Ray just announced blogCFC 5 Beta. For those who do not know, my blog runs blogCFC v4. I wanted to recode the entire thing in MVC, but I chose to wait until blogCFC 5 final is released.

Here's a list of changes.

• An admin. No more stinking design mode.
• Send to Friend. Send blog entries to a friend. Or to an enemy. Whomever.
• Preview mode on articles.
• Category SES URLs.
• Related Entries (Thanks to Jeff Coughlin and Charlie Griefer).
• Hey look, a pure CSS layout! Not here of course, but you can see it over at the BlogCFC blog. The admin is NOT pure CSS. I may ask Scott to take a look once I feel the admin is done. The CSS work was all done by Scott Stroz, so please thank him and visit his wish list. (His wish list, and Jeff and CJ's can be found in the word doc/pdf in the install folder. PLEASE thank them before me. I've been thanked!)
• New "Orange Crush" visual theme. Hmmmm. Orangy!
• More cow bell.
• Admin lets you quickly delete comments, trackbacks. You can also edit settings (although this is a bit dangerous). This is a nice way to update your spam list.
• Draft mode. It's not really called draft, but you can write an entry and leave the Released flag to false.
• Delayed entries really work now. Seriously, I mean it. It works.
• If you searched for poo, and clicked More Entries, it registered as a new search hit. It won't anymore. I still register a search hit if you follow it from the stats page.
• If you use an image as an enclosure, it will automatically be placed in the entry, top left. This was a user-submitted idea.

These are amazing numbers... Skype is great (and I don't use it much, hehe) ... but free peer-to-peer VoIP with a 100 million network sounds like a great deal to me.

Skype said Friday that it now has more than 100 million registered users of its free Internet-based calling service, nearly double the number of registered users it had in September 2005.

Skype, which is only two-and-a-half years old, is a peer-to-peer software service that lets people make phone calls from their PCs to other PCs anywhere in the world for free. The service works by turning voice signals into IP packets and sending them directly over the public Internet. Last year, Skype was bought by eBay in a deal valued between $2.5 billion and $4 billion. When the merger was announced in September, Skype had 54 million registered users.

I just found out about wapurl, a service that allows to take a long URL and convert it into a very short one using their API. WapURL is trying to target the mobile world, making a good point about sending long URL's through SMS.

Their service is nothing new, I know; TinyURL has been doing this for the longest time... TinyURL provides a way to integrate with IE, but since I'm a Firefox user it's no good :)

WapURL provides a Firefox extension that allows to simply right click in any page and select their API from the context menu ... and voila, a tiny url is provided on the fly. I am not really sure how much will I use this, but it is handy for sending mapped addresses, or anything with an obnoxiously long query string.