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Archive for August, 2009

Opera 10 Release Candidate

By • Aug 25th, 2009 • Filed under: Opera-Browser, Ubuntu, Windows

Opera 10 Release Candidate ships of today for all and for all major platform. The final release will be launched on September 1st, 2009 -- in barely 8 days time

VirtualBox 3.0.4 Improves Stability and Performance

By • Aug 25th, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

VirtualBox 3.0.4 is a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.0 with Gaming-Level Graphics released about 2 months ago. The changelog of VirtualBox 3.0.4 is a long list of adds and fixes;

Pidgin 2.6.1 Upgrade now Available

By • Aug 24th, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu

Pidgin 2.6.1 that adds Google Talk Voice and Video, released a week ago is now available for upgrade from the repositories. An official .Deb package is not yet available for download from the Pidgin website, yet those who install Pidgin in Ubuntu via the official PPA for Pidgin repository can now carry-out a simple upgrade. […]

Video: Firefox Multi-Touch Support Show Off

By • Aug 22nd, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Firefox, Open-Source, Windows

Optimize Firefox Databases With a Single Line of Code and Vacuum Places Add-on

By • Aug 22nd, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

In Firefox 3 Bookmarks and browsing History are stored in SQLite databases. Like any other database, the SQLite databases get fragmented with time, added to that, your default history time span in Firefox 3.5 was increased from 9 to 90 days. These increase the possibility of having a bloated and cumbersome database which subsequently leads […]