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If you complaining on your new iPhone4 via Twitter, you can get free a Samsung Galaxy S smartphones. However, there is this “special offer” only valid the United Kingdom!

According to a post from Samsung the microblog – Twitter, if Samsung found that any user post their complaint regarding iPhone 4 on twitter they will be offer the option to exchange their iPhone4 with the latest Samsung Galaxy S smartphones.

“We contacted several users, offering free Samsung Galaxy S to replace them, because we are confident they will get a very amazing post.” Samsung spokesman said.

It seems Samsung is the use of the iPhone 4 antenna isuues to hype their own mobile phone. However, according to CNET UK site evaluation, Galaxy S software is still some small problems, but overall not too bad, as long as you get the free phone.

Samsung this “preferential treatment” is clearly limited to the United Kingdom, Malaysia users do not wishful thinking, or looking forward to iPhone 4 waiting to come!

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Recently start to use the Yahoo Messenger as my girlfriend just change to a new company which only allows Yahoo Messenger but not MSN. In the mean time, I found out that that’s cool functions may attract your interest which is sending the free SMS from the YM to any phone of the world.

This service is totally free and you may send from the computer version of YM or iPhone version of YM. For iPhone user, you may download the YM apps from the apple apps store

To send the SMS in iPhone, just login to the YM in your phone and create a contact by adding the mobile number from your phone book, or just compose a new message by entering the phone number of your recipient.

“When you send an SMS message from Yahoo! Messenger, replies from your friends come back to you in Messenger, making it a quick and convenient way to chat with your friends when they’re not online. This feature is available in all of our versions – 9.0 for Windows, Messenger for Mac, Yahoo! Messenger for the Web, iPhone and even in the chat features in Yahoo! Mail,” Product Manager Sarah Bacon explains.

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Zipeg is a free alternative to WinZip, WinRar, or StuffIt where Ziped support most of the common archive file format such as Zip, RAR, 7z, ARJ, LHA and many more. Zipeg is build on top of the powerfully 7zip engine and it have much more features then 7zip.

The killing features provide by Zipeg is the pictures and photo preview instantly or open in external application without extract it, just mouse over the selected file, a thumbnails will be display in the tool tips. By using this features, you may view the and search the file before you actually export it.

In addition, Zipeg also support the filenames in national alphabets in UTF-8, Unicode and codepage encodings. There is no any limitation in term of the archive file size and Zipeg is fully supported by Mac OSX and also Window XP/Vista.

File that supported by Zipeg:

• .zip (Zip Archive)
• .7z (7-zip Archive)
• .rar (RAR: Roshal Archive)
• .bz2 (BZip2 Archive)
• .gz (GNU Zip Archive)
• .tgz (Same as tar.gz)
• .arj (ARJ Archiver Robert Jung)
• .lzh (LHA/LZH Archive)
• .z (Unix Compress)
• .cab (Windows Cabinet)
• .chm (Compressed HTML)
• .cpio (Posix CPIO/PAX Archive)
• .ear (Enterprise Archive)
• .war (Web Archive)
• .cbr (Comic Book Archive (RAR))
• .cbz (Comic Book Archive (zip))

Click here to download Zipeg
Click here to go to Zipeg home page

Mouse over the picture or images file to view the thumbnail

You may also view the picture and images file in any of the photo viewing application

Supported file list by Zipeg

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Because of I need to handle a project in my comany which include the forum features, but the language is Chinese Simplify, so I manage to find out this 9 years old product.

phpBB is a free and open source forum application. phpBB was created in June 2000 as UBB-like forum solution using the PHP language and the latest version up to today is phpBB 3.0 ‘Olympus 3.5′ (Release at 31 May 2009). phpBB is available at no cost, released under the GNU General Public License.

I choose this as my forum in the new project is because it come with an intuitive adminstration system and extensive customisation capabilities. Besides that, it is capable to supporting hundreds of million of discussions in any language and boatst some of the largest forum communities on the Internet. phpBB is developed by six core developers, more than forty team members and is supported by a community of almost 300,000 users and developers up to today.

The lastest version support the UTF-8 encoding including the Simplify chinese , tranditional chinese encoding, Russian, Thai, Turkish and more. Besides that, it support most of the most common database in market such as MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Firefird, SQLList. The release of phpBB 3.0 is come with nearly 500 enhancements, modification and extenstion compare to the previous version.

phpBB also is a highly recomended forum application for those who like to customize and quickly integrate into any content management system or static web site because it come with very flexible framework, documented Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

Click here for more phpBB forum features list
Click here to go to phpBB forum official page
Click here to go to phpBB forum download page

phpBB forum home page

phpBB sample forum backend admin control paner

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Fuser.com puts you at the center of all the conversatinos you care about by letting you easily manage your e-mail, facebook, myspace and twitter communications in one secure place, so you’ll never miss another message.

I believe most of the internet user may have more then one email account nowadays, and we used to login to each email account through the web mail to check your inbox. But it maybe troublesome if you need to login more then one email account just to check your email. Here come the Fuser.com that allow you to check all the conversations and email at one place.

After you register and verify your email account, just login to the Fuser.com and add your webmail account into Fuser. You may add more then one email account into Fuser.com and you may also add the social network account into Fuser.

To add any new email or social networking account just click on the “Add/Edit account” link at the left bar, to edit your account configuration such as adding a new Avartar, changing the password, changing the registered email, just click on the “setting” link at the top right bar.

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The competition in web browser market become more competitive after the launching of Google web browser – Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 8 by Microsoft, and Firefox 3.5.

Now Opera is get into the web browser competition by annouch their latest version of browser call Opera 10 with the Turbo. Before this, you may or may not hear about the Opera Turbo, you will ask in your maind what is the turbo doing in the Opera Web browser?

Opera Turbo is actually a features that help you to boosts up your internet bandwith speed on slow connections by using the Opera proxy server to compress data and imgae traffic before it reached the Opera browser on your computer.

There are dozens of new features added, but the most common one are:

• use Opera Turbo to turn your sluggish a broadband beast.
• Enjoy Visual Tabs. Just drag the handle underneath the tabs to reveal thumbnails of your open Web pages.
• Use Opera Link to keep your Opera browsers synchronized everywhere.
• Speed dieal that gives you quick access to your favorites web sites.
• Opera Link that allow you to synchronize your bookmarks, Speed Dial entries, notes, and personal bar wherever you go.
• Everything build in, no other addon needed.
• It’s totally free

I personally like Opera very much because of the stablality of the application. In addition, if you are the heavy internet user, with the shortcut key and the mouse gestures you will feel that how easy to use opera compare to other web browser.

There are much more thing and hidden features for Opera 10 Web browser, give a try for Opera and continue to discover it.

Click here to visit Opera home page
Click here to download Opera 10

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