Stop prefixing and suffixing numbers to your new e-mail id just because the e-mail you want is not available.

Yahoo! Mail has now added two new domains to help you get the e-mail id you always wanted. @yahoo.com e-mail addresses are still available but if you want a change, Yahoo! has two new domains @ymail.com & @rocketmail.com e-mail addresses available for sign-up now.

While @ymail.com looks inspired from @gmail.com, @rocketmail.com is the good old mail service that Yahoo! has acquired long back.

If “rocketmail” rings a bell, it’s because it’s vintage Internet. Back in the ’90s, RocketMail was one of the very first free Webmail services. Yahoo! acquired it in 1997 and built the first version of Yahoo! Mail based on RocketMail technology. Some of the original RocketMail users chose to keep their RocketMail IDs to show that they had been among the first users of Webmail.

Go get yourname@ymail.com or yourname@rocketmail.com now HERE !!!

The Yahoo! Announcement

Mozilla has announced that Firefox 3 final will be avaiable next Tuesday, June 17th.

Get ready for the fast Firefox 3. And pledge to download Mozilla Firefox 3 on June 17th , because they are aiming to set a world record.

This came out fast. Just before Mozilla Firefox 3 final is to be released, the Opera team has announced the immediate availability of Opera 9.5 final.

Three of the major changes in Opera 9.5 are :

• It now sports a new modern design with new icons and small changes in the interface.
• Major improvements in rendering engine resulting in better standards compliance.
• Opera M2 client is now much more functional & useful.

Visit Opera Download Page to download Opera 9.5 for your system.

You can find the complete changelog of this release here.

But some things are a bit out of place for me. Unlike other browsers close tab button is on the upper right of the tab. Not in the middle. Also I would have liked system widget integration like Firefox 3 does. The browser should look like a part of the OS you are using.

Anywayz a nice upgrade over Opera 9.25

Everyone loves to listen to music and collect music from all sources. And over the years this collection becomes very messy with some files having name as Track 01, some having no metadata, some files sound loud and some are very difficult to hear. Fortunately most of these problems are very easy to correct and the best part is this can be done with free software. No need to buy anything.

So here are 3 steps and 3 softwares to a better looking and sounding music collection.

P.S. - Why the hell do you need 3 different softwares ? I have found the below softwares to be the best when it comes to doing what they are doing.

1. Fix the metadata - Filling up album, artist and title information for all tracks

For someone with 1000+ tracks in library this will sound a bit hard and cumbersome. Worry not… It’s simple.

• Download Winamp 5.5 from here.
• Why Winamp ? - I found Winamp to be the best for auto-tagging any kind of music you have. Winamp uses Gracenote service to tag your music files by sending the waveform info of your files to the Gracenote Database.
• Add your music files to Winamp’s playlist.
• Then select all files in the playlist (Ctrl + A).
• Right Click and select Send To —> Auto - Tag
• Have a coffee while Winamp does the job.
• After the querying is over for all files, click on “Apply Changes” for the information to be added to the music files.

2. Rename your music files to something sane

Now that your music files have got proper tags, it is time to rename your music files for easy identification. I use the format to rename my <Track> . <Album> - <Title> - <Artist>.mp3 music files. To do this :

• Download MP3 Rename from here.
• Extract the package and open the executable “MP3 Rename”.
• Add all your music files.
• In the “Rename Files” tab, check the box “Change the ID3 to filename rules”.
• Enter the renaming format.
• Click OK.
• Hit “Preview” to see how your songs will look after renaming.
• If all is fine, click “Rename”

3. Normalize the volume of your music files

Here comes the third step. Do you need to adjust the volume everytime the song changes in your audio player ? Then this step is just for you. You need to normalize the volume of your songs so that they sound the same. You can achieve this using MP3Gain.

What MP3Gain does is that it scans your music and adds a ReplayGain metadata to your songs. Almost all audio players today support ReplayGain. The best thing is that your song’s quality is not affected at all.

• Download MP3Gain from here and install it.
• Open MP3Gain and add all your music.
• Now click on Track Analysis.
• After the analysis is over, click Track Again.
• Now check your songs, the volume of all songs will be consistent.

Thats it.. The three steps..

May be I will write a second part to this soon.

Frustrated of having to launch your browser everytime you want to read RSS feeds in your Google Reader ? DailyApps points out to a cool new Adobe Air application ReadAir which lets you read your Google Reader just like any other Desktop RSS reader.

ReadAir, a desktop interface for the online Google Reader comes with a cool new Mac OS X like skin which perfectly blends in if you have a Mac. It also looks equally good on WIndows systems as well. The ReadAir features the same layout as the online version of Google Reader. So you will have no problems in starting using the application.

But some features are missing. There is no offline mode for ReadAir at present, but the developer has that on his to-do list. Some of the other items on his to-do list are Keyboard shortcuts, Windows XP/Vista themes and custom themes as well.

To use ReadAir, you will first need to install the Adobe Air Runtime, and then the ReadAir installation package.

ReadAir looks pretty good for its first release. So do give it a try.

I am sure you will like it.