Published by 9527 July 21st, 2006
in 資訊科技 and Freeware.
Good news! X1® Enterprise Client (formerly X1® Desktop Edition) is now FREE!
I used Yahoo!® Desktop Search (a clone of XDS) because XDS was not free. I talked about this last year. Since X1 is free, I have already switched to X1. 
New for X1 Enterprise Client 5.5:
- New Look & Feel
- Client/Server Federation Option
- Real-time Outlook Email Indexing
- Real-time File Indexing
- Drag & Drop
- General Performance Improvements
- Outlook Calendar Support
- Outlook Task Support
- Attachment Preview within Email
- Range Searching
Go and download it now at http://www.x1.com/download/.
Published by 9527 July 14th, 2006
in 9527.net, 資訊科技 and Freeware.
I got an invitation email from The Google Team two days ago. It said:
Welcome to our beta test!
Thanks for helping us test Gmail for your domain! We’re excited to help you offer Gmail accounts with your domain.
…
I was so excited. I applied for this beta several months ago. I didn’t have any expectation at all. But suddenly I was told that I was in and I could host all my 9527.net mailboxes on Gmail.
Gmail for your domain lets you give Gmail to every user at your domain. This service is hosted by Google so there is no need to install any hardware and software to host mailboxes for your domain. That is, you no longer need your own mail server but Gmail provides you everything to host mailboxes for your domain.
Gmail for your domain is basically the same as the standard Gmail. However, there are some differences (as far as I have observed):
- You can use your own domain address instead of @gmail.com address
- The size of each Gmail for your domain mailbox is 2GB only, not the same as a Gmail account (2.7GB now, but is still growing)
- You can login Google Talk using your own email address
- You can create new mailboxes thru a very nice control panel
- You can customize your own logo to replace the original Gmail and Google Calendar logo
- No Gmail account invitation will be given
- No Gmail / Google Talk personal picture can be set
I am happy with it. If you want to apply for this service, please visit http://www.google.com/hosted/. If you want to have a @9527.net mailbox, please feel free to let me know. (Note: for my family, friends and Vorsichtians only)
Published by 9527 April 28th, 2006
in 9527.net, 遊戲人生, 音樂, Freeware and WordPress.
Just installed Extreme Video Plug-in 2.3 BETA. This plug-in allows me to embed videos (GoogleVideo, YouTube, QuickTime, etc.) into my blog.
Here you go a (sample) video that I love very much:
Final Fantasy VIII Anime Music Video, featuring “Eyes On Me” by our famous Hong Kong female singer Faye Wong. Enjoy.
Published by 9527 February 4th, 2006
in 9527.net, Freeware and WordPress.
I have just upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.0.1. 114 bugs have been closed in this release. To summarize:
- You can now specify an upload directory, and whether to use date-based storage or not.
- Caching has been fixed under certain PHP enviroments.
- Permalinks have been fixed for weird enviroments as well.
- XML-RPC uploading works.
- Compatibility with older versions of PHP.
- Several WYSIWYG fixes and cleanups.
- Imports now use much less memory.
- Now works with MySQL 5.0 in strict mode.
On the other hand, I have activated the Akismet Plug-in which comes with WordPress 2.0/2.0.1. It can stop comment spam and trackback spam. I’ve got many spam comments recently and Akismet will definitely help filtering them out.
Published by 9527 January 2nd, 2006
in 資訊科技, Apple and Freeware.
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. VLC media player runs on multiple operating systems like Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, etc. I am currently using it on my iMac. Once I have this installed, I do not need to install anything else because VLC comes with everything that I need to watch my movies and videos in any format. And VLC media player is free.
Published by 9527 December 8th, 2005
in 資訊科技 and Freeware.
Yahoo!® Desktop Search is a FREE desktop search tool which can:
- Find anything on your computer
- Search your instant messages from Yahoo! Messenger
- View results instantaneously - as fast as you can type
- Protect your privacy with easy search controls
- Find information related to your desktop content
I love this tool. This is actually a variant of X1® Desktop Search. X1® Desktop Search is a proven and well-known desktop search tool in the market. Yahoo!® Desktop Search has most of the features of X1® Desktop Search except the network drives indexing and searching capability. Other than that they are exactly the same! And, the most important, Yahoo!® Desktop Search is FREE!
If you are using Windows XP/2000, Yahoo!® Desktop Search is definitely a must have software on your computer.
