Microsoft quietly releases Internet Explorer 8 Beta to a number of testers. Try here and see if you can get a copy of beta version of IE 8. Good luck!

Read IE 8 Beta 1 in detail…

The main reason to install WordPress in your own server because you can modify the source code, use your own domain name, and add Google Adsense. The installation is very simple, just make sure that you have Linux Hosting package, not Microsoft’s. If you do have Microsoft package, you can switch it to Linux Hosting just a single click. Use Switch Package under Administration in 1&1 Control Panel. It will take 24 to 48 hrs… PLEASE BACKUP ALL YOUR FILES FIRST!!

Assuming that you have Linux Hosting package, which includes PHP scripts support and MySQL Database…

• Create a database by clicking MySQL Administration in 1&1 Control Panel; Click New Database, MySQL will generate a database with a username, password, and host name that CANNOT be modified.

• Download WordPress here and save it to your local hard drive.
• Rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php; and open this file using your favorite text editor such as notepad in Windows. Now change the DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, and DB_HOST to match ones that show on you MySQL database and save it.
• Use one of FTP clients (FileZilla or WS_FTP), upload all files in wordpress folder that you just downloaded to your server’s root directory or a subdirectory.
• Now open your browser and type in http://yourpage.com/wp-admin/install.php
• Follow the screen login… you’re in.

Due to national security concerns, the buyout proposal, which is between 3Com, Huawei and Bain Capital, fails to win approval from The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. This incident increases the tension between U.S and Chinese governments. Just another blowout for Chinese attempt to invest on U.S tech market…

Netscape Navigator, once a dominant Web browser in early 90s, is in its final moments of silent. There will be no more official support for Netscape client products on March, 1, 2008. During the browser war, Navigator lost its battleground to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in early 2006; but then its “cousin”, Firefox, becomes a main competitor to IE. Still now, the number of Firefox users are increasing dramatically…

Would like to have all your current bookmarks export to your new computer or email your favorite links to your friends, you don’t need to copy the URL addresses one by one. Export all your bookmarks and save it as a html file…

• Click Bookmarks on Firefox and choose Organize Bookmarks
• From File menu click Export and save as bookmarks.html

Google is too gigantic to challenge… Microsoft is going to team up with Yahoo for a big chunk of cyber-pie.

Microsoft announced today to acquire Yahoo for 44.6B in US dollars. It’s amazing! The question is will Microsoft-Yahoo outGoogle Google.

Yahoo launched its OpenID service… Yahoo users have a way to login to any web sites that support OpenID. One ID for all… Once you enable your Yahoo mail account for OpenID access, you can log in to those web site use Yahoo! ID and password. Isn’t it cool?

Recently I found out how easy to get personal information for any web page from DomainTools… This domain lookup engine shows web hosting info, server data, whois info and more. The power of the Internet…

There are plenty of video on YouTube, don’t need to waste your time and make one unless it’s really special to you… If you would like to have a video clip on your WorldPress or other blogs, you will find it’s easy to embed the video you like…

On the right side of video that you found on YouTube, you’ll find an embed link for this video (see below) and paste it to your blogs. Is that simple??

Can’t believe his Gmail got hacked… Google had offered its Gmail and Google apps to end users and corporates; and claims it’s one of the most secure online application in the world. It needs to reconsider now… Being an individual Gmail user, I will never store my personal information or important docs on gDisk.