Finally I am back after 2 hectic weeks. And I come back with a great news to share with you guys.

Google is going to launch its new service (yes, another new one) called, Google Base. This service is yet available, but very soon you will see it online because there were some screen shots have been taken !! Well, there are rumours suggesting this service will be introduced in Google Zeitgeist’05 Partner Forum, which will be held at Google HQ in California today.

So, what is Google Base? According to the screen shots, it is basically a free service for you to post your information/items and share it with your friends. The information posted will become searchable in Google Search. Information you can store in Google Base are like :-

• Description of your party planning service
• Articles on current events from your website
• Listing of your used car for sale
• Database of protein structures
• Your home-made recipe

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Google Base – A Place To Hold Your Info For Free

I am not sure is it only me, I have more than 4 email addresses, each of them serving different purposes. Some I use for service subscriptions, some I use for daily use.

Some of you might already created some new Yahoo! email accounts in order to get the insanely cheap domain name at only USD$2.99/year. I hope this is not against the TOS. Hehe… ;))

Anyway, here I introduce you a disposable free email service, named DodgeIt. This service allows you to create email account on the fly. It is just like having an instant noddle; open, eat, throw! The only thing is it doesn’t pollute the environment. :)

DodgeIt is very useful when you need to create a new account just for some service subscriptions, such as forum registration, etc etc. I know you can also do so using Yahoo! or Hotmail but you will need to go through the troublesome registration procedures, isn’t it? There is no setup process in DodgeIt. What you need to do is to create an email address, give it to others, then check the email through DodgeIt homepage. That’s it.
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Get Disposable Email Address On The Fly

Okay, we know Firefox just surpassed the 100 Million Downloads and still celebrating. This means the number of Firefox users is increasing rapidly. For sure, among all Firefox users, there will be some who don’t satisfy with the browser speed in rendering (displaying) the webpage. Not to mention, Firefox competitor, Opera claims to have faster page displaying speed compared to Firefox.

Hence, Mozilla Development Community of Mozilla Corp. has taken care of the needs from need-for-speed people by introducing a performance and network tweaks plugin for Firefox, named Fasterfox.
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FasterFox – Tweak Your Firefox To Be Faster

Upon a request of a friend, here is a review of an online image optimizer named Website Compression 1.0. It allows you to compress the images on your website on the fly through a web browser.

One of the reasons visitors go away from your website is the long loading time caused by huge images on the website. So, how to retain your visitors by making you website loads faster? The answer is to use an online image optimizer which helps you to reduce the image file size significantly, while not sacrificing the quality on the image. For webmasters or website owners, this piece of script would be a well worth investment in optimizing your website.

Website Compression 1.0 supports image compression up to 10 levels of quality according to the vividness of the image you desire. You may view page loading times with advance reports for before and after compression via Website Compression 1.0 too. It give you an idea how faster you may optimize the loading time.

Website Compression 1.0 supports compression of jpg, bmp and gif image file including animated gif on your entire website. After login to the script, you may compress images on multiple websites with the press of a button. The compression is so effective in term of reducing the image file size without compromising the image quality. To normal human eyes, the optimized images hardly look any different, the only noticeable difference is the loading speed of your website become faster.
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Review : Online Image Optimizer For You

Have you ever wonder of how those big companies come out with the idea of how to name their companies? Like me, probably you might think some of the big names are just a common word that we speak everyday like Yahoo!, or the company just simply comes up with such a name.

Well, this page gives you a better idea of knowing how the big names are created. I am not too sure about the validity of the creation of the names, but I felt it is something really interesting to share with you all. Of course, if you know the original idea of naming those names listed, feel free to tell us in the comment area. :)

I will just list down some of the famous ones :-

• Yahoo!
  It’s actually an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”. See the name history. Before this, I thought it is just a simple word “Yahoo”.
• Sun Microsystems
  Now only I know it means the acronym for Stanford University Network.
• Microsoft
  Originally called Micro-Soft, which is the suppose to be a short form of MICROcomputer SOFTware. The ‘-‘ was then removed.
• Intel
  I thought it means Intelligence, but in fact it is the acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
• Hotmail
  Named as such was not because the email is hot, but because Hotmail includes the letters “html”, which is the most widely used programming language on the Internet. Initially, HoTMaiL was the way how it is written.
• Cisco
  Actually it’s the abbreviation of San Francisco, and the company logo is the image of Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Before knowing the real reason, I thought the logo is some form of signal wave. :D
• Apple Computers
  Apple is the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. LoL … This is classic !

I read from this news source that Microsoft and Yahoo! are working out a plan to allow both their Instant Messaging (IM) Services, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger, to link with each other. Seeing the launch of Google Talk in August 2005, Microsoft and Yahoo have responded quickly enough to hunt down the new comer. These two IM services is currently serving more than 1/4 billion of users around the world. So, with the merge between them, their rival AIM and Google will have to think of a better strategy to counter it.

Well, the merge of MSN and Yahoo Messenger will mean communication between these two IM without using a third party client, such as Trillion.
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MSN + Yahoo Messenger Merging