Yellow pages is often the source for us to search for local stores and services, be it online yellow pages or printed yellow pages. I particularly like online yellow pages very much, as usually I am just a few clicks away from what I want to find in my local area.

However, in many cases accurate and updated data is something missing in most online yellow pages. That is where iBegin Source comes into play and offers you reliable and up-to-date business data in the US.

At iBegin Source, you can search for any local store or service grouped by state or by business. For example, I did a search for Automobile Repairing & Service in Oxford and I found Tim’s Auto Tech with just a few clicks. One thing I found very helpful in iBegin Source is the integration of Google Map into the information page. Now it’s even easier to locate a store with the map!

iBegin Source keeps their data up-to-date because it it an open system. In other words, at any time the store owner is able to edit the information page in order to keep the information of their store as accurate as possible. iBegin Source even goes further to ensure the data is accurate by obtaining and combining records from various telco and state agencies to keep track of new, updated, and dead businesses. Updated contact information is very important to any business owner, any inaccuracy in contacts of the store would result loss in business.

By the way, the business data available at iBegin Source can be downloaded free for non-commercial use. Whereas the commercial license is only US$1000 for any state in the US or US$40,000 for the entire USA.

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I’m sure many of us are thinking of upgrading our computer operating system to the latest Windows Vista. Apart from wondering will the current computer hardware be compatible to Windows Vista, probably we are facing the dilemma of choosing which version of Windows Vista.

Basically, there are 5 versions of Windows Vista to choose from, they are Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise and Ultimate.

This is the link to a comprehensive comparison chart of all 5 versions of Windows Vista. Hope it helps you to make your upgrading decision.

Online shopping has gain its popularity all around the world nowadays with the advance of the Internet. Just like the amount of websites we can find on the Internet, there are too many online deals for us to choose from. Hence we do need a search engine which helps us to aggregate all merchant offers, just like what Google is helping us in searching of websites.

Twenga is a UK Shopping Search Engine which was launched in 2006. The shopping search engine finds the best and relevant deals for any product ranged from household appliances, fashion, furnitures, computer hardware, etc. Deals in UK, France, Spain and Italy are now available in Twenga Search.

I am actually hunting for a new mobile phone right now, so I did a search in Twenga for Nokia N80. On top of the description of the mobile phone the search result showed me 13 reviews of the product. These reviews comprises of consumer and expert reviews. Besides, the best price I can get from major online sellers can be found on the left side of the search result too.

I’m pretty sure with such handy UK shopping search engine available, searching for best deals online has become as easy as ever.

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I’ve come across this interesting movie clip called The Google Master Plan in Youtube quite some time ago. It’s a movie directed and produced by Ozan Halici & Jürgen Mayer for their Bachelors’s Thesis at the University of Applied Sciences Ulm, Germany.

The movie basically talks about how Google can use their free services like Google Search and Gmail with their gigantic database for some known, and possibly unknown, purposes. Well, it talks about our privacy as users of Google free services as well. Needless to say, it got me ponder how powerful Google is nowadays.

I’m sure you don’t want to miss this awesome video clip :-

Check out their The Google Master Plan website. There are some different video formats of the movie ready for download too.

iPod’s fans have made history as Apple announced yesterday that there have been 100 million iPods sold to date, since its launch in November 2001! 100 million sold in five and a half years is incredible and there is no doubt iPod is still the pioneer in music player industry.

Aside from making history, one of the good side effects from this incredible sales is that it brought sales to other products too.

Quoted:
The iPod has also sparked an unprecedented ecosystem of over 4,000 accessories made specifically for the iPod that range from fashionable cases to speaker systems, and more than 70 percent of 2007-model US automobiles currently offer iPod connectivity.

Anyway, if you want to know more about iPod, Wikipedia has a very detailed page for it.

After another hectic week with server outage issues, death of desktop’s motherboard and some offline activities, I’m finally back to blogging again.

Every time when I come back blogging, the first thing I need to deal with is the spam comments. This is the biggest trouble I need to face because usually the number of the spam comments is huge! Last week it marked the most spam comments I’ve received so far, just take a look for yourself :-

Minus some less than 30 comments that still under moderation, the rest are just simply spam comments. Can you imagine that?
Anyway, I did glance through all the comments in case I miss any valuable one before deleting the junk.

Talking about spam filter for Wordpress, I’ve tried Bad Behaviour and Spam Karma. Both of them didn’t really give good results.
I will have to try Askimet soon.

Anyone has an effective spam filter to recommend? I need it badly!
Thanks.