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Good news Firefox 3.0 is finally out !!!

You can have a taste of it: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Here is the official screen shot of Firefox 3.0 on Windows Vista

So, you are a fan of South Park and you want a fancy avatar like mine. It’s quiet easy and free. Just to to the South Park Studios website. Where by the way you can view all the 174+ episodes of south park.

Now to go the Avatar Creation section. You will find below the procedure to create a fully fancy south park character. You can try it yourself afterwards.
Step 1: New Character

Click on the New Character button on the bottom of page and then choose your character charcteristics:

Female, Male, Canadian, 4th Grader, Kindergartner

Then click Select to go to the next step

Step 2: Choose your skin type

Step 3: Choose your accessories and be creative

Here are some random creation that i came up with you can download and use them as you wish.

If you want to post your creation here, don’t hesitate send them to me, I’ll gladly put them on this post.

Quoted from OmniFind website.

IBM and Yahoo! make information actionable with a simple,
no-charge enterprise search solution.

I have been able to play a few month with the OmniFind Yahoo! Edition from IBM, it’s quiet some powerful tool offered for free compared to the other search engines that are offered on the net such as Google Custom Search Business, Google Mini, ISYS Web, Mondo Search, and some other tools that are listed here(http://www.searchtools.com).

Here are the features of OYE (OmniFind Yahoo! Edition)

Search internal web sites, local and remote file systems, and the public web

• Search up to 500,000 documents and 5 separate collections
• Support for 200+ file types
• Search in 30+ languages
• Translated into 15 languages View Screen Shot

Intuitive out-of-the-box user interface with advanced features

• Based on Yahoo! Search UI View Screen Shot
• Easily customized with graphical tools to configure look-and-feel, UI elements, branding View Screen Shot
• Spell suggestion
• Full wildcard support

Increased relevancy of results

• Configurable synonyms and featured links View Screen Shot
• Tunable relevancy controls View Screen Shot
• Top queries, no results, and result click through reporting to enable fine-tuning View Screen Shot

Easy to deploy, configure, and maintain

• No prerequisites
• 3-click installer
• 1-click startup
• Go from the installer to searching in minutes

Open and extensible

• Built on Apache Lucene
• Open URL-based APIs (REST)
• Define, populate and search your own custom fields
• Easily embeddable and customizable UI output (XML/XSTL/HTML, HTML snippets)

From my point of view the only inconvenience with this tool is that is not open for any plug in or add in functionalities. That could really help make it much much better for users. But again, this tool is complete and contains all the needed functionalities for an Entry Level Enterprise Search Engine.

Here are some screen shot of the new version of the new version of OmniFind that i just upgrade from the 8.4.1

After the release of the The Simpsons Movie, last July there are has been lots of site base upon it that have been release. One of them that I just found out is simpsonizeme.com, its a really cool website where you can make yourself a simpson character based on your own photo. I have tried it and here is the result.

So how do i look it !!!!