I haven’t visit the Official Formula 1 website since the last season ended. Since there is a race today, I decided to go to the web site for the live timing. To my surprise, the design has changed! I think it is more organize now than the previous one. The thing that surprise my most is the new live timing! The old live timing is very slow and I really hate it. But the new live timing is very responsive and very easy to navigate. There is no refresh for switching from one menu to another. Kudos to the F1 site for upgrading the live timing!

Google just added a new feature to the Personalized Homepage, which is Theme! Now user can change the ‘look’ of your Google Homepage. There are 6 themes for you to select, and some of the themes will change appearance according to time. I haven’t fully tested this feature yet, but I believe theme like Sweet Dreams will change according to time. (ie: Morning = Sun, Night = Moon)

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Google Operating System [via Lifehacker]

Microsoft Windows Vista is finally out for consumer this week! Even though it is a bit late to announce it now xD

Well, my friend at Spherebox, Mr. 1337, manage to get himself a new PC along with a new Vista Home Premium! Do check out his blog post for more info about his new rig.

My New C2D-powered Rig [via I are leetle kid]

Tired of spam? Well, disposable email is here for you! So, what exactly is disposable email? Disposable email is an email that require no registration and the mail in the inbox will be deleted within a certain time frame. For example, when a website require you to provide your email address during registration, you can simply type anything you want (ie: dave@dodgeit.com) and register! Next, go to the website of the temporary email provider and type in the user name that you use to register (in this case, dave) to check for the activation mail! If the website sells your email to spam list, all the spam will go to this email! (And will be deleted automatically!)

But please remember that the email address is public. So, it is not advisable to use this email to store any confidential data such as password. And also, the email will only be keep for a short time. If you need to save it for reference use, you can either copy the content of the email or just use a permanent email address.

Here is a list of temporary email provider:

• SpamHole.com
• dodgeit.com
• mailexpire.com
• Jetable.org
• iximail.com
• mailnull.com
• mailinator.com
• gishpuppy.com
• sneakemail.com
• spamgourmet.com
• tempinbox.com
• maileater.com
• mailtic.com
• disposemail.com
• pookmail.com
• spambox.info
• mytrashmail.com
• temporaryinbox.com
• uzful.org

Finally, Microsoft decided to upgrade ALL Hotmail account to 1GB! I know, some of you guys might be using Live Mail, which is 2GB. But for those who like the old interface, then this is a good news! I’ve been waiting for this for a long time!

Photosynth is finally available to the public! Don’t know what is Photosynth? It is basically a software that generate 3D images using your 2D photos! For better description, read it here or you can watch the videos here. I haven’t try it yet, but it is available at Photosynth’s website. To run Photosynth, you need to have Internet Explorer 6 or 7 (since it requires you to install ActiveX)

Try Phoyosynth

My Zuned Desktop

Microsoft is going to release their own MP3 player named Zune next Tuesday (14 Nov 2006). In conjunction of the new MP3 player, Microsoft released a new Windows XP theme which is the Zune theme. It is basically a black version of Royale, the Windows Media Center theme. You can download the theme here. If you need more information about Zune, check Zune.net.

Recently, Sian Siew posted an article about problem viewing Microsoft Word Document on non-MS viewer (such as Open Office). The way he suggested is to convert the doc file to pdf. But his suggestion require you to install some software to convert the document. This might be a bit inconvenient if you are not using your own computer. To solve this problem, the easiest way is to use online file converter. One of my favorite online doc-to-pdf converter is NeeVia’s Document Converter eXPress. It supports large number of input format, which is very good. Some of the less common filetype, such as *.pub (which is a Microsoft Publisher file) is also supported. You also can configure some of the settings for the output file such as the resolution of the pdf file.

I also found two online file converter that convert file to format other than document/text file. These converters support both audio and video format. The two converters are Zamzar and Media Convert. I haven’t try these converters yet, but I think it is a good site for those who want to convert video such as flv to avi. [via TechCrunch]

Finally, meebo is out of Alpha stage! (And they skipped the beta stage) For more info, click here! I also uploaded some pic of the new meebo. Remember to check it out

New login interface. More ‘blue’.

The buddy list look is also updated, with new icons.

Chat windows.

The pop-up window, which is a new feature.

Just out yesterday. Updated mine few minutes ago. You can download it here or read the announcement here.