Yahoo! released the latest beta of their upcoming messenger update to version 9, featuring a completely new user interface with skinning capability and quite a few interesting new feature additions.

• New look for contact list with detail view to see larger Avatar images of your friends or the compact list view also allowing to just hover and click to IM, SMS or call a friend.
• Brand new skins and emoticons! Click the dot near the top of your Messenger window to choose a skin, and check the emoticon menu for the new ones that were inspired by user entries in our Emoticon test earlier this year (more on our winners in a future post).
• New Flickr integration in the photo sharing feature. Easily share photos from your Flickr.com account, or save photos shared with you directly to Flickr.
• A new in-line media player that makes it easy to view maps, photos and videos from sites like Yahoo! Video and YouTube right in the IM window. No plug-ins needed, no extra downloads — it’s built right in. Just send a video, map or photo link to another friend who’s also on 9.0 to try it out.
• New features for voice calls. You can have your incoming Phone In or free PC calls forwarded to another number like your mobile, home or office phone, even if you’re signed out of Messenger (Phone Out account required). Plus there’s a new way to get voicemail. When someone leaves you a voicemail in Messenger, an email is sent to you with an MP3 of the voice message attached.

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This new version of messenger might crash while starting up as reported by many users, specially the crash related to nspr4.dll, as in error message specified below.

Appname: yahoomessenger.exe AppVer: 9.0.0.797
Modname: nspr4.dll ModVer: 4.6.5.0 Offset: 00004944

India'a billionaire Mukesh Ambani displaced long time world's richest person Bill Gates from the hot seat to become the world's richest person, following the strong share price rally on Monday in his three group companies the net worth of Mr. Mukesh Ambani rose to $63.2 billion surpassing Bill gates $62.29 billion.

Crysis is a sci-fi first-person shooter from the award-winning developer Crytek, the developers of the critically acclaimed Far Cry.

Earth, 2019: A colossal asteroid crashes down to Earth. The North Korean Government quickly seals off the island chain, claiming the mysteries of the asteroid for themselves. The United States responds by dispatching an elite team of Delta Force Operators to recon the situation and report back to the Pentagon. Amid rising tensions between the US and North Koreans, the asteroid suddenly bursts open, revealing a massive, 2km high alien ship. The ship generates an immense force sphere, freezing a vast portion of the island and drastically altering the global weather system. The invasion of Earth has begun. The two rival nations unite to stop the aliens and save mankind. The newly formed alliance fights epic battles against the marauding Aliens. With hope rapidly fading, the player must lead a crack squad through lush tropical jungle, harsh frozen landscapes, and finally into the heart of the alien ship itself for the ultimate Zero G encounter with the aliens.

Crysis offers players a highly immersive FPS experience in which they will have to adapt their tactics, weaponry, armour and gameplay style to survive and defeat the alien invasion.

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Stardock's freeware utility LogonStudio allows Windows XP and Vista users to create, edit, change, and use custom logon screens. LogonStudio comes built with a easy to use visual editor to create your very own custom logon screen, you can also share your creations with other users. Using LogonStudio is pretty easy and you can use your own images to create different sections of your logon screen.

System Requirements:

* Windows XP for XP edition, Windows Vista (32-bit, 64-bit) for Vista edition
* 10MB free drive space
* 512MB total system memory

RapidshareLeecher 2007 v 2.0 is a free software to download files from the world's largest file-sharing network Rapidshare, this version automatically decodes the image code allowing you to use the service without any hassle in a more easy way, RapidLeecher 2007 can run into fully automatic mode residing into system tray using minimal system resources monitoring user clipboard and autostart file download from rapidshare in background as soon as a rapidshare link is copied into the clipboard. The free software has support for proxy servers so that you can download many files at the same time (using different proxy). and multiple instance of the software. Requires Microsoft .Net 2 framework to work.

For most smartphones, there are dozens of J2ME programming running in front-end or back-end, which takes lots of RAM from your smartphone. MemoryUp can monitor your system in the background, freeing resources when needed. Many smartphone owners have also installed J2ME programs on their phones. MemoryUp can help you to automatically analyze and recover up to 50% RAM occupied by your programs. The main features of MemoryUp includes: - Smart management of Java virtual machine (JVM) - Startup boost/Automatic boost/Manually quick boost for your choice - Real-time JVM RAM calculation & display - Warning/Auto-recovering RAM at your preset threshold - Run in the background and automatically help reclaim wasted memory on your smartphone - Effective utilization of memory resources - Intuitive interface and super easy-to-use for non-professional mobile users - Advanced boosting features (force system to use large cache, prohibit kernel to disk swapping, auto-allocate critical threads, etc.) for professional mobile users - Full support for Symbian S60 2nd & 3rd.

"Return Receipts" feature offered in email clients almost never works. The majority of all email software and users in the world do not support these kinds of Return Receipts.

Wouldn't it be nice to know when your emails gets received and where? there exist many services which lets you track your messages, these services can also be used to provide certified "Email Read Receipt", You can also retract your emails in case you changed your mind. You can also send self-destruct emails which expire after a certain time period, or if your recipient tries to copy, print or forward them.

You even don't need to download or install anything, just append the email tracking service provider's domain to end of receivers email id and it will be tracked automatically.

These services offer features like:

• Self Destructing Emails
• Stop printing and copying of email
• Date and time of message opening
• Location of recipient (IP based on ISP city /town)
• Map of location
• Apparent email address of opening (if available)
• Referrer details (ie; if accessed via web mail etc)
• URL clicks
• How long the email was read for
• How many times your email was opened
• If your email was forwarded, or opened on a different computer

Activison released the demo of much awaited game - "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare", the demo is 1.4 GB in size and can be downloaded from several websites linked at the end of this post. The full game is scheduled to be released on 6 November 2007.

Minimum system requirements:

• CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 2.4 GHz or AMD(R) Athlon(TM) 64 2800+ processor equivalent or better
• RAM: 512MB RAM (768MB for Windows Vista)
• Disk Space: 8GB of free space
• Video card: NVIDIA(R) Geforce(TM) 6600 or better or ATI(R) Radeon(R) 9800 Pro or better

Rapidshare Ultimate 2007 is a free software to download files from the world's largest file-sharing network Rapidshare, based on the source code donated by previous RapidLeecher author this version automatically decodes the image code allowing you to use the service without any hassle in a more easy way, RapidLeecher 2007 can run into fully automatic mode residing into system tray using minimal system resources monitoring user clipboard and autostart file download from rapidshare in background as soon as a rapidshare link is copied into the clipboard. The free software has support for proxy servers so that you can download many files at the same time (using different proxy). and multiple instance of the software.

Main Features Include -

1. Fully Automated Downloading supporting a semi-automatic option.
2. Automatic CAPTCHA Image Detection.
3. Auto start at system boot with system tray support.
4. Clipboard monitoring.
5. Silent operation mode, will sit and wait for links in system tray.
6. Pr@xy Support for simultaneous downloads and unlimited downloading.
7. Inbuilt Downloader with detailed static's.
8. Full installer and uninstaller.
9. Very simple to use.
10. Pleasant, easy to use interface.
11. Constantly Updated.
12. Adware & Spyware Free.
13. Support is provided for users with quick BUG FIXES
14. Best of All its FREE & SAFE.