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To get Yahoo Mail Beta, just switch your content preference to Germany, France or UK. Then you will be asked if you want to join the beta when you log into your Yahoo Mail. Say yes, and join the beta. Then from the options menu, change your content preference what it was before. Then go to Yahoo Mail again. You should see Yahoo Beta. If you don’t see it, go to options and click "Try Beta" button. That’s all.

How to change your content preference:

* log in to Yahoo Mail
* click Options
* select Account information from the left panel
* go to Member Information, General Preferences, Preferred Content
* select, for example, Yahoo UK
* click Finished
* go to Yahoo Mail
* you’ll see a page that says "It’s the New Yahoo! Mail Beta… and you’re invited."
* click on "Try Beta Now".

via googlesystem.

The New York Times’ David Pogue reviews Parallels Workstation for Mac OS X , software which starts up Windows without rebooting your Intel-based Mac (like you have to with Boot Camp.)

Boot Camp’s problem, though, is right there in its name: You have to reboot (restart) the computer every time you switch systems. As a result, you can’t copy and paste between Mac and Windows programs. And when you want to run a Windows program, you have to close everything you were working on, shut down the Mac, and restart it in Windows — and then reverse the process when you’re done. You lose two or three minutes each way.

When you’re running Parallels, you can start up Windows XP in a separate window and copy and paste from one app to another. Even sweeter, unlike Boot Camp, Parallels supports versions beyond XP - Windows 98, 3.1 Windows 3.1, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS/2 or MS-DOS. Pogue says it’s about 95% as fast as Boot Camp, more “beta,” and more complicated to install. The public beta is now available for download. Final version license will cost $50 after release ($40 before.)

via lifehacker.

Digital Video Guru is running a comparison of 10 digital video sharing sites - EyeSpot Beta, Google Video Beta, Grouper Beta, Jumpcut Beta, OurMedia, Revver Beta, VideoEgg, Vimeo, vSocial and YouTube. Currently, based on traffic, YouTube is the leader of the pack (more heavily visited MSN Video does not support user-uploaded videos), but Digital Video Guru blog awards Vimeo for fastest uploads, JumpCut for editing, and YouTube for community features.

"The number of video-sharing sites has shot through the roof recently, as dozens of companies try to become the Flickr of the online video world.  To this end, many video services have started offering new features like editing and remixability in an attempt to snatch a piece of the ever-expanding online video pie.  But for the average user–who just wants to post a video on the ‘net and share it with some friends–there are already too many options out there.  All one really wants to know is, which site is going to work, with the least amount of hassle?

I took 10 of these sites out for a test drive, and picked some winners.  If you want to post, watch, share, or edit video online, this post’s for you.

To test each service, I uploaded my demo reel (a 15MB Sorenson 3-encoded Quicktime file) to each site and compared video quality, site interface, community features, and functionality.  Where applicable I also tried to embed the resulting video in a Wordpress page.  Many of these sites are still in beta, and their functionality could change in the coming months, but if you’re looking to post and share video today, this is the current state of things."

Read the whole review at dvguru.

CyberNet Technology News lists popular Firefox extensions with known memory leaks.

Leaky extensions include Session Saver, IE Tab 1.0.7, ForecastFox 0.8.5 and Tabbrowser Extensions. Many extensions are actively developed, so if your Firefox seems like a memory hog, make sure you have the latest versions of Adblock, AdBlock Plus, NoScript, Search Keys and Thumbs, which had memory leaks in previous versions but have been fixed.

1. IE Tab 1.0.7! Yes, it is true that one of the most convenient extensions has a memory leak. I can’t say that I am super shocked by this because how efficient can it be to run Internet Explorer in Firefox?
2. Session Saver 0.2.1.031 has a known memory leak.
3. ForecastFox 0.8.5 also has a memory leak…and that very disappointing since most Firefox users have this sitting in their toolbar (so what is the weather like by you).
4. Filterset.G Updater AND FlashGot used in conjunction will produce a memory leak.
5. FasterFox doesn’t have a memory leak specifically, but it will not help your Firefox performance. It does help your browsing performance but if you decide to keep this extension at least make sure you don’t have prefetching enabled.
6. Tabbrowser Extensions doesn’t have memory leaks either but will definitely slow Firefox down and it has many conflicts with other extension. It can even stop Firefox from being able to startup! A better alternative is Tab Mix or Tab Mix Plus which offer the same set of features. If you don’t need all the features of Tab Mix Plus then just use Tab Mix to lower the memory usage a little.

via cybernetnews.

A picture can be worth a thousand words, but an RSS feed is worth a million pictures.

That’s the virtual promise of Pixsy, a visual search engine that scours syndication feeds (in the format of Really Simple Syndication) for up-to-date images and then makes them searchable.

"Anywhere there’s an RSS feed, we consume it, extract an image…and make it searchable," said Chase Norlin, founder of the San Francisco-based company.

As opposed to search giant Google, which retrieves relevant pages from billions of Web sites, Pixsy hones in on the freshest images from publishers, Norlin said. "So you can now explore the Web visually."

The site, which is built with AJAX technology, will collect a thumbnail image from an RSS feed automatically and then associate words, or metadata, with that image based on the news or information from where it came. Pixsy then uses that data to associate images with search terms.

via C|NET.