Microsoft Zune player will retail for $249.99, on Nov 14

Microsoft announced that Zune player will retail for $249.99, with 30GB capacity, on Nov 14.This price will be 99 cents higher than than an equal capacity iPod. Each song will cost you 98.75 cents.

Zune player will be preloaded with the following music tracks:

Band of Horses, “Wicked Gil” (Sub Pop Records)
Bitter:Sweet, “The Mating Game” (Quango Music Group)
CSS, “Alala (Microsoft edit)” (Sub Pop Records)
Darkel, “At The End of The Sky (edit)” (Astralwerks)
Every Move a Picture, “Signs of Life” (V2)
Small Sins, “Stay” (Astralwerks)
The Adored, “Tell Me Tell Me” (V2)
The Rakes, “Open Book” (V2)
The Thermals, “A Pillar of Salt” (Sub Pop Records)

You can find more info on InsideMicrosoft.

Make the new Windows Live Writer support Blogger beta

Today a new version of Windows Live Writer came out. Rebecca Levine, Program Manager of Windows Live Writer said that the new Live Writer has supported Blogger beta. But after giving it a try, all users don't think so. Because it does not support Blogger beta. Don't worry, there is a way to make it work well with Blogger beta.

Click here to download the new version of Live Writer

1.enter the url of your Blogger beta blog, and then your username and password:



2.Now you need to replace the < feed-id > with your blogID.



3.Here is a simple way to find out you blogID(via Shingo):



After these steps, Live Writer will automatically detect your Blogger beta account and problem solved. Of course you may wait for the official fix from Live Writer.

Pixelated portraits of Google cofounders and CEO

Aren't they great? eboy created the pixelated portraits of Larry Page,Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt. They looks nice.

Google Maps snaps a giant BUG

OK, this maybe a little scary. A gaint bug was found on Google Maps and Google Earth. It is in a field in Germany.

See it in Google Maps

And in Google Earth,the position is at 48°51′27.74″N, 10°12′19.07″E.

It is radioactive?

When Kurt Cobain's suicide letter meets AdSense..

This is quite crazy.Someone puts Google AdSense ads inside Kurt Cobain's suicide letter,and now you can see what happens.

Click here to see the real webpage.

Google celebrated Valentine's Day 2000

Come on!I can't even remember how many times exactly this made in Digg frontpage.This is a little java applet that made by Ken Perlin in 2000,celebrating Valentine's Day.But only bacuase this story contains "Google",so...it is in Digg frontpage now.

More java applets made by Ken Perlin could be found here.

First Post

Hey guys,this is my first english blog.

Welcome and enjoy it!

I'll add posts about Google,Yahoo! and Microsoft very soon.