Firefox 3 is officially released

Firefox 3 is out at http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

TreeSize - identify HDD space use by each folder

My colleague just recommended a freeware, TreeSize for finding out how much space taken by each folder and sub folder. You can right click on any folder and delete it. **I strongly recommend you to understand what you are about to perform as there is no rollback** Since then I'd cleared 5GB worth of rubbish from my temporary folder in particular 3 NERO installation folders with each taken 600mb. That explained where my HDD space gone for the past 9 months!

With Pro version, there are plenty of chart and tool for analysis.

Read your RSS feed offline with free FeedDemon

In one of my post last month, I did mentioned FeedDemon is the best offline RSS reader and I'm using it right now. The good news is, FeedDemon is available for free now :)

Video Streaming with Joost, Hulu, SyncTV, BBC iPlayer, 4OD, Miro

On top of the famous YouTube, Joost was the first video streaming application I used back in 2006, and it is brilliant. I like the interface, but the content is a bit lacking.


hulu, by invitation only, is offering US tv shows (simpson, prison break, project runway, etc.) that I find more apprealing than Joost. If you are not living in the state, this is not for you :(

Thanks to OPENhulu and TV Paradise, you can skip the "hulu private invitation only" to watch US shows as new as just broadcasted. However, this doesn't mean you can watch it outside the State.

not able to view the show as not a US person

I just downloaded Hotspot Shield, a free program which creates a virtual private network between your computer and a wireless router. While its focus is mainly on protecting your private information from hackers, it keeps hulu from recognizing that you are outside the State to overcome this problem. I just tried and it works!

If you are not in US and had installed Hotspot Shield, try to watch Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XVIII below. The show might not be as smooth as watching YouTube.

Closer to home, BBC is offering iPlayer for you to catchup the past 7 days shows. This mean you will never miss Top Gear again. :)

I'd tried once with ITV Video Player on ITV3 when it was showing a football match, unfortunately it wasn't smooth and I didn't use it since.


Channel4 has very good tv shows, and it is offering 4OD (On Demand). I didn't tried it but one of this day I will (when bittorent is ban).


And lastly, SyncTV was announced in CES 2008. It is a per channel subscription base service that allow HD content to download and watch using HDTV. The different between this service with 4OD is the content is High definition. I'd subscribed to their beta list and let's see how it turn up.

Update 11/1 - Miro is another streaming player that direct compete with Joost. It promised to offer more channels than Joost, by allowing anyone to create their own channel. If you into offering your own content, you might want to give it a go.

Best way to stay update about your friends' blog

Well, this is not new anymore, but just want to share with you where I spent most of my time everyday, not any website, but my RSS reader. As you might came across most of the news sites like BBC, CNN etc has a small RSS or XML icon on the bottom right of the page, it is a link for you to subscribe to their website to read the latest news headlines without .

There are plenty of free rss reader, in google mail, yahoo mail even on your Vista Widget bar. For me, I use FeedDemon. It serves all my need.

Anyway, I'd been reading RSS for 2 years plus, but I have never in my mind to subscribe to any friends' rss. It could be there are plenty social networking site like facebook, friendster out there that lead me to think i would get my friends' latest update there. Frankly speaking, i'm not very active in those networking site now, since my company blocked the access. Then the idea to subscribe to my friends' blog site struck my mind. By default, every blog has its rss, to subscribe blogspot rss, use this link http://[username].blogspot.com/rss.xml while Friendster blog rss link is http://[username].blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/index.rdf .

Right, from now, I'll be more update about my friends now :)