The city of San Francisco of the United State will become a wide scale WiFi zone covering the entire 49-square mile city for free or at least at minimal charges. The city government of San Francisco on Tuesday, August 16, 2005, issued guidelines for a plan to build universal and affordable, if not free, wireless infrastructures in place for all San Franciscans.

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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said the city is soliciting ideas for an ambitious system that would put WiFi in the hands of people whether they are working in a high-rise office tower, riding on a cable car or living in a low-income housing project.

In fact, according to Intel’s annual ranking, San Francisco already ranks just behind Seattle as the nation’s most “unwired city” in America, thanks to the large amount of cafes and restaurants that offer WiFi service.

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Found an interesting freeware, you guys might be interested to try it out. The software is called OriMado, it allows you to fold the window in Windows OS by moving the mouse in certain directions, or so called using mouse gesture.

For instance, you can just drag a file from one file explorer window to another by folding one of the windows, just like what you see in the picture on the right. I downloaded the small application and tried it on my Windows XP, it really works !! From the picture shown, I was actually moving the ReadMe.txt file come along with OriMado application from om_5 to My eBooks folder in My Documents.
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Fold n’ Drop Your Windows

We have seen the world record for overclocking of computer processor, which is a stunning 7.1335GHz !! Now let’s have a look of another stunning world record, a large group of people playing Counter Strike, the infamous network computer game, simultaneously. How many people do you think it’s possible?

There were 1073 people playing Counter-Strike 1.1 simultaneously in a LAN party in 2004!! This LAN party was taken place at the Elmia Exhibition and Congress center in Jönköping, Sweden and runs from Thursday morning to Sunday afternoon day and night. This LAN party was sponsored by Microsoft Sweden, while Unisys providing Unisys ES7000 32 CPU / 32 GB RAM Server, running on Microsoft Windows 2003 Datacenter Edition.
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Counter Strike Guinness World Record

This is a security alert to users of Windows 2000 and some early versions of Microsoft XP (I suppose Windows XP without SP1 & SP2 installed). A new worm has been found on Tuesday, August 16, 2005, infected computer systems using Microsoft operating systems (OS). The worm shut down computers in the United States, Germany and Asia, even big companies like CNN, ABC and The New York Times were affected.

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Lysa Myers, a virus researcher for the computer security firm McAfee, Inc., said the worm exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft’s plug-and-play service. “How it’s spreading is it’s looking for machines that are unpatched and running itself,” she said.

Symptoms of infection of this nasty worm include the repeated shutdown and rebooting of a computer, similar to the well known Blaster‘s.
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New Worm Shuts Down PC

Most of us have heard about Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth, both provide similar free mapping service. yesterday A9.com, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, launched A9.com Maps Beta, a service that shows users an interactive map with street-level images.

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A9’s Block View(TM) technology brings traditional maps to life by combining driving directions and other convenient mapping tools with street-level images of millions of places and their surroundings. A9.com Maps starts like other web-based maps by asking users to type an address (or two addresses in the case of driving directions) and providing an interactive map in return.

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A9.com Has Its Own Map

Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0, the long await version of the next web browser for Microsoft Windows OS, will have its brand new logo. The new logo has a more stylish look with some shadowing. Furthermore, it has a gold ring like an orbit surrounding the letter “e“.

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This icon and text treatment will be used on the versions of IE 7 for Windows XPSP2, Server 2003 SP1, and x64 versions. We’ll have a slightly different look for the Windows Vista™ version, one that’s more consistent with the icons there. We’re not quite ready with that one yet, but we’ll share it here once we do.

I really hope this new logo would bring a new hope to IE, as Mozilla Firefox, IE closest rival, has surpassed another milestone, 80 million downloads.