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Google Earth is launched yesterday and there is free version for home and personal users.

Immediately, I downloaded and tried Google Earth. It is amazing! I like the feeling flying through the earth. Moving, zooming, and tilting are smooth. The satelite image is clear, though you can’t get very detail images like U.S for Malaysia but you still can see the cities.

My hometown, Kluang in Google Earth (click to enlarge)

What is Google Personalized Search

Personalized Search is an improvement to Google search that orders your search results based on what’s most relevant to you. The Search History feature of Personalized Search lets you view and manage your history of searches and search results you’ve clicked on; this information then personalizes your future search results by bringing results closer to the top when it’s clear they’re most relevant to you. Early on, you may not notice a huge impact on your search results, but as you build up your search history, your personalized search results will continue to improve.

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In short, the more you use Google search, the more accurate is the result to your needs.

How to get personalized search?
Goto Google homepage, then sign in with your Google account. Do not have a Google account yet? register here, Gmail user need not register.

Read SEW for the review.

Sun delivers its first ever notebook - Sun Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation, powered by UltraSPARC processor and Solaris 10 OS, pre-installed with Sun Java Desktop System.

Specifications:

• Processor : 550 MHz or 650 MHz UltraSPARC IIi processor or 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC IIIi processor
• Main Memory : Up to 2 GB DDR RAM, error correction SDRAM
• Internal disk : 80 GB IDE or 73 GB UltraSCSI internal disk storage (depending on model)
• Operating System : Solaris 10 Operating Environment
• Office productivity : Sun Java Desktop System (pre-installed), StarOffice 7.0 or GNOME 2.0 Environment (depending on model)

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Yahoo! launched MyWeb 2.0. It is an extension of MyWeb 1.0 to social search.

While MyWeb 1.0 allows you to save or block a search result page, MyWeb 2.0 let you search in your friends saved pages as well.

MyWeb 2.o automatically adds my Yahoo! 360° referrer under my Community friend list. If your friends are not listed, you can invite them from MyWeb 2.0 too. It supports invite from Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Mail Address Book and MS Outlook. Maximum 99 invitations.

Besides your friends saved pages, you can search in others’ public saved pages too. Just like the social bookmarks, MyWeb 2.0 have tags too.

Read more about Yahoo! MyWeb 2.0 at Yahoo! Blog.

The latest minor upgrade of WordPress 1.5.x is available now. It fixed an important security issue in previous version.

If you do not yet have time to upgrade, just delete the xmlrpc.php file in your WP directory.

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Update: details of the security issues.