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Safari Extensions: Improve browsing experience with Safari
With the release of Safari 5.0.1, Apple introduced its newest feature: Safari Extensions. Safari Extensions works like Firefox Add-ons where it gives more features to one’s regular internet browser. To look for Safari Extensions, go to the Safari Extensions Gallery.
You can choose Safari Extensions from these categories:
- News
- Shopping
- Search Tools
- Social Networking
- Entertainment
- Productivity
- Bookmarking
- Security
- RSS Tools
- Twitter Tools
- Translation
- URL Shorteners
- Photos
- Developer
- Other
How do you install a Safari Extension?
Simple, just go to the Safari Extensions Gallery and look for an extension you want to install. Then, just below its description, click the “Install Now” button.
What I like about Safari Extensions is that I don’t have to restart Safari every time I install one. 
Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger Apps for Android
Yahoo! just launched Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps for Android and a Yahoo! Search Widget as well. For the iPhone and iPod touch users, Yahoo! Mail for mobile is now in HTML5. Anyway, I just tested how it looks in the iPhone and it looks pretty slick. 
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Motionbox Pro, better than YouTube
Free video sharing service Motionbox announced earlier this month the launch of their commercial video service, Motionbox Pro. Motionbox Pro is a service intended for small businesses, pro-bloggers and commercial content producers who are in need of a comprehensive video hosting solution. The Pro service includes archival storage, web-based editing, streaming and embedding and support for superior high quality videos up to 1080p HD.
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Browsing with Globe Tattoo
Fast mobile internet browsing is getting popular these days. Unlike before wherein you have to shell out a huge amount of money in order for you to get a decent mobile broadband connection, mobile web browsing these days has never been faster, cheaper and easier with Globe Tattoo Broadband.
Erin Andrews Peephole Tape Video, now leaked in the internet
Andrews at a 2007 college football game
People in the US are now feasting on the alleged peephole tape video scandal of the Sports news caster Erin Andrews.
Erin Andrews, 31, is currently working for ESPN as a sideline reporter in sporting events. She has become popular among male sports fans for her knowledge in sports and her alluring physical appearance. She was also chosen by Playboy Magazine in 2008 as “America’s Sexiest Sportscaster”.
The Erin Andrews Peephole tape video was first seen in Dailymotion last February 17, 2009. Thanks to the wonders of viral marketing in the internet that it became a big hit this month among American male internet users. It’s noticeable in G00gle Trends that there’s a spike for the keyword Erin Andrews Peephole Tape torrent and Erin Andrews Peephole Tape video. The said video was UNCENSORED.
It was only a matter of days before internet users started to download erin andrews’ peephole tape video online. From video sharing sites like Daily Motion, Youtube, and Vimeo among others. Some users also uploaded these videos on file sharing websites, peer to peer networks and torrent downloads.
YouTube EDU, an educational video repository
YouTube, the world’s leader in online video, opens a new section called YouTube EDU. YouTube EDU is a “volunteer project sparked by a group of employees who wanted to find a better way to collect and highlight all the great educational content being uploaded to YouTube by colleges and universities“.
The new section, launched last March 26, 2009, contains videos on university lectures, seminars, documentaries, video references, lessons, and other videos that are educational by nature. YouTube EDU simply aggregates all the educational videos uploaded to YouTube by different colleges and universities in the world.
This new feature is very promising but it sill needs a lot of polishing in terms of video filtering. There may be a lot of good videos (helpful, relevant and educational) within the section but some useless videos were not filtered out.
The announcement was made in Youtube’s release notes for 3/26/2009.
Internet Explorer 8 Promises Higher Security
After Google and Firefox released each of their own browsers, it sees that Microsoft is coping up with the second generation browser wars. Microsoft recently released its latest version of IE, the Internet Explorer 8 RC1 (Release Candidate 1), promising its consumers a faster, easier and safer browsing experience.
To compete with both Firefox and Chrome, Microsoft incorporated with IE some features present within the two prominent browsers. They also added several features unique to IE8.
Among the promising features of the new IE are the following: Accelerator, Visual Search, Web Slices, Smart Screen Filter and Automatic Crash Recovery among others.
To learn more about the new features of Internet Explorer 8, you may check the IE homepage here. Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download at the Microsoft’s homepage.
Notifu.com – free SMS, IM, Email Notification Service
I recently bumped into this Web 2.0 application called Notifu which allows users to send notifications to groups and individuals through email, IM, SMS , or phone. It can also gather responses from recipients, quite helpful when polling decisions.
The service was launched last October 29, 2008 and it’s still in its beta stage. According to their blog, the Notifu service currently encounters problems when sending messages to US and Canada.
Alternately, instead of using the service to poll decisions, you can simply use the application to send messages (sms) to your friends abroad. Everything is FREE.
The service is also available for iPhone users. Check out Notifu at http://www.notifu.com
