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Recently, the Google has upgraded its important service web-based emails to the next generation with the introduction is “faster and more stable”. When traveling around the blogs, I got some some complaints from users that this new version is slow and messy, and cause many troubles to the browsers.

For me, I am totally satisfied with my Gmail account. More than 5Gb free space, and still counting, contact management, built-in chat, IMAP and POP3 supported … and much more. Gmail is running very smoothly in Windows XP machine, though, sometimes, I got a problem when accessing Gmail in Ubuntu 7.10 (then I just need to refresh once). Basically, I have no complaints, and more over we must remember that this is a FREE service.

At the moment, I am using both of Yahoo and Google mail, and really enjoyed what they provide me freely. However, for works, I use Gmail because it supports POP3/IMAP access and for hobbies, I use Yahoo mail because Yahoo messenger is the most popular onces in my country.

Finally, Microsoft has released the latest version of its express development tools: Visual Studio 2008 Express edition Beta 2. Although, I have not use Microsoft ’s languages regularly, but this kind of IDE is more than perfect. Just within some hours (you should have basic knowledge of programming), you could build your own applications or start your online entrepreneur.

Microsoft has a great effort to bring the most simplicity to normal users, so any one could be a developer. Let check it out here. I am going to download them after this article also.

Today morning, as a usual, when I was going around CSS gallery website in order to brainstorm for a new website, I found out that the CSSRemix.com was under attacked by a hacker, called beyrut.

This reminded me about the Die Hard 4.0, which I have just enjoyed yesterday. The IT security and vulnerabilities are becoming more serious than ever. We (web master should) have some methods to protect ourself. I often do the following steps to reduce the risk to be under attack.

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Today, when I open Google Reader to browse my favorites feeds as usual, I noticed a completely new feature Offline. Yes, now, you can read latest news without internet connection. I really like this feature, because I often move around , but not everywhere could have wifi signal.

This ’s just a piece of another complely new thing. Another service has been unveiled. Read the rest of this entry »

According to Yahoo Publisher Blog, the publishers will now could receive their payment by PayPal instead of check only as usual. It is really a good news for almost bloggers, webmaster and other freelancers. Nowadays, they could receive the earnings from Yahoo easier. (Hey, I am not really happy with this news, because YPN still does not support Vietnam in its country list, so I still have not chance to try it)

This improvement could help YPN attract more publisher to its network in order to compete with viral competitor, Google Adsense. I and many other bloggers as well as web master used to hope that Google Adsense could add more payment options to its program such as PayPal but today, I think I should to register a Google CheckOut soon. This big guy will react this step of Yahoo very soon.

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