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This article was written on July 11, 2006 by CyberNet.

It looks like Meebo isn’t going to be the only one in the Online instant messenger arena. Kool IM is amazing similar to Meebo when it comes to features, but I like the interface on Kool IM much more. They condense down all of the logins to a single line and do not combine any messenger types, such as Google Talk and Jabber. This gives the homepage a more slick and streamlined look.

Both sites support connecting to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Jabber, and Google Talk. One thing that Meebo does better is that it utilizes the current browser window to display your chat sessions instead of popping open a new window. If you connect to multiple networks each time you login then Meebo is probably the nicer route to go. Meebo seems to be a little more advanced technologically but Kool IM is off to a good start.

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Tired of lugging around that boring flash drive? Kingston feels your pain, and it’s hoping to add a fair amount of “pizazz” and “spice” to your mobile storage needs. One look at the new DataTraveler Mini Fun G2 all but confirms that there’s oodles of joviality brimming beneath the colorful plastic, with a trio of hues to choose from (based on model). These guys can also be connected together for kicks and giggles, with 2GB, 4GB and 8GB models available to bring smiles to the faces of those you know and love. Pricing is set for £4.58 ($7.26), £5.04 ($7.99) and £9.00 ($14) from least capacious to most, with no surcharge to be placed on your favorite color — in other words, bonus fun is provided gratis. Beat that.

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The extremely popular iPhone and iPad game Angry Birds has accumulated 50 million users who play it for 200 million minutes a day, according to its maker.

Humongous. How did Angry Birds do it? It hardly seems like luck; if you look at it closely, the game’s success was brilliantly engineered.

The company Rovio hit all the check boxes. Angry Birds has a really sharp style, fits in an accessible game genre and features a physics-based gameplay that creates a ton of different situations to keep the game interesting at various skill levels.

On top of that, it’s priced at an irresistible 99 cents. Plus, the game’s makers regularly add new stages through software updates to keep people talking about Angry Birds (just like Doodle Jump does), which makes it a constant viral sensation. So whenever people buy an iPhone, one of the first apps recommended by friends is Angry Birds. Add that all together and you have a mega hit.

And it’s only going to get bigger. Angry Birds recently soared onto the Android platform, and soon it’s also heading to PCs, Macs, every game console and Facebook, according to Rovio.

From CNET

There are many things to complain about regarding Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, but the fact that its price is $350 too low is not one of them.

Nevertheless, Samsung plans to release a $1,000, leather-clad edition of its surprisingly popular and well-reviewed Galaxy Tab, according to European reports.

The 7-inch tablet usually goes for about $650 and is currently available in 5 different versions for U.S. customers, depending on which carrier you want it to be compatible with. The new, luxury version will add leather, reports say, and will also come with its own Bluetooth headset — the better for making phone calls without looking like a dork.

Although, we think it might actually be OK to hold a leather-clad tablet up to your head and pretend you are Lindsey Lohan hiding behind a purse.

Samsung had no comment.

Source: TG Daily via Computerworld

Photo: Jonathan Snyder/Wired.com

This article was written on May 24, 2007 by CyberNet.

When we mentioned the Vystal software a month ago I was pretty excited. It was the first solution to come forward which offered Vista-like visual effects in Windows XP. Now there is another one called FastAero (Download Mirror) which hopes to do the same kind of thing, but it looks much more promising.

On FastAero’s homepage you’ll find several downloads available, with the latest claiming to be pretty unstable. I decided to give build 0510 a go (Download Mirror) on my only remaining XP machine, and getting it to run couldn’t have been much simpler since you don’t have to install it.

Unfortunately it didn’t work quite right probably because my graphics card in this machine isn’t the greatest, but I was still able to see the blurring effects in action. There were no borders to the windows though, so I took the liberty of outlining the borders in red so that they were a little easier to see:

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I tried multiple versions of FastAero, and the latest one was the best. None of them put the minimize, maximize, and close buttons on the top toolbar for me though. If you do get it to work properly it would look something like this:

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I recommend trying it out just for giggles if for nothing else. A new version is expected next month that takes advantage of the Mirror Driver. This will mean that a direct link can be made between the video driver memory and FastAero, effectively bypassing the CPU for much of the processing.

After you get done trying it out leave a comment letting us know how well it worked.

Note: This will not “skin” windows that you currently have open, instead it will only skin windows that are opened after enabling FastAero. And after closing FastAero, it will automatically restore the normal Windows XP borders so there should be no concern with it screwing up the appearance of your operating system.

FastAero Homepage (Download Mirror)

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