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.

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.

Oh my god! I have just found an article at Slashdot and another one at Blognone, Google has just released  beta. Have you ever imagine that Google will jump into online dating market? There are so many competitors around the world. In Thailand, we have Googig. Google claims that Google Romance has its own Soulmate search algorithm.

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.

Widgets are going to be so popular. Typepad is trying to promote the widget concept to the blog engine, Typepad itself. In the past, bloggers have to modify template or manually add each html snippet generated by the service providers to a block. If you don’t know what service providers are, the very basic ones are counter services, FeedBurner, Flickr, Technorati and many more. Typepad’s blog widgets are the best solution for newbies who want to add pieces of codes to their blog without know-how.