Scott Yang's Playground

Last.fm radio announcement — international radio listeners will require paid subscription, at €3 per month (although you also get 30 track free trial). The only part of the world that can continue to get free streaming are United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Darn. That means no more free Internet music radio for me [...]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 released to the public as of this morning, thanks to Nick for notifying me. Much better if you are a developer that needs to support the IE platform, or want gimmicks such as web slices. Too bad the animated GIFs is still not working, which I think would probably break [...]

Undo Send — new in Gmail Labs, via Twitter. One feature that I wished that I have over the last 14 years of emailing. Back in the Thunderbird days, way too often press [Ctrl]-[Enter] instead of [Enter], which sent off an unfinished email. Too bad you only have 5 seconds to recall your mistakes.

HostingFu — EveryDNS Python API and Command Shell. A Python library I wrote to provide API access to EveryDNS, a free DNS hosting service. Very useful if you need to change IP address to a few dozen DNS records.

LowEndBox — Yes you can run 18 static sites on a 64MB VPS at VPSLink. Step by step commands included to get a plain vanilla net-install Debian 5 Lenny VPS with only 64MB RAM, to run WordPress.

Saw Rob Bryanton’s Imagining the 10th Dimension on YouTube tonight, and the 10th dimension has been described as infinite possible beginning plus infinite possible ending of universe + time as a single point. That reminded me of someone, who is omnipotent in all these…

Fortunately I did not wait for Kogan’s Agora but got a Nokia E71 instead. APC Mag: Second Google Android phone — Kogan Agora — “Delayed Indefinitely”, due to some technical short-sightness in Agora’s design, i.e. its QVGA screen, which might not be compatible with future Android applications. That leaves HTC/T Mobile’s G1 as the only [...]

Nokia to add LGPL Open Source licensing option for the Qt UI and application framework. One of the best cross-platform GUI toolkit, if not the best, has just got more free. We have been doing wxWidgets only because it’s more flexible licensing, although personally I much Qt. Now I am just waiting for an [...]

PasswordFox — Reveal the user names/passwords stored in Firefox. Very useful utility to actually show all your passwords stored on Firefox. It’s not a recovery tool as you still need to type in the master password. However even without master password it shows all the websites you have kept password for, which means I might [...]

Download Squad: OpenOffice.org 3.0 coming Monday, download it today. From the list of OO.o mirrors, AussieHQ and PacificNet already have 3.0 binaries there (dated 6 Oct). Time to download and upgrade! (and more work for me to support ODF 1.2 at work)…