I was in total suprise when I visited Rapidshare website today, their website had change to a more Web 2.0 look. I wasn’t aware of the change, which they had launched their new look since 3rd of June.

Rapidshare new look looks clean, and their new logo is far better that the old ones. According to Rapidshare, the main drive of the change is to improve usability and indeed it does! I feel comfortable with the design and navigation.

I bet they have some good feedbacks from thier users!

A lot of people wish to have their own website, a lot of people wish to run their own website but all of them had the same problem, the technical skills required to build a website, whether it is a simple personal website or a business based website – at least some simple skills needed.

So, question raised, “how to build a website easily?”

The simplest solution to this is BuildYourSite.com, a website (which I stumbled upon days ago) offers services (like website builder, website hosting, etc) to help newbies or those who had zero technical knowledge on building and running their won website.

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Everyone has their personal tool bar of favorite bookmarks, (favorites in IE) but some websites everyone should have. These lists will go through the obvious and not so obvious. All sites listed are free to use.
Want to submit your own site? See bottom of page for more info.

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Many will agree with me that the new Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista is too cool…way too cool for XP. But hey, now you can enjoy the cool on XP with a little bit of hack.

Hold on, you are not going to hack it anyway, just download the file listed below and you can give it a run on XP!

Download the rar file, extract the rar file, and run Yahoo.Messenger.YmApp.exe.

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Yourminis is a web-based widget experience. The flash-based website allows users to customize a desktop-like environment with pre-built(or build-them-yourself) widgets.

First time users are sent to a start up page that is filled with prearranged tabs for different subjects. In each tab you can customize the background and widgets. The widget database is currently on the small scale but growing rapidly. The basic necessities are supplied such as calender, notepad, clock, stock market analysis, RSS reader, sports watchers, email client, and other common widgets.
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I am not a person who watches a lot of TV. To be honest all I really watch is Discovery and History Channel. Occasionally I will watch South Park online, but besides that I really don’t watch anything else. Anyway, about a month ago I was on a plane going across the Atlantic, and the only show they seemed to play was The Office. After watching the humorous comedy for hours on end I started the urge to watch more. When I got home I searched for a site to watch some more episodes and stumbled upon Hulu.

Hulu is a online video bank of TV shows and movies. Their list varies from Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show to My Name is Earl. Hulu broadcast about fifty or so different series, and more is coming at a rapid pace. Some of the episodes are only in the current seasons, but some have the entire series. Shows appear on the on the episode guide about an hour after they finish air time. They use their own flash player for videos which is straight forward enough for even the average Internet user. The quality is excellent, roughly the same as a 1999 analog TV. Like the regular programing there is a 15-30 second commercial in the preset locations, but I found if using a slow enough Internet connection the screen will only go black with no long interruption. The player even has its own built in tool bar that appears on mouse over. With a 56kbs connection everything works fine with small buffering time, and even with a slightly slower connection the buffer is hardly noticeable.

Currently this is only available in the U.S, but I have heard of sites that can get around this. (Hotspot Shield for instance)

So if grandma won’t change from Wheel of Fortune this is a great site for new popular shows and movies that is worth a look.

Check it out at hulu.com

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