Today the beta version of WinZip 10.0 is released. WinZip is the most popular archiving software on the earth. The beta comes with two different versions, standard and professional.
The new features are WinXP type of explorer view, faster compression, support of bz2 format along with it allows one to burn the files directly to CD/DVD media. The professional edition has additional Job Wizard feature which allows scheduled archiving.
Just happen to check Yahoo! 360° yesterday and surprised to see such a nice pack from Yahoo! for free for all Yahoo! users.
Yahoo! 360° is a program that allows one to blog, share a photo and/or thought either with our own friends and/or with the public. The advantage of this 360° is; we can start blogging instantly from your Yahoo! messenger itself along with it offers easy way to post anything to this area.
The only requirement is to have Yahoo! mail id. And, we don’t need to pay to get our own domain name and spend hundreads of dollars to buy a hosting package and Yahoo! 360° offers everything for free and url will be like 360.yahoo.com/your_yahoo_id.
Yahoo! 360° offers wide range of features which includes:
Blog
Create your own blog or online journal. Share thoughts, ideas, experiences, pictures
Mobile
Send text and photos from your mobile phone to your blog.
Photos
Let your friends view your Yahoo! Photos albums from your 360° blog area
Blast
Share a quick communication your friends can reply to — an idea, attitude, question, or web link
RSS
Allows 3 RSS feeds to your blog area along with many more features
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Google Talk is a new small yet tiny program from Google; that lets one to talk with other Gmail user(s) over the internet for free of cost. You need to use the same Gmail account user name to sigin in. As said, this tiny program offers just to talk with other GMail users with very limited basic functionality that every messenger has now a days. |
Last week, Yahoo! is also released a new Yahoo! messenger with voice , which also offers free PC-to-PC calling (even though voice chat is there for years) with great added features like photo sharing, file transfers and many more rich feature set that Google Talk does not offer. I wonder why one has to move to Google Talk when we can get everything from Yahoo! and almost everyone has Yahoo! account and used with Yahoo! messenger for years; unless Google Talk adds revolutionary features that makes users to jump to use to Google Talk instead of Yahoo! or MSN messenger!. We have to wait and see who will be the final winner in the long run; but at for sure Yahoo! has strong hold in this area along with MSN. |
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