I know most of my American friends have either Yahoo!, MSN, Gtalk, AIM or use them all via Trillian.

That’s all great and dandy, but I think I am going to ditch all of the other instant messengers (with the exception of Gtalk if Google decides) and stick with Skype.

There is just so much I can do with this chat/VOIP/telephone program, that puts the others to shame.

So if you want to chat with me, my screenname on Skype is HiddenNook or you can leave a message if I don’t pick up.

Update: Added photo…and on a further note switching to Skype may not be that bad.

(Hat Tip: Webmaster World, registration required)

I think I finally took care of that annoying Firefox leak that kept consuming my computer’s resources, slowing everything down.

Hopefully this problem will not pop up again (as the last hack should have taken care of this problem).

For those looking for a quick solution, simply follow these steps.

1. Open a new tab in Firefox
2. Type in about:config inside your address bar (and hit enter)
3. You should see the DNA of your browser. Scroll down until you see browser.cache.disk.capacity
4. Right click on it and select modify
5. Change the number to 5000 if you have less than 512 mb of ram, or more if you have a gig
6. Restart Firefox

Firefox feels a heck of a lot faster already. Hopefully I will not have to attempt to try and fix that again.

I never thought I would ever say this, but it seems that Google (or rather Blogger) has once again reinvented the way blogging is done!

(Blogger Buzz) The new version of Blogger now supports using a custom domain for serving your blog. If you already own a domain named, say, mysite.com and want your blog to be served at that address instead of at a blogspot.com address, we can host your blog on that domain for you — for free. Your old Blog*Spot address will forward to your new custom domain, so the switch will be seamless for your readers.

I’ve already purchased several domains I would love to try this on (those being InsideOrkut.com, DarnellClayton.com, ColonyWorlds.com, IsraGood.com) and I will move my blog over to the self hosting later on today (after I get some sleep).

Is it me, or is Blogger really freakin’ cool!

Hmm…I’m definitely going to have to pick up one of these!

(Ars Technica) It seems the day of the 1-terabyte consumer hard drive has finally become a reality. Hitachi announced yesterday, just before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, that it will be shipping a 1TB hard drive by the end of the first quarter in 2007. The drive will be the first of three that the company is expecting to release in 2007; the other two are aimed at video pros and the enterprise market. Those two will ship in the second quarter of the year.

The 3.5″ Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 will run at 7200 rpm, have a 32MB buffer, and be available as SATA 3.0Gb/s or Parallel-ATA 133. The company did not max out on areal density on the drives though; instead of trying to cram 250GB onto four platters, Hitachi opted to go with a 200GB-per-platter, five-platter approach. Hitachi’s director of market and product strategy Doug Pickford told PC World that “About 250GB per platter is the next bump on the areal density curve, but we’ve backed off from doing that in order to achieve higher reliability at this time.”

They say its selling for about $400 (or so) on the market. If only they could hook this up to an OQO, then I would have my dream machine.

(Hat Tip: Life Hacker)

I’ve fallen in love with DivShare, which is basically giving away free online storage with no limits!

More via their site:

You’re on DivShare – the free, fast file host for everyone.

We built this site in December 2006 to provide a simple and reliable way to show off photos, documents, music, and all your other creations. Whether you’re just posting one file or setting up an account and personalizing your download pages, it’s the web’s best way to put your stuff in the spotlight. And you know what else is cool? It’s all free.

They are already receiving a lot of positive feedback, and I may move all of my images from Flickr and Picasa to divShare in the near future. I wonder how long it will be until a mega company decides to buy them out?

It looks like Blogger in beta is no longer beta! That is really good news to hear, as the old blogger was–barely surviving.

Here is a snippet from Blogger Buzz:

The new version of Blogger is metaphorically bursting with features, from the big guns like drag-and-drop template editing and post labels [...]

to little polishes like a better-designed Dashboard or that you no longer need to solve a word verification CAPTCHA to post a comment on your own blog.

Good to see Google finally improving on “old hardware.” Now, if they could only bring that finesse to Picasa (i.e. more features, public search, 25 Gigs of space, etc.).