YouTube is the most popular video sharing site out there, but that isn’t to say that there aren’t things about it that annoy users With that said, there are a wide array of plugins for Firefox to make the YouTube user experience that much better. Here are over 20 that will let you save your favorite videos before they disappear, stop them from autoplaying when you come to a page, and more . 20+ Firefox Plugins to Enhance Your YouTube Experience
Listio for Web 2.0 is a nice community directory of web 2.0 applications, tools and services. It was initially developed to start tracking web 2.0 applications and what is new and exciting in the web 2.0 space.
It’s free to join and you can also submit your own web 2.0 application, tools or services that you created or discovered while surfing the interne. You can also give reviews/opinions on particular Web 2.0
Tech blogger Mike Abundo share this nice video about US President-elect Barack Obama’s presidential platform about Technology.
Ubuntu 8.10, the latest version of a phenomenally popular and successful distro and will be release hopefully by Octpber 30, 2008, but for those of us who can’t wait what’s in store with the newest version of Ubuntu called “Intrepid Ibex”
For those of us who are patiently waiting for OpenOffice 3.0 which now supports MS Office 2007 formats (docx, xlsx, pptx, etc.) you can now download your own copy on the following servers and mirrors listed below. You can read the official release announcement here.
OpenOffice Utah Server
More Downlaod Mirrors here
For features on OpenOffice 3.0 you can read Lifehacker.com’s first look review post
According to tgdaily.com, Microsoft extended their OEM downgrade timeline again. As of now, system builders can still offer Windows XP downgrades to their customers and will be able to do so until Vista’s second anniversary.Initially planned to expire on June 30 of this year, Microsoft at first granted an extension to July 31. However, OEMs are still selling the downgrade option (often for a premium) and, according to new reports, the deadline apparently has been officially extended for six more months to January 31, 2009. The information was based on a leaked email sent to an OEM. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft is planning to remove e-mail, photo editing, movie making and other secondary software offerings from the upcoming Windows 7. Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Mail, and Windows Movie Maker were all part of Vista, but, in an effort to cut down on development time of future OS updates, Microsoft plans to give them the heave-ho.
Instead users will be directed to download the Windows Live programs that replace each of those apps. In fact, Microsoft has already been encouraging users to replace the Vista versions with the Windows Live equivalents.
Although fans of Microsoft’s free add-on apps will no doubt be disappointed to see them go, the move isn’t that surprising; Microsoft has been stripping apps out of Windows for some time. For instance, Vista didn’t ship with an instant messenger app.
Of course there’s no telling whether a new PC will actually be free of any add-on apps. Microsoft’s hardware partners can (and often do) include their own photo-editing, video-editing and other applications with their Windows installations.
What remains to be seen is how Microsoft plans to distribute the Windows Live apps — perhaps already bundled through OEMs, though it may opt to simply include a download link on a fresh Windows 7 install.
[A Repost from webmonkey written by Scott Gilbertson]
