Valters Bože

Scite is one of the best text editors out there - functional, fast and lightweight! If you write a lot of text that is not in english (read: UTF-8) it becomes pretty annoying as every time you open Scite.exe it defaults to 8-bit character set. To write or see the opened document with UTF8 characters you have to click File > Encoding > UTF-8. While there is no graphical interface for options, you can still change the default encoding manually. Here is how:

• Open Scite, click Options > Open global options file

Most of web users have noticed one of the most useful tools on the web - Netvibes.com . Now it has released its “Ginger” update and offers all users to create their own profile pages. This takes social networking one step further. Now its pretty easy present public information about yourself in one place - all your profiles at myspace, facebook, flickr, youtube, favorite feeds - all in single place. It`s like a new type of personal homepage! Or your digital dynamic CV. No more need for personal domain?

Flickr uploader software “Uploadr 3” is out! As I spend most of the time at work where i`m behind a firewall AND a proxy, first thing I noticed, I couldn`t sign in. Of course I searched for proxy settings, but the software has no settings available until you sign in. Also when you solve the problem, you dont have any proxy settings using the graphical user interface. Here`s how to add/edit proxy settings:

• Close Flickr Uploader (if its open)
• Go to your Flickr Uploadr 3 installation directory and find the configuration file (usually “C:\Programm Files\Flickr Uploadr\defaults\preferences\prefs.js” )

I`m pretty married to Netvibes by using it everyday. Mainly I use it for tracking RSS news, RSS music releases and “notepads” for saving rly various stuff.
Today I logged in and half of my items were lost. “Mail tab” was completely empty, about 40% of RSS items were left. A million thoughts crossed my mind! So I searched for support on Netvibes, but the answer was in the FAQ section:

When trying to access your netvibes page and all your tabs are empty, this is due to a desynchronization with our server.

About a year ago Google offered new referral program for Adsense - Firefox with Google Toolbar. If you referred people to download and install a fresh copy of Firefox with Google Toolbar, you would get 1$. There were also scripts like “Internet Explorer killer” that was showing banners to clients with Internet Explorer encouraging them to use Firefox. I`ve earned some bucks with this referral program, but lately I`ve noticed, that earnings have decreased pretty much.

Firefox 2.0 is out! Although not mentioned on www.mozilla.com (webpages still state 1.5 and RC versions), you can get a fresh copy using the link below.
A few extensions I use are not compatible with the new Firefox, but most work okay. The ones that do not work for now:

• Live PageRank
• MinimizeToTray
• del.icio.us buttons
• Quicknote (I have stopped using this in favor of Netvibes Notes, as I use more than one pc)
• SEOpen
• Tab mix plus (almost no need of this anymore

Nice articel/interview about Adobe Flash VoIp capabilities. Sharing camera has been available since Flash MX, but now they are really planning to implement in perfect condition, which will enable social network sites like myspace.com add VoIP and online conferencing features that people just thrive to use while it is new to the world. This just proves once again that Flash will stay here longer and Microsoft can keep their Apollo products in their shelves..

Read the full article here: Adobe Flash goes VoIP

Should I say more? Ok, it`s in beta but it already has at least 7.5million (content from partner library) books. Most I guess are just a preview with links where to buy, but still the preview is nicely done!
Visit: Google Books Search

Today I noticed two new Google products at Google Labs - Image Labeler and Related Links.
Google Image Labeler is like a game. You are connected with somone other on the internet and have to give labels for images. You get scored when you and your partner have guessed the same labels. Fun and something

The rumor is over, the deal has been accepted. Google bought YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars.
I really don`t care about their copyright problems as long as that doesn`t influence the end user. All videos should be for free!
By the way Google should buy Yahoo with it`s Flickr, as It`s a tough decision to choose between Flickr and Picasa for photo sharing. Now I decided to use Flickr (my Picasa album is full, and I cannot expand it from outside US) as Flickr is more flexible, but I know that someday Google will make Picasa better and better and someday we could switch..