it’s around since a bit earlier! 🙂

it says:

On this site you found a complete version of Opera@USB you only have to extract it
to the USB-Pen and you can use all features of Opera mobile.”

This sounds pretty great, doesn’t it?! 🙂

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Today, the ICQ Team released a New ICQ 5.1! And with many new features!

So, let’s first quote the Release Notes:

“New in this version:
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tZers – send short Flash animations to your Contact List friends.
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Two new Boyz and Girlz skins available for download.
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Quick access to send SMS messages to ICQ and non-ICQ Contacts (now called SMS Contacts).
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New option to select the login status.
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Notifications when contacts are online.
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New emoticons (old emoticons still available).
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Devil and nickname displayed on the top of the Contact List.
Improved:
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Improved Voice Chat sound quality using the latest VOIP technology (GIPS)
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Improved sign-up process.
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Improved User interface – text menus.
Changed:
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Add and Find Contacts button moved to the Contacts menu.
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Group Mode and Show Online Only buttons moved to the Contacts menu.
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Sort Contacts option moved to the Contacts menu.
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Find Contacts (in the Contact List) option moved to the Contacts menu.
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Adding an SMS Contact is now available from the Add and Find Contacts dialog.
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Xtraz Center shortcut button moved to the bottom of Contact List’s Xtraz Panel.”

The first thing you notice when starting up the new ICQ 5.1 is, that you now can select your status right before logging in to ICQ! 🙂

The second thing you will see is, that your ICQ skins got resetted, and you will receive a warning telling you this.

But the ICQ Team released new skins for boys and girls skins available for download.

Also new is the new Contact List outfit which looks more formal and straight
and you got the same emoticons now as in ComPad as you can see.

Luckily, it’s possible to switch to the old ones!

(but be careful! the German version of ICQ5.1 has a bug which causes that you sometimes do not get your old emoticons folder as a copy after installation!

Also new are so called “tZers” that are animations with sounds and you can select from a few, and I find them very enjoyable! =)

And the last major change is the ICQ Voice chat being totally improved and now working even with routers and so on! (in past it did not and sounded horrible and made problems with Windows audio mixer! 🙁 )!

I am very happy with the improvements and surprised about the new features and look forward to ICQ 6! 🙂

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Mr. Dew posted about AskANina recently. Well, for those who interests it: I also can be asked questions about emailing and questions about ICQ.

Interesting: Despite fact that there is no ICQ Support anymore, I got asked 0 questions about ICQ, but 14 questions about emailing!

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The things I want, i.e. my list of wishes is finally on the net. Just being bored and wanted to gather my various wishlists together to one! 🙂

The old wishlists can still be accessed here and here, but they are all united with the The things I want wishlist! 🙂

Not that I think that anybody cares, but it’s yet another feature to my blog! 😛

And surprisingly, many shops have an English version! 🙂

They even have a manual how to add ab “Add to the ThingsIWant” to your browser. At the screenshot you see the manual for Opera, since I am using the Opera browser! 🙂

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This one is also wicked even if the sounds are bit off, it’s anyway great and nicely done, and with perfect solutions how to perform the different animations and actions of the original game! 🙂

Enjoy! 🙂

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This one is really geeky!

It’s a Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP with which you can add video effects like full screen avatars and masks! I found only one mailtrader that sells it over here! €135.95 for a webcam! WOW!

The mentioned blog article can be found here.

There is also an avatar contest for this webcam! 🙂

By the way: He is obviously Not the only owner of this webcam.

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It’s really incredible, but by checking Technorati Blogs that link here, I found, that I got mentioned at Jee6 meta search for the most popular Orkut No Donut News web link with a Useability Index of 902!

Holy crap! 🙂

I never thought that a simple Orkut related post would bring me the top of anything! 🙂

Thanks! 🙂

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Nafcom’s Crap Blog (this blog) has experienced a major overhaul of its template on which I spent the whole day now (including to make it look right on all the big browsers!). So the homepage should less “lag” now and loading majorily faster on any kind of internet connection/country!

I have got the idea by stumbling over Bibi’s Box blog and seeing her blueish Mozilla Firefox RSS button.

Infact she replied in a rush to my inquery whether I am allowed to steal it for my blog and I got her permission. Thanks! 🙂

If you encounter any problems, let me know, please.

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I recently bought myself Simon The Sorcerer 3D German PC-CD. Since I knew the English version which ran smoothly on Windows XP as far as I could tell, the German version is a true nightmare!

While the English version just has a tiny flicker on the lower right area in cut scene sequences (which is ATI driver related, I think!), the German version is a paradise of errors and glitches.

There is that MultiLanguage Patch. The English version works with it, the German version does not. Means it crashes with “Simon3D.EXE has enountered an error and has to close”. OK, so I decided to uninstall the game and reinstall it again, suddenly there are heavy sound bugs in the game (repeatings, skippings, etc). Nothing helped, but recovering Windows XP from a previous state by using a system restore point!

Then in the game’s book navigation, the mouse pointer falls out of sync with the graphic from the game, means if you click wrong, you suddenly move something on your Windows Desktop.

Rarely, the game switches from full screen into boxed mode without any reason.

On first startup, sometimes it won’t accept CD1 eventhough it’s inserted in the drive.

There are heavy polygon graphic flickers.

And the German manual is the best!
These pages are printed in the manual: 1, 2 , 3, 4 , 5 , 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20.

Were people drunk?

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everybody seems to be in that Ajax thing, lately. (Since it’s cool, means it shows you the results in real time while you are typing!).

So, I found by accident an Ajax WhoIs database. Unfortunately it is not as good as my prefered one; Cool WhoIs.

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