Wow! Google Talk has just  with avatar and theme support. This version is numbered as 1.0.0.92. There are 2 noticeable look and feel changing. Now you can see avatar and, of course, you can set your avatar using your own photo. Not just that simple thing, you can change look and feel of the chat window.

I have just received a notification e-mail indicated that AllPeers are available for beta tester. Anyway, in this first beta release, an activation key is necessary. Fortunately, the developers allow beta testers to invite 3 more friends to test the program.

For more information, go to read the first announcement and the latest clarification. I am very exciting to try AllPeers. According to the reply message, I have to wait for a few days to get my activation key and download instruction.

Krugle is going to start distributing beta account to all requesters one by one tomorrow. They also present a short demo preview the power of tag. Krugle is not just a common specific search engine mainly aimed to index only source codes, but also their specification, description, manual, and a lot more regarding the source codes.

Actually, I managed to fix a freezing bug regarding failure during hash check for a week. Unfortunately, I can’t commit the patch to CVS at cvs.sourceforge.net because of connection refused error. It seems sourceforge is trying to force every projects to migrate to Subversion as soon as possible. They don’t want to maintain CVS anymore so CVS is now very unstable and nobody takes core of them for a week.

After so long waiting for a few months, Drupal 4.7.0 RC1 is out there. Hopefully, this is the last release candidate so we could see Drupal 4.7.0 full release very soon. I will upgrade howforge.com tomorrow. Unfortunately, there is another one critical issue left in queue. So we should see RC2 shortly.

Google Reader now allows us to  some items via separate feed. Feed items are grouped by label and a plus starred item. By default, all labels and your starred items are not shared. In other words, you can choose which labels to share. Anyway, there are only 2 permissions: private and public. For example, my starred items are accessible through this . In addition, you can also show that feed on your sites directly via short javascript as follow.