Published on October 30, 2005
in Software.
As a result of growing competitive pressure from low-end open-source databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, Oracle is expected to announce on Tuesday the beta release of Oracle 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE), which for the first time being an Oracle database system that is made freely available.
It is targeted at students, small organizations and software vendors that could embed the Oracle database with an application.
It comes with the features you would expect from the paid version, except it places some storage and processing limitations. The Oracle Database XE can only run on servers with single processor, 4GB of disk memory and 1GB of RAM.
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Published on October 28, 2005
in Gadget.
I’m a strong believer that technology and innovation are things that make our lives better. Here is another proof.
The Toy is a vibrator that, guess what, is Bluetooth-enabled that lets you connect to it via a cellphone. Now it’s more than just using your cellphone to remotely control the operation of the vibrator. It lets your lover send you an intimate SMS that triggers the vibrator, regardless of where he / she is.
Once a message is read, the instructions embedded in the SMS text message is automatically transported to The Toy and translated into vibrations.
Don’t worry, it only responds to your lover’s tagged messages, not everyone’s.
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Published on October 27, 2005
in Gadget.
Considering the bird flu going around the world, you might be worried that your kitty at home might bring home some unwanted diseases or viruses by playing with birds. Catbib is exactly the product that will save you and your kitty from that.
According to the Cat Goods, the CatBib can interfere with you cat’s ability to hunt. Your cats can still run, jump, climb trees, eat, drink in their CatBibs, and the only thing they can’t do is kill birds.
Too good to believe, isn’t it? Now the birds will love you, and your cats will hate you.
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Published on October 27, 2005
in Yahoo.
Yahoo today launches Trip Planner as part of Yahoo Travel. In summary, it’s a tool that lets you create your personalized travel guide. You can save hotels, attractions, and useful web sites into the guide, and take it with you when you begin your trip.
You can share the guide with selected friends or the entire Yahoo Travel community.
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Published on October 26, 2005
in Useful.
As you are probably aware, this site runs Chitika’s eMiniMalls ads in addition to Google Adsense. I have been running it for quite some time, and the result has been quite impressive.
However, there is a catch should you want to serve Chitika and Google ads on the same page. Per Google’s TOS, you are not allowed to run another contextual ads alongside Adsense.
Forunately, Chitika has provided an option for you to turn off its contextual feature (what a waste, as they probably have invested their time and money into this, it’s not their time to shake a giant like Google, yet). You can specify what kind of ads you want to display by specifying keywords, so Chitika would randomly serve ads based on your keywords.
The eMiniMalls.info Keywords Query Tool lets you specify your keywords and see what ads it would show. You can specify as many keywords as you see the ad pattern. Try it below.
Published on October 25, 2005
in Google.
Any moment from now, you are going to see another new service from Google. Dubbed Google Base, Google describes it as “Google’s database into which you can add all types of content”. Is it something like the database feature you can get from Yahoo Group?
It was first reported at Search Engine Watch forum a few days ago. And someone has posted the snapshop of Google Base and made it availabe at Threadwatch.
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Published on October 24, 2005
in Gadget.
Imagine you have a fridge that looks like a cow. Doesn’t that make you feel that the milk is fresher and tastier? Unfortunately, we don’t see any such fridge around yet.
Cow Stickers is a pack of 6 black self-adhesive patches in various sizes. Use your imagination to make your house fridge look like one.
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Published on October 23, 2005
in Yahoo.
Yahoo will soon boosting the cost of Yahoo! Music Unlimited which lets you download song without a limit at a fixed monthly cost.
Initially started at $6.99 per month, the service has given rivals such as Napster and Realnetworks which provide similar services at $15 a month. But Yahoo has recently sent an e-mail message to the subscribers late Thursday night that the price will be reviewed to $12 a month as of Nov. 1.
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